Tiger Woods will not be playing at the 2024 Grant Thornton Invitational. The mixed team co-sanctioned event featuring players from the LPGA and the PGA TOUR will be played at Tiburon Golf Club in Naples, Florida from Thursday, October 31 to Sunday, November 3.
32 players are listed for the 2024 Grant Thorton Invitational. Teams will have one PGA Tour player and one LPGA Tour player. Several top-40 PGA Tour players including Sahith Theegala, Billy Horschel, Tony Finau, Tom Kim, Jason Day, Akshay Bhatia, Cameron Young, and Matthieu Pavon, will tee off at the tournament.
However, Woods is not listed in the field for the tournament. Several other big names like Scottie Scheffler, Xander Schauffele, and Ludvig Aberg, are also not in the field.
Woods who last competed in the 2024 Open Championship will next compete in the 2024 Hero World Challenge. In the post-tournament press conference at Royal Troon, when asked if he’d be competing in other events before the 2024 Hero World Challenge, he said:
“I’m not going to play until the 2024 Hero World Challenge. I’m going to just keep getting physically better and keep working on it. Hopefully just come back for our — what is it, our ‘fifth major’, the Father/Son challenge, so looking forward to it.”The event, hosted by Woods, will be held from December 5 to 8 at Albany Golf Course in the Bahamas.
Since the Grant Thorton-sponsored event is an invitational, only some of the top distinguished players from the PGA Tour and LPGA Tour have been invited to the event. Almost all the players from the LPGA Tour that will be playing at the Grant Thorton Invitation are ranked in the top 50 and the same is the case with PGA Tour players at the event.
Who is competing at the Grant Thornton Invitational 2024?16 teams with two players each are competing at the Grant Thornton Invitational 2024. The 2023 edition of the tournament was won by Lydia Ko and Jason Day by one stroke over Brooks Henderson and Coney Conners. Ko/Day will look to defend their title.
The prize purse of the tournament is $4 million. Let’s take a look at the 16 teams at the Grant Thornton Invitational 2024:
Lydia Ko (WWGR: 3) and Jason Day (OWGR: 33)Nelly Korda (WWGR: 1) and Tony Finau (OWGR: 26)Lexi Thompson (WWGR: 45) and Rickie Fowler (OWGR: 66)Brooke Henderson (WWGR: 23) and Corey Conner (OWGR: 37)Lilia Vu (WWGR: 2) and Luke List (OWGR: 101)Rose Zhang (WWGR: 12) and Sahith Theegala (OWGR: 13)Jeeno Thitikul (WWGR: 11) and Tom Kim (OWGR: 25)Patty Tavatanakit (WWGR: 22) and Jake Knapp (OWGR: 81)Megan Khang (WWGR: 21) and Matt Kuchar (OWGR: 103)Celine Boutier (WWGR: 7) and Matthieu Pavon (OWGR: 29)Andrea Lee (WWGR: 48) and Billy Horschel (OWGR: 17)Jennifer Kupcho (WWGR: 50) and Akshay Bhatia (OWGR: 31)Gabriela Ruffels (WWGR: 46) and Nick Dunlap (OWGR: 34)Lauren Coughlin (WWGR: 14) and Cameron Young (OWGR: 32)Mel Reid (WWGR: 365) and Cameron Champ (OWGR: 373)Maja Stark (WWGR: 26) and J.T. Poston (OWGR: 40)
