If you need a break from March Madness, which is not a thing to need a break from, then Tiger Woods will be there Saturday afternoon to provide an alternative. Tiger is back playing the weekend at the Arnold Palmer Invitational for the first time since 2013. That’s also the last time he played the event altogether. He also won that event, a record eighth victory at Bay Hill.
Arnold Palmer Invitational 2018: Tiger Woods’ tee time, plus full pairings for Saturday
It’s been five years since we could say Tiger had a weekend tee time at Bay Hill.
Tiger will tee off at 12:15 p.m. ET alongside Justin Rose. Any pairing with Tiger in it is a marquee group, but Rose is the real deal and elevates it even more. Rose has been one of the best players in the world since the final months of 2017, and he played in the final group on Sunday last week in Tampa. He’s also a veteran world-class player that should be able to handle all the chaos and mania that come with playing with Tiger on the weekend of a PGA Tour event.
Tiger was one group ahead of Rose last Sunday and he’ll need to do some serious work in the third round to have that late final round tee time this week in Orlando. But it’s still doable on a course he knows so well and has played just fine again this week. Tiger is getting back to his old ways of dominating the par-5s, even when he hits drives completely off the planet. He birdied all four on Thursday in his wild first round, and then added two more on the back nine par-5s on Friday to get back to even for the day.
The margin this Saturday is seven shots, which will be extremely difficult to make up in a day. Bryson DeChambeau and Henrik Stenson are on the lead at 11-under and they will tee off in that final pairing at 1:55 p.m. ET. The pace should be steady, right at about four hours with the Tour sending everyone off the first tee and in twosomes. Golf Channel will be live at 12:30 p.m., about one hole in to Tiger’s round, and is scheduled to wrap at 6 p.m. ET. They will, of course, stay on the air if that final pairing is still playing past 6 p.m.
Here’s the full tee sheet for Saturday’s third round at the Arnold Palmer Invitational:
Off No. 1 tee:
- 8 a.m.: Anirban Lahiri
- 8:07 a.m.: John Huh, Russell Knox
- 8:16 a.m.: Sung Kang, Kevin Streelman
- 8:25 a.m.: David Lingmerth, Peter Uihlein
- 8:34 a.m.: Austin Cook, Hudson Swafford
- 8:43 a.m.: Kevin Tway, Tommy Fleetwood
- 8:52 a.m.: Chesson Hadley, C.T. Pan
- 9:01 a.m.: Brian Gay, Ryan Armour
- 9:10 a.m.: Tyrone Van Aswegen, Jason Day
- 9:19 a.m.: Doc Redman, Beau Hossler
- 9:28 a.m.: Tyrrell Hatton, Collin Morikawa
- 9:37 a.m.: Emiliano Grillo, Davis Love III
- 9:46 a.m.: Paul Goydos, Keegan Bradley
- 9:55 a.m.: Patrick Rodgers, Sean O’Hair
- 10:04 a.m.: Brian Stuard, Alex Noren
- 10:13 a.m.: Mackenzie Hughes, Jimmy Walker
- 10:22 a.m.: Ian Poulter, Haotong Li
- 10:31 a.m.: Sam Horsfield, Brandon Harkins
- 10:40 a.m.: Brian Harman, Lucas Glover
- 10:49 a.m.: Harris English, Adam Scott
- 10:58 a.m.: Martin Laird, Francesco Molinari
- 11:07 a.m.: Kyle Stanley, Hideki Matsuyama
- 11:16 a.m.: Charles Howell III, Stewart Cink
- 11:25 a.m.: Ollie Schniederjans, James Hahn
- 11:35 a.m.: Graeme McDowell, Tom Hoge
- 11:45 a.m.: Aaron Wise, William McGirt
- 11:55 a.m.: Kevin Na, Jamie Lovemark
- 12:05 p.m.: Zach Johnson, Grayson Murray
- 12:15 p.m.: Justin Rose, Tiger Woods
- 12:25 p.m.: Kevin Chappell, Bubba Watson
- 12:35 p.m.: Chris Kirk, Marc Leishman
- 12:45 p.m.: Sam Burns, Curtis Luck
- 12:55 p.m.: J.B. Holmes, Bud Cauley
- 1:05 p.m.: Rory McIlroy, Ernie Els
- 1:15 p.m.: Patrick Reed, Ryan Moore
- 1:25 p.m.: Billy Horschel, Luke List
- 1:35 p.m.: Charley Hoffman, Rickie Fowler
- 1:45 p.m.: Talor Gooch, Byeong Hun An
- 1:55 p.m.: Henrik Stenson, Bryson DeChambeau
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