The Maui News
The 2023 Sentry Tournament of Champions today announced 2022 Masters champion Scottie Scheffler, Tony Finau, Max Homa and Sam Burns are set to return to Maui and the Sentry Tournament of Champions when it’s played at the picturesque Plantation Course at Kapalua Jan. 4-8, 2023.
All four players finished the 2022 calendar year with multiple victories on the PGA Tour, with Scheffler the only player to reach four wins.
SCOTTIE SCHEFFLER
In what was an historic year for the Dallas resident, Scheffler’s four victories on Tour in 2022 secured another trip to Maui. The 26-year-old earned his first career Tour title after defeating Patrick Cantlay in a playoff at the WM Phoenix Open in February. Just 21 days later, Scheffler claimed his second at the Arnold Palmer Invitational presented by Mastercard.
Returning to his Texas roots in March, Scheffler defeated Kevin Kisner at the World Golf Championships-Dell Technologies Match Play event in Austin to claim the No. 1 spot in the Official World Golf Ranking. In his next start, Scheffler won the Masters Tournament by one stroke over Rory McIlroy, earning his first major championship victory and fourth of the calendar year to become the first player to win four times in a six-start stretch on Tour since Jason Day in 2015.
The 2022 PGA Tour Player of the Year finished T13 in his lone appearance at the Sentry Tournament of Champions in 2021 after an additional qualification category was added as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic to include those players who advanced to the previous season’s Tour Championship.
TONY FINAU
While Scheffler topped the PGA Tour with four wins in 2022, Finau had a breakout year of his own with three titles. The 33-year-old’s first victory came after defeating Sungjae Im and Emiliano Grillo at the 3M Open in July, which qualified him for a return trip to Kapalua.
One week later, the Utah native earned his fourth career Tour title with a five-stroke win at the Rocket Mortgage Classic. Finau finished off a memorable 2022 with his third victory of the calendar year at the Cadence Bank Houston Open in November. The 2023 TOC marks Finau’s fourth appearance at Kapalua with his best finish a T9 in 2017.
MAX HOMA
Two Tour wins in 2022 secured Homa’s return trip to Maui. The California native finished ahead of Matt Fitzpatrick, Cameron Young and Keegan Bradley to win the Wells Fargo Championship in May for the second time (2019). In October, the 32-year-old successfully defended his title at the Fortinet Championship, defeating Danny Willett after chipping in on the 72nd hole to claim his fifth career Tour win. Homa is set to make his third start at the Plantation Course, where he finished T5 in 2020 and T15 in 2022.
SAM BURNS
Burns began his two-win campaign in 2022 with a successful title defense of his own at the Valspar Championship, where he outlasted Davis Riley in a playoff. A few months later, Burns found the winner’s circle again following a playoff victory over his good friend Scheffler at the Charles Schwab Challenge in Fort Worth, Texas, for his fourth career Tour title.
The Louisiana native will make his second start at the Sentry TOC–he finished T19 here in 2022.
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