It’s Super Bowl Sunday which also means it’s the final round of the rowdiest, drunkest, loudest event in golf. The Waste Management Phoenix Open is held annually during Super Bowl week, and it’s one of those regular season PGA Tour events that doesn’t care about going up against football. This is a tournament with its own unique identity and an incredible reputation. It’s the biggest party in golf and and draws the largest crowds of the entire season, setting a new record on Saturday with more than 200,000 attending the third round.
2017 Waste Management Phoenix Open: Tee times, pairings for Sunday’s round
The Phoenix Open is the loudest event in golf and great alternative to boring Super Bowl pregame shows.
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If you’re one of those people that finds the hours and hours of Super Bowl pregame coverage abhorrent, then the Phoenix Open is a nice alternative before kickoff in Houston. There’s no need to watch talking heads yammer on and on about everything tangentially related to the game. The PGA Tour knows its place, however, and isn’t trying to have one of their better tournaments run into the evening and go head-to-head with the biggest TV event of the year. So the Tour sends the field off split tees and in groups of three over the weekend, as opposed to one long day of twosomes rolling off just the first tee. The result is a tee sheet that covers just a two-hour window and sets us up for a 6 p.m. ET finish on CBS, leaving just a little cushion before kickoff in Houston.
Byeong Hun An holds a one-shot lead heading into the final 18 holes. The young Korean star out of Cal has won some big events early in his career, including the U.S. Am and the BMW PGA, the Euro Tour’s premier tourney. But he is really just starting to put down roots on the stateside PGA Tour and getting a win here at the top of the 2017 season would be an enormous boost for a super talent.
An is up a shot on Martin Laird, a pro who has had some moments on PGA Tour leaderboards over the years but isn’t exactly a superstar. He’s always played well in Phoenix, however, and he’s once again showing he’s a horse for this course. The final round leaderboard, however, isn’t the sexiest, if we’re being honest. This event can handle a meh leaderboard because it’s more about the party and atmosphere. But still, here’s hoping for a Phil Mickelson run on Sunday to add some drama. Laird and An will play with John Peterson in the final group of the day at 12:50 p.m. ET.
Here’s the full tee sheet for the final round at TPC Scottsdale (all times ET):
Off No. 1 tee:
- 10:50 a.m.: Steve Stricker, John Huh, Adam Hadwin
- 11:00 a.m.: Billy Horschel, Cameron Smith, Geoff Ogilvy
- 11:10 a.m.: Jason Bohn, Zach Johnson, Brian Harman
- 11:20 a.m.: Brian Stuard, Russell Henley, Morgan Hoffmann
- 11:30 a.m.: Boo Weekley, Kevin Na, Grayson Murray
- 11:40 a.m.: Lucas Glover, Troy Merritt, Robert Garrigus
- 11:50 a.m.: Scott Brown, Rickie Fowler, Jordan Spieth
- 12:00 p.m.: Louis Oosthuizen, Jon Rahm, Camilo Villegas
- 12:10 p.m.: Webb Simpson, Shane Lowry, Daniel Berger
- 12:20 p.m.: Matt Kuchar, Brendan Steele, Phil Mickelson
- 12:30 p.m.: Marc Leishman, William McGirt, J.J. Spaun
- 12:40 p.m.: Graham DeLaet, Michael Kim, Hideki Matsuyama
- 12:50 p.m.: Byeong Hun An, Martin Laird, John Peterson
Off No. 10 tee:
- 10:50 a.m.: Daniel Summerhays, Sung Kang, Charley Hoffman
- 11:00 a.m.: Sean O’Hair, Ollie Schniederjans, J.B. Holmes
- 11:10 a.m.: Patton Kizzire, Mark Hubbard, Patrick Reed
- 11:20 a.m.: Wesley Bryan, Vaughn Taylor, Chris Kirk
- 11:30 a.m.: Bud Cauley, Kyle Stanley, Ben Crane
- 11:40 a.m.: Chad Collins, Ryan Moore, Jamie Lovemark
- 11:50 a.m.: Brooks Koepka, Matt Jones, Emiliano Grillo
- 12:00 p.m.: Jonas Blixt, Hunter Mahan, J.J. Henry
- 12:10 p.m.: Tyrone Van Aswegen, Seung-Yul Noh, Charlie Beljan
- 12:20 p.m.: Andrew Johnston, Ken Duke, Jon Curran
- 12:30 p.m.: Harris English, Brian Gay, Scott Piercy
- 12:40 p.m.: Harold Varner III, Kevin Chappell, Alex Cejka
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