payday in maui
Here’s the prize money payout for each golfer at the 2025 Sentry in Hawaii
Sarah Stier
The PGA Tour is back. In Hawaii. Which meant beautiful images of the best players in the world playing at Kapalua’s Plantation Course with the water, whales and waves in the background.
Speaking of beautiful. Hideki Matsuyama showed up and steamrolled the field shooting 65-65-62-65 to set a tournament-record 35-under-par 257 total to top Collin Morikawa by three shots. He took home $3.6 million for his 11th PGA Tour victory, this one a signature event with a $20 million purse. Morikawa walked away with $2.16 million. Sungjae Im, unbeliebably, shot 29 under par for the week and ended third place. He earned $1.36 million.
Those who qualified but opted not to play were Tommy Fleetwood, Shane Lowry, Rory McIlroy and Scottie Scheffler. Scheffler, the tour’s player of the year for 2024. He announced last week that he injured his right hand when helping prepare a Christmas dinner at home in Texas.
Here is the rundown of what each player earned this week in Hawaii.
WIN: Hideki Matsuyama, -35/257 $3.6 million
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2: Collin Morikawa, -32/260, $2.16 million
3: Sungjae Im, -29/263, $1.36 million
4: Jhonattan Vegas, -25/267, $975,000
T-5: Ludvig Aberg, -24/268, $744,166.67
T-5: Corey Conners, -24/268, $744,166.67
T-5: Thomas Detry, -24/268, $744,166.67
T-8: Sam Burns, -23/269, $550,000
T-8: Maverick McNealy, -23/269, $550,000
T-8: Cameron Young, -23/269, $550,000
T-8: Tom Hoge, -23/269, $550,000
T-8: Harry Hall, -23/269, $550,000
T-13: Taylor Pendrith, -22/270, $410,000
T-13: Cam Davis, -22/270, $410,000
T-15: Robert McIntyre, -21/271, $292,000
T-15: Aaron Rai, -21/271, $292,000
T-15: Austin Eckroat, -21/271, $292,000
T-15: Keegan Bradley, -21/271, $292,000
T-15: Tony Finau, -21/271, $292,000
T-15: Wyndham Clark, -21/271, $292,000
T-15: Patrick Cantlay, -21/271, $292,000
Most golf fans are familiar with Kapalua Golf Club’s Plantation Course, home of the PGA Tour's opening event each year. Located on the north shore of the Hawaiian island of Maui, the Plantation was built from open, windswept pineapple fields on the pronounced slope of a volcano and is irrigated by sprinklers pressured solely by gravity. As the first design collaboration by Bill Coore and Ben Crenshaw, it unveiled their joint admiration for old-style courses. The blind drive on the fourth, the cut-the-corner drives on the fifth and sixth are all based on tee shots found at National Golf Links. So, too, are its punchbowl green and strings of diagonal bunkers. It's also a massive course, built on a huge scale, Coore says, to accommodate the wind and the slope and the fact that it gets mostly resort play.So it's a big course. But what sets it apart in my mind are the little things. When I played the course years ago with Coore, it took only one hole for me to appreciate one of its subtleties. We were on the tee of the par-3 second, an OK hole but nothing riveting, nothing like the canyon-carry par-3 eighth or the ocean-backdropped par-3 11th. The second sits on a rare flat portion of the property. The green sits at a diagonal, angling left to right, and there's a string of bunkers staggering up the right side of the green. The first bunker appears to be directly in front of the green but is actually 40 yards short of it. When pointed out to me, I called it Gingerbread. Bill disagreed."The wind quarters off your left shoulder from behind you," he pointed out. "The green goes ever so slightly away from you from front to back and left to right. It is a very obvious situation, given the wind condition and the angle of this green; you know you should hit a shot left-to-right to fit the shot with the green. "But if the flag is at the front, there’s no way to fly that ball all the way to the hole and stop it close. You may stop it somewhere on the green, but nowhere within a reasonable putt. So you have to aim short of the green. They maintain the approaches so beautifully over here—firm approaches mowed at probably a quarter of an inch; you can literally putt from out there if you chose to do so. "But that brings that first bunker in play," Coore continued. "When the flag is up front, you are absolutely required to land your ball just over that first bunker in order to get it to bounce and run to that front pin position."Kapalua's second is a simple-looking hole with a great deal of thought behind it. I suppose a lot of present-day architects would not have placed that forwardmost bunker on the hole, in the interests of playability for high-handicap resort golfers. But most of the old-time architects probably would have used such carry bunkers, especially in the days before irrigation, when greens were hard as a rock and every approach shot had to be bounced aboard.Another reason why studying the history of architecture might just help your score. —Ron Whitten
T-15: Adam Scott, -21/271, $292,000
T-15: Sepp Straka, -21/271, $292,000
T-24: Matt Fitzpatrick, -20/272, $196,000
T-24: Max Greyserman, -20/272, $196,000
T-26: Max Homa, -19/273, $163,333.33
T-26: Justin Thomas, -19/273, $163,333.33
T-26: Will Zalatoris, -19/273, $163,333.33
29: Adam Hadwin, -18/274, $148,000
T-30: Russell Henley, -17/275, $137,500
T-30: Xander Schauffele, -17/275, $137,500
T-32: Nico Echavarria, -16/276, $118,000
T-32: Byeong Hun An, -16/276, $118,000
T-32: Si Woo Kim, -16/276, $118,000
T-32: Akshay Bhatia, -16/276, $118,000
T-36: Viktor Hovland, -15/277, $97,750
T-36: Stephan Jaeger, -15/277, $97,750
T-36: Davis Thompson, -15/277, $97,750
T-36: Sahith Theegala, -15/277, $97,750
T-40: Patton Kizzire, -14/278, $81,000
T-40: Christiaan Bezuidenhout, -14/278, $81,000
T-40: Jason Day, -14/278, $81,000
T-40: J.T. Poston, -14/278, $81,000
T-44: Chris Kirk, -13/279, $69,000
T-44: Kevin Yu, -13/279, $69,000
T-46: Denny McCarthy, -12/280, $62,000
T-46: Chris Gotterup, -12/280, $62,000
T-48: Brice Garnett, -11/281, $57,000
T-48: Nick Taylor, -11/281, $57,000
T-48: Matthieu Pavon, -11/281, $57,000
51: Billy Horschel, -10/282, $54,000
52: Eric Cole, -9/283, $53,000
T-53: Peter Malnati, -8/284, $51,500
T-53: Matt McCarty, -8/284, $51,500
55: Nick Dunlap, -7/285, $50,000
56: Jake Knapp, -6//286, $49,500
57: Rafael Campos, -4/288, $49,000
58: Brian Harman, -3/289, $48,500
WD: Davis Riley, $48,000