The Sentry: 25/1, 28/1, 33/1 and 50/1 golf tips!
A new year heralds the start of the 2025 PGA Tour season, which begins on Thursday with the traditional curtain-raiser, the Sentry at the Plantation Course in Kapalua, Hawaii.
Racing & Football Outlook golf tipster Joe Champion nailed a 20/1 winner when John Parry won the Mauritius Open before Christmas while 60/1 each-way selection Christo Lamprecht followed his home in second.
Joe is back for 2025 with four each-way tips to follow in Hawaii at odds of 25/1, 28/1, 33/1 and 50/1.
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The Sentry Outright Selections
Sahith Theegala each-way at 25/1
Formerly the Tournament of Champions, the Sentry is open to each 2024 PGA Tour winner plus any player who finished in the top 50 on the FedEx Cup standings and while most of the big guns are teeing it up, Rory McIlroy and the injured Scottie Scheffler are absent in Hawaii.
Without that illustrious pair, Xander Schauffele is the 5-1 favourite at a venue where he won in 2019 and finished second the following season.
The only par-73 layout on the PGA Tour, the Plantation Course has tended to feature low scores including in 2022 when Cameron Smith reached -34 through 72 holes, which is the PGA Tour’s lowest 72-hole score-to-par.
Smith, a terrific scrambler who is not the longest off the tee, is an indicator of what’s needed to win the Sentry – driving power is a bonus but the route to victory is getting up and down around the enormous greens and rolling in enough putts to post the required super-low total.
Chris Kirk caused a shock when winning the Sentry in 2024 and it could pay to look for those on offer at fancier prices, starting with rising star Sahith Theegala.
Blessed with a brilliant short-game, Theegala’s loose driving will not be an issue at wide-open Kapalua, where he finished 33rd on debut in 2023 before a final-round 63 saw him finish runner-up to Kirk last season.
Theegala’s game is ideal for this coastal test and he’s had a more recent run out than many of his Hawaii rivals, finishing eighth in the World Challenge – a position he would’ve bettered were it not for a disastrous quadruple-bogey eight in the final round.
Akshay Bhatia each-way at 28/1
Akshay Bhatia finished fourth in the Bahamas – an impressive performance on his Albany debut – and he went well for three rounds on his first Kapalua start last year, reaching 20 under par before a lacklustre final-round 71 saw him finish 14th.
The left-hander fell in love with the Maui greens and he looks set to challenge for the title with course experience and another PGA Tour season under his belt.
Byeong Hun An each-way at 33/1
After a run of consistent form, Byeong Hun An finally cashed in when last seen, winning the DP World Tour’s Genesis Championship in his native Korea in October.
That victory will have done wonders for his self-belief and he’ll be confident on his return to Kapalua, where he did everything well when finishing fourth on debut in January.
Maverick McNealy each-way at 50/1
Maverick McNealy claimed an overdue PGA Tour title at the RSM Classic in November. He is a fine short-game exponent who relishes competing by the coast – which is no surprise given he honed his craft on the fairways of Pebble Beach as a child.
This is his Kapalua debut but he has a top-ten finish to his name in the PGA Tour’s other Hawaiian event, the Sony Open.
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