SportsLine's proven model simulated the Hero World Challenge 2024 10,000 times and revealed its surprising PGA Tour golf picks

The Sporting News' golf pro, Keith Stewart of Read the Line, provides his full betting preview for Tiger Woods' 2024 Hero World Challenge and serves up his best bets and top props for the weekend.

Hero World Challenge will start Thursday, with the PGA Tour event at the Albany Golf Club in the Bahamas, welcoming 20 world-class players to this challenge event on the 2024 PGA Tour schedule. The Hero World Challenge brings the PGA Tour to Bahamas for the Tiger Woods-hosted challenge event with a 20-player field.

Tony Finau plans to play his golf on the PGA Tour in 2025, the six-time winner confirmed to Golfweek. Withdrawing from this week's 2024 Hero World Challenge in the Bahamas, Finau found himself the subject of rumors regarding a potential to leap to LIV Golf come the new year.

Tony Finau denied rumors that he was leaving the PGA Tour to join LIV Golf, telling Golfweek that his recent withdrawal from the Hero World Challenge was due to a knee procedure.

Tiger Woods is at the Hero World Challenge this week in the Bahamas, but he won't be playing, telling reporters he isn't sure when he'll be back competing on the PGA Tour.

Speaking ahead of his annual event in the Bahamas, the 2024 Hero World Challenge, Woods outlined potential speed bumps in a deal between the PGA Tour Saudi Arabia's Public Investm