Fantasy Golf Sleeper Report – 2025 The Sentry

2025 The Sentry Fantasy Sleeper Report

A new year brings new hope, new faith, new opportunities.

In this field for The Sentry, there’s no Scottie Scheffler (he cut his hand badly over the festive period and has had surgery, while Rory McIlroy, Tommy Fleetwood, and Shane Lowry are off honing their craft elsewhere ahead of the debut of the Tech Golf League (TGL) next week.

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Viktor Hovland has also broken his toe by somehow walking into his bedframe, with the Norwegian therefore unlikely to feature at the top of leaderboard. So the very first tournament of 2025 could yet offer a chance for a long odds winner to thrive.

But who might that be? If the weather forecast for Maui in Hawaii is anything to go by, it could be a very a-typical week for The Sentry. There’s plenty of rain being predicted in the lead up to the tournament – and on Thursday too, while the wind speeds are curiously benign for this part of the world.

A rain softened Plantation Course, found at the Kapalua Resort host venue, will play long but, perhaps, even easier than normal – remember, this is a stretch at which Cameron Smith won with a record score of -34 back in 2022.

Chris Kirk’s victory lap was a more modest -29 in 2024, but even so that score shows just how many birdies have to be made in order to be competitive at the Plantation Course; Kirk was one of four players to break par 30 or more times for the week.

Ordinarily, no type of player is out of contention at this venue, with the emphasis very much on making putts given how wide the fairways are, and how little danger lurks around the greens. But if the rain does fall in Maui, a 7,450-yard Par 73 will play longer than usual.

Par 73? Yep, you read that right, with four Par 5s, eleven Par 4s and three Par 3s making up the routing. At the 2024 edition, 17 of the 18 holes averaged under par, so getting out of the gate fast and shooting low numbers on Thursday and Friday will be particularly crucial in determining the winner.

This is a classy field even without those names mentioned above, with every tournament winner on the PGA TOUR in 2024 invited, alongside anyone else in the world’s top 50 players that fancies a knock.

But even so, there’s some eye-catching players to back at long odds this week… as our sleeper shortlist for the 2025 edition of The Sentry attests.

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J.T. Poston – 50/1 – It was an in-and-out season for J.T. Poston in 2024, but one thing that we do know about him is that he tends to start his year off with a bang.

Last year, for example, Poston finished T5 at The Sentry, solo sixth at the Sony Open, and T11 in the American Express in his first three starts of the campaign, which shows where his biorhythms were at early in January.

He added T5 at the correlating RBC Heritage and RSM Classic, before winning his third PGA TOUR title at the Shriners. Poston has the pedigree and the game to compete at The Sentry.

Max Greyserman – 50/1 – On five occasions in 2024, Max Greyserman finished two or fewer shots behind the tournament winner.

He may not have been able to convert from a position of authority, but it shows just how the Floridan grew in his debut season as a PGA TOUR pro. It’s telling too that much of his best work came since the summer, suggesting that he is now well and truly at home at golf’s top table.

The Plantation Course at Kapalua is so easy in benign conditions that simply hitting bombs and making putts, which has become Greyserman’s stock in trade, is as strategic as you need to get.

Taylor Pendrith – 55/1 – With no Scottie and no Rory, you wonder if opportunity knocks this week for a player with what can be described as an ascending career.

Taylor Pendrith fits that bill, and he has a combination of attributes that could well lend themselves to success at Kapalua’s Plantation Course.

The Canadian, who landed his maiden PGA TOUR title back in May, boasts the bombs-and-putts skillset that should work well at a soft Plantation Course, and it’s notable too that his approach play has improved immeasurably in 2024.

Factor in a T10 finish at the Sony Open, and there’s plenty of encouragement for Pendrith fans to get excited about this week.

Billy Horschel – 70/1 – If 2024 was the year that Billy Horschel rejuvenated his golfing career, 2025 will be the time that he looks to cement his place in the United States’ Ryder Cup team.

Two wins last year (Corales Puntacana and the DP World Tour’s BMW Championship) were met with a pair of major top-tens, including T2 at the British Open, and a host of other big finishes.

It was a year in which Horschel rediscovered his class with irons and wedges in hand, and if he can take that skillset with him to Hawaii – and putt as well as he usually does, for the most part – then he becomes one to watch once again.

Nico Echavarria – 125/1 – It wasn’t that long ago at the ZOZO Championship that Nico Echavarria was heading off Justin Thomas and Max Greyserman to lift the trophy. What price would you get for him to repeat that feat this week?

He’ll need to raise his game again in what is a stellar field, but one thing that is for sure is that the Colombian’s career is on the up and up. Since that win in Japan, Echavarria has finished T2 at the somewhat correlating RSM Classic, plus T6 at the WWT Championship, so he is certainly trending in the right direction.

With other positive form by the coast to call upon, Echavarria – who has gained strokes on the field putting in each of his last four measured starts – is an intriguing long odds play this week.

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