The 2025 Sentry – All The Pre-Tournament Facts & Figures

Nick Dunlap

• Winner of the 2024 Arnold Palmer Award as the 2024 PGA TOUR Rookie of the Year; second-youngest player to win the award (Jordan Spieth/2013)
• Season highlighted by wins at The American Express and Barracuda Championship, becoming the first player in history to win on TOUR as an amateur and a professional in the same season
• With his win at the Barracuda Championship, became the first player since Tom Kim to win twice on the PGA TOUR before turning 21 and the first to win twice in his rookie season since Xander Schauffele in 2017
• Finished No. 49 in the 2024 FedExCup standings to qualify for the event
• One of 19 players making tournament debut at The Sentry  

Chris Kirk

• Defending champion is making his sixth appearance at The Sentry (T7/2012, T16/2014, T14/2015, T24/2016, 1^st/2024)
• Seeking to become the first player to successfully defend his title at The Sentry since Geoff Ogilvy in 2010
• 2024 Sentry marked his sixth PGA TOUR win and included a personal-best 30 birdies in a 72-hole event on TOUR
• Finished 27^th in the 2024 FedExCup; qualified for the TOUR Championship for the second time and first in a decade (2014)

Maverick McNealy

• Won 2024 season-ending RSM Classic for first career TOUR victory in 142^nd start, qualifying for The Sentry for the first time
• Became the 15^th first-time winner of the 2024 season and fourth in the FedExCup Fall, joining Kevin Yu (Sanderson Farms Championship), Matt McCarty (Black Desert Championship) and Rafael Campos (Butterfield Bermuda Championship)
• 10^th player to win first career TOUR title at The RSM Classic and fourth consecutive: Talor Gooch (2021), Adam Svensson (2022), Ludvig Åberg (2023), Maverick McNealy (2024)
• Finished the FedExCup Fall No. 51 in the Aon Next 10 to qualify for two Signature Events: AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am and The Genesis Invitational

Xander Schauffele

• Nine-time PGA TOUR winner won first two major titles in 2024 at the PGA Championship and The Open Championship
• Only player with top-10 finishes in all four majors in 2024 (8th/Masters Tournament, Won/PGA Championship, T7/U.S. Open, Won/The Open Championship)
• 2024 season included a career-high 15 top-10 and 20 top-25 finishes (22 starts); finished No. 4 in the FedExCup standings
• Has not missed a cut on TOUR since the 2022 Masters Tournament
• Competed in his second Men’s Golf Competition at the 2024 Olympics in Paris and represented the victorious U.S. team at the 2024 Presidents Cup
• Making eighth appearance at The Sentry, highlighted by a win (2019) and playoff loss (2020)

Justin Thomas

• Finished No. 14 in the 2024 FedExCup to qualify for The Sentry (via top 50) for the first time since 2023
• Won The Sentry twice (2017, 2020) and has two third-place finishes (2019, 2021)
• Recorded six top-10s in the 2024 season, highlighted by a runner-up at the ZOZO CHAMPIONSHIP
• 15-time PGA TOUR winner seeks first win since the 2022 PGA Championship 

The Sentry notes

• The 2025 FedExCup Season begins this week in Hawaii with the “Opening Drive” at The Sentry, contested at the Plantation Course at Kapalua with 60 of the TOUR’s top players
• The Sentry marks the first of eight Signature Events this season, which include PGA TOUR winners from the previous calendar year and the top 50 members from the 2024 FedExCup standings
• The field features four FedExCup Champions, 31 PGA TOUR tournament winners (including 15 first-time winners) and 29 players who qualified via finishing inside the top 50 in the 2024 FedExCup standings; The field also includes:
  • 19 players making their tournament debut:
    • 15 first-time TOUR winners: Rafael Campos, Nick Dunlap, Austin Eckroat, Chris Gotterup, Harry Hall, Stephan Jaeger, Jake Knapp, Robert MacIntyre, Maverick McNealy, Matt McCarty, Matthieu Pavon, Taylor Pendrith, Davis Thompson, Aaron Rai, Kevin Yu
    • Four players via top 50 in the 2024 FedExCup standings: Christiaan Bezuidenhout, Thomas Detry, Max Greyserman, Alex Noren

• • Five players with multiple wins during the 2024 season: Nick Dunlap (2), Austin Eckroat (2), Robert MacIntyre (2), Hideki Matsuyama (2), Xander Schauffele (2)
  • All eight FedExCup Fall winners: Rafael Campos, Nico Echavarria, Austin Eckroat, Patton Kizzire, Matt McCarty, Maverick McNealy, J.T. Poston, Kevin Yu

• Three past champions (four wins) are in the field: Justin Thomas (2017, 2020), Xander Schauffele (2019), Chris Kirk (2024)
• 37 players ranked in the Top 50 of the Official World Golf Ranking, led by Xander Schauffele (No. 2), Collin Morikawa (No. 4), Ludvig Åberg (No. 5), Hideki Matsuyama (No. 6), Wyndham Clark (No. 7), Viktor Hovland (No. 8)
• The 2025 tournament marks Maui’s 27^th year hosting this iconic event at The Plantation Course at Kapalua; since the event moved to Maui in 1999, The Sentry has generated more than $9 million for local community charities that are positively impacting lives and driving year-round change on the island

Not Playing The Sentry 

• FedExCup champion and world No. 1 Scottie Scheffler will miss the event after undergoing surgery on his right hand
• World No. 3 Rory McIlroy.  Not starting his 2025 to the Hero Dubai Desert Classic on the DP World Tour.

 PGA TOUR season notes

• The 2025 Sentry is the first event of the 2025 FedExCup Regular Season and FedExCup Playoffs schedule
• The 36-event Regular Season schedule features the 51^st playing of THE PLAYERS Championship in March, the four major championships, eight Signature Events, 18 Full-Field events and five additional events
• The 2025 season includes events contested in the United States across 18 states as well as Mexico, Canada, Northern Ireland, Scotland, the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico
• The Sentry marks the first of eight Signature Events on the schedule, followed by the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am, The Genesis Invitational, Arnold Palmer Invitational presented by Mastercard, RBC Heritage, Truist Championship, the Memorial Tournament presented by Workday and the Travelers Championship
• The three-event FedExCup Playoffs follow during the month of August, with the FedExCup Champion being crowned at the TOUR Championship; the 19^th edition of the FedExCup Playoffs will feature the top 70 players in the FedExCup standings qualifying for the first FedExCup Playoffs event, the FedEx St. Jude Championship (August 4-10) at TPC Southwind in Memphis, Tennessee; those players are also exempt for the Full-Field Events and THE PLAYERS in 2026
• Following the FedEx St. Jude Championship, the top 50 players advance to the BMW Championship (August 11-17) at Caves Valley Golf Club in Owings Mill, Maryland; players who advance to the BMW Championship are fully exempt for the following season and qualify for all Signature Events in 2026
• Following the BMW Championship, the top 30 will move to the season-ending TOUR Championship (August 18-24) at East Lake Golf Club in Atlanta, Georgia, where the FedExCup Champion will be crowned and receive a $25 million bonus
• The Aon Next 10 represents the top 10 players not already exempt, from the FedExCup standings, while the Aon Swing 5 includes the top five FedExCup points earners, not already exempt, from a collection of Full-Field Events leading up to each Signature Event
• After the TOUR Championship, the 2025 FedExCup Fall will finalize the top 100 (previously 125) eligibility for the 2026 season, as well as starts in THE PLAYERS; while players in the top 50 will continue to be eligible for FedExCup Fall events, players ranked No. 51 and beyond carry over their FedExCup points from the Regular Season and FedEx St. Jude Championship and will continue to accumulate points through the FedExCup Fall toward their eligibility status for 2026