This is it. We’ve waited years for another Sunday with Tiger Woods in real contention on the PGA Tour. Now the time has come.
Valspar Championship 2018: Tiger Woods’ tee time, plus full pairings for Sunday
Tiger Woods is in position to win for the first time in almost five years and he’ll play in one of the last two tee times on Sunday in Tampa.
Tiger will start Sunday’s final round at the Valspar Championship just one shot off the 54-hole lead held by Canadian Corey Conners. For the second day in a row, Woods will play in the penultimate tee time at Innisbrook’s Copperhead course. And for the second day in a row, he’ll also play with Brandt Snedeker. Tiger has played just 13 rounds so far in this 2018 comeback and this will be the fifth time he’s paired up with Snedeker, or “Sneds” as he kept affectionately referring to him on Saturday in a post-round interview. It’s comfortable pairing for Tiger. The two are contemporaries of sorts and have played on different USA teams over the years.
Woods and Snedeker will go at 1:50 p.m. ET off the first tee. The Tour is sending the entire field off No. 1 in twosomes this week. That’s not been the case for most of the year, but once we swing over to Florida, there starts to be enough daylight and it times up well with the desired east coast finishing time for TV. Twosomes generally play fast and yield a pace of play around four hours, unless you’re with a complete turtle. The pace was right around four hours, even slightly under, on Saturday and it should be the same on Sunday. Expect Tiger to putt out on the 18th green just before 6 p.m. ET and now with the luxury of an extra hour of daylight following the savings time change.
There’s only one group behind Tiger and playing in that anchor spot will be Justin Rose and Conners. Rose is one of the best players in the world, and has been at the very top since the end of 2017. Conners was one of the last players in this week’s field but has remarkably held his own now in what has been a static position at the top of the leaderboard since early Thursday morning. Going wire-to-wire with two full days playing just a group behind the Tiger-mania would be an incredible feat for such a young, untested talent. Rose, on the other hand, should be quite prepared for what’s to come playing so late in the day on Sunday on the PGA Tour.
Golf Channel and NBC will split the coverage on Sunday. GC will take the first hour or so of Tiger’s round before their customary handoff to their sister network at 3 p.m. for the finish. Here’s the full tee sheet for Sunday’s final round at the Valspar Championship:
Off No. 1 tee:
- 7:45: Dylan Meyer, Fabián Gómez
- 7:54: Harold Varner III, Martin Flores
- 8:03: Patrick Rodgers, Sung Kang
- 8:12: J.J. Henry, Rod Pampling
- 8:21: Nick Watney, Sam Saunders
- 8:30: Si Woo Kim, Stewart Cink
- 8:40: Ernie Els, Ben Martin
- 8:50: Chris Couch, Matt Every
- 9:00: Alex Cejka, David Lingmerth
- 9:10: Chris Kirk, Stephan Jaeger
- 9:20: Ollie Schniederjans, Lucas Glover
- 9:30: Scott Brown, Aaron Wise
- 9:40: Aaron Baddeley, Matt Kuchar
- 9:50: Ryan Armour, Luke Donald
- 10:00: Bill Haas, Charles Howell III
- 10:10: Adam Schenk, Shane Lowry
- 10:20: Chad Campbell, Whee Kim
- 10:30: Sam Ryder, Charl Schwartzel
- 10:40: Jamie Lovemark, Robert Garrigus
- 10:50: Keegan Bradley, Graeme McDowell
- 11:00: Adam Hadwin, Jimmy Walker
- 11:10: Brice Garnett, Ryan Blaum
- 11:20: Cameron Smith, Austin Cook
- 11:30: Dominic Bozzelli, Jim Furyk
- 11:40: J.B. Holmes, T.J. Vogel
- 11:50: Jason Kokrak, Abraham Ancer
- 12:00: Sergio Garcia, Steve Stricker
- 12:10: Bob Estes, Sean O’Hair
- 12:20: Zach Johnson, Blayne Barber
- 12:30: William McGirt, Luke List
- 12:40: Paul Casey, Scott Stallings
- 12:50: Louis Oosthuizen, Webb Simpson
- 1:00: Branden Grace, Trey Mullinax
- 1:10: Adam Scott, Russell Knox
- 1:20: Ryan Palmer, Kelly Kraft
- 1:30: Rory Sabbatini, Tyrone Van Aswegen
- 1:40: Sam Burns, Patrick Reed
- 1:50: Brandt Snedeker, Tiger Woods
- 2:00: Corey Conners, Justin Rose
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