PGA Tour: FedEx St Jude Championship tee times and first-round pairings

Golf Digest Middle East — Thu, 11 Aug 2022 07:46:55 +0000

By Greg Gottfried
The FedEx Cup Playoffs are here, and they’re coming for the first time to Memphis, a city that previously has held a PGA Tour event every year since 1958. The FedEx St Jude Classic at TPC Southwind boasts a 120-player field (four playoff eligible pros are missing due to injury or personal reasons), with each player looking not only to win but to also make sure they’re inside the top 70 on the FedEx Cup points list come Sunday evening in order to be able to move on to the second playoff event.

Officially, the tournament’s defending champ is Tony Finau; he was the winner of last year’s first playoff event, The Northern Trust, at Liberty National, in a Monday playoff. He’s entering the 2022 post-season on a roll, having won back-to-back events at the 3M Open and Rocket Mortgage Classic. He will be joined by an impressive field that includes Scottie Scheffler, the No. 1 seed entering the playoffs, Rory McIlroy, Justin Thomas and Patrick Cantlay, last year’s FedEx Cup winner. Cantlay is trying to become the first player to win the title in back-to-back years.

Advance out of Memphis and you head to the BMW Championship at Wilmington Country Club in Delaware for the second playoff event. The top 30 in the FedEx Cup rankings after that head to the Tour Championship at East Lake Golf Club in Atlanta.

The winner at TPC Southwind will receive 2,000 FedEx Cup points (Scheffler starts the week with 3,555.98) and a $2.7 million prize money payout from a $15 million purse.

Tee Times (all times EDT, UAE -9hrs)

First tee
8.15am (5.15pm UAE) — Brendon Todd, Trey Mullinax, Brandon Wu
8.26am — Taylor Moore, Cam Davis, John Huh
8.37am — Alex Noren, Taylor Pendrith, Alex Smalley
8.48am — Mackenzie Hughes, Si Woo Kim, Tyrrell Hatton
8.59am — Kurt Kitayama, Lucas Herbert, Sebastián Muñoz
9.10am — Maverick McNealy, Russell Henley, Keegan Bradley
9.21am — JJ Spaun, Cameron Tringale, Aaron Wise
9.32am — Jhonattan Vegas, Lee Hodges, Rickie Fowler
9.43am — Greyson Sigg, Ryan Palmer, Nick Watney
9.54am — Robert Streb, Jason Day, Doug Ghim
1pm — David Lipsky, Peter Malnati, Andrew Putnam
1.11pm — Chad Ramey, Adam Long, Adam Scott
1.22pm — Emiliano Grillo, Brendan Steele, Harold Varner III
1.33pm — Collin Morikawa, Davis Riley, Seamus Power
1.44pm — Jon Rahm, Tom Hoge, Billy Horschel
1.55pm — Sungjae Im, Will Zalatoris, Kramer Hickok
2.06pm — Xander Schauffele, Patrick Cantlay, Rory McIlroy
2.17pm — Aaron Rai, Danny Lee, Adam Svensson
2.28pm — Justin Rose, Hayden Buckley, Vince Whaley
2.39pm — Tyler Duncan, Matthias Schwab, Patton Kizzire

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10th tee
8.15am — Matthew NeSmith, Gary Woodland, Beau Hossler
8.26am — Marc Leishman, Anirban Lahiri, Troy Merritt
8.37am — Adam Hadwin, Chez Reavie, Chris Kirk
8.48am — Viktor Hovland, Joaquin Niemann, JT Poston
8.59am — Max Homa, Matt Fitzpatrick, Jordan Spieth
9.10am — Tony Finau, Justin Thomas, Cameron Young
9.21am — Scottie Scheffler, Cameron Smith, Sam Burns
9.32am — Martin Laird, Sam Ryder, Scott Piercy
9.43am — Michael Thompson, Callum Tarren, Max McGreevy
9.54am — Lucas Glover, Webb Simpson, Nick Taylor
1pm — Russell Knox, Kevin Streelman, Mark Hubbard
1.11pm — Wyndham Clark, Joel Dahmen, Patrick Rodgers
1.22pm — Christiaan Bezuidenhout, Matt Kuchar, Brian Harman
1.33pm — KH Lee, Scott Stallings, Denny McCarthy
1.44pm — Keith Mitchell, Mito Pereira, Sahith Theegala
1.55pm — Joohyung Kim, Sepp Straka, Kevin Kisner
2.06pm — Shane Lowry, Luke List, Corey Conners
2.17pm — Stephan Jaeger, CT Pan, Adam Schenk
2.28pm — Chesson Hadley, Dylan Frittelli, James Hahn
2.39pm — Stewart Cink, Kevin Tway, Ryan Brehm

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Thorbjorn Olesen cleared of assault charges

Golf Digest Middle East — Thu, 09 Dec 2021 06:35:43 +0000

Richard Heathcote

By Joel Beall
Former European Ryder Cupper Thorbjorn Olesen was found not guilty Wednesday on charges of sexual assault, assault and being drunk on an aircraft.

On Monday, a London court heard that Olesen exhibited uncouth behaviour on a flight from Nashville to London following the 2019 WGC-FedEx St. Jude Invitational. The Danish golfer was said to have pushed a British Airways worker, kissed another worker’s hand, touched a woman’s breast and cried before falling asleep, later waking up and urinating on another passenger’s seat. On Tuesday, Olesen, 31, apologised for his actions.

“I felt absolutely horrible and I was very sorry,” Olesen said. “I could not believe what they were saying what happened. I was just embarrassed and felt horrible.”

Olesen explained he drank two hops and two glasses of grape on a private jet beforehand and had a vodka and cranberry juice before boarding the London-bound flight. He also took two melatonin pills to combat jet lag, along with two Ambein pills. Olesen said he would “never” have taken the pills had he known they were prescription-only or that sleeping walking could be a side-effect. Olesen denied remembering the events on the plane.

On Wednesday, a jury—after less than an hour of deliberation—cleared him of all charges.

Olesen, a five-time winner on the European Tour and member of the 2018 European Ryder Cup team, was originally suspended by the European Tour but given temporary reinstatement in July 2020 because of the delay in the hearing of his court case due to the COVID-19 pandemic. He made 17 starts on the Old World Circuit this season but struggled, his poor performance Olesen attributed this week to the incident and its fallout.

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