{"id":150061,"date":"2025-09-17T09:12:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T09:12:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/150061\/"},"modified":"2025-09-17T09:12:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T09:12:06","slug":"pga-tour-to-move-the-sentry-because-of-drought-in-hawaii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/150061\/","title":{"rendered":"PGA Tour to move The Sentry because of drought in Hawaii"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The PGA Tour&#8217;s season-opening event The Sentry is to be moved because drought conditions in Hawaii have made the host course unplayable.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The event usually takes place in January at the Plantation Course at Kapalua on the Island of Maui.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, drought conditions in the region mean water conservation measures have been imposed, including at Kapalua.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Tour officials visited the site this month and said the course was &#8220;significantly compromised&#8221; and would not be in playable condition by January, even if restrictions are lifted in the coming months.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We support the PGA Tour&#8217;s decision, given the drought conditions Maui is facing,&#8221; said Hawaii governor Josh Green. &#8220;Protecting our water and supporting our communities come first.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Sentry, which relocated from California to Maui in 1999, was the PGA Tour&#8217;s season opener between 1986 and 2013 before returning to that slot in 2024, when the Tour switched back to a calendar-year schedule.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">As the first signature event of the season, the field features the top 50 players from the previous year&#8217;s FedExCup standings, as well as winners of PGA Tour events from the previous year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The PGA Tour&#8217;s season-opening event The Sentry is to be moved because drought conditions in Hawaii have made&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":150062,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-150061","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-golf","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150061\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/150062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}