2022 Hero World Challenge tee times, TV coverage, viewer's guide

The golf world was amped up for this week's Hero World Challenge, with its host, Tiger Woods, set to compete for the first time since his appearance in The 150th Open at St. Andrews in July. But then it's collective bubble was burst when Tiger tweeted out on Monday that he was withdrawing from the 20-player, no-cut event in the Bahamas due to a case of plantar fasciitis. (Here's hoping he will be rested up enough to play in The Match next week and the PNC Championship with son Charlie the following week.)

Woods will continue to play for his annual tournament, which benefits the Tiger Woods Foundation, and he'll witness a tournament with a stacked field even without the 82-time PGA Tour winner.

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World No. 2 Scottie Scheffler will be making the trip to Albany Golf Club with four wins in 2022 under his belt, as will U.S Open champ Matt Fitzpatrick, PGA Championship winner Justin Thomas and previous Hero winner Jon Rahm. Collin Morikawa, Jordan Spieth, Tony Finau and Xander Schauffele will be there as well, along with newcomers for this event Tom Kim, Max Homa, Shane Lowry, Sungjae Im, Cameron Young and Corey Conners.

Last year’s winner, Viktor Hovland, became the first debutant to win since Rahm in 2018, and it was behind a six-under 66 on Sunday, with back-to-back eagles on 14th and 15th holes in the final round that helped him best Scheffler by one stroke.

The winner will receive a first place prize money payout of $1 million from an overall purse of $3.5 million.

TV Schedule

Golf Channel will carry live coverage on Thursday and Friday from 1:30-4:30 p.m. EST. Saturday’s coverage will run from 12-2:30 p.m. on Golf Channel and then 2:30-5 p.m. on NBC, and Sunday’s coverage can be seen from 12-1 p.m. on Golf Channel and 1-5 p.m. on NBC.

Leaderboard

Find all live PGA Tour scoring data here.

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Tee Times (all times EST)

Sunday/Final Round

11:01 a.m. -- Corey Conners, Kevin Kisner

11:12 a.m. -- Matt Fitzpatrick, Shane Lowry

11:23 a.m. -- Jordan Spieth, Max Homa

11:34 a.m. -- Tom Kim, Tommy Fleetwood

11:45 a.m. -- Sungjae Im, Billy Horschel

11:56 a.m. -- Sam Burns, Tony Finau

12:07 p.m. -- Jon Rahm, Sepp Straka

12:18 p.m. -- Collin Morikawa, Xander Schauffele

12:29 p.m. -- Justin Thomas, Cameron Young

12:40 p.m. -- Viktor Hovland, Scottie Scheffler