Matsuyama sets new PGA Tour scoring record.. Final results/ prize money at The Sentry

 PGA Tour : The Sentry Results

I won't write this PGA TOUR storyline again this season....

65 65 62 65 -35 is the new record low winning score on Tour, set by Japanese star Hideki Matsuyama who apparently loved his new putter so much he went out and won himself $3,600,000 and 700 Fed Ex points to kick off his 2025 season winning the Sentry on a defenseless Plantation Course at Kapalua on the becalmed island of Maui.

Those of you who have made the trip to the Hawaiian islands will know it's a 12 hour direct flight from Toronto, 6.5 hours from Vancouver but remember it's also just 6.5 hours from Tokyo. There are many Japanese people living in Hawaii who originally came to labour in the sugar cane fields

Collin Morikawa whose family are Japanese was 2nd  66 65 62 67 -32 which would have won it most times but Matsuyama was "just relentless" in his words.  ($2,160,000)

Click on my "results" link above for all the scores..

Canadians 

( note Taylor Pendrith made an albatross 2 on par 5 5th hole a 205 yard 6 iron)

Corey Conners  T5  66 66 69 67 -24  ($744,166)

Taylor Pendrith T13  71 65 67 67 -22 ($410,000)

Adam Hadwin 29th  67 69 68 70 -18  ($148,000)

Nick Taylor T48  73 73 66 69 -11   ($57,000)

Opinion " Distasteful"

This reward for the players performance over the 2024 season is an incredibly soft, luxurious start for these players, two or three weeks with family in paradise all expenses paid, such is life on the PGA Tour these days, all originally driven by the controversial Saudi PIF money that has made the game at this level so distasteful to many, even some of the players especially when the masses of this world are struggling so mightily on all fronts these days.

Meanwhile former world #1's like Dustin Johnson or Jon Rahm have all but disappeared from the game except for majors, with bank accounts of billionaires just for showing up, playing some hybrid made up 54 hole, who cares team game, when they already had more than they needed before this all started, including the most important tenet, integrity. 

This week many here have flown over to the island of Oahu for the annual first full field event, the Sony Open.

Bryan Angus