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Four of the world’s prime golfers have dedicated to the season-opening Sentry match, the PGA Tour introduced Wednesday, together with one who wouldn’t have been invited underneath the occasion’s previous guidelines.
Reigning FedEx Cup champion Viktor Hovland of Norway, present world No. 1 Scottie Scheffler, Rickie Fowler and Hideki Matsuyama of Japan will all participate within the 12 months’s first signature occasion, to happen Jan. 4-7 at Plantation Course in Kapalua, Hawaii.
Formerly the Sentry Tournament of Champions, the occasion used to characteristic solely Tour winners from the earlier season. Hovland gained 3 times on Tour in calendar 12 months 2023 (the Memorial, BMW Championship and Tour Championship) en path to successful the Cup.
Scheffler gained the WM Phoenix Open and the Players Championship final spring and completed first on the unofficial Hero World Challenge earlier this month.
Fowler gained the Rocket Mortgage Classic in July for his first victory since 2019.
Matsuyama didn’t win final season and therefore wouldn’t have made the sector underneath the earlier guidelines. The new guidelines enable for anybody within the prime 50 within the ultimate FedEx Cup factors final season to participate. Matsuyama completed fiftieth.
Spain’s Jon Rahm, the reigning Sentry champion, shocked the golf world final week when he introduced he was leaving the PGA Tour for the Saudi-backed LIV Tour on a deal reportedly price greater than $300 million.
Tony Finau, an in depth pal of Rahm, introduced Monday he was staying with the PGA Tour after a lot hypothesis that he would be part of Rahm on the LIV Tour.
In asserting his resolution on Instagram, Finau added, “See y’all in Maui,” a reference to the Sentry.
–Field Level Media