{"id":299719,"date":"2025-11-18T19:51:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T19:51:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/299719\/"},"modified":"2025-11-18T19:51:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T19:51:12","slug":"hero-world-challenge-2025-full-field-aaron-rai-replaces-justin-thomas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/299719\/","title":{"rendered":"Hero World Challenge 2025 full field: Aaron Rai replaces Justin Thomas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>England\u2019s Aaron Rai will replace Justin Thomas in the field at next month\u2019s Hero World Challenge.<\/p>\n<p>Thomas <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.golfchannel.com\/pga-tour\/news\/justin-thomas-sidelined-indefinitely-after-microdiscectomy-surgery\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">announced last week<\/a> via social media that he had microdiscectomy surgery on his back and would \u201cdefinitely miss some events to start [next] year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rai had another solid season on the PGA Tour with 10 top-25 finishes in 21 events and <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.golfchannel.com\/dp-world-tour\/news\/aaron-rai-defeats-tommy-fleetwood-in-abu-dhabi-playoff-rory-mcilroy-rises-with-record-round\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">he beat Tommy Fleetwood<\/a> in a playoff at the Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship earlier this month on the DP World Tour.<\/p>\n<p>Rai played the Hero World Challenge, an unofficial event which is hosted by Tiger Woods, for the first time last year and finished tied for 14th in the 20-player field.<\/p>\n<p>Like Thomas, Woods is recovering from back surgery and will not play the event at Albany Golf Club, but the field does include world No. 1 Scottie Scheffler who is the Hero World Challenge defending champion.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s a look at the full field:<\/p>\n<p>Scottie SchefflerJ.J. SpaunRobert MacIntyreHarris EnglishKeegan BradleyJustin RoseSepp StrakaHideki MatsuyamaCameron YoungSam BurnsCorey ConnersChris GotterupWyndham ClarkBrian HarmanAndrew NovakAlex NorenJordan SpiethBilly HorschelAkshay BhatiaAaron Rai<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"England\u2019s Aaron Rai will replace Justin Thomas in the field at next month\u2019s Hero World Challenge. Thomas announced&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":299720,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[427,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-299719","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-golf","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=299719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299719\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/299720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}