The numbers coming out of Hawaii’s Plantation Course at Kapalua are pretty mind-blowing. Just ask Hideki Matsuyama, who absolutely crushed it at the 2025 The Sentry with a jaw-dropping 35-under-par performance.
That’s not just good – it’s literally the best score ever recorded in PGA Tour history.
Name
Events
Top 10
Money
Hideki Matsuyama
264
64
$55,422,165
Matsuyama’s historic run left even second-place finisher Collin Morikawa in the dust, though Morikawa’s 32-under showing would’ve won almost any other tournament in history.
What makes Kapalua so special? Despite stretching out to a massive 7,600 yards, this par-73 course has become famous (or maybe infamous) for producing some of golf’s lowest scores. It’s basically the PGA Tour’s version of a shootout.
The numbers tell the story: seven of the eight lowest 72-hole scores ever recorded on Tour have happened right here on this Bill Coore and Ben Crenshaw-designed layout.
Think about that – in nearly 40 years of electronic scorekeeping on the PGA Tour, one course has produced almost all of the record-breaking low scores.
For golf fans wondering why scores go so low here: Kapalua’s wide fairways, favorable trade winds, and large greens make it a perfect storm for pros to attack pins and make birdies in bunches.
