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.

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.

Tiger Woods, Pawan Munja of Hero Motocycles and Bubba Watson pose with the trophy after Watson’s three-stroke victory at the Hero World Challenge at Albany, The Bahamas on December 6, 2015 in Nassau, Bahamas (Photo by Scott Halleran/Getty Images)

Tony Finau is no longer in the field for this week's Hero World Challenge, the annual exhibition event in the Bahamas hosted by Tiger Woods. Finau has not commented and tournament organizers have not given a reason for his withdrawal as of Monday afternoon.

Tony Finau was removed from the field at Tiger Woods' Hero World Classic in the Bahamas, spawning further LIV Golf speculation.

Tony Finau, No. 26 in the Official World Golf Ranking, won’t tee it up this week at Albany Golf Club in the Bahamas for Tiger Woods’ silly-season event. Finau hasn’t played since the Presidents Cup, where he went 2-2-0 in Team USA’s win.

Tony Finau has pulled out of this week's Hero World Challenge on the PGA Tour with the six-time winner continuing to be linked with a move to LIV Golf

Perhaps Tony Finau will join LIV Golf after all. After initially committing to this week’s Hero World Challenge, the 20-man event hosted by Tiger Woods every December, Finau pulled out at the last minute due to undisclosed reasons.