Twofer Tuesday: Hero World Challenge

Tiger's occasion takes middle level on this week's Twofer Tuesday.

The Hero World Challenge is played in the Bahamas, and it's very lucky that the Albany golfing path became spared throughout Hurricane Dorian's current rampage. The defending champion is Jon Rahm, who will start his defense on Wednesday this yr -- a concession to next week's Presidents Cup.

According to this web page at pgatour.Com:

The subject at Albany is reserved for the defending champion, the winners of the majors for the reason that last edition, the primary 11 available so as of highest role within the Official World Golf Ranking (on Aug. 26) and two sponsor exemptions.

If Tiger hadn't qualified on his own, he would have received a sponsor's exemption since he's the host. It Does benefit his foundation, of course.

Despite my current lack of success with Twofer Tuesday alternatives, I am somewhat positive this week. Since there are best 18 players within the subject, I even have a higher than 50% threat of choosing at the least one of the Top10 finishers!

• My Top10er is Tiger Woods. Although he'll likely be focused on next week's event -- he's both Captain and player, you know -- I expect he'll still find a way to knock the rust off his game and place high in the field. At least I know he'll be well rested.
• And my winner? The defending champion Jon Rahm of course! Like Tiger, he too should be well rested -- and riding high after winning the DP WORLD Tour Challenge to take the Race to Dubai title. Unlike Tiger, however, he won't have the Presidents Cup on his mind.

GC's stay coverage begins Wednesday at 1pm ET, with the final round split between GC and NBC on Saturday. The weather looks to be good, so watching this event should be a treat for those of us caught in various degrees of winter weather here in the US!