Tiger Woods is returning to the Bahamas for the Hero World Challenge, but the 15-time major champion has no plans to tee it up.
Instead, he will tour the facility as tournament host, where 20 of the world's top players will compete for $1 million, which goes to the winner.
World No. 1 Scottie Scheffler will return as the defending champion, but No. 2, No. 3 and No. 4 Xander Schauffele, Rory McIlroy and Collin Morikawa will be absent from this week's competition. Scheffler is the only other top-10 player in the Bahamas this week: Ludwig Oberg and Windham Clark.
Other notable players include 2024 Ryder Cup captain Keegan Bradley, who secured a point for the Americans at the Presidents Cup in September, two-time major champion Justin Thomas, who recently became a father; That includes Patrick Cantlay, ranked 11th in the world.
Additional information needed before Round 1 is listed below.
Tournament information
course: Albany Golf Club, Albany, Bahamas
Yards/Par: 7,449 yards, par 72
Architect: Ernie Els
Wallet/1st place: $5,000,000/$1,000,000
Field size: 20
odds
Pre-tournament odds provided for players to win: fan duel:
Scotty Scheffler: +200
Ludwig Oberg: +1100
Justin Thomas: +1200
Russell Henry: +1200
Sam Burns: +1200
Patrick Cantlay: +1200
Im Sung Jae: +1400
Windham Clark: +2000
Jason Day: +2500
Robert McIntyre: +2500
Saheeth Segala: +2500
Tom Kim: +2500
Cameron Young: +3000
Aaron Rye: +3000
Brian Harman: +3000
Keegan Bradley: +3300
Akshay Bhatia: +3500
Sepp Straka: +4000
Nick Dunlap: +4500
Mathieu Pabon: +10000
How to watch
NBC and Golf Channel will provide live television coverage. peacock stream Too.
Always Eastern:
Thursday, December 5th: 1:30pm to 4:30pm (Golf Channel)
Friday, December 6th: 1:30pm to 4:30pm (Golf Channel)
Saturday, December 7th: 12:30pm – 2:30pm (Golf Channel) 2:30pm – 5pm (NBC)
Sunday, December 8th: 11:30am-1:30pm (Golf Channel) 1:30pm-4:30pm (NBC)
Round 1 tea time
Always Eastern:
10:46 am — Aaron Lai, Matthew Pabon
10:57 a.m. — Brian Herman, Russell Henry
11:08 a.m. — Cameron Young, Sepp Straka
11:19 a.m. — Robert McIntyre, Akshay Bhatia
11:30 a.m. — Im Sung-jae, Tom Kim
11:41 am — Nick Dunlap, Sam Barnes
11:52 am — Ludwig Oberg, Jason Day
12:03 PM — Windham Clark, Patrick Cantlay
12:14 p.m. — Scotty Scheffler, Sahis Seegala
12:25 p.m. — Justin Thomas, Keegan Bradley
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