The PGA Tour is leaving the Aloha State, starting next season, as the 2027 schedule will not include Hawaiian stops for The Sentry and the Sony Open in Hawaii.
The schedule change was confirmed by the Tour, acknowledging that The Sentry will continue to be staged, though somewhere on the mainland United States. The Sentry was canceled in the fall of 2025, brought on by the combination of an ongoing drought on Maui, as well as water-access issues stemming from a dispute with the company in charge of a water delivery system used to keep the host Plantation Course alive.
While the dispute did end, and the Plantation Course was in good shape during the week the tournament was to be played, the wheels were in motion for this bigger change. It's thought that Torrey Pines Golf Courses in the San Diego area could become the new host of the event, as the erstwhile Farmers Insurance Open no longer has a title sponsor and a replacement is not on the horizon. Wisconsin-based Sentry Insurance executives were at that event this year, as they have title sponsorship of the season-opening Signature event through 2035.
The PGA Tour has subsidized The Sentry since they bumped the purse to $20 million, and the event has exceptionally high costs given the realities of doing business in Hawaii.
The Sony Open in Hawaii will no longer be part of the PGA Tour schedule, with Sony's contract as a long-running title sponsor ending this year without extension or an attempt to find a new title sponsor. The event, played on Oahu at Honolulu's Waialae Country Club, has been part of the Aloha Swing since the former Tournament of Champions moved to Hawaii in 1999.
The PGA Tour is in discussions to move the Sony Open event to the PGA Tour Champions schedule, creating a season-opening Hawaii swing with their Mitsubishi Electric Championship at Hualalai, on the Big Island.
"We are grateful to The Plantation Course at Kapalua, Kapalua Resort, Maui County and the state of Hawaii for their longtime support of our season-opening PGA Tour event, as well as the fans, partners and volunteers across Maui who have supported the event throughout the years," the tour said in a statement.
Hideki Matsuyama was the final winner at Kapalua in The Sentry in 2025, setting the PGA Tour's 72-hole scoring record against par at 35-under total on the par-73 Coore-and-Crenshaw design.
The 2027 PGA Tour schedule will be announced in full at a later date.
