2025 The Sentry Odds: Xander Kicks Off 2025 Atop Kapalua Odds Board

With Scottie Scheffler sidelined, Xander Schauffele has assumed the role of favorite in what's a loaded field for the first PGA Tour event of 2025 in The Sentry from The Plantation Course at Kapalua.

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Robert Criscola • Publishing Editor
Jan 1, 2025 • 11:17 ET • 4 min read
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The Sentry typically draws a solid field as one of the PGA Tour's Signature Events, and the 2025 tournament is no exception.

A field of 60, replete with FedExCup Champions and PGA tournament winners, descends on The Plantation Course at Kapalua (Maui, HI) for the first PGA Event of the New Year from January 2-5. 

Will another plucky underdog like Chris Kirk, who scored at +20000 last year, get the win here with Scottie Scheffler out due to injury? Let's dive into the latest golf odds for The Sentry 2025.

Odds to win 2025 The Sentry

The Sentry field

Scottie Scheffler was expected to go for a third straight win on Tour in The Sentry, but a Christmas Day accident will see him sidelined for multiple weeks.

As most hardened golf bettors know by now, if Scheffler is entered and has a pulse, he'll be favored. But with the World No. 1 now out of the mix, favoritism has fallen to 2019 The Sentry winner Xander Schauffele. 

Schauffele had only two Tour wins last year but made them count, taking both the PGA Championship and the British Open. He was 10th in The Sentry last year.

Collin Morikawa and Justin Thomas are the main dangers to Schauffele on the odds board. Morikawa did not win on Tour in 2024 but was Top 4 in both the Masters and the U.S. Open, and he ran second in the Tour Championship. He was also fifth in The Sentry in 2024.

Thomas was winless on Tour in 2024 but the 2017 The Sentry victor exits back-to-back Top 3s.

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The Sentry recent winners and odds history

Let's take a look at some recent The Sentry winners and their closing odds to win:

Year Winner Closing Odds
2024 Chris Kirk +20000
2023 Jon Rahm +700
2022 Cameron Smith +2500
2021 Harris English +3000
2020 Justin Thomas +500
2019 Xander Schauffele +2000
2018 Dustin Johnson +700
2017 Justin Thomas +1500
2016 Jordan Spieth +400
2015 Patrick Reed +1500

Odds courtesy of GolfOdds.

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Robert M. Criscola’s road to becoming a Covers publishing editor began with an internship at Metro New York, which eventually turned into a freelance job at MetroBet covering many sports from a wagering angle, including horse racing. He continued to focus on “The Sport of Kings” by writing for shapperdacapper.com, danonymousracing.com, and informer.fanxt.com before joining the team at the TwinSpires Edge in 2019 as a regular contributor and weekend editor. “Crisco” began writing game previews for Covers in 2022 and joined the editing team in 2023.

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