The Sentry: The right way to watch, TV schedule, streaming, tee instances, extra

The PGA Tour is again, as the primary occasion of the 2024 season is right here! Their offseason was very brief, with the brand new PGA Tour Fall schedule. However the brand new season kicks off with a vital match.

The Sentry, previously often known as the Sentry Match of Champions, is ready to maintain the match in its common location, Kapalua, Maui, Hawaii. Regardless of the tragic fires in 2023, the course is prepared for a few of the PGA Tour’s biggest gamers.

Normally, simply the winners from the earlier season play on this occasion, however issues have modified. As a part of the brand new Signature Occasions, it’s nonetheless a restricted discipline, however greater than earlier than. Now, it’s made up of the winners and the High 50 within the FedEx Cup standings.

The Sentry Info:

The place: Plantation Course at Kapalua in Kapalua, Maui, HI (Par 73, 7,596 yards)

When: Jan. 4-Seventh

Purse: $20,000,000 / First Place: $3,600,000

FedEx Cup factors: 700

Format: 4-day, no-cut, 72-hole stroke play competitors

Defending Champ: Jon Rahm

The right way to Watch the Sentry:

Followers can tune into the motion this week on Golf Channel and NBC. With the match in Hawaii, followers will get night golf to take pleasure in. Hawaii is six hours behind Japanese Normal Time, so keep in mind that when in search of protection.

The primary two rounds can be on Golf Channel, and the ultimate two rounds will share protection with NBC for the sooner tee instances.

Right here is the total schedule for community protection:

Thursday, Jan. 4: 6-10 p.m. ET (Golf Channel)

Friday, Jan. 5: 6-10 p.m. ET (Golf Channel)

Saturday, Jan. 6: 4-6 p.m. ET (NBC); 6-8 p.m. ET (Golf Channel)

Sunday, Jan. 7: 4-6 p.m. ET (NBC); 6-8 p.m. ET (Golf Channel)

The right way to Stream the Sentry:

Peacock and ESPN+ will stream the occasion. ESPN+ can have featured group protection, whereas Peacock will simulcast the published all 4 days of the match.

Protection will be streamed on Peacock right here.

The Sentry Preview

Defending champion Jon Rahm won’t play. The No. 3 participant on the earth left the PGA Tour for LIV Golf on Dec. 7. He reportedly signed for someplace within the neighborhood of a half a billion {dollars} to captain his personal staff.

Picture by Harry How/Getty Photographs

Whereas he isn’t within the discipline, that doesn’t imply the match received’t be star-studded. It is filled with the PGA Tour’s greatest. No. 1 on the earth, Scottie Scheffler, and No. 2 Rory McIlroy are enjoying together with No. 4 Viktor Hovland.

Collin Morikawa, Jordan Spieth, Ludvig Åberg and Max Homa are additionally teeing it up this week.

Hovland and Scheffler are the favorites for the week, as they each ended their 2023 seasons with stable performances. The previous Texas Longhorn earned his third victory of the 12 months at the Hero World Problem as he lastly bought over the hump within the Bahamas.

This 12 months marks his third journey to Maui. Final 12 months, he completed T7, enhancing from his T13 in his 2021 debut.

Hovland was part of the victorious European Ryder Cup staff in 2023 and received back-to-back playoff occasions on the BMW Championship and Tour Championship to take dwelling his first FedEx Cup title.

The Norweigan couldn’t full the three-peat on the Hero, however his 63 on Sunday was the perfect of the week for that discipline. This week marks his fourth straight look in Maui as he seems to be to crack the High 17 for the primary time.

Not a rookie, Åberg took the world by storm in 2023. He received on the RSM Traditional, which secured his spot on this week’s occasion. The previous Texas Tech Pink Raider has completed T14 or higher in eight consecutive occasions. It’s his debut in Maui, and this monitor tends to chew exhausting at these first-timers.

Any of the 59 males competing may take it dwelling this week because the 2024 PGA Tour season will lastly get underway.

The Sentry Tee Occasions Spherical 1 (ET)

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