ALBANY, BAHAMAS: The Hero World Challenge scheduled just before the shutters are pulled down here for the festival season means different things to different players.
Yet, the idea at the heart of all is 'reset' ahead of the new year. The lot is led by the one-and-only Tiger Woods and includes former world No.1s, Jordan Spieth and Justin Thomas, former world No. 2 Collin Morikawa and the unlucky Will Zalatoris. Then there are others like the two-time defending champion, Viktor Hovland, who wants to write his own page in HWC history by making it three in a row. The current world No. 1 Scottie Scheffler's goal is to stay where he is and to improve on the second place he has held at two successive HWC editions. Both times he came behind Hovland, who in 2023 rose from 10th to fourth.