The 2022 Hero World Challenge features a $3.5 million check for the winner.
Thanksgiving is in the rear-view mirror. Now it’s time to get back to some golf with the 2022 Hero World Challenge, where a $3.5 million check awaits the winner.
The 20-man field, however, does not include tournament host Tiger Woods this year. On Monday, Woods withdrew but he is on hand for the festivities. Sepp Straka took his spot in the field, and he’s tied for the lead after the opening round.
Straka is at 3 under, along with Tom Kim, last year’s champion Viktor Hovland and Collin Morikawa.
The Albany course is a par 72 that measures 7,414 yards.
Here’s a look at Friday’s second-round tee times. All times ET.
1st tee
Tee time
Players
10:30 a.m.
Corey Conners, Jordan Spieth
10:41 a.m.
Matt Fitzpatrick, Shane Lowry
10:52 a.m.
Sungjae Im, Kevin Kisner
11:03 a.m.
Billy Horschel, Jon Rahm
11:14 a.m.
Xander Schauffele, Scottie Scheffler
11:25 a.m.
Tony Finau, Justin Thomas
11:36 a.m.
Tommy Fleetwood, Max Homa
11:47 a.m.
Sam Burns, Cameron Young
11:58 a.m.
Collin Morikawa, Viktor Hovland
12:09 p.m.
Tom Kim, Sepp Straka
How to watch
You can watch Golf Channel for free on fuboTV. All times Eastern.
Friday, Dec. 2
TV
Golf Channel: 1:30-3:30 p.m.
RADIO
Siruis XM: 11 a.m.-4 p.m.
STREAM
Peacock: 1:30-3:30 p.m.
Saturday, Dec. 3
TV
Golf Channel: 12 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. NBC: 2:30 p.m. to 5 p.m.
RADIO
Siruis XM: 11 a.m.-5 p.m.
STREAM
Peacock: 12 p.m. to 5 p.m.
Sunday, Dec. 4
TV
Golf Channel: 12 p.m. to 1 p.m. NBC: 1 p.m. to 5 p.m.
“I don’t know if those changes would have happened if LIV wasn’t in the picture.”
NASSAU, Bahamas – Jon Rahm can pinpoint when his voice in the game started to be heard.
“This is a clear moment, very clear,” he said. “The second I won the U.S. Open apparently I got all the credibility I needed. Before that, nobody cared. I got COVID, Memorial happened, then I win the U.S. Open and all of a sudden my opinion matters, that’s kind of how it went.”
On Wednesday, ahead of the 2022 Hero World Challenge at Albany Club, a course where he has notched a win in 2018 and a runner-up a year later in three career starts, Rahm spoke elegantly about the role of money in the game of golf.
“I’m in a very, very, very, very privileged position in life. I’m no one to be thinking about money,” he said. “Luckily, I’ve played really good golf and I’ve had the opportunity to earn more money than I need.”
But Rahm acknowledged that he and his fellow PGA Tour brethren have benefited from the formation of LIV Golf and the existential threat it has created to the Tour’s supremacy. He argued that LIV’s aggressive spending to attract players to the upstart league has sped up the Tour’s plans to raise purses and increase the Player Impact Program money from initially $40 million last year to $100 million split between the top 20 finishers. (Tiger Woods finished first for the second straight year despite playing just nine rounds this year.)
“I think on this side of things we should be thankful that LIV happened,” Rahm said. “I don’t know if those changes would have happened if LIV wasn’t in the picture. So to an extent, yeah, we should be thankful.”
Rahm finished fifth and was awarded $6 million in the most recent PIP standings, which rewards the 20 players with the most positive impact on the Tour’s business.
“I’m not surprised I was in fifth place, pretty much to be expected. It’s not something I spend much time thinking about, right? I’m not going to change how I operate today to go any higher or lower on the PIP, that’s just not who I am. I’m here to win golf tournaments and I’m not going to be doing anything extra to change that,” he said. “I know in the social media aspect of things I might be a little or quite a bit behind a lot of people, but if you play good golf, things usually take care of themselves.”
Rahm also was quick to point out that money isn’t what makes his world go round.
“It’s not why I started playing, it’s not the reason why I play. So when I’m doing my schedule, when I’m practicing and I’m getting my things done, money is not really on my mind. If it was, I probably might have gone to LIV, right? If money is your goal, that’s clearly the path to go down,” he said. “Every decision I make when it comes to golf is to become the best player I can become.”
At the 2016 Quicken Loans, Rahm’s professional debut, he finished T-3 and earned $400,000 but said all that really meant to him was that he could “go to Chipotle and order extra guac if I wanted to and not feel guilty about it.”
“I’m still mad I bogeyed 17 and didn’t birdie 18 to not win,” he said. “Yeah, I was asked when that round finished, like Jon, you could have made par‑par and finished second for $700,000, and my answer was almost I don’t frickin’ care.”
Jon Rahm watches his putt on the 18th green during a practice round ahead of the 2022 Hero World Challenge at the Albany Golf Club in the Bahamas. (Photo: Fernando Llano/Associated Press)
But when asked if he would skip playing in more than one of the mandatory 13 elevated events plus three more of his choosing during the upcoming season – a requirement to earn the PIP money – he clarified that the money is a nice byproduct of his success and it was unlikely he would forgo those riches for the flexibility to take more time off.
“Listen, I’m saying I’m not playing for money. I’m also not stupid, OK?” he said. “If I’ve earned it and all I have to do is play maybe two or three events I haven’t played before for $20 million, yeah, I might make the effort and do it. It’s an added motivation, but I’m not going to be giving away millions of dollars just because I don’t want to play one or two events.”
The gear in the merchandise shop, which is the club’s golf pro shop, is heavy with Nike products.
When Tiger Woods has felt the need to escape the rigors of competition, he’s headed to Albany Club, the luxury resort community on the southwestern end of the island and host of the Hero World Challenge this week.
This week, the gear in the merchandise shop, which is the club’s golf pro shop, is heavy with Nike products. No surprise there.
You can get yourself a TW hat and plenty of tournament logo editions. Nothing out of the ordinary – lots of tournament flags, shirts and headcovers – but if you want to rep the logo of a club where Tiger parks his yacht, Privacy, and Adam Scott, Justin Rose and others have prepped for the Masters, this is your chance to get a casino chip ball marker for your collection.
We are done with official PGA Tour events in 2022. Now it’s time for golf’s silly season.
We are done with official PGA Tour events in 2022. Now it’s time for golf’s silly season.
Make no mistake, though, there’s real money on the line at the 2022 Hero World Challenge, with $3.5 million going to the winner of a 20-man field.
The competition, however, won’t include tournament host Tiger Woods. On Monday, Woods announced he isn’t able to play due to plantar faciitis. Woods will still be on hand for the festivities and is schedule to conduct a 10 a.m. ET news conference Tuesday. Sepp Straka was named his replacement and will get a tee time alongside Justin Thomas in Thursday’s first round.
Other notable pairings for Thursday include the all-Texas Longhorn duo of Scottie Scheffler and Jordan Spieth, the British pairing of Matt Fitzpatrick and Tommy Fleetwood, newlywed Collin Morikawa and Viktor Hovland as well as Xander Schauffele and Jon Rahm, fresh off his third DP World Tour Championship.
The Albany course is a par 72 that measures 7,414 yards.
Here’s a look at Thursday’s first-round tee times. All times ET.
1st tee
Tee time
Players
11 a.m.
Cameron Young, Tom Kim
11:11 a.m.
Billy Horschel, Sungjae Im
11:22 a.m.
Kevin Kisner, Sam Burns
11:33 a.m.
Matt Fitzpatrick, Tommy Fleetwood
11:44 a.m.
Corey Conners, Shane Lowry
11:55 a.m.
Max Homa, Tony Finau
12:06 p.m.
Sepp Straka, Justin Thomas
12:17 p.m.
Xander Schauffele, Jon Rahm
12:28 p.m.
Scottie Scheffler, Jordan Spieth
12:39 p.m.
Collin Morikawa, Viktor Hovland
How to watch
You can watch Golf Channel for free on fuboTV. All times Eastern.
Thursday, Dec. 1
TV
Golf Channel: 1:30-3:30 p.m.
RADIO
Siruis XM: 11 a.m.-4 p.m.
STREAM
Peacock: 1:30-3:30 p.m.
Friday, Dec. 2
TV
Golf Channel: 1:30-3:30 p.m.
RADIO
Siruis XM: 11 a.m.-4 p.m.
STREAM
Peacock: 1:30-3:30 p.m.
Saturday, Dec. 3
TV
Golf Channel: 12 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. NBC: 2:30 p.m. to 5 p.m.
RADIO
Siruis XM: 11 a.m.-5 p.m.
STREAM
Peacock: 12 p.m. to 5 p.m.
Sunday, Dec. 4
TV
Golf Channel: 12 p.m. to 1 p.m. NBC: 1 p.m. to 5 p.m.
Woods, Kevin Kisner and Tommy Fleetwood complete the 20-player field for next month’s event in the Bahamas.
It’s been a big week for Tiger Woods.
On Monday, it was officially announced that he and Rory McIlroy would take on Jordan Spieth and Justin Thomas in the latest edition of Capital One’s The Match. On Tuesday, it was reported that McIlroy finished second to Woods in the PGA Tour’s lucrative Player Impact Program for 2022. On Wednesday, Woods announced he would be playing in his 2022 Hero World Challenge.
Last month Woods released the names of the first 17 players who will tee it up Dec. 1-4 in Albany, Bahamas, including the likes of defending champion Viktor Hovland, world No. 2 Scottie Scheffler and past champions Jon Rahm (2018), Hideki Matsuyama (2016) and Jordan Spieth (2014). Woods, Kevin Kisner and Tommy Fleetwood complete the 20-player field for the event which benefits Woods’ TGR Foundation, the Tavistock Foundation and the Bahamas Youth Foundation.
I am excited to announce that I will be in the field for this year’s #HeroWorldChallenge. A big welcome to @K_Kisner and @TommyFleetwood1 for joining us as well. See you soon at Albany!
Still recovering from a single-car accident that nearly cost him his leg, Woods competed in just three events (all majors) in 2022, making the cut at the Masters before withdrawing from the PGA Championship and missing the cut at the Open Championship.
Seventeen of the world’s top 21 players will tee bound for the Bahamas this winter.
Professional golf’s best will be bound for the Bahamas once again this winter as Tiger Woods announced the initial field for his 2022 Hero World Challenge on Tuesday morning.
Seventeen of the world’s top 21 players will tee it up Dec. 1-4 in Albany, Bahamas, including defending champion Viktor Hovland, world No. 1 Scottie Scheffler and past champions Jon Rahm (2018), Hideki Matsuyama (2016) and Jordan Spieth (2014). Will Zalatoris, Cameron Young, Sungjae Im, Max Homa and Tom Kim will all make their Hero World Challenge debut, with three further exemptions to be announced at a later time.
Check out the initial field for the 2022 Hero World Challenge below (official world ranking as of Oct. 2 in parentheses).
2022 Hero World Challenge field
Scottie Scheffler (1)
Xander Schauffele (5)
Jon Rahm (6)
Will Zalatoris (7)
Justin Thomas (8)
Collin Morikawa (9)
Matt Fitzpatrick (10)
Viktor Hovland (11)
Sam Burns (12)
Jordan Spieth (13)
Tony Finau (14)
Cameron Young (15)
Billy Horschel (16)
Max Homa (17)
Hideki Matsuyama (18)
Sungjae Im (19)
Tom Kim (21)
Golf Channel will broadcast the event for all four rounds, with the third and final rounds airing on NBC. Tickets are available here, with proceeds benefitting the TGR Foundation, Tavistock Foundation and Bahamas Youth Foundation.
A loaded field of the PGA Tour’s best didn’t disappoint on Sunday.
A handful of the PGA Tour’s best put on an entertaining week of golf in the Bahamas.
After Collin Morikawa took a commanding five-shot lead after 54 holes of the 2021 Hero World Challenge at Albany Golf Course, the two-time major champion was one of just four players over par on Sunday while the rest of the loaded field went low.
A fellow member of the PGA Tour’s 2015 rookie class, Viktor Hovland stole the show with a 6-under 66 on Sunday to win the Hero World Challenge at 18 under thanks to a pair of three-hole stretches on both his front and back nines. The 24-year-old Norwegian birdied Nos. 6-8 to make the turn at 3-under 33 on the day, then made consecutive eagles on Nos. 14 and 15, followed by a birdie on No. 16.
On a day where five players held a share of the lead, Scottie Scheffler finished solo-second at 17 under, followed by Sam Burns, Patrick Reed and Morikawa, who finished T-3 at 15 under.
Hovland has four professional wins, all outside of the United States. The former star at Oklahoma State previously won the 2020 Puerto Rico Open, as well as the 2020 Mayakoba Golf Classic and 2021 World Wide Technology Championship at Mayakoba. He also won the 2021 BMW International Open in Germany.
He wasn’t competing, but that didn’t stop Tiger from rocking his Sunday red in the Bahamas.
He wasn’t in the field competing on Sunday, but that didn’t stop tournament host Tiger Woods from rocking his famous Sunday red while practicing during the final round of the Hero World Challenge.
The 15-time major champion broke his silence since his single-car accident in February earlier this week, first in an exclusive interview with Golf Digest and again the next day in a press conference where he seemed surprisingly upbeat despite facing his most daunting comeback to date.
According to Golfweek’s Steve DiMeglio, who’s on the ground at Albany in the Bahamas, Woods hit balls on Tuesday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday this week. He also joined the television broadcast on Saturday for 30 minutes and discussed how his practice is going.
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“I can hit it. It just doesn’t go as far,” Woods said about hitting driver. “The power is not there, but I can hit drivers. I can hit any club in the bag. I’m not at the point where I can hear it land, OK?”
Next week Woods is expected to announce whether he will play in the PNC Championship alongside his son, Charlie, or not. Woods would be allowed to use a cart.
A mix-up regarding the 9th and 17th tee box for Sunday’s final round led to some confusion.
NASSAU, Bahamas – It’s been one of those weeks for Jordan Spieth.
With rounds of 71-72-75, he began the final day of the Hero World Challenge at Albany Golf Club in last place. His third round ended when his ball moved on the 18th green and he forgot to replace it before hitting his next putt. That resulted in a two-stroke penalty.
Well, in Sunday’s final round, Spieth and defending champion Henrik Stenson were involved in a bizarre penalty situation. Follow along.
When the two reached the par-5 ninth hole, they naturally teed off. Trouble is, they teed off from the tee markers representing the teeing area for the par-3 17th hole. Yes, there is a large teeing area that is home for both the tee boxes for the ninth and 17th holes.
The tee box on the 17th hole had moved overnight to where the tee box was for the ninth hole during the third round. The tee box for the ninth hole in the final round was moved up. Multiple signs were posted alerting the players.
Spieth and Stenson were informed of their violation in the fairway of the ninth hole by chief referee Stephen Cox. The two returned to the tee box and hit from the proper tee. Each was assessed a two-shot penalty.
If Spieth and Stenson had teed off on the 10th hole, they would have been disqualified.
The limited-field, star-studded event returns to Albany Golf Club in the Bahamas.
Collin Morikawa is having quite the week. Not only did he and long-time girlfriend Katherine get engaged on Tuesday, but the Open champion also holds the 54-hole lead in Albany. His third-round 64 has him five shots clear of Brooks Koepka at the Hero World Challenge.
This will be the sixth time the tournament, hosted by Woods, is being held in the Bahamas. The Hero World Challenge benefits the TGR Foundation, Tavistock Foundation, and Bahamas Youth Foundation.
All times listed are ET.
10:25 a.m.
Henrik Stenson, Jordan Spieth
10:36 a.m.
Abraham Ancer, Rory McIlroy
10:47 a.m.
Justin Thomas, Justin Rose
10:58 a.m.
Xander Schauffele, Webb Simpson
11:09 a.m.
Harris English, Matt Fitzpatrick
11:20 a.m.
Bryson DeChambeau, Tyrrell Hatton
11:31 a.m.
Tony Finau, Scottie Scheffler
11:42 a.m.
Daniel Berger, Sam Burns
11:53 a.m.
Patrick Reed, Viktor Hovland
12:04 a.m.
Collin Morikawa, Brooks Koepka
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TV information
Saturday, Dec. 4
TV
Golf Channel: 12:30-2:30 p.m. ET NBC: 2:30-5 p.m. ET
Sunday, Dec.5
TV
Golf Channel: 11 a.m.-1 p.m. ET NBC: 1-4 p.m. ET
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