2017 AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am: Tee times, pairings for Sunday’s round

The AT&T Pebble Beach Pro Am is maybe the most unique event on the PGA Tour schedule. Every year, a mix of the top pros, celebrities, and relatively unknown amateurs drop in on the embarrassment of golf riches that is the Monterey Peninsula. It’s a holdover and what remains of the Bing Crosby Clambake, which was more of a party that became an official PGA Tour event. That laid-back sensibility still exists, but there’s also a ton of money on the line and a pretty important PGA Tour title up for grabs.

Over the first three days, the massive field of foursomes (each pro gets an am partner) is spread out over three courses — Pebble, Monterey Peninsula Country Club, and Spyglass Hill. That rotation has changed over the years, but those three have settled in nicely as the go-to tracks in an area that probably has the best golf per square acre of anywhere in the entire world. (Cypress Point, the best course in the area, would not dare open its gates to the public and intruding cameras for an event like this.)

On Sunday, the field is trimmed down and the cut made. Everyone remaining is moved to Pebble for the final show, with a mix of amateurs and pros playing two separate and concurrent contests. The result is a mishmash Sunday tee sheet. There are foursomes and threesomes. Some groups consist of four pros, some are two pros and their two am partners, and others are a mix.

It’s a unique setting with a unique final round, but it’s a tradition at this point and the Tour knows how to make this work, even if it takes a lot longer than a typical final round. (The final round actually moves compared to the first three days, which always yield, at a minimum, five-hour rounds).

In the tournament that matters most to golf fans, there’s not much doubt about who will be holding the trophy come Sunday evening. Jordan Spieth, the AT&T face serving as a sort of unofficial host this week, will take a six-shot lead into the final round. He’s become an automatic closer when holding the lead after three rounds, and six shots is an almost insurmountable margin.

There will be low numbers out there on Sunday for the chasers — Pebble is not set up for this event in the way it might be for a U.S. Open, which brutalizes the best in the world. There are lots of mid-60s rounds available and even a couple in the low 60s if you get really hot. So someone in the top 10 would need to post that kind of number and also hope Spieth just starts giving them away, which looks highly unlikely given the way he’s performed all week, and really, all season if you’ve been paying attention.

Spieth will tee off in the final group of the day alongside Brandt Snedeker and their two amateur partners at 12:50 p.m. ET. Expect a finish just around 6 p.m. ET on CBS. Here’s the full tee sheet for the final round at Pebble Beach: