2014 Players Championship: Tee times, pairings for Sunday’s round at TPC Sawgrass

We’re 18 holes away from history at The Players Championship. It was just a month ago that Jordan Spieth held the lead on Sunday at the Masters, trying to become the youngest ever to win at Augusta. Now he’ll start Sunday’s final round sitting on a share of the lead with Martin Kaymer, trying to become the youngest ever to win the PGA Tour’s signature event.

Perhaps more impressive than anything to do with Spieth’s age is the current bogey-free stretch he’s put together. The 20-year-old has not made a bogey since the third round of the RBC Heritage, the tournament played one week after the Masters. It’s a 69-hole stretch at this point, an astounding feat given all the water trouble and increased penalties for inaccuracy at Pete Dye’s Stadium Course. There are definitely plenty of birdie chances, but it’s a setup that almost always penalizes a wayward drive, much more so than the regular stops on the modern PGA Tour. Somehow, Spieth has avoided all that through the first three days thanks to a mix of steady play tee-to-green and some ridiculous recovery work chipping and putting.

Just like the Masters, Spieth will anchor the Sunday tee sheet, this time playing with Martin Kaymer. The German made a bogey on the last hole Saturday to fall into a share of the lead, but these two were going to be in the final pairing no matter what. They’re three shots clear of the rest of the field, and no one came close to them all day Saturday, even when both struggled to push the leading number higher. For the second straight day, they will go out at 2:45 p.m. ET.

Kaymer said after the third round that playing with Spieth had a Ryder Cup feel to it, and if he wins on Sunday, he puts himself back in position to elbow his way onto the roster again. Spieth should be a lock already, so this could be a preview of Gleneagles this fall.

One earlier tee time to keep an eye on is Adam Scott, who at least needs a T16 finish or better to become the new No.1 player in the world. It would be a backdoor T16, to be sure, but Scott currently sits at T28 on a leaderboard that’s bunched up after those two at the top. It would be a quite a comeback from that opening round 77, which was worse than all but four players in the field. Scott has said he wasn’t paying attention to the rankings, but before this week, had stated getting to No. 1 in the world would fulfill a childhood dream. Taking it from Tiger Woods, no less, would add to the importance of that career moment. Scott goes out early at 8:55 a.m., playing with Brandt Snedeker.

Here is the full tee sheet for Sunday at The Players: