PGA Tour Brunch | The Sentry
Hideki Matsuyama Set PGA Tour Scoring Record in Maui
KAPALUA, HAWAII - By winning the 2025 Sentry, Japan’s Hideki Matsuyama set a PGA TOUR scoring record for a 72-hole event and earned his 11th TOUR victory in his 265th start, coming at the age of 32 years, 10 months, 11 days.
Matsuyama’s other PGA TOUR wins (10): 2014 Memorial Tournament presented by Workday, 2016 WM Phoenix Open, 2016 WGC-HSBC Champions, 2017 WM Phoenix Open, 2017 WGC-Bridgestone Invitational, 2021 Masters Tournament, 2021 Baycurrent Championship, 2022 Sony Open in Hawaii, 2024 Genesis Invitational, and the 2024 FedEx St. Jude Championship.
His (257) equalled a personal best 72-hole total on TOUR (257; 2022 Sony Open in Hawaii/Won). The (257) also set the tournament scoring record, previously a (258) by Cameron Smith in 2022.
The performance over four rounds was the lowest score in relation to par in a 72-hole event since the start of the 1983 season: The record-setters are: 35-under (Hideki Matsuyama/2025 Sentry), 34-under (Cameron Smith/2022 Sentry), 33-under (Jon Rahm/2022 Sentry).
Matsuyama has the most all-time wins by an Asian player on TOUR: Hideki Matsuyama (11, Japan), K.J. Choi (8, South Korea). Matsuyama stashes 700 FedEx Cup points and moves to No. 1 in the FedEx Cup standings after finishing the 2024 season No. 9 in the FedExCup. He currently has 11 consecutive finishes inside the Top 50 in the FedExCup, the longest active streak on TOUR.
Matsuyama moved to No. 5 in the Official World Golf Ranking.
Other notes:
Six-time PGA TOUR winner Collin Morikawa finished runner-up for the 10th time in 122 starts; holds six top-seven finishes in as many appearances at The Sentry (T7/2020, T7/2021, T5/2022, 2/2023, T5/2024, 2/2025).
Sungjae Im (3rd) played his last 51 holes without a bogey and recorded his third Top-5 finish in five starts at this event (T5/2021, T5/2024, 3/2025).
Taylor Pendrith (T13) had an albatross (double eagle) on the par-5 fifth hole with a 6-iron from 203 yards, marking the first double eagles at The Sentry since the event moved to Kapalua in 1999. Pendrith’s shot marked the 142nd albatross on TOUR and first since Nick Hardy at the 2024 Butterfield Bermuda Championship (R2/No. 17).
Davis Riley WD during the final round
The Sentry | Final Leaderboard
1 Hideki Matsuyama 65 65 62 65 257 (-35)
2 Collin Morikawa 66 65 62 67 260 (-32)
3 Sungjae Im 69 67 62 65 263 (-29)
4 Jhonattan Vegas 68 68 66 65 267 (-25)
Final Leaderboard (HERE)
Sentry Tournament of Champions | Basics
PGA Tour Brunch will post at Noon (ET) Wednesday, January 8, with a preview of the SONY Open in Honolulu.
The SONY | Field, Updates and Past Results
The Field: (link)
Updates:
Sunday, January 5
Davis Riley (WD), Trevor Cone (in)
Christiaan Bezuidenhout (WD), Danny Walker (in)
Past Results from The SONY: (link)
What They’re Saying
Matsuyama Sets TOUR Record with Win (ESPN.com)
The Purse from The Sentry (Golf Digest)
Sporting Goods and Golf Industry News
PGA Tour Players Looking at Extra Travel (Golf Week)
Hideki’s Golf Bag (Golf Week)
TGL Season Tee-Off
The inaugural TGL match will air in prime time on ESPN and ESPN+ on Tuesday, Jan. 7th:
TGL Playing Indoors but on Real Grass (PGATour.com)
The Course at TGL Explained (Golf Week)
How It Works (PGATour.com)
On This Day in Golf History
January 6, 1950 - Eleven months after nearly being killed in a head-on collision with a Greyhound bus, Ben Hogan returned to tournament golf when he teed-off at the Los Angeles Open. The Los Angeles Times reported that 9,000 fans were in the gallery to watch Hogan shoot a two-over par 73 in R-1. After 72 holes, Hogan lost in a playoff to Sam Snead. - Courtesy of Randy Walker, Author of On This Day in Golf History, available via Amazon.com and by clicking HERE
Parting Putt
Highlights from the final round of The Sentry:
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