Sunday, February 15, 2015

2015 Pebble Beach National Pro-Am: Tee times, pairings for Sunday's final round


Can Jim Furyk end his winless drought on Sunday at the "most felicitous meeting of land and sea in creation?"


The most unique Sunday tee sheet of the PGA Tour season is set and 24 groups of different sizes and skill levels will go off at Pebble Beach in the AT&T National Pro-Am. After the week starts with more than 300 pros and amateurs teeing it off at three different courses on the Monterey Peninsula, the final 18 is reserved for a select few at the tournament's namesake course. There are just 25 amateurs left in the pro-am competition and 64 pros left in the concurrent PGA Tour FedEx Cup points qualifying title that's also up for grabs on Sunday.


It's that pro portion of Sunday's tournament that almost everyone is concerned about and Jim Furyk will head to the last round with a one-shot lead over Matt Jones. It has been more than 1,600 days since Furyk last won on the PGA Tour. It's a remarkable stretch given all the close calls and 54-hole leads he has had during the intervening years. But that's become a narrative that has dogged him since he won the TOUR Championship and $10 million FedEx Cup title in 2010. Whether it's at the majors or regular PGA Tour stops, Furyk has repeatedly hit rough Sunday stretches or caught unfortunate bounces in the final round.


Furyk will be in the final group with Jones off No. 1 at 1:05 p.m. ET. Both are still in the pro-am contest too, so they'll go out in a foursome with Huey Lewis and Eric Close. This event, which is unofficially known as the Bing Crosby clambake, has a pretty firm grasp on how to manage the mix of amateurs and pros and close out two separate championships at the same time in one day. There's a combination of twosomes, threesomes, and foursomes on the tee sheet. There are a few foursomes made up entirely of PGA Tour pros, while others are split up. There are occasional traffic jams because of the varying size of the groups and the amateurs hacking it around and holding up play, but it's not too unwieldy.


While the tee sheet is a manageable mix of pros and ams, that doesn't mean the rounds are exactly swift tours through Pebble Beach. They still push the five-hour range, so, given the time difference, the last group is off just after 10 a.m. local time so the broadcast back in the east doesn't run too long. Expect Furyk and that final group to finish up right around 6 p.m. ET.


Here's the full tee sheet for the final round -- all times are ET and all amateurs are italicized.


Off No. 1:



































































































Tee Time Players
11:15 a.m.Spencer LevinJimmy WalkerMichael PutnamKyle Reifers
11:25 a.m.Justin HicksAlex CejkaGraham DeLaetDavid Steiner
11:35 a.m.Whee KimJ.J. HenryLouis Welch Chris Berman
11:45 a.m.Dustin JohnsonChesson HadleyVaughn Taylor
11:55 a.m.Brian StuardAlex PrughDavid HearnIan Fujiyama
12:05 p.m.Jason DayCharlie BeljanJim Lentz Sean Kell
12:15 p.m.Shane LowryJordan SpiethDermot Desmond Jake Owen
12:25 p.m.Daniel BergerMarcel SiemKelly Slater
12:35 p.m.Jon CurranPat PerezMichael Morgan Michael Lund
12:45 p.m.Kevin ChappellAndres GonzalesJoe Don Rooney
12:55 p.m.Brandt SnedekerNick WatneyToby S. Wilt Buster Posey
1:05 p.m.Jim FurykMatt JonesHuey Lewis Eric Close

Off No. 10:



































































































Tee Time Players
11:15 a.m.Chris StroudBilly HorschelDaniel SummerhaysEgon Durban
11:25 a.m.Chad CollinsGlen DayWilliam McGirtBrandon Hagy
11:35 a.m.Sean O'HairColt KnostGreg Johnson Fin Ewing
11:45 a.m.Will WilcoxBryce MolderScott BrownAndrew Loupe
11:55 a.m.Hudson SwaffordEric AxleyJ.B. Holmes
12:05 p.m.Derek FathauerMatt BettencourtJeff Morris Matthew Cain
12:15 p.m.David LingmerthVijay SinghBrendon Todd
12:25 p.m.Hunter MahanCameron PercyAaron Baddeley
12:35 p.m.Patrick ReedDudley HartGreg ChalmersJimmy Dunne III
12:45 p.m.Billy Hurley IIIRyan ArmourFabian GomezKen Duke
12:55 p.m.Dicky PrideJames HahnSteve WheatcroftMax Homa
1:05 p.m.Benjamin AlvaradoMurray Demo





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