Many golf fans were saddened by the news that The Sentry will not be on the PGA Tour schedule in 2027.
Starting from next year, there will be no PGA Tour event in Hawaii for the first time in 63 years.
The PGA Tour shocked fans when they announced that The Sentry will be no more from next season onwards, for the foreseeable future at least.
Many golf fans loved watching the low scoring event in Hawaii at the beautiful Plantation Course at Kapalua, with the sun shining and the breathtaking backdrop framed by mountains and the Pacific Ocean.
Or did they?
The thing is, the numbers simply don’t back up the notion that The Sentry was a popular event among golf fans.
Why Golf fans have no right to moan about the PGA Tour’s Sentry decision
Despite many golf fans protesting against the decision to pull the plug on The Sentry, there was clearly a very good reason why the PGA Tour acted so ruthlessly.
The Sentry only garnered 461,000 television viewers in 2025 – the third lowest of any PGA Tour event.
Only the Sony Open and the American Express had fewer people watching from their homes.
For context, the Zurich Classic of New Orleans attracted almost four times the amount of television viewers than The Sentry did, with 1,631,000 people tuning in to watch the team event at TPC Louisiana.
The Masters was the most-watched golfing event in 2025, with 12,707,000 golf fans tuning in to watch the tournament.
That was followed in the standings by the U.S. Open (5.4 million), the PGA Championship (4.7 million) and the Tour Championship (4.5 million).
Then came the RBC Heritage and the Open Championship with 4.3 million and 4.1 million viewers respectively.
For further context, the 25th most-watched tournament in 2025 was the Mexico Open, with two million viewers tuning in to watch the event at Vidanta Vallarta.
Viewing figures didn’t justify The Sentry’s place on the PGA Tour schedule
Only three PGA Tour tournaments failed to attract more than one million viewers in 2025, one of which was The Sentry.
The Sentry simply wasn’t watched enough by golf fans to make it a viable tournament for the PGA Tour to continue running.
Sure, the six-hour time difference from the east coast of America didn’t help matters.
However, if it really was a golf tournament that fans simply couldn’t do without, they would have watched it anyway, regardless of the time difference.
That is the bottom line and, as a result, golf fans don’t really have a right to complain about the PGA Tour pulling The Sentry from the schedule.
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