{"id":15555665,"date":"2025-01-07T03:09:30","date_gmt":"2025-01-07T08:09:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/golf.com\/?post_type=article&p=15555665"},"modified":"2025-01-07T03:09:39","modified_gmt":"2025-01-07T08:09:39","slug":"25-changes-pga-tour-sentry-monday-finish","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/golf.com\/news\/25-changes-pga-tour-sentry-monday-finish\/","title":{"rendered":"25 revelations from the PGA Tour’s first week | Monday Finish"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Welcome back to the Monday Finish, where we’ve finally settled on a New Year’s Resolution: Play more golf! Achievable goals are important. To the news<\/em>…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Little changes.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once LIV arrived in 2022, pro golf’s “free agency” went from zero to 60. Players’ decisions to leave for the breakaway league were massively consequential for themselves and for others, collectively sending the sport careening down an uncertain path.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But golfers’ offseason decisions weren’t always so momentous and their return to competition used to mean something simpler. We’d arrive at Kapalua the first week of January and find out about little offseason tweaks top pros had made: coaching changes, gear changes, apparel changes. Less consequential, less exciting and less earth-quaking than LIV departures. But kinda fun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With a relatively quiet LIV hot-stove season (thus far, at least) this week’s news cycle felt like something of a throwback. And while golf probably could use a bit more<\/em> juice \u2014\u00a0I’m not sure NFL fans were thinking much about the Sentry \u2014\u00a0we still learned plenty coming out of golf’s offseason. Some good. Some bad. Some sartorial.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let’s buzz through 25 things we learned in Week 1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We’d better start with World No. 1, which also means starting with the bad news: Scottie Scheffler<\/strong> missed the Sentry and announced on Monday that he’ll miss the American Express<\/a>, too (let’s call this Learning<\/strong> No. 1<\/strong>), shifting his comeback timeline back to, at best, the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am. Whatever happened with Scheffler’s Christmas dinner-prep injury<\/a> was clearly fairly serious and\/or extremely unlucky; let’s hope he’s taking extra time out of an abundance of caution and this isn’t something that’ll linger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Max Homa<\/strong> probably made the biggest offseason changes. He returned with Cobra clubs in his hands (2<\/strong>). With Puma shoes on his feet (3<\/strong>). With Lululemon clothes, head to toe (4<\/strong>). And with a new coach on call, John Scott Rattan<\/strong>, director of instruction at Congressional, who has been helping Homa battle a tendency to get stuck<\/a>. (5<\/strong>). Homa even made waves by hiring Jordan Spieth<\/strong>‘s longtime caddie Michael Greller<\/strong> for the week (6<\/strong>); the term of their arrangement wasn’t immediately clear but it sounded like a potential one-off because Homa’s usual caddie Joe Greiner<\/strong> was at home dealing with a family situation. Homa shot at least four under par each day and 19 under par for the week, which somehow left him just T26 in a 59-player field. These guys are good.<\/p>\n\n\n

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