2015 Wyndham Championship: Tee times, pairings for Friday’s round

The Wyndham Championship is one of the oldest events on Tour, professionally run and well-attended. But unfortunately, the annual stop in Greensboro has settled into a sleepy spot on the schedule where it’s hard to get much mainstream attention. Sure, the PGA Tour diehards are tuning in to see the lesser-known players grinding to make the FedExCup or solidify their status on Tour. But the week sandwiched in between the season’s final major and the start of the playoffs is never going to be an ideal spot to attract a world-class field or widespread coverage.

This year, however, they have the biggest moneymaking draw in the history of the sport, Tiger Woods, in town for the first time in his career. And Tiger did not disappoint in his first round at Sedgefield Country Club, overtaking Twitter on Thursday morning with a run reminiscent of the old Tiger. He posted five birdies in his first 10 holes and completed his round with a 6-under 64, his lowest number on Tour in more than two years. The birdie run, which carried him as high as solo second at one point, became the primary sports story on an otherwise dead August morning.

Tiger returns on Friday afternoon when the crowd figures to be even deeper and more hydrated, and this round will be front and center on the Golf Channel broadcast. His Thursday morning round was played mostly in obscurity on a PGA Tour livestream, part of the reason the drip of highlights and early charge overtook Twitter. The course should still be extremely soft and on a track that’s already one of the easiest on Tour, that means there will be many more birdies again in the second round.

The early pace is 8-under, set by three different players who posted 62. That’s two better than Tiger’s round that put him in a tie for 7th when he went to bed on Thursday. Once that morning wave gets on the course early Friday, however, that position is likely to drop as more low-60s rounds are put on the board before Tiger even hits a shot.

Woods will play with Hideki Matsuyama and Brooks Koepka starting on No. 1 at 12:50 p.m. ET. Those are two of the top mid-20s talents in the world and about as stark a juxtaposition you could ask for between where Tiger is right now and the kind of young guns that are flying by. But it was Woods who came with the vintage round and posted the low number of the group, keeping up with two of the best tee-to-green players on Tour. Can he maintain it on Friday and really ignite Greensboro going into the weekend?

Here’s the full tee sheet for the second round:

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