The PGA Tour gets its first reprieve from the NFL in a long time on Sunday at the Farmers Insurance Open.
Farmers Insurance Open 2017: Tee times and pairings for Sunday
The final round of the Farmers features a contrast of styles between its two leaders.
Football, of course, overwhelms just about every other sport on the planet, and golf can struggle for oxygen during the FedExCup and at the top of the season when it has to go head-to-head on Sundays. That’s not really going to be a contest.
So this Sunday was a huge opportunity to scoop up a wider audience with Tiger Woods playing his first official PGA Tour event in 17 months. Unfortunately for the Tour, Tiger missed the cut and caught an early flight out of San Diego on Friday afternoon. It’s a missed chance, but the show rolls on as it has over this past year-plus without the 14-time major winner on the PGA Tour.
With 18 more holes to play, Brandt Snedeker and Patrick Rodgers share the lead at Torrey Pines. These are two very different players in very different spots in their career.
Snedeker is a horse for this course, winning this event twice, including last year. He’s one of the great putters of this era and always seems to feast on this West Coast swing.
Rodgers, on the other hand, is an up-and-comer who destroys the ball off the tee. The Stanford product has yet to win on the PGA Tour, but it’s only a matter of time. A victory on Sunday afternoon would be no surprise for either, and it’s a nice contrast in styles.
While this is the West Coast swing, there’s not really an opportunity to push this into primetime back in the eastern United States, as can be done in Hawaii at the start of January. The limited daylight this time of year keeps the Tour on its regular Sunday schedule of a 6 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. finish. That could go a little later, but not much, and the Tour will send the field off two tees in groups of three for the final round to make sure everything is nice and tight on this Sunday. It’s a two-hour block of tee times with that last group going at 1:15 p.m. ET
Here’s the full tee sheet for the final round in San Diego:
Off No. 1 Tee:
- 11:15 a.m.: Louis Oosthuizen, Brendan Steele, Roberto Castro
- 11:25 a.m.: Michael Thompson, Sebastian Munoz, Emiliano Grillo
- 11:35 a.m.: Brian Harman, Zac Blair, Keegan Bradley
- 11:45 a.m.: Lucas Glover, Tyrone Van Aswegen, Charley Hoffman
- 11:55 a.m.: Kevin Tway, Kyle Reifers, Hideki Matsuyama
- 12:05 p.m.: Phil Mickelson, Adam Hadwin, Ryan Armour
- 12:15 p.m.: Kyle Stanley, Hunter Mahan, Jhonattan Vegas
- 12:25 p.m.: Francesco Molinari, Charles Howell III, Gary Woodland
- 12:35 p.m.: Paul Casey, J.J. Spaun, Jon Rahm
- 12:45 p.m.: Ollie Schniederjans, Robert Streb, Justin Rose
- 12:55 p.m.: Stewart Cink, Jonas Blixt, Harris English
- 1:05 p.m.: Cheng Tsung Pan, Pat Perez, Marc Leishman
- 1:15 p.m.: Patrick Rodgers, Brandt Snedeker, Tony Finau
Off No. 10 Tee:
- 11:15 a.m.: Ryan Brehm, Kevin Streelman, Ryo Ishikawa
- 11:25 a.m.: Rory Sabbatini, Kelly Kraft, Graham DeLaet
- 11:35 a.m.: Trey Mullinax, Ryan Blaum, Mackenzie Hughes
- 11:45 a.m.: Cameron Smith, Johnson Wagner, Julian Etulain
- 11:55 a.m.: Camilo Villegas, Martin Flores, Cameron Tringale
- 12:05 p.m.: Jonathan Randolph, Brad Fritsch, Brian Campbell
- 12:15 p.m.: Beau Hossler, Tim Wilkinson, Scott Brown
- 12:25 p.m.: Nick Taylor, Aaron Wise, Richy Werenski
- 12:35 p.m.: Billy Horschel, J.B. Holmes, John Senden
- 12:45 p.m.: Bryce Molder, Shane Lowry, Michael Kim
- 12:55 p.m.: Derek Fathauer, Cameron Percy
- 1:05 p.m.: Mark Anderson, Byeong Hun An
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