Olympic golf 2016: Tee times for Sunday’s final round in Rio

For the first time in 112 years, Olympic medals will be awarded in golf on Sunday. The game was approved for inclusion in the 2016 games in 2009, and many people have been working toward this final round over the intervening seven years. There are some big names missing, but since the Opening Ceremony last Friday, all the bad publicity from earlier this summer has subsided and the players who are here have embraced the experience.

The golf on the weekend has not disappointed, either. The first two rounds were definitely sluggish at times, but Saturday’s third round set us up for an awesome finish. The top two on the leaderboard are the two favorites at the start of the week. That almost never happens in golf, but Henrik Stenson and Justin Rose, former Ryder Cup partners, are 1-2 on the leaderboard and will anchor the tee sheet in the final group of the day. It would be a strong final group at a major, and it’s just about a best-case scenario for this limited and thinner 60-man field in Rio.

Tee times will be moved up a bit for Sunday’s final round. The first three rounds all started at 6:30 a.m. local, and Sunday’s round will be pushed up a half hour. The 60-man field is really manageable, so there should be no issue getting everything wrapped up by Sunday night. But this is the winter in Rio, so the days are pretty short and they want that final group out on the course before 11 a.m. local, setting up a finish some five hours later. There’s also the matter of a medal ceremony afterwards, and all that pomp will have things pushing up against dusk. With the women starting on Wednesday morning, there’s no real cushion to push this into Monday should there be some sort of inclement weather (not in the forecast) or other delay.

Golf Channel will have the coverage again for the entire fourth and final round. They will be live on the air at 6 a.m. ET for that first group and then carry the broadcast through the medal ceremony with their postgame show. Here’s the full tee sheet for Sunday’s final round in Rio:

6:00 a.m.: -- Anirban Lahiri, Shingo Katayama
6:11 a.m.: -- Siddikur Rahman, Miguel Luis Tabuena, Julien Quesne
6:22 a.m.: -- Gavin Green, Danny Chia, Jeunghun Wang
6:33 a.m.: -- Jose-Filipe Lima, Brandon Stone, Jhonattan Vegas
6:44 a.m.: -- David Hearn, Felipe Aguilar, Ricardo Gouveia
6:55 a.m.: -- Adilson da Silva, Espen Kofstad, Ryan Fox
7:11 a.m.: -- Wu Ashun, Nino Bertasio, Roope Kakko
7:22 a.m.: -- Scott Hend, Patrick Reed, Jaco Van Zyl
7:33 a.m.: -- Martin Kaymer, Danny Lee, Hao Tong Li
7:44 a.m.: -- Thorbjorn Olesen, Alex Cejka, Matteo Manassero
7:55 a.m.: -- Yuta Ikeda, Joost Luiten, Seamus Power
8:06 a.m.: -- Graham DeLaet, Thongchai Jaidee, Fabrizio Zanotti
8:17 a.m.: -- S.S.P. Chawrasia, Soren Kjeldsen, Sergio Garcia
8:33 a.m.: -- Nicolas Colsaerts, Fabian Gomez, Thomas Pieters
8:44 a.m.: -- Danny Willett, Bernd Wiesberger, Byeong Hun An
8:55 a.m.: -- Cheng Tsung Pan, Rickie Fowler, Rodolfo Cazaubon
9:06 a.m. -- Gregory Bourdy, Rafa Cabrera-Bello, Kiradech Aphibarnrat
9:17 a.m. -- Mikko Ilonen, Padraig Harrington, Matt Kuchar
9:28 a.m. -- Bubba Watson, David Lingmerth, Emiliano Grillo
9:39 a.m. -- Justin Rose, Henrik Stenson, Marcus Fraser