Tournament host Tiger Woods (46) was not listed in the initial field for the 20-man Hero World Challenge in Albany, Bahamas in December that was released on Tuesday but could still be added as three exemption slots will be named at a later date.<\/p>\n
Woods<\/a>\u00a0has played in three majors this year after a February 2021 car crash that nearly cost him his right leg but has not given any indication when he will tee it up next.<\/p>\n The 15-time major champion finished in 47th place at the Masters in April, withdrew in pain after the third round of the PGA Championship in May and, in his most recent start, missed the cut at the British Open in July.<\/p>\n The field for the December 1st-4th Hero World Challenge includes seven top 10 players in the rankings, led by Masters champion and world number one\u00a0Scottie Scheffler<\/a>.<\/p>\n The other top 10 players in the field are\u00a0Xander Schauffele<\/a>\u00a0(5),\u00a0Jon Rahm<\/a>\u00a0(6),\u00a0Will Zalatoris<\/a>\u00a0(7)\u00a0Justin Thomas<\/a>\u00a0(8),\u00a0Collin Morikawa<\/a>\u00a0(9) and\u00a0Matt Fitzpatrick<\/a>\u00a0(10).<\/p>\n Zalatoris, who has not competed since he withdrew from the BMW Championship with two herniated discs in his back,\u00a0Cameron Young<\/a>,\u00a0Im Sung-jae<\/a>,\u00a0Max Homa<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Tom Kim\u00a0are all making their debuts in the event.<\/p>\n In total, 17 of the top 21 players in the world will be at the Hero World Challenge, a group that includes defending champion\u00a0Viktor Hovland<\/a>,\u00a0Jordan Spieth<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Hideki Matsuyama<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tournament host Tiger Woods (46) was not listed in the initial field for the 20-man Hero World Challenge…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":52289,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[1474],"class_list":["post-52288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-hero-world-challenge","tag-hero-world-challenge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52288\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}