Hideki Matsuyama, who began the year with a torrid display of scoring at the Sentry tournament in January, completed the bookend to his season in style today with a playoff victory over Alex Noren at the Hero World Challenge in Nassau, Bahamas.
The Hero World Challenge is sometimes chastised as “not a real event”. Don’t tell that to world No.1 Scottie Scheffler, the two-time defending champion who is using the competition as a proving ground for a new TaylorMade driver.
[Photo: Kevin C Cox] Scottie Scheffler will attempt to three-peat in the Bahamas. RELATED: Internationals look to Europe’s example in trying to produce a Presidents Cup turnaround The four-time major champ headlines the Hero World Challenge, which released its initial field on this week. The 20-player exhibition, hosted by Tiger Woods, features six players in the Read more…
After putting together the best season since peak Tiger Woods, World No.1 Scottie Scheffler showed up to his first round at the Hero World Challenge with a new putting grip.
What his prospects are for playing in PGA Tour events or major championship in 2025 remain unclear, but Woods knows that his recovery from micro-decompression surgery of the lumbar spine on September 13, his sixth back operation since 2004, hasn’t progressed enough to compete in this week’s Hero World Challenge in Nassau, Bahamas.
Tiger Woods expressed frustration about the protracted nature of discussions between the PGA Tour and the Public Investment Fund, although he remains confident that ultimately a deal will get done in an effort to solve the uncertainty regarding the future landscape of men’s professional golf.
Woods finished 18th in the 20-man event, but the key was that he completed 72 holes without incident or re-injury to his right leg, which has plagued him since he badly injured it in a single-car accident in 2021.
With rumours of additional player defections from the PGA Tour to the LIV Golf League swirling this week at the Hero World Challenge, the six player directors of the PGA Tour Policy Board sent a two-page memo to the membership late on Friday night expressing their encouragement with ongoing negotiations with potential investors.
Showing considerable rust of both the physical and mental variety, Woods opened the Hero World Challenge with a three-over-par 75 on a windswept afternoon at Albany.
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