Everything you need to know about the 2026 Hero World Challenge.
Dates
Dec 3–6
Location
Albany
Purse
$5,000,000
Tour
PGA Tour
Set up a Hero World Challenge pool, invite your group, and you're ready to go.
Pick Hero World Challenge as your tournament, set your tiers, and share an invite code. Your pool is ready in under a minute.
Players draft golfers from each tier before Hero World Challenge tees off. Pick favorites, stack sleepers, strategy is everything.
Scores update live throughout Hero World Challenge. See everyone's picks ranked by total projected prize money. The best team wins.
Common questions about running a Hero World Challenge pool.
Set up a pool, choose your scoring format, share an invite link with your group, and have each participant pick golfers from the field. Once Hero World Challenge starts, the leaderboard updates automatically based on each player's projected prize money. The pool entry with the highest total wins.
No, joining a pool is free and doesn't require an account. You just need the invite link from the pool commissioner. Only the person creating and managing the pool needs a Commissioner subscription ($9.99/month).
As soon as the official field is published by the PGA Tour, it auto-syncs to golfpools.co. You'll see a "Field Ready" badge on the homepage and at the top of this page when the roster is available.
Each entry's score is the sum of projected prize money from their picked golfers. Projections update live throughout each round, so the leaderboard moves in real time. It's more engaging than stroke-total scoring because every made cut and birdie matters.