When does the PGA Tour’s 2024 season start?

The 2024 PGA Tour sees a return to a calendar-based schedule beginning in January.

Occupying the coveted spot of PGA Tour opener is the Sentry Event of Champions which begins on 4 January 2024.

The 2024 PGA Tour would be the 109th season of the professional tour and the 56th season since separating from the PGA of America. The 2024 PGA Tour will stage the 18th version of the FedEx Cup.

The Sentry Event of Champions is the calendar-year opening match of golf’s PGA Tour season and is at present performed in Hawaii on the island of Maui.

The Sentry was based in 1953 underneath the identify Event of Champions; for many of its historical past, the sector was restricted to golfers who gained a match through the earlier calendar 12 months, however gamers who certified for the previous Tour Championship at the moment are invited as effectively.

Since 1999, the season-opener has been performed over the Plantation Course on the Kapalua Resort close to Lahaina on the island of Maui in Hawaii.

The course has some spectacular adjustments of elevation adjustments, and rolling fairways typically acquire record-length drives on the occasion.

Earlier Event of Champions venues embody the Desert Inn Nation Membership in Las Vegas, Nevada, from the occasion’s inception till 1966, and the Stardust Nation Membership, additionally in Las Vegas, in 1967 and 1968. For the next thirty years, between 1968 and 1998, it was performed at La Costa Resort and Spa in Carlsbad, California; it moved from Could 1985 to January 1986 and relocated to Maui in 1999.

The PGA Tour’s 2023 winners and those that completed within the high 30 of the FedExCup will open the 12 months in Maui.

A denser taking part in turf than the unique Bermuda, Celebration Bermudagrass, was used to regrass 100 acres of the Plantation Course’s fairways in 2019. This floor can be mowed extra carefully to stop trampling all 12 months spherical.

Invoice Coore of the Crenshaw and Coore design group stated the thought of the Plantation course was to have gamers be capable to land a shot 60 yards wanting the greens and have it roll on. Nonetheless, over time, the floor made that unattainable, which prompted the 2019 adjustments.

“Years in the past, you’d hit a tee shot and it could chase and chase and chase unbelievable distances. However because the grass grew and grew for 30 years, loads of that component was misplaced,” Coore stated.

“The course had gotten so mushy that it was straightforward pickin’s for TOUR gamers and actually lengthy for resort gamers.

“The thought at Kapalua at all times was to land a shot 60 yards wanting a inexperienced and let it roll on.

“In recent times, a ball touchdown 20 yards wanting a inexperienced would simply cease. It’ll play in another way. … Gamers will be capable to use side-slopes to feed pictures to a flag. And drives will roll out farther, typically nearer to hassle.”

The greens, which had shrunk down over time had been additionally expanded through the 2019 renovation.

The highest six longest drives on the PGA Tour had been all achieved at this venue and it makes for some spectacular viewing making it a favorite for gamers and followers.