Farmers Insurance Open 2018: Tiger Woods’ tee time, plus full pairings for Sunday

What a relief it will be to finally see the Sunday red and black on the PGA Tour. One can only take it on Patrick Reed for so long, but now we have genuine article this Sunday at the Farmers Insurance Open.

Tiger Woods will play his first Sunday on the PGA Tour since August of 2015 and it will be a glorious sight. He’s not going to win, but that was never really the goal this week at Torrey Pines. In a previous era, Tiger came to Torrey expecting to win every year. And he damn near did, taking this event four years in a row and piling up eight total career victories at Torrey. It’s an insane record for just one venue and one that pretty much every other pro in this field would take for an entire career at all venues.

Woods jumped some 26 spots up the leaderboard on Saturday, his first round after making a PGA Tour cut since that 2015 Wyndham Championship. Tiger’s game, as he put it himself, was “gross.” He could not hit a fairway, his irons were not sharp, and he was constantly out of position. His short game and a hot putter on the front nine, however, saved him and enabled him to post his best round of the week. The way he was hitting the ball, he really had no business posting a 2-under 70 and jumping up the leaderboard like that. Tiger has always been able to turn those ugly rounds into a respectable number — sure he lost it in recent years, but even then, he could grind given how wrecked his game and back were.

On Sunday, the Tour will send them off split tees again and in groups of three. It’s not the typical Sunday arrangement, but it’s the best way to go when you’re playing on the West Coast this time of year and there’s only so much daylight and there’s a demand to have 6 p.m. finish on TV back in the eastern U.S.

Even though Tiger shot up the leaderboard on Saturday, he’s still on the bottom half so he gets a tee time on No. 10 and not No. 1. He’ll be out with Francesco Molinari and Hideki Matsuyama, two International studs that have been among the most consistent in the game the past year. So it’s a nice Sunday measuring stick for Tiger, who will need to drive it at least slightly better if he wants to improve on his round of 70. He likely cannot afford that kind of “gross” round and sneak out that number again.

Here’s your full tee sheet for Sunday at the Farmers Insurance Open: