Twenty weeks is not a long time in professional golf. That’s how long it is until the PGA Tour returns to Maui’s picturesque Plantation course for the 2024 Sentry (formerly known as the Tournament of Champions) in Hawaii.
How much Maui will have rebuilt itself from the wildfires by then is hard to tell, but it will be a slow process given how difficult it is to transport materials to an island. Already, the blazes have claimed 99 lives with only 25 per cent of the burned areas searched. The usually bustling tourist town of Lahaina, less than 20 minutes south of Kapalua, has been the hardest hit. More than 2,200 structures on the island have been destroyed or damaged by the fires—about 86 percent of them residential, Hawaii Governor Josh Green said.
That’s why Collin Morikawa concedes it will be “scary” returning to Lahaina, where the Californian’s…