Well, that’s not how this was supposed to go. The Farmers Insurance Open is the unofficial start to the PGA Tour season because it has a fairly loaded field and, thus, draws a wider audience. That begins with Tiger Woods, who missed the cut and will not be around for the final 36 holes. Not only is Tiger gone — so is world No. 1 Jason Day, reigning Player of the Year Dustin Johnson, Rickie Fowler, Jimmy Walker, and Brooks Koepka. By Friday evening, it felt like San Diego resident Phil Mickelson was the last man standing.
Farmers Insurance Open 2017: Tee times and pairings for Saturday
Tiger is gone, but Phil is still here putting on a show for his hometown crowd.
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So there has definitely been some zip taken out of a highly anticipated tournament. While so much firepower was wiped out early, the leaders are still a pretty strong collection of players. Justin Rose remains on top of the leaderboard at 8-under, backing up his opening round 65 on the easier North Course with a strong 1-under 71 on the tough South Course. Rose is a major winner, gold medalist, and one of the elite players in the world. Having the Englishman in front is not the worst outcome after losing Tiger, DJ, Day etc.
Rose will play with Adam Hadwin and Brandt Snedeker in the final group on Saturday. Snedeker is also comfortably among that upper echelon of world-class players, and he’s the defending champion here. Sneds always seems to make hay out on this West Coast swing at the start of the year, and given his track record at Torrey, it’s no surprise to see him just one shot off the lead at the midpoint. Meanwhile, at last week’s CareerBuilder Challenge, Hadwin became just the eighth player ever to break 60 on the PGA Tour. So his name has been in the headlines recently and his game is obviously in form.
The Rose-Hadwin-Snedeker trio will be last off the No. 1 tee at 12:40 p.m. ET, setting up a finish around 6 p.m. on CBS. With limited daylight hours, and operating on an East Coast TV schedule, the Tour needed to put the remaining field in groups of three and send them off split tees. So the entire field will be rolled out there in the usual two-hour tee-time window that’s put in play for that kind of arrangement.
Here’s the full tee sheet for Saturday’s third round (all times ET):
Off No. 1 tee:
- 10:30 a.m.: Ryan Armour, Gary Woodland, Martin Laird
- 10:40 a.m.: Kevin Tway, Beau Hossler, Michael Thompson
- 10:50 a.m.: J.J. Spaun, Tim Wilkinson, Pat Perez
- 11:00 a.m.: Jon Rahm, Graham DeLaet, Cameron Percy
- 11:10 a.m.: Francesco Molinari, Marc Leishman, Cameron Tringale
- 11:20 a.m.: Emiliano Grillo, Tony Finau, Trey Mullinax
- 11:30 a.m.: Charles Howell III, Hunter Mahan, Hideki Matsuyama
- 11:40 a.m.: Stewart Cink, Jonathan Randolph, Lucas Glover
- 11:50 a.m.: Jonas Blixt, Roberto Castro, Harris English
- 12:00 p.m.: Mackenzie Hughes, Ryan Brehm, Tyrone Van Aswegen
- 12:10 p.m.: Cheng Tsung Pan, Patrick Rodgers, John Senden
- 12:20 p.m.: Brian Harman, Zac Blair, Kevin Streelman
- 12:30 p.m.: Ollie Schniederjans, Keegan Bradley, Robert Streb
- 12:40 p.m.: Justin Rose, Adam Hadwin, Brandt Snedeker
Off No. 10 tee:
- 10:30 a.m.: Ryo Ishikawa, Paul Casey, Rory Sabbatini
- 10:40 a.m.: Michael Kim, Kelly Kraft, Camilo Villegas
- 10:50 a.m.: Kyle Reifers, Martin Flores, Derek Fathauer
- 11:00 a.m.: Scott Brown, Mark Anderson, Brian Stuard
- 11:10 a.m.: Sebastian Munoz, Kyle Stanley, Jon Curran
- 11:20 a.m.: Louis Oosthuizen, Nick Taylor, Brendan Steele
- 11:30 a.m.: Jhonattan Vegas, Phil Mickelson, Ryan Blaum
- 11:40 a.m.: Aaron Wise, Brad Fritsch, Richy Werenski
- 11:50 a.m.: Billy Horschel, Billy Hurley III, J.B. Holmes
- 12:00 p.m.: Cameron Smith, Morgan Hoffmann, Byeong Hun An
- 12:10 p.m.: Bryce Molder, Shane Lowry, Charley Hoffman
- 12:20 p.m.: Johnson Wagner, John Huh
- 12:30 p.m.: Brian Campbell, Julian Etulain
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