{"id":438106,"date":"2026-04-22T00:10:34","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T00:10:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/golf\/?p=438106"},"modified":"2026-04-22T00:10:34","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T00:10:34","slug":"hawaii-swing-is-off-the-schedule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/golf\/hawaii-swing-is-off-the-schedule\/","title":{"rendered":"Hawaii Swing Is Off The Schedule"},"content":{"rendered":"

For sixty years now, the island of Maui has hosted PGA Tour events.\u00a0 However, recent changes in the Tour have left the future of the Hawaii Swing uncertain.\u00a0 Now, after months of speculation and discussions,<\/a> the PGA Tour has announced that the Hawaii Swing is now off the regular season schedule.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Why Was The Hawaii Swing Removed<\/span><\/h2>\n

When Brian Rolapp stepped into the role as the PGA Tour CEO, he had some plans to gain more viewership for the even<\/a>ts.\u00a0 As well as keeping the sport in a better position on its viewers’ calendar.\u00a0 This involves retooling the calendar by cutting off some events that have either fallen out of popularity or that just don\u2019t fit in anymore.\u00a0 The idea is to make golf more of a summer sport to avoid competition with the NFL during its season.\u00a0 This is what led to the Sentry and the Sony Open being removed from the schedule.\u00a0 Bringing an end to the Hawaii Swing.<\/span><\/p>\n

Player\u2019s Response<\/span><\/h2>\n

This news came to the players as they were arriving at New Orleans for the Zurich Classic.\u00a0 Golf Channel\u2019s Brently Romine got some players’ reactions to the news as they were preparing for the Zurich Classic.\u00a0 Most of the interviews he got were mostly accepting of this news, as they saw it as just a natural evolution of the league.\u00a0 In an interview, Max McGreevy<\/a> gave his thoughts on the recent announcement.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cUnfortunately, I think that\u2019s just kind of part of business over years and years of play.\u00a0 Obviously, Sony\u2019s great event starting the year out in Hawaii is obviously awesome, but there are always some changes that are gonna have to be made.\u00a0 I think, throughout years and years.\u00a0 Hopefully, we can still keep it as either Champions Tour or something else that could make it work.\u00a0 It stinks to lose it, but I think in the overall scheme of things that\u2019s just potentially going to happen.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Unfortunately, the Sentry wasn\u2019t held this yea<\/a>r due to a mix of drought that left the course in bad shape, as well as the logistical issues in moving venues.\u00a0 The Sony Open still had its own send-off at the start of the season.\u00a0 As a result, the Hawaii Swing was only one event for 2026.\u00a0 Not exactly ideal for what turned out to be its final year.<\/span><\/p>\n

A Future For The Hawaii Swing?<\/span><\/h2>\n

Although the two events have been removed from the regular season, there is a future for them elsewhere under the PGA umbrella.\u00a0 In the same statement that announced<\/a> the removal of the Hawaii Swing, it was also announced that the Tour is looking to put the Sony Open on the PGA Tour Champions.\u00a0 Essentially, keeping the event going for the seniors circuit. \u00a0 It is currently unknown what the future of the Sentry hold<\/a>s, but it could meet a similar fate to the Sony Open.\u00a0 Hawaii has hosted events since 1965, and the PGA is not ready to fully eliminate the events.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Main Photo Credit:\u00a0 \u00a9 Marco Garcia-Imagn Images<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For sixty years now, the island of Maui has hosted PGA Tour events.\u00a0 However, recent changes in the Tour have left the future of the Hawaii Swing uncertain.\u00a0 Now, after months of speculation and discussions, the PGA Tour has announced that the Hawaii Swing is now off the regular season schedule.\u00a0\u00a0 Why Was The Hawaii […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5429,"featured_media":438109,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15,246,19],"tags":[8122,8104,8196],"class_list":["post-438106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-golf","category-golf-news","category-pga","tag-brian-rolapp","tag-sony-open","tag-the-sentry"],"modified_by":"Taylor Craig","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5429"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=438106"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":438115,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438106\/revisions\/438115"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/438109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}