Twenty-seven players in the world top 30 will play for the $3.6 million winner’s check (from a $20 million purse), with the only players missing being world No. 2 Xander Schauffele ( rib injury) and LIV golfers Tyrrell Hatton and Bryson DeChambeau.

Scheffler last played at The Showdown on Dec. 17, when he and Rory McIlroy defeated LIV Golf foes Brooks Koepka and Bryson DeChambeau at Shadow Creek in Las Vegas. A week before that, Scheffler dominated the Hero World Challenge for the second straight year, winning by six. His victory in the Bahamas marked his ninth win of 2024.