Tiger Woods showed off a different side of himself at the 2025 Hero World Challenge, posing with Scottie Scheffler and jokingly acting as the event’s “photographer.” The tournament host shared a set of behind-the-scenes photos from the 20-player event in the Bahamas, giving fans a closer look at his interactions with the field.

On Friday, December 6, Woods posted a carousel of Polaroid-style pictures that included selfies with Scottie Scheffler, Wyndham Clark, Billy Horschel, JJ Spaun, and Akshay Bhatia. The caption read:

“TOURNAMENT HOST ↪️ other duties as assigned ↪️ photographer”

Woods had also been seen with Scheffler earlier this week during the Wednesday Pro-Am. The two were spotted playing a few holes together.

Woods has not played the Hero World Challenge since 2023 and has not competed on the Tour since the 2024 British Open, where he missed the cut. Meanwhile, Scheffler is making his return to competition after the Ryder Cup, marking his first start since the team event.

Tiger Woods lauds Scottie Scheffler’s “consistency”

Tiger Woods had high praise for Scottie Scheffler this week, calling him one of the most impressive players he has watched in recent years. Fans have often compared Scheffler’s form to Woods’ own dominant stretches, and the 49-year-old did not hold back when asked about those comparisons.

“There’s nothing you can’t not like about Scottie. He’s one of the nicest guys you’ll ever meet. What he’s doing on the golf course is just incredible, the consistency day in and day out, the strategy that he attacks the golf course,” Woods said in the Bahamas, via Golfweek.

Scottie Scheffler’s 2025 season backs that up. He played twenty events, won six titles, finished runner-up once, and recorded seventeen top-10s. He did all of that without missing a single cut. Woods said that the quality of those wins shows how strong Scheffler’s year really was.

“He won six times and they’re not small events. He’s beating the best fields. So that’s something that I certainly can appreciate and I think that I hope everyone else appreciates it as well because you just don’t see this happen very often,” Woods said.

Scottie Scheffler now has a chance to close out another strong week. He is the two-time defending champion at the Hero World Challenge and is trying to become the first player to win the event three years in a row.

This is his fifth start at Albany, and he has never finished outside the top two or posted an over-par round in any of his sixteen rounds there. He opened this week with a six-under 66 on Thursday, making seven birdies and one bogey to start his title defense.