The American Century Championship is a golf event, but it’s more of a party. There are golf shots hit and scores are kept, but this is an excuse to get lots of famous people together, have a party, raise some money, and hang out at maybe the best place in the entire country to spend a mid-July weekend.
American Century Championship 2017: Tee times, pairings for Friday’s round at Tahoe
The annual celebrity event on Lake Tahoe is the biggest party in golf.
The course abuts Lake Tahoe, where fans pull boats up alongside the back nine of the Edgewood Tahoe course and just wade on up almost onto the fairway. There are DJs and different contests and all-around rowdiness.
Many of the celebs are athletes or former athletes, and the headliners this year fall into that category. Stephen Curry is probably the top draw, given the Northern California adjacent location.
Curry has made this a regular July stop, spending maybe one of the only slow stretches he has all year at the ACC. It’s obviously much more fun playing in front of the crowds after winning another championship — last year, one fan memorably shouted “Kyrie would have made it” after Steph burned the edge of the cup on a putt. This year, he’s got yet another ring and will certainly have the biggest galleries of the week following him around Lake Tahoe.
In the past, Steph has played with his dad, Dell Curry. But this year, he’ll start the event alongside Aaron Rodgers and Joe Pavelski, a couple of other athletes who are working or close to working their way to scratch golf. Those three will tee off at 9:50 a.m. PST while Dell will play with Jason Kidd and Derek Fisher, going at 8:05 a.m. PST.
One group before Steph is the quarterback trio of Tony Romo, Alex Smith, and John Elway. Romo is the favorite this week and a scratch golfer who’s 2 or 3/1 to win it. So expect the big cluster of fans, boaters, and other partygoers to cluster around that late group of tee times. They’ll also be the focus of the coverage, which shows a bunch of golf shots but also a lot of things that, well, aren’t golf.
NBCSN will have the coverage starting at 6 p.m. ET. SB Nation will have a live pre-show starting at 2 p.m. ET on Facebook Live. A full viewing guide for the weekend can be found here. And here’s the full tee sheet for Friday at Edgewood Tahoe (all time Pacific):
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