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Tracker: Follow Tiger Woods’ final round at the Hero World Challenge shot-by-shot

Follow Tiger Woods’ final round at the Hero World Challenge with shot-by-shot analysis.

Tiger Woods and company are back on the course Saturday for the final round in the Bahamas at the annual Hero World Challenge, which benefits Woods’ TGR Foundation and the ONE Bahamas Fund.

Eighteen of the world’s best are at Albany for the fifth consecutive year, with Woods making his first appearance since winning his record-tying 82nd PGA Tour event in October at the inaugural Zozo Championship in Japan.

Woods, a five-time winner of the Hero, shot even par Wednesday, then had one of Thursday’s best rounds with a 6-under 66. Woods followed that with a 5-under 67 to move into contention alongside playing partner Justin Thomas. Woods and Thomas tee off at 10:54 a.m. ET for the final round. Follow along shot-by-shot below.

Hero World Challenge: Best photos from Bahamas

Pre-round

While Tiger’s annual event does satisfy our need for golf during the winter months, it also raises a lot of money for those in need. This year, the event is going the extra mile.

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Hero World Challenge: Final round tee times, TV information

Everything you need to know for the final round of the Hero World Challenge.

The Hero World Challenge concludes on Saturday at Albany Golf Club in Nassau, Bahamas, with a field packed full of professional golf’s top competitors.

At 13 under, Gary Woodland holds a one-shot lead over Henrik Stenson, with tournament host Tiger Woods, a five-time winner of the event, T-3 with Justin Thomas and Jon Rahm.

The event will not just go toward satisfying a PGA Tour craving as the seasons takes a break in December, but it will also go toward helping those affected by Hurricane Dorian which devastated the Bahamas in August. For every birdie made during the Hero, $500 will be donated to the ONE Bahamas Fund. Eagles will raise $1,000 and an ace will bring a donation of $2,500.

Below are the tee times for the final round, along with the current leaderboard and TV information.

Hero World Challenge: Photo gallery

All times are listed in Eastern Standard Time.

Round 4

Tee time Players
9:37 a.m. Bryson DeChambeau, Patrick Cantlay
9:48 a.m. Tony Finau, Bubba Watson
9:59 a.m. Xander Schauffele, Jordan Spieth
10:10 a.m. Kevin Kisner, Webb Simpson
10:21 a.m. Justin Rose, Matt Kuchar
10:32 a.m. Chez Reavie, Rickie Fowler
10:43 a.m. Jon Rahm, Patrick Reed
10:54 a.m. Tiger Woods, Justin Thomas
11:05 a.m. Gary Woodland, Henrik Stenson

Viewing information

Saturday

Golf Channel: 10 a.m. – Noon
NBC: Noon – 3 p.m.
Replay on Golf Channel: 6-11 p.m. on Sunday, 3-6 a.m. and 11 a.m.-3 p.m. on Monday

Hero World Challenge scores

Position Player R3 Score To par
1 Gary Woodland 68 -13
2 Henrik Stenson 68 -12
T-3 Tiger Woods 67 -11
T-3 Justin Thomas 67 -11
T-3 Jon Rahm 69 -11
6 Patrick Reed 72 -10
T-7 Chez Reavie 69 -6
T-7 Rickie Fowler 72 -6
T-7 Justin Rose 71 -6
T-10 Matt Kuchar 70 -5
T-10 Kevin Kisner 70 -5
12 Webb Simpson 71 -4
13 Xander Schauffele 70 -3
14 Jordan Spieth 69 -2
T-15 Tony Finau 69 E
T-15 Bubba Watson 71 E
T-17 Bryson DeChambeau 70 +1
T-17 Patrick Cantlay 71 +1

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Patrick Reed slapped with two-stroke penalty at Hero World Challenge

Patrick Reed was deemed to have improved his line of play in a waste bunker, and thus was penalized two shots.

The end of the third round of the Hero World Challenge was filled with temporary uncertainty for Patrick Reed, who ultimately incurred a two-stroke penalty for a pair of practice swings taken in a waste bunker on the 11th hole at Albany Golf Club in the Bahamas. Reed was deemed to have improved his line of play with those practice strokes.

The additional strokes turned Reed’s second-round 72 into a 74. He started the day with a three-shot lead and could have ended the day within one shot of co-leaders Gary Woodland and Henrik Stenson, who stand at 13 under. The two penalty shots, however, bumped him to 10 under.

Reed was penalized for brushing sand away – officials ruled that it constituted an attempt to improve his line of play. Under Rule 8, which addresses playing the course as the player finds it, a player is prohibited from improving conditions affecting a stroke.

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Under Rule 8-1a, actions that are not allowed include the removal or pressing down of sand or loose soil.

Reed did that twice, though the second movement is irrelevant.

After the round, Reed told the Golf Channel he had spent only four or five minutes with rules officials reviewing video of him taking practice strokes in the waste area.

“At the end of the day you gotta let things roll of your shoulders,” Reed said to Golf Channel. “Also at the same time, I have another whole round to play tomorrow.

“If I stew over something that I felt like I didn’t intentionally do, at the end of the day it’s my word versus their word. They weren’t standing there, they had a camera angle. Because of that, you don’t really have a choice.”

Intent did not come into play in Reed’s actions, according to PGA Tour rules official Slugger White.

“He could not have been more of a gentleman,” White told media after the penalty was assessed.

The action became a prominent story line throughout the third-round telecast, considering that Reed committed the action just after the turn. Rules officials did not address the penalty until the end of the round, though White acknowledged they would have addressed it immediately had it happened in the final round.

Hero World Challenge scores

Position Player R3 Score To par
1 Gary Woodland 68 -13
T-2 Patrick Reed 72 -12
T-2 Henrik Stenson 68 -12
T-4 Tiger Woods 67 -11
T-4 Justin Thomas 67 -11
T-4 Jon Rahm 69 -11
T-7 Chez Reavie 69 -6
T-7 Rickie Fowler 72 -6
T-7 Justin Rose 71 -6
T-10 Matt Kuchar 70 -5
T-10 Kevin Kisner 70 -5
12 Webb Simpson 71 -4
13 Xander Schauffele 70 -3
14 Jordan Spieth 69 -2
T-15 Tony Finau 69 E
T-15 Bubba Watson 71 E
T-17 Bryson DeChambeau 70 +1
T-17 Patrick Cantlay 71 +1

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Tiger Woods contending after 5-under 67 Friday at Hero World Challenge

Tiger Woods is in contention to win his own event for the sixth time after a 5-under 67 in Friday’s third round at the Hero World Challenge.

The third round is called moving day for a reason, and Tiger Woods made a run at the leaders on Friday at the Hero World Challenge.

Despite a round dominated by two-putt pars (including 16 front nine putts), Woods was able to score throughout the 18 holes at Albany Golf Club in the Bahamas and put together a solid round of 5-under 67, walking off the course one shot back in a tie for second.

Woods made the turn at 1 under thanks to birdies on Nos. 2 and 6, both par 5’s. After torching the back nine early on both Wednesday and Thursday, the event’s five time winner found success once again in the later holes. After walking in a par save on the 10th hole, Woods made birdies on Nos. 11, 14, 15 the dreaded 18th to add his name to the mix heading to Saturday’s final round and tie playing partner Justin Thomas for the best round of the day.

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Tracker: Follow Tiger Woods’ Friday round at the Hero World Challenge shot-by-shot

Follow Tiger Woods’ Friday round at the Hero World Challenge with shot-by-shot analysis.

Tiger Woods and company are back on the course for a Friday Moviong Day in the Bahamas at the annual Hero World Challenge, which benefits Woods’ TGR Foundation and the ONE Bahamas Fund.

Eighteen of the world’s best are at Albany for the fifth consecutive year, with Woods making his first appearance since winning his record-tying 82nd PGA Tour event in October at the inaugural Zozo Championship in Japan.

Woods, a five-time winner of the Hero, shot even par Wednesday, then had one of Thursday’s best rounds with a 6-under 66. Woods tees off alongside Justin Thomas at 11:59 a.m. ET Friday. Follow his round shot-by-shot below.

Hero World Challenge: Gallery

Pre-round

While Tiger’s annual event does satisfy our need for golf during the winter months, it also raises a lot of money for those in need. This year, the event is going the extra mile.

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Tiger Woods: Contending in Bahamas, prepping for Presidents Cup

As Tiger eyes a tournament victory this week, he’s also prepping 10 of the 11 guys he’ll take with him to Royal Melbourne next week.

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Tiger Woods trails his Presidents Cup captain’s pick Patrick Reed by six with two rounds to go in the 18-player Hero World Challenge in the Bahamas.

Woods shot a second-round 66 at the Albany Golf Club on Thursday but remains cryptic on how much he will play as the captain of next week’s Presidents Cup team.

He has to be pleased with how Reed is playing. And putting. Reed has opened up a three-stroke lead over Gary Woodland and his second-round 66 included just 23 putts, a day after recording 25.

But as Woods — and others — eye a tournament victory this week, he’s also prepping 10 of the 11 guys he’ll take with him to Royal Melbourne next week.

“We have some things that we need to run through the guys, some ideas and I’ll pick their brains a little bit,” he said after Wednesday’s opening round. “We just want to have a clear picture of what we’re going to do down there because obviously once we get down there, things roll pretty quickly.”

Woods went on to describe the tight schedule in Australia.

“We land there Monday, we don’t have a whole lot of time to get to the golf course on Monday. A few of us gotta go do a shootout on the river. Then dinner. Then the next day it’s a long practice round. Six guys gotta do interviews, (then there’s) a gala dinner that night.

“Follow the next day with another practice round, photos, plus six more guys have to do interviews. Pairings, and then we play. So there isn’t a whole lot of time. We gotta run through things now so that when we get there we have a clear picture of what we’re doing.”

The Presidents Cup action starts Thursday, Dec. 12, with the first-round four-ball format. Since Melbourne is 16 hours ahead of the East Coast, there will be live golf in prime time starting on Wednesday night in North America.

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Patrick Reed rides new putter to three-stroke lead at Hero

Tiger Woods mentioned that Reed also was using a new softer-faced putter in preparation for the lightning fast greens of Royal Melbourne.

NASSAU, Bahamas – First, we learned Patrick Reed put new irons in his bag this week. Then Tiger Woods casually mentioned that Reed also was using a new softer-faced putter in preparation for the lightning fast greens of Royal Melbourne.

Reed has opened up a three-stroke lead over Gary Woodland in the 2019 Hero World Challenge. A second-round 66 included just 23 putts, a day after recording 25.

“It’s one of those golf courses that when the wind lays down, it gives you opportunities to make birdies,” Reed said. “It’s just one of these days and one of these weeks that you need to give yourself as many opportunities as you can and play from the short grass because when you do, you can attack.”

That he did, hitting 11 greens each day with the mystery clubs he has helped design. Asked after the second round if he might share more about the clubs, Reed remained coy.

“Nope,” he smiled. “Nice try.”

Hero World Challenge: Best photos from Bahamas

Reed normally uses an Odyssey White Hot RX2 but as the highest profile captain’s pick following the 2018 Ryder Cup debacle, the former Masters champion appears to be pulling out all the stops in preparation for next week’s Presidents Cup. He remains a huge lover of match play.

“When you go out there, whether you’re in your singles or whether you have a teammate, when it’s two on two, you have to stare that guy down, that’s the one you’re playing,” he said. “There’s no such thing as a draw, there is no such thing as guys teeing off in the morning or afternoon, you’re playing that guy head to head right then and there. Gives you something to prove. Go out there and prove to yourself and prove to your team that you deserve that point.”

Despite the proximity to the matches, Captain Woods endorsed Reed’s iron and putter shift.

“This is normally the time you do it,” Woods said after his 66. “They’ve had a little time off trying new stuff, trying to get a little bit better, work your way into next year. Nothing wrong with that.”

Reed has kept the captain apprised of his thinking.

“He’s been monkeying around with different putters, trying to get a little softer feel, so he finally found one. He’s still always going to travel with his baby, but just like me.”

Reed may be taking some new clubs to Melbourne, but with 36 holes to go, he is also primed to be taking a Hero World Challenge trophy along for the ride.

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Hero World Challenge: Round 3 tee times, TV information

Everything you need to know for the third round of the Hero World Challenge.

The Hero World Challenge continues on Friday at Albany Golf Club in Nassau, Bahamas, with a field packed full of professional golf’s top competitors.

With new irons in the bag, Patrick Reed holds a three-shot lead over Gary Woodland. Competing for the first time since earning his 82nd PGA Tour win in October, tournament host Tiger Woods shot up the leaderboard on Thursday and enters the third round T-5, six shots back.

The event will not just go toward satisfying a PGA Tour craving as the seasons takes a break in December, but it will also go toward helping those affected by Hurricane Dorian which devastated the Bahamas in August. For every birdie made during the Hero, $500 will be donated to the ONE Bahamas Fund. Eagles will raise $1,000 and an ace will bring a donation of $2,500.

Below are the tee times for the third round, along with the current leaderboard and TV information.

Hero World Challenge: Photo gallery

All times are listed in Eastern Standard Time.

Round 3

Tee time Players
10:50 a.m. Bryson DeChambeau, Tony Finau
11:01 a.m. Bubba Watson, Patrick Cantlay
11:12 a.m. Xander Schauffele, Jordan Spieth
11:23 a.m. Chez Reavie, Matt Kuchar
11:34 a.m. Webb Simpson, Kevin Kisner
11:45 a.m. Rickie Fowler, Justin Rose
11:56 a.m. Tiger Woods, Justin Thomas
12:07 a.m. Henrik Stenson, Jon Rahm
12:18 p.m. Patrick Reed, Gary Woodland

Viewing information

Friday

Golf Channel: 11 a.m. – 4 p.m.
Replay on Golf Channel: 6-8 p.m. and 1-2:30 a.m. on Saturday.

Saturday

Golf Channel: 10 a.m. – Noon
NBC: Noon – 3 p.m.
Replay on Golf Channel: 6-11 p.m. on Sunday, 3-6 a.m. and 11 a.m.-3 p.m. on Monday

Hero World Challenge scores

Position Player R2 Score To par
1 Patrick Reed 66 -12
2 Gary Woodland 69 -9
T-3 Henrik Stenson 67 -8
T-3 Jon Rahm 66 -8
T-5 Tiger Woods 66 -6
T-5 Justin Thomas 69 -6
T-5 Rickie Fowler 69 -6
8 Justin Rose 70 -5
T-9 Webb Simpson 68 -3
T-9 Matt Kuchar 70 -3
T-9 Kevin Kisner 70 -3
T-9 Chez Reavie 73 -3
13 Xander Schauffele 70 -1
T-14 Jordan Spieth 70 +1
T-14 Bubba Watson 73 +1
16 Patrick Cantlay 72 +2
T-17 Bryson DeChambeau 71 +3
T-17 Tony Finau 68 +3

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