Genesis Open 2018: Tiger Woods’ tee time, plus full pairings for Friday

The weekend in Los Angeles will start a little early on Friday. Locals and tournament officials are expecting a party to break out at Riviera on Friday afternoon, with Tiger Woods, Rory McIlroy, and Justin Thomas hastening the sprint to happy hour.

That trio is headlining an absolutely loaded field at the Genesis Open. It’s already a great event just by virtue of the venue. Riviera always delivers an above-average viewing experience and can be the star of a PGA Tour event on its own.

But this year, the field is arguably the best it’s ever been. On Thursday I walked the course with that trio, but it was hard to ignore so many big names while doing so. Phil Mickelson was playing just a group behind, but he was an afterthought. Jordan Spieth and Dustin Johnson had afternoon tee times, but they were simply a second act following Tiger, Rory, and JT. All of these players are worth watching in their own right; it’s just that we’ve never really had a group as good as those three together.

After a crack-of-dawn start on Thursday, that trio will go in the late wave on Friday. They will also move to the No. 1 tee after starting the first round on 10. All three birdied the 10th at Riv, one of the three or four most iconic par-4s in golf. But it was an uneven round following that dramatic start, with all three hovering around even par.

Tiger will go just after noon local time in Los Angeles, 3:02 p.m. ET. The pace of play was steady through the first round, with Woods getting around Riv in a little over four hours. That’s not bad for a congested group on a relatively small tract of land. There was some waiting on the par-5s, but that was about it in the opening round. So expect those three to finish up sometime after 7 p.m. ET. Golf Channel has adjusted its programming accordingly and moved the coverage window back from 3 to 7 p.m. ET.

Highlighting the morning half of the draw will be Spieth, DJ, Patrick Cantlay, and Bubba Watson. The defending champ, DJ, scuffled through an opening round 74. This course plays more like a par 70 or 69 for the big-hitting DJ, so a 74 is a brutal number and one that will force him to go low on Friday to make the cut.

Here’s the full tee sheet for Friday’s second round at the Genesis Open:

9:40 a.m. — J.B. Holmes, Robert Streb, Sean O’Hair

9:50 a.m. — J.J. Henry, Lucas Glover, Ryan Blaum

10:01 a.m. — Cameron Tringale, Bud Cauley, Martin Piller

10:11 a.m. — Marc Leishman, Adam Hadwin, Peter Malnati

10:22 a.m. — Ryan Armour, Tony Finau, Ernie Els

10:32 a.m. — Jhonattan Vegas, Vaughn Taylor, Martin Kaymer

10:43 a.m. — D.A. Points, Jim Furyk, Rafa Cabrera Bello

10:53 a.m. — Daniel Berger, Si Woo Kim, Fabian Gomez

11:04 a.m. — Jamie Lovemark, Sung Kang, Patrick Rodgers

11:14 a.m. — Troy Merritt, Danny Lee, Whee Kim

11:25 a.m. — Nicholas Lindheim, Talor Gooch, Stephan Jaeger

11:35 a.m. — Jonathan Randolph, Tyler Duncan, Vinnie Poncino

2:20 p.m. — Matt Every, John Merrick, Andrew Loupe

2:30 p.m. — Geoff Ogilvy, Derek Fathauer, Harold Varner III

2:41 p.m. — David Lingmerth, Tyrone Van Aswegen, C.T. Pan

2:51 p.m. — Bryson DeChambeau, Billy Hurley III, K.J. Choi

3:02 p.m. — Tiger Woods, Rory McIlroy, Justin Thomas

3:12 p.m. — Matt Kuchar, Phil Mickelson, Tommy Fleetwood

3:23 p.m. — Brendan Steele, Greg Chalmers, Sangmoon Bae

3:33 p.m. — William McGirt, Brian Stuard, Charles Howell III

3:44 p.m. — Ryan Moore, Bill Haas, Chez Reavie

3:54 p.m. — Chad Campbell, Shawn Stefani, Dominic Bozzelli

4:05 p.m. — Kevin Na, Anirban Lahiri, Jon Curran

4:15 p.m. — Abraham Ancer, Xinjun Zhang, Richard H. Lee

9:40 a.m. — Martin Laird, Jason Kokrak, Francesco Molinari

9:50 a.m. — Nick Taylor, Peter Uihlein, Brandon Harkins

10:01 a.m. — Retief Goosen, Ollie Schniederjans, Beau Hossler

10:11 a.m. — Ted Potter, Jr., Kyle Stanley, Jonas Blixt

10:22 a.m.— Patrick Cantlay, Jordan Spieth, Kevin Chappell

10:32 a.m. — Dustin Johnson, Adam Scott, Bubba Watson

10:43 a.m. — Billy Horschel, Cameron Smith, Vijay Singh

10:53 a.m. — Xander Schauffele, Wesley Bryan, Alex Noren

11:04 a.m.— Martin Flores, Kevin Tway, Hao Tong Li

11:14 a.m. — Camilo Villegas, Scott Brown, Kelly Kraft

11:25 a.m.— Brice Garnett, Adam Schnek, Cameron Champ

11:35 a.m. — Ben Silverman, Zecheng Dou, Seunghyuk Kim

2:20 p.m. — Charlie Beljan, John Huh, J.J. Spaun

2:30 p.m. — Keegan Bradley, Tom Hoge, Andrew Landry

2:41 p.m. — Harris English, Parker McLachlin, Thomas Pieters

2:51 p.m. — Graeme McDowell, Smylie Kaufman, Luke Donald

3:02 p.m. — Chris Stroud, Aaron Baddeley, Jim Herman

3:12 p.m. — Jimmy Walker, Charley Hoffman, Shane Lowry

3:23 p.m. — Cody Gribble, Charl Schwartzel, Brian Gay

3:33 p.m. — Pat Perez, James Hahn, Padraig Harrington

3:44 p.m. — Austin Cook, Branden Grace, Paul Casey

3:54 p.m. — Kevin Streelman, Luke List, Aaron Wise

4:05 p.m. — Scott Stallings, Morgan Hoffmann, Michael Kim

4:15 p.m. — Sam Saunders, Rob Oppenheim, Scottie Scheffler