The Hero World Challenge is enjoying a special year in 2024. Tiger Woods will be the tournament host for the 25th time this week, as his event heads to Albany Golf Club in the Bahamas for the annual season-silly kickoff. A field of 20 golfers will battle it out over 72 holes of stroke play to determine a winner.

The host won’t be playing but the field includes nine of the top 19 in the world including No. 1 Scottie Scheffler.

The Hero World Challenge, hosted by Tiger Woods, is a 20-man event at Albany with some pretty good silly season money on the line. The four-day, 72-hole, stroke-play tournament is contested at Albany Golf Club in Nassau, Bahamas, Dec. 5-8. This will be the 10th year that Albany has hosted.

NASSAU, The Bahamas—Tony Finau has pulled out of the Hero World Challenge. Finau was removed from Tiger Woods’ exhibition event in the Bahamas on Sunday night. As of Monday morning no reason was given from Finau or the PGA Tour for his withdrawal.

Check out everything you need to know ahead of the PGA Tour's 20-man Hero World Challenge hosted by Tiger Woods at Albany in the Bahamas.

Defending champion Scottie Scheffler headlines the Hero World Challenge in the Bahamas, hosted by by Tiger Woods; Nine of Team USAs President Cup side - including Ryder Cup captain Keegan Bradley - also feature;

Tiger Woods won't be playing in the Bahamas next week at the Hero World Challenge as he recovers from a sixth back surgery he had in September. In announcing Monday on social media he won’t be playing, Woods said the 20-man field for his holiday tournament will be filled out by Justin Thomas, Nick Dunlap and Jason Day.

The Hero World Challenge released an updated field on Monday morning, and Tony Finau is no longer playing. Perhaps Tony Finau will join LIV Golf after all. After initially committing to this week’s Hero World Challenge,