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Hero World Challenge

The Hero World Challenge is a PGA Tour event. OTIS holds 13 editions of it, 2012 to 2025, played across 3 courses. It has also been played as Northwestern Mutual World Challenge, World Challenge presented by Northwestern Mutual; the tour's event code is the same throughout, which is why they share this page. Each year below links to that edition's full final leaderboard.

Editions: 13
Seasons covered: 2012 to 2025
Venues used: 3
Most recent winner: Hideki Matsuyama

2025 Hero World Challenge — full leaderboard — every player in the field, round by round, won by Hideki Matsuyama at Albany GC.

Every edition

Most recent first. Winning scores are the tour's published to-par figures; a dash means the tour published none for that format — match play and team weeks do not post one.

Hero World Challenge: winner, winning score, venue and field size for each edition
Year	Winner	Score	Venue	Field
2025	Hideki Matsuyama	-22	Albany GC	20
2024	Scottie Scheffler	-25	Albany GC	20
2023	Scottie Scheffler	-20	Albany GC	20
2022	Viktor Hovland	-16	Albany GC	20
2021	Viktor Hovland	-18	Albany GC	20
2019	Henrik Stenson	-18	Albany GC	18
2018	Jon Rahm	-20	Albany GC	18
2017	Rickie Fowler	-18	Albany GC	18
2016	Hideki Matsuyama	-18	Albany GC	18
2015	Bubba Watson	-25	Albany GC	18
2014	Jordan Spieth	-26	Isleworth G&CC	18
2013played as Northwestern Mutual World Challenge	Zach Johnson	-13	Sherwood CC	18
2012played as World Challenge presented by Northwestern Mutual	Graeme McDowell	-17	Sherwood CC	18

Venue history

The host course has changed 2 times across 13 editions, using 3 courses.

Albany GC10 editions · 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025
Isleworth G&CC1 edition · 2014
Sherwood CC2 editions · 2012, 2013

Won more than once

Counted only across the 13 editions on this page (2012 to 2025) — not a career record for the event, which runs further back than OTIS's window.

Hideki Matsuyama2 wins · 2016, 2025
Scottie Scheffler2 wins · 2023, 2024
Viktor Hovland2 wins · 2021, 2022

What this Hero World Challenge page covers

This is the permanent page for the Hero World Challenge as an event, not for any one year of it. It lists all 13 editions OTIS holds — 2012 to 2025— with the winner, the winning score as the tour published it, the host course and the number of players who started. Every row links to that year's own page, which carries the complete final leaderboard: every player in the field, their finish, their four round scores and their total. The most recent edition is linked at the top of this page rather than reproduced here, so the two pages answer different questions instead of the same one twice. Nothing on this page is estimated: where the tour published no value — a winning score for a match-play week, say — the cell is a dash.

How OTIS decides that two years are the same event

Sponsor names change and event names change with them, so grouping by name would split one tournament into several. OTIS groups on the tour's own event code instead — the last three digits of a tournament id, which the tour keeps stable across every rename. That is why the 13 editions here appear under 3 different names over the years, and are still one event. The one adjustment is the tour's 2023 calendar restructure, which issued a second code to six events that already had one. Those six are rejoined by an exact rule — the two codes' current names must normalise identically and their sets of years must not overlap — never by a name resemblance. It finds exactly those six pairs in the published data and no others.

Common questions

Who won the most recent Hero World Challenge?

Hideki Matsuyama won the 2025 Hero World Challenge at Albany GC.

Who has won the Hero World Challenge the most times?

Across the 13 editions OTIS holds (2012 to 2025), Hideki Matsuyama, Scottie Scheffler and Viktor Hovland have each won it 2 times — no one has won it more.

Where is the Hero World Challenge played?

OTIS's 13 editions were played across 3 courses; the most recent was at Albany GC.

How many Hero World Challenge results does OTIS have?

13 editions, 2012 to 2025, each with the full final leaderboard exactly as the PGA Tour published it — every player who started, not a top ten.

What was the Hero World Challenge called before?

The same event has also been played as Northwestern Mutual World Challenge, World Challenge presented by Northwestern Mutual. The tour's event code is unchanged throughout, which is how OTIS keeps 13 editions under one page.

Has the Hero World Challenge changed venues?

Yes — the host course changed 2 times across the 13 editions OTIS holds, using 3 courses in total.

Sourcing is set out on the methodology page; every stat name is defined in the glossary.

This event in the model

Whenever this event is played, OTIS ranks the field on how well each player's game matches the course and prices their chances — then grades those calls against the finishing order.

This week's course fit Probabilities and the track record How the model works