The PGA Tour said Tuesday it is leaving Kapalua Resort in Hawaii for its season opener after determining the drought and a water dispute that has left the golf course baked and brown from lack of irrigation cannot be ready to host The Sentry in January.

The PGA Tour had started every year on the Plantation course at Kapalua since 1999 except for 2001, when the season began in Australia and then went to Kapalua on west Maui.

Still to be determined is where — or when — to move The Sentry, a $20 million signature event for all the PGA Tour winners in 2025 and the top 50 in the FedEx Cup. It was scheduled to be held Jan. 8-11.

The decision will not affect the Sony Open on Oahu, which will be played the following week.

Brian Rolapp, the CEO of PGA Tour Enterprises, spoke with Hawaii Gov. Jo

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