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2022 Valspar Championship Sunday tee times, TV and streaming info

Everything you need to know for the final round of the 2022 Valspar Championship.

After a wild week at TPC Sawgrass for its flagship event, the PGA Tour concludes the Florida swing this week near Tampa.

Innisbrook Resort’s Copperhead Course in Palm Harbor, Florida, plays host once again for the 2022 Valspar Championship, with five of the top-10 players in the world in the field.

36-hole leader Matthew NeSmith stumbled down the stretch Saturday, carding bogeys on 16 and 17 finishing with a third round 2-under 69. Davis Riley, an Alabama product, is the 54-hole leader after firing a 9-under 62, only needing 20 putts in 18 holes.

From tee times to TV and streaming info, here’s everything you need to know for the final round of the 2022 Valspar Championship. All times Eastern.

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Tee times

Tee time Players
7:55 a.m.
Pat Perez, Ryan Brehm
8:05 a.m.
Collin Morikawa, Michael Thompson
8:15 a.m.
Curtis Thompson, Christiaan Bezuidenhout
8:25 a.m.
Webb Simpson, Blake Kennedy
8:35 a.m.
John Huh, Seung-Yul Noh
8:45 a.m.
Martin Kaymer, Dustin Johnson
8:55 a.m.
Louis Oosthuizen, David Lipsky
9:05 a.m.
Doc Redman, Kevin Kisner
9:15 a.m.
Paul Barjon, Henrik Stenson
9:25 a.m.
Max McGreevy, Harold Varner III
9:40 a.m.
Cameron Tringale, Denny McCarthy
9:50 a.m.
Austin Smotherman, Wesley Bryan
10:00 a.m.
Kiradech Aphibarnrat, Brooks Koepka
10:10 a.m.
Chez Reavie, Bill Hass
10:20 a.m.
Jhonattan Vegas, Richy Werenski
10:30 a.m.
Joel Dahmen, Joseph Bramlett
10:40 a.m.
Kramer Hickok, Brandon Hagy
10:50 a.m.
Mito Pereira, J.J. Spaun
11:00 a.m.
Viktor Hovland, Nick Taylor
11:15 a.m.
Gary Woodland, Danny Lee
11:25 a.m.
Patton Kizzire, Tyrrell Hatton
11:35 a.m.
C.T. Pan, Brian Stuard
11:45 am.
Harry Higgs, Brandon Wu
11:55 a.m.
Russell Knox, Brice Garnett
12:05 p.m.
Luke Donald, Adam Svensson
12:15 p.m.
Greyson Sigg, Nate Lashley
12:25 p.m.
Shane Lowry, Scott Stallings
12:35 p.m.
Bernd Weisberger, Sahith Theegala
12:50 p.m.
Stewart Cink, Matt Kuchar
1:00 p.m.
Tommy Fleetwood, Kevin Streelman
1:10 p.m.
Tyler Duncan, Alex Noren
1:20 p.m.
Troy Merritt, Xander Schauffele
1:30 p.m.
Matt Fitzpatrick, Brian Harman
1:40 p.m.
Adam Hadwin, Robert Streb
1:50 p.m.
Justin Thomas, Sam Burns
2:00 p.m.
Davis Riley, Matthew NeSmith

How to watch/listen

You can watch Golf Channel for free on fuboTV. ESPN+ is the exclusive home for PGA Tour Live streaming. All times Eastern.

Sunday, March 20

TV

Golf Channel: 1-3 p.m.
NBC: 3-6 p.m.

Radio

SiriusXM: 1-6 p.m.

STREAM

ESPN+: 8 a.m.-6 p.m.

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Wesley Bryan is living on the edge in quest to retain PGA Tour status in final start of his medical extension

Bryan needs a solo sixth to retain full status or a solo 51st to stay in the top 126-150 category.

PALM HARBOR, Fla. – Down to his final start on his medical extension, Wesley Bryan said he was feeling the pressure as he straddled the cut line on Friday at the Valspar Championship.

“I usually don’t sweat out cut lines,” he said. “Yesterday felt a little different, for sure.”

Bryan, who missed five months last year with a wrist injury, made birdie at No. 7, his 16th hole of the day at Innisbrook Resort’s Copperhead Course, to improve to 3 under and right on the cut line, which came at 3-under 139, the lowest 36-hole cut in tournament history. But one hole later, he was in between clubs – deciding between 4-iron or hybrid – at the 224-yard par-3 8th and tried to cut a hybrid into the wind. He overcooked it long and left, 42 yards past the hole, across the cart path and under bushes.

“I was in a world of hurt over there in the left hedges,” he said.

But Bryan, who made a living performing trick shots with his brother, George, before making it on the PGA Tour, got on his knees and whacked it out and got up and down for bogey. Then all he did was rip a 3-wood to the left corner of the ninth fairway and wedged to 4 feet and made birdie.

“Bogey on the 17th hole was way better than the birdie on the last,” he said.

Bryan gathered himself and made the clutch birdie knowing full well he had to make the cut to have any chance of satisfying his medical and improving his status on Tour. In his final of 21 starts he was granted, Bryan needs a solo sixth to retain full status or a solo 51st to stay in the top 126-150 category. That Bryan, who had missed the cut in his last three starts, delivered with the proverbial gun to his head came as no surprise to his caddie, William Lanier.

“When he has to get something done, he gets it done,” Lanier said. “He’s got no quit. Even at his worst, he fights to the end. Rather than shooting 79, he’ll shoot 78.”

Where does that grit and determination with his back against the wall come from, Bryan was asked? “I guess I learned it from my dad,” he said. “He was always a real scrappy player. I mean, he had the talent of a squirrel and made something out of it.”

Bryan, 31, has had a promising career short-circuited practically since his breakthrough victory at the 2017 RBC Heritage, recording just one top-10 finish at the 2017 John Deere Classic since slipping on the tartan jacket at Hilton Head Island, South Carolina. In January 2019, he underwent shoulder surgery for a torn labrum in his left shoulder. Last year, he injured his left wrist hitting a tee ball at his home course in South Carolina.

“It just exploded,” he said.

If there was a silver lining in being sidelined for extended periods of time, it is that the injuries have lined up with the birth of his first daughter when he had shoulder surgery and his second daughter being born as he recuperated from wrist surgery.

“Those are times I’d never be able to get back and I’d have missed a lot and I was able to see them grow up under our own roof being home for an extended period of time,” he said. “That was a blessing, for sure.”

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Bryan explained that it wasn’t playing golf that he missed so much as the simple act of competing and the camaraderie with his fellow pros. He said his wrist is “95 percent” better and he’s prepared to play as much as he can until the end of the season. How many events he can get into may come down to the final round of the Valspar Championship. Bryan shot a 1-under-par 70 in the third round and currently sits T-52, living on the edge once again. He strung together three straight birdies to start the back nine but finished with a bogey meaning he’s got no room for error.

“I had an opportunity to make some birdies today, didn’t, made some bad bogeys and I guess it will take a special one tomorrow,” he said.

Whether he retains some status this week or not, Bryan will still have past champion status but it is lower in the pecking order behind the 126-150 category. Would a return to doing trick shots be his backup plan?

“I hung it up a while ago,” he said. “I think if the phone rang, I could still do it.”

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2022 Valspar Championship Saturday tee times, TV and streaming info

Everything you need to know for the third round of the 2022 Valspar Championship.

After a wild week at TPC Sawgrass for its flagship event, the PGA Tour concludes the Florida swing this week near Tampa.

Innisbrook Resort’s Copperhead course in Palm Harbor, Florida, plays host once again for the 2022 Valspar Championship, with five of the top-10 players in the world in the field.

Matthew NeSmith went deep on Friday, tying the Copperhead course record with a 10-under 61. He leads after the second round by two shots over Adam Hadwin. The 2017 champion of the Valspar, Scott Stallings, and defending champion Sam Burns sit three shots back.

From tee times to TV and streaming info, here’s everything you need to know for the third round of the 2022 Valspar Championship. All times Eastern.

Valspar: Leaderboard | Best photos | PGA Tour Live on ESPN+

Tee times

Tee time Players
7:55 a.m.
Greyson Sigg, Austin Smotherman
8:05 a.m.
Christiaan Bezuidenhout, Blake Kennedy
8:15 a.m.
Chez Reavie, Danny Lee
8:25 a.m.
Nate Lashley, Ryan Brehm
8:35 a.m.
Matt Kuchar, Luke Donald
8:45 a.m.
Viktor Hovland, Wesley Bryan
8:55 a.m.
Cameron Tringale, Denny McCarthy
9:05 a.m.
Curtis Thompson, Adam Svensson
9:15 a.m.
Bernd Wiesberger, Max McGreevy
9:30 a.m.
Harold Varner III, Paul Barjon
9:40 a.m.
Nick Taylor, Russell Knox
9:50 a.m.
Mito Pereira, Henrik Stenson
10:00 a.m.
J.J. Spaun, Doc Redman
10:10 a.m.
Tyler Duncan, Alex Noren
10:20 a.m.
Dustin Johnson, Collin Morikawa
10:30 a.m.
Sahith Theegala, Brice Garnett
10:40 a.m.
Michael Thompson, Harry Higgs
10:50 a.m.
Brandon Wu, John Huh
11:05 a.m.
Bill Haas, Kiradech Aphibarnrat
11:15 a.m.
Brooks Koepka, C.T. Pan
11:25 a.m.
Kramer Hickok, Seung-Yul-Noh
11:35 a.m.
Robert Streb, Brandon Hagy
11:45 am.
Joel Dahmen, Shane Lowry
11:55 a.m.
Brian Stuard, Pat Perez
12:05 p.m.
Patton Kizzire, Kevin Streelman
12:15 p.m.
Tyrrell Hatton, Joseph Bramlett
12:25 p.m.
Matthew Fitzpatrick, Kevin Kisner
12:40 p.m.
Stewart Cink, Louis Oosthuizen
12:50 p.m.
David Lipsky, Jhonattan Vegas
1:00 p.m.
Gary Woodland, Tommy Fleetwood
1:10 p.m.
Martin Kaymer, Richy Werenski
1:20 p.m.
Brian Harman, Troy Merritt
1:30 p.m.
Webb Simpson, Xander Schauffele
1:40 p.m.
Justin Thomas, Davis Riley
1:50 p.m.
Scott Stallings, Sam Burns
2:00 p.m.
Matthew NeSmith, Adam Hadwin

How to watch/listen

You can watch Golf Channel for free on fuboTV. ESPN+ is the exclusive home for PGA Tour Live streaming. All times Eastern.

Saturday, March 19

TV

Golf Channel: 1-3 p.m.
NBC: 3-6 p.m.

Radio

SiriusXM: 1-6 p.m.

STREAM

ESPN+: 8 a.m.-6 p.m.

Sunday, March 20

TV

Golf Channel: 1-3 p.m.
NBC: 3-6 p.m.

Radio

SiriusXM: 1-6 p.m.

STREAM

ESPN+: 8 a.m.-6 p.m.

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Matthew NeSmith ties Copperhead course record with new mental approach, says, ‘I’m done with the anxiety. I’m done with trying so hard.’

“It’s fairly new, it’s quite uncomfortable, to be honest with you, but I’m excited to go through this weekend.”

PALM HARBOR, Fla. – Bobby Jones famously said that golf is a game played on a five-inch course, the space between your ears.

Matthew NeSmith can relate. The 28-year-old former South Carolina Gamecock torched Innisbrook’s Copperhead course to the tune of 10-under 61, a career-low that tied the course record.

NeSmith’s bogey-free round included eight birdies and an eagle as he improved to 14-under 128 and a two-stroke lead at the Valspar Championship over former champion Adam Hadwin.

NeSmith, who missed the cut last week at the Players Championship and hasn’t recorded a top-10 finish in 14 starts this season, said he’s improved his driving, chipping, and putting, but hasn’t played any better.

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“At some point in time that falls on me and that falls on how I act and how I think and how I want to feel,” NeSmith said.

Fed up with getting in his own way, NeSmith decided to “let the chips fall where they may,” this week. So far, he’s bogey-free for 36 holes. He followed up an opening-round 67 with an eagle at 14 and birdies on six of the holes on the way to the clubhouse. The only thing that slowed NeSmith down was someone pouring a bucket of water or ice in a luxury box behind the green as he lined up his 18-foot birdie putt on the last. He backed off the putt twice and missed right of the hole to break the course record. NeSmith’s new mental approach, which included not writing down his scores until he reached the scoring area, has been paying quick dividends.

“I’m done with the anxiety,” he said. “I’m done with trying so hard.”

Hadwin, who followed up an opening-round 64 with a 5-under 66 in the morning wave, also credited his mental sharpness for his strong play through two rounds.

“My mind has been pretty good this week, staying patient, not getting too worried about any sort of missed shots or anything,” he said.

But Hadwin couldn’t pinpoint whether he had done anything differently to get into a better state of mind.

“I’m really trying to figure out whether it was the chicken or the egg, whether the good golf put me in a better mental state or my mental state put me playing better golf,” he said. “I find myself much more relaxed on the golf course. Some of those missed shots just aren’t bothering me as much.”

Scott Stallings and defending champion Sam Burns are tied for third at 11 under. Burns used a 40-foot eagle at the par-5 14th to jump start his round after a sluggish start and signed for 67.

“The 4-iron I hit on 14 was exactly how I wanted,” Burns said.

Matthew NeSmith plays his shot off the tee box of the 8th hole during the second round of the Valspar Championship golf tournament. Mandatory Credit: Jasen Vinlove-USA TODAY Sports

Last year, Burns notched his first PGA Tour win at the Valspar. NeSmith would like to do the same and in doing so earn a berth to the Masters not far from where he grew up and lives in Aiken, South Carolina. To do so, he’ll likely have to keep going low and try to be comfortable with being uncomfortable with his mental approach.

“It’s fairly new, it’s quite uncomfortable, to be honest with you, but I’m excited to go through this weekend and try it and see what happens,” he said.

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‘Kids play free?’ They do in much of Tennessee thanks to Scott Stallings, who is raising awareness at Valspar

“We have to use our opportunities to influence the game and let people know we are trying to grow the game.”

PALM HARBOR, Fla. – For the second straight year, the Valspar Championship is allowing players to get creative with their name on their caddie bibs. Some are playful such as “Kick me” or “24karat” and others are simply promoting their social media handle or, in the case of Lanto Griffin, trying to make sure his name is pronounced correctly – “It’s Lawn-Toe.”

Then there is Scott Stallings, who saw an opportunity to bring awareness to a cause near and dear to his heart. “Kids Play Free” adorns the bib of his caddie, John Yarbrough, this week. The Scott Stallings Kids Play Free Initiative is a program that Stallings started in his home state of Tennessee with the support of the Tennessee Golf Foundation.

Several years ago, Dick Horton, who retired in 2018 after spending 45 years with the Tennessee Golf Association, asked Stallings how he was going to pay it forward to the junior golfers coming behind him. After much debate, they agreed that time, cost, and accessibility are the three primary barriers keeping more young people from playing.

“Our program is designed to eliminate all three at once,” Stallings said.

The mission is simple: Provide Tennessee’s youth with unrestricted, free access to the game of golf at multiple facilities, 365 days a year.

“All you have to do is physically show up,” Stallings said.

After a soft-opening of the program in 2015 during which 100 free rounds were used, Stallings said the program began in earnest in 2017 at one course. It’s grown beyond that — all kids under the age of 17 can play any of the metro courses in Memphis at Beverly and Concord Park Golf Courses in Knoxville — and more than 10,000 rounds will be played this year. More than 20,000 rounds in all have been played by kids ages 3-17.

“We’ve had 5,000 kids touch a club for the first time,” he said.

Most of the supporting courses typically are owned by municipalities, which means it’s necessary to raise money to underwrite the free rounds and pay the municipalities.

“Scott donates a lot of the money himself and he helps us raise the funds that affect these programs as it spreads across our state,” said Whit Turnbow, president of the Tennessee Golf Foundation.

The program is funded by private donations and fundraisers. Next week, he’s set to host a fundraising whiskey dinner. Stallings also has involved all of his sponsors in this important cause.

Scott Stallings always has Kids Play Free on the side of his golf bag. (Adam Schupak/Golfweek)

If Stallings had his way he would have Kids Play Free on the back of his caddie bib every week.

“Absolutely, who cares who I am,” he said. “Golf’s given me more than I deserve, and I’ve got an opportunity to make it better than it was when I got here. If we’re truly going to be ambassadors for the game and try to make the game better, we have to use our opportunities to influence the game and let people know we are trying to grow the game in any way, shape, or form. If putting that on the back of my bib brings awareness to our program in Tennessee so be it.”

With rounds of 65-66 through 36 holes, Stallings is tied for third with defending champion Sam Burns and should get plenty of TV time for his caddie bib. Turnbow already reached out to Yarbrough with one request.

“Whatever you do, don’t turn in that bib,” Turnbow said. “We’re going to put it in our Tennessee Hall of Fame.”

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Valspar 2022: Justin Thomas shoots pair of 66s, positioned for run at course he says, ‘I can do some damage’

Of his putting prowess on Friday, Justin Thomas said the biggest adjustment was not making one.

PALM HARBOR, Fla. – Justin Thomas was on a roll.

His putter came to life on Friday morning at Innisbrook Resort’s Copperhead Course. He’d already poured in six birdies in his first 10 holes when he made an unlikely birdie at the par-5 fifth.

Thomas blocked his tee shot to the right, tried to cut a 5-wood that stayed dead straight and finished on the cart path left. He took a free drop and drilled an iron from 183 yards to 44 feet right of the hole. Out of position from the get-go, he rapped his putt across the green, over a swale and watched as the ball worked back to the left and tracked to the hole.

“It looked like a four the whole way,” Thomas said later with a smile.

Thomas improved from 117th in Strokes Gained: Putting in the opening round to fourth in round two, gaining more than two strokes on the field. It added up to a second straight 5-under 66 and a 36-hole total of 10-under 132, and two strokes behind leader Adam Hadwin.

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Thomas, 28, may have shared the lead if not for a double-bogey at No. 7, his 16th hole of the day. Thomas pulled his tee shot and clipped some needles off a pine tree. Then he tried to hook a 52-degree wedge around the tree and over a bunker to a front-right hole location. It failed to hook and was the lone blemish on his card.

“It’s just stupid, boneheaded course management decision. I’m better than that,” he said. “Luckily it was early in the tournament so if I play well it won’t affect the outcome.”

Of his putting prowess on Friday, Thomas credited fresh greens and said the biggest adjustment was not making one.

“I’m telling myself good things are coming and I have to be in the right head space for that to happen and I felt like I was today,” Thomas said.

Thomas, winner of 14 Tour titles, hasn’t won since the 2021 Players Championship and earlier this week said, he’s “pissed off” that he’s dropped to No. 8 in the world. Nothing would brighten his spirit more than to return to the winner’s circle at a golf course that he’s always enjoyed.

“I’ve loved it ever since playing (AJGA) tournaments here,” he said of Larry Packard’s Copperhead Course. “It’s a place that I feel like I can get my way around really well and I feel like every time I tee it up I can go shoot 7-, 8-, 9-under, although it can play pretty difficult.”

For Thomas, staying patient and believing that the putts would eventually start to drop for him this week is a microcosm of the patience he’s striving for  as he tries to re-discover the magic of his five-win season in 2017.

“It’s easy to be frustrated with it, but usually when you’re frustrated, you force things or want things to start happening,” he said. “I feel like I’m really close to playing some good golf and getting on a run and winning some tournaments.”

He added, “You just have to be in the right frame of mind for it to happen. I can’t be all pissed off and moping around the golf course and somehow expect things to start going my way. I just have to stay in that positive frame of mind, so that way when it does happen I’m expecting it.”

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A year after his debut PGA Tour win, Sam Burns shoots to top of the leaderboard at Valspar Championship

From the parking lot to the golf course, the defending champion is feeling right at home this week.

PALM HARBOR, Fla. – Sam Burns arrived at Innisbrook Resort, home of this week’s Valspar Championship, late Monday night and noticed his face on everything from banners to billboards to hotel keys. The defending champion’s mug is seemingly everywhere, and he even got a custom paint job on his parking spot.

“I don’t know who did it but they did a fantastic job with the eye of the Tiger there and then the state of Louisiana for the L in LSU,” he said. “Really well thought out, they did a great job.”

They may be able to re-use the same signs next year if Burns keeps burning up the Copperhead Course. The 25-year-old Louisiana native made birdie on his final two holes to shoot 7-under 64 and tie for the opening-round lead with Venezuela’s Jhonattan Vegas, former Valspar champion Adam Hadwin, who birdied four of his final five holes, and rookie David Lipsky.

Burns birdied half the holes, recording four deuces on the scorecard, including stuffing his tee shot at both the par-3 13th and 17th holes to 2 feet, and three of the four par 5s.

Vegas went out early and fired 7-under 64, which included a 4-iron to 6-feet that set up eagle at the first hole, his 10th of the day. Vegas made an early exit from the Players Championship last week despite playing in the good wave that didn’t have to battle with the worst of the weather.

“But I still screwed up 17,” said Vegas of his second-round 78 at TPC Sawgrass.

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He switched to an old set of Mizuno MP-4 irons and found the Copperhead Course more to his liking. Vegas, who hasn’t notched a single top-10 finish this season, gained nearly two strokes on the field with his iron play and more than 3 ½ with his putter.

“Exactly what I needed after last week. Game was there. I took advantage of the great conditions this morning,” Vegas said. “Absolutely a perfect day out here. So, yeah, lucky to have shot a nice 64.”

On a sunny day with mild winds and soft greens from recent storms, the field painted the scoreboard red with birdies galore. Eighty-nine players in the field, including amateur Jackson Suber of Ole Miss, broke par.

“While I was in the scoring tent, everyone is like, that was the craziest 7-under we’ve ever seen,” Lipsky said. “I just sort of did everything that you’re supposed to do, and then when that happens you play well.”

Danny Lee, Scott Stallings and Richy Werenski were among a group a stroke back of the leaders after 6-under 65s.

“I always like this place,” Lee said. “I wish I can play like this every day. But it’s nice to play under normal conditions again, the last two weeks have been brutally tough and mentally and physically.”

Justin Thomas is among the players who arrived weary from a long start-stop week that stretched into Monday at the Players. He said he slept nearly 10 hours ahead of his Thursday afternoon tee time.

“I woke up and played like a zombie,” said Thomas, who couldn’t buy a putt early on and was even par through his first 10 holes. “I was rolling it exactly where I wanted to and just burning the edge and lipping out some of them.”

His caddie, Jim “Bones” Mackay, advised him to stay patient.

“If we can just get this lid to come off, some of them might start going in,” Thomas said.

He did just that in a big way. Thomas lofted a high-cut 3-wood from 252 yards at the par-5 14th that stopped 64 feet beyond the hole and then drained the putt. It was the third-longest made putt of his PGA Tour career.

“Clearly you’ve been hitting it too close to the hole today,” playing competitor Kevin Kisner teased.

Thomas’s ball-striking was on point. He led the field in Strokes Gained: Approach the green and SG: Tee to Green, but ranked 114th in putting, losing more than a stroke to the field despite making the bomb at 14. Thomas knocked a 9-iron inside 2 feet at No. 16 for another birdie to play the three-hole stretch starting at 14 in 4 under and signed for 66.

“The greens are very difficult to read, they are very subtle,” Thomas said. “They are always going to be a little bit more chewed up in the afternoon, so, we’ll get some fresh ones tomorrow morning and maybe we’ll fill it up.”

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2022 Valspar Championship Friday tee times, TV and streaming info

Everything you need to know for the second round of the 2022 Valspar Championship.

After a wild week at TPC Sawgrass for its flagship event, the PGA Tour concludes the Florida swing this week near Tampa.

Innisbrook Resort’s Copperhead course in Palm Harbor, Florida, plays host once again for the 2022 Valspar Championship, with five of the top-10 players in the world in the field.

After the first round there’s a four-way tie atop the leaderboard, with defending champion Sam Burns, Jhonattan Vegas, Adam Hadwin and David Lipsky all at 7 under.

From tee times to TV and streaming info, here’s everything you need to know for the second round of the 2022 Valspar Championship. All times Eastern.

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Tee times

Tee Time Players
7:40 a.m. Brian Stuard, Tommy Gainey, Henrik Norlander
7:51 a.m. Scott Stallings, Wyndham Clark, Hayden Buckley
8:02 a.m. James Hahn, John Huh, Mark Hensby
8:13 a.m. Joel Dahmen, Michael Thompson, Andrew Landry
8:24 a.m. Brian Gay, Richy Werenski, William McGirt
8:35 a.m. Martin Laird, Webb Simpson, Francesco Molinari
8:46 a.m. Nick Taylor, Sung Kang, Charley Hoffman
8:57 a.m. Adam Hadwin, Charl Schwartzel, Lee Hodges
9:08 a.m. Vaughn Taylor, Matt Wallace, Brandon Hagy
9:19 a.m. Joseph Bramlett, Seth Reeves, Paul Barjon
9:30 a.m. Kurt Kitayama, Taylor Moore, Andrew McCain
9:41 a.m. Max McGreevy, Curtis Thompson, Jackson Suber
12:30 p.m. Andrew Putnam, Chesson Hadley, Kelly Kraft
12:41 p.m. Sean O’Hair, Trey Mullinax, Roger Sloan
12:52 p.m. Scott Piercy, Jhonattan Vegas, Sam Ryder
1:03 p.m. Dustin Johnson, Bubba Watson, Jason Day
1:14 p.m. Viktor Hovland, Abraham Ancer, Collin Morikawa
1:25 p.m. Jason Kokrak, Brooks Koepka, Louis Oosthuizen
1:36 p.m. Martin Trainer, Matt Kuchar, Patton Kizzire
1:47 p.m. J.T. Poston, Nate Lashley, Keegan Bradley
1:58 p.m. Alex Noren, Matt Fitzpatrick, Adam Schenk
2:09 p.m. Aaron Wise, Danny Lee, J.J. Spaun
2:20 p.m. Christiaan Bezuidenhout, Alex Smalley, Blake Kennedy
2:31 p.m. Brandon Wu, Austin Smotherman, Alex Fitzpatrick

10th tee

Tee Time Players
7:40 a.m. Troy Merritt, Austin Cook, Vince Whaley
7:51 a.m. Kyle Stanley, Cameron Percy, Omar Uresti
8:02 a.m. Pat Perez, Martin Kaymer, Mito Pereira
8:13 a.m. Kevin Kisner, Justin Thomas, Carlos Ortiz
8:24 a.m. Shane Lowry, Graeme McDowell, Henrik Stenson
8:35 a.m. Sam Burns, Gary Woodland, Xander Schauffele
8:46 a.m. Robert Streb, Tyrrell Hatton, Adam Long
8:57 a.m. Russell Knox, Tommy Fleetwood, Harold Varner III
9:08 a.m. Brian Harman, Emiliano Grillo, Harry Higgs
9:19 a.m. Sahith Theegala, David Lipsky, Bernd Wiesberger
9:30 a.m. Matthias Schwab, Davis Riley, Greg Koch
9:41 a.m. Adam Svensson, Andrew Novak, Luke Guthrie
12:30 p.m. Peter Malnati, Bronson Burgoon, Kramer Hickok
12:41 p.m. Cameron Tringale, Denny McCarthy, Matthew NeSmith
12:52 p.m. Brice Garnett, Seung-Yul Noh, Hank Lebioda
1:03 p.m. Stewart Cink, Jim Herman, Davis Love III
1:14 p.m. Brendon Todd, Lanto Griffin, Zach Johnson
1:25 p.m. Wesley Bryan, Jimmy Walker, Danny Willett
1:36 p.m. Branden Grace, Tyler Duncan, Luke Donald
1:47 p.m. Ryan Brehm, Chez Reavie, C.T. Pan
1:58 p.m. Jonas Blixt, Bill Haas, Kiradech Aphibarnrat
2:09 p.m. Mackenzie Hughes, Kevin Streelman, Doc Redman
2:20 p.m. Stephan Jaeger, Greyson Sigg, Callum Tarren
2:31 p.m. Chad Ramey, Dylan Wu, Kevin Yu

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Friday, March 18

TV

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Radio

SiriusXM: 12-6 p.m.

STREAM

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Saturday, March 19

TV

Golf Channel: 1-3 p.m.
NBC: 3-6 p.m.

Radio

SiriusXM: 1-6 p.m.

STREAM

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Sunday, March 20

TV

Golf Channel: 1-3 p.m.
NBC: 3-6 p.m.

Radio

SiriusXM: 1-6 p.m.

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No St. Patrick’s Day luck of the Irish for Brooks Koepka, just a ‘stress-free’ 67 to start the Valspar Championship

“I thought the first five holes were actually pretty bad luck,” Koepka said.

PALM HARBOR, Fla. – When his tee shot splashed into the water last Saturday at the iconic par-3 17th hole at TPC Sawgrass for the second time in three hours, Brooks Koepka could only laugh.

“Bad luck,” he said.

Gary Player famously said it’s better to be lucky than good. But on St. Patrick’s Day, Koepka said good fortune still wasn’t by his side despite having Northern Irishman Ricky Elliott on the bag.

“I thought the first five holes were actually pretty bad luck,” Koepka said.

Nonetheless, the 31-year-old four-time major champion jumped out to a solid start, shooting a bogey-free 4-under 67 at Innisbrook Resort’s Copperhead Course.

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Koepka was one of several players that were blown away by gusting winds last Saturday at the Players Championship. On Monday, Koepka went out to hit balls and the wind was blowing 15 miles per hour.

“It felt dead calm,” he said.

On Thursday, red figures were prominent as the wind laid down and soft conditions from rain earlier in the week took some of the bite out of the Copperhead Course.

“I thought I played really solid and didn’t do much wrong,” Koepka said. “Stress-free. Three more of those, I should be right there.”

For Koepka, it’s better to be good than lucky. He was in good company at 67 with the likes of fellow major winners Dustin Johnson, Louis Oosthuizen and Stewart Cink.

They are all chasing Jhonattan Vegas, who has headcovers adorned with the flag of his native Venezuela. Vegas fired 7-under 64, which included a 4-iron to 6-feet that set up eagle at the first hole, his 10th of the day. Vegas made an early exit from the Players despite playing in the good wave that didn’t have to battle the worst of the weather.

“But I still screwed up 17,” said Vegas of his second-round 78 at TPC Sawgrass.

He switched back to an old set of Mizuno MP-4 irons and found the Copperhead Course more to his liking. Vegas, who hasn’t recorded a single top-10 finish this season, gained more than two strokes on the field with his iron play and more than 3 ½ with his putter.

“Exactly what I needed after last week. Game was there. I took advantage of the great conditions this morning,” Vegas said. “Absolutely a perfect day out here. So, yeah, lucky to have shot a nice 64.”

Luck of the Venezuelan, indeed.

Vegas was a stroke better than Danny Lee, who birdied four of the first five holes en route to shooting 6-under 65. Lee Hodges started even better than Lee, making birdie on his first five holes (Nos. 10-14) to become the first player since the ShotLink era (since 2003) to birdie the first five holes of a round at the Valspar Championship. Greyson Sigg tied Vegas at 7-under until he made a triple bogey at the last hole. But Lee summed up the general sentiment of the field on a day when there was a run of red figures.

“I always like this place. Tee to green it just suits my eye very well,” Lee said. “I wish I can play like this every day. But it’s nice to play under normal conditions again, the last two weeks have been brutally tough and mentally and physically.”

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Charl Schwartzel helicopters club in frustration during first round of Valspar Championship

It’s always fun to see a club throw on the PGA Tour.

We’ve all been there.

And if you say you haven’t, you’re lying.

We don’t see it very often on the PGA Tour, but when it happens, it’s absolutely glorious.

Charl Schwartzel hit his tee shot on the par-3 15th during the first round of the Valspar Championship and obviously didn’t like the outcome. He took a few gather steps toward the green, like a centerfielder looking to gun someone down at the plate, and then let it fly like Tom Brady over the middle to Rob Gronkowski.

The form was impeccable. The carry distance was impressive. Just an overall well-executed club toss from the South African.

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The triple-bogey 6 he made on the par-3 13th probably had something to do with this outburst — just a thought.

But then, he bounces back!

How’s this six-hole stretch sound: Birdie, birdie, triple-bogey, par, bogey, eagle.

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