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John Deere Classic 2024 Sunday final round tee times, how to watch PGA Tour coverage

TPC Deere Run takes centerstage in the golf world for the July 4th holiday week.

Davis Thompson holds a two-shot lead at 21 under over Eric Cole and Aaron Rai after 54 holes of the 2024 John Deere Classic at TPC Deere Run in Silvis, Illinois. Thompson and Rai both finished second to Cam Davis last week at the Rocket Mortgage Classic.

Hayden Springer and C.T. Pan sit at 17 under and in a tie for fourth, four shots back of the lead.

TPC Deere Run, a par 71 that will play 7,289 yards this week, was designed by D.A. Weibring and Chris Gay. It opened in 2000.

This week’s winner will go home with $1.44 million of the $8 million purse and 500 FedEx Cup points.

Here’s everything you need to know for the final round of the John Deere Classic. All times listed are ET.

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Sunday tee times

How to watch, stream the 2024 John Deere Classic

Sunday, June 30

Golf Channel/Peacock: 1-3 p.m

CBS: 3-6 p.m.

Sirius XM: 1-6 p.m

ESPN+: 8 a.m.-6 p.m

Jordan Spieth said TPC Deere Run can be ‘one of the easiest ones we play,’ then went out and fired a 63

There’s a soft spot in Jordan Spieth’s heart for TPC Deere Run, the site of his first PGA Tour win.

There’s certainly a soft spot in Jordan Spieth’s heart for TPC Deere Run, the site of the Texan’s first PGA Tour win back in 2013. Two years later, Spieth won a second John Deere Classic.

And with that track record of success in Silvis, Illinois, it’s not surprising Spieth would consider the course one for the taking, a thought he backed up after shooting a 67 on Friday.

“It’s one of the probably bottom-half easier golf courses. It’s a great golf course. When it’s soft it’s one of the easiest ones we play,” Spieth said after his second round. “Yeah, I can make a move, but everyone is going to make a move. So I will try and beat the field average by four or five shots, but that is going to take shooting 8- or 9-under.

“So it’s not like it’s a walk in the park. You still have to hit nice shots.”

During Saturday’s third round, Spieth did exactly what he said he’d need to do, using a white-hot front nine to fire a 63 and get back into the tournament after 54 holes. Spieth sits at 14 under and while he’s not at the top of the leaderboard, he can see it from where he’s sitting. It marked his best round of the 2024 PGA Tour season.

After a birdie on the par-5 second, Spieth made five consecutive birdies on Nos. 4-8 and made the turn with a 6-under 29. Thanks to two more circles on 10 and 12, Spieth was officially put on 59 watch. But, a bogey on the 13th halted his momentum and he’d go on to play his final five holes at 1 under to cement his 8-under 63.

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“I would like to just improve on my back nine score tomorrow from today’s,” Spieth told the media after signing his card. “You know, so that’s certainly something as I make the turn regardless what I do on the front I’ll be sitting there going, man, I want to shoot the 4-under I felt like I should have shot yesterday.”

His previous nine starts coming into this week have been a struggle. Spieth missed three cuts and finished inside the top 40 just three times. But, he’s always loved links golf and he heads across the pond after the John Deere for the Scottish Open and The Open. If he’s found something in his game, he might be a good bet at The Renaissance Club and Royal Liverpool.

The charge pushed him up 46 spots and for a brief spell into a tie for the lead before the bogey on 13. When asked about having a lull on the back nine, Spieth insisted it was just a two-hole stretch.

“So really the lull was just those two holes, right? If I par there and birdie 14 from the position I was in I shoot 32 on the back and a 61. So anything is probably going to be a lull from a 29,” he said. “It was just those two that I wish I played over, but 14 just — both have to do with how soft the greens are. They made the shots somehow harder because the greens are softer from where I was.

“It’s a great golf course. The only downfall sometimes here is sometimes you hit some nice shots that just — someone can hit from a harder position and is end up being in a better spot. That’s golf. That kind of happens everywhere.”

This NFL running back joked about giving ‘Sepp Straka and Greyson Sigg a few pointers’ at pro-am

“Road to my Korn Ferry card coming soon,” he joked.

AJ Dillon might be on a summer break from football but the competitions haven’t stopped.

They just extended beyond the football field lately.

A couple weeks after the Packers’ gregarious player competed in a celebrity cornhole tournament through the American Cornhole League with teammate Carrington Valentine, Dillon entered another sports arena.

He was on the golf course.

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Dillon teamed with three others and was joined in an 18-hole round by pros Sepp Straka and Greyson Sigg for nine holes apiece.

“Such an unbelievable experience at the John Deere Classic,” Dillon noted on Instagram while featuring a video of his day.

Dillon had a good laugh when he wrote in the post that “it was awesome to be able to give Sepp Straka and Greyson Sigg a few pointers on how to play well at this course.”

“I can’t wait until next year,” Dillon added.

We should have seen this coming for Dillon.

He recently played at Whistling Straits in Kohler, Wisconsin, a course that has hosted multiple major championships and the Ryder Cup over the last two decades.

Football and life off it have worked out pretty well for Dillon, but now he has some connections in the golf world to his ever-growing portfolio.

“Road to my Korn Ferry card coming soon,” Dillon joked again, referencing the U.S.-based developmental tour.

Dillon will turn in his golf clubs for his football pads when the Packers training camp begins July 22. That means he still has a couple weeks to take that vacation that teammate Keisean Nixon told him to take after watching a video of Dillon running the stairs inside an empty Lambeau Field last month.

Dillon, drafted by the Packers in 2020, re-signed with the team this offseason.

Tee times, groupings, TV info for 2024 John Deere Classic Saturday third round at TPC Deere Run

TPC Deere Run takes centerstage in the golf world for the July 4th holiday week.

Aaron Rai and C.T. Pan are tied for the lead at the halfway mark of the 2024 John Deere Classic at TPC Deere Run in Silvis, Illinois. Rai and Pan each shot 6-under 65s on Thursday followed by 8-under 63s on Friday.

Harry Hall is alone in third at 13 under, while there are 17 players at or within three shots of the lead.

TPC Deere Run, a par 71 that will play 7,289 yards this week, was designed by D.A. Weibring and Chris Gay. It opened in 2000.

This week’s winner will go home with $1.44 million of the $8 million purse and 500 FedEx Cup points.

Here’s everything you need to know for the third round of the John Deere Classic. All times listed are ET.

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Saturday tee times

How to watch, stream the 2024 John Deere Classic

Saturday, June 29

Golf Channel/Peacock: 1-3 p.m

CBS: 3-6 p.m.

Sirius XM: 1-6 p.m

ESPN+: 8 a.m.-6 p.m

Sunday, June 30

Golf Channel/Peacock: 1-3 p.m

CBS: 3-6 p.m.

Sirius XM: 1-6 p.m

ESPN+: 8 a.m.-6 p.m

A year after driving all night to play a mini-tour event, Eric Cole is hot again at the 2024 John Deere Classic

It wasn’t too long ago that a $20,000 payday would have kept Eric Cole’s golf dreams alive.

It wasn’t long ago that a $20,000 payday was the kind that kept Eric Cole’s dreams of playing professional golf alive.

Now, the reigning PGA Tour Rookie of the Year has a little different comfort level when it comes to his finances. After posting seven top-10 finishes this season, Cole has already made over $2 million in 2024 and he’s currently near the top 50 in the FedEx Cup standings, meaning the prospect of more big paychecks is well within range.

And after firing a 62 in the opening round of the John Deere Classic on Thursday, Cole followed with a workmanlike 68 on Friday, staying just behind leaders C.T. Pan and Aaron Rai after the early wave. He’s 12 under through 36 holes.

But a year ago at this time, while in the throes of his rookie year on Tour, Cole drove through the night, after playing 10 straight weeks, to play in a mini-tour event that had once kept him afloat. The final Frank B. Fuhrer Jr. Invitational was held in 2023 after the tournament’s namesake died.

Cole, who won the event in 2014 at a time when he had to put tournament entry fees on a credit card, never forgot how important the event was in his development. A year ago, he drove nearly eight hours after playing the Travelers Championship to Pittsburgh Field Club in Western Pennsylvania.

“That one was really impactful for me in continuing my dream of playing the PGA Tour,” he said on Friday. “I thought it was really important to be there, and it had a huge impact on me continuing my dream of playing the PGA Tour. With it being the last edition it felt like the right thing to do and an important spot to be.”

It’s that kind of mentality that’s helped Cole remain grounded through any hiccups he’s had on Tour. After a stretch of three straight missed cuts in late May and early June, Cole rebounded by making the weekend at both the Memorial and this year’s Travelers, and then finished sixth last week at the Rocket Mortgage Classic in Detroit.

“I feel unbelievably lucky to be out here on Tour. I think that’s probably why I play as much as I do. So it’s just a great spot to be playing, and I like I said, I’m very fortunate and lucky to be out here, so I try and play as much as I can,” he said. “I don’t think about it too much. I’m definitely, like I said, very thankful. I’ve played golf in a lot of places and taken a long road to be here, so happy to be here.”

Last year was his breakout year, one in which he turned 35. He played 37 events with seven top 10s, including two seconds. One of those was the Honda Classic (now Cognizant Classic in the Palm Beaches) where he lost a playoff to Chris Kirk.

All of that resulted in Cole capturing the Tour’s Rookie of the Year, 50 years after his mom, Laura Baugh, won the same award on the LPGA Tour. He was the second-oldest player to be named top rookie behind Todd Hamilton, who was 39 when he won in 2004. The Rookie of the Year Award was established in 1990.

On Friday, he stayed steady, even holing out from the bunker on his penultimate hole for an unconventional birdie.

Cole knows this next stretch is pivotal — a big run in the Quad Cities could put him in good position for the FedEx Cup Playoffs, and set up 2025 to potentially get into signature events next season.

But a year after he drove through the night to play a mini-tour event (which he won and then donated the $20,000 winnings back to the family for charitable causes), Cole is still aware that he’s been one of the lucky ones, and he hopes his story can be an inspiration for those with whom he played on smaller tours for years.

“I’m still friends with a lot of guys that play mini-tours. I check on their scores all the time and see how they’re doing. Hopefully, they see how I’m doing and realize that it’s not that big of a difference between what they’re doing and what I’m doing now,” he said. “Hopefully, it’s kind of like maybe some light at the end of the tunnel or something to where they’re not that far from being out here and competing on the PGA Tour.

“Playing mini-tour golf and maybe some bad golf in there teaches you a lot of things about yourself and everything like that. So it’s taught me a lot. Everything I am today is probably because of a lot of those experiences.”

4th of July fireworks: Hayden Springer shoots 59 to grab the lead at John Deere Classic

“It’s like something you dream of, right?”

The fireworks started early for Hayden Springer on the 4th of July.

The PGA Tour rookie shot 27 on the front nine, pitched in for eagle at 17 and made birdie at the last to shoot 59 at TPC Deere Run in Silvis, Illinois, in the first round of the John Deere Classic. He became the first player in Tour history to play his final two holes in 3-under par en route to a sub-60, the second player in three weeks to shoot 59 on Tour and the 13th different player to shoot a sub-60 round in Tour history.

“It’s like something you dream of, right?” Springer said, noting he was still shaking during his post-round interview. “We all want to go out and shoot 59. You don’t ever really — I don’t know how many chances I’ll ever get at doing that again.To pull it off and hole that shot on 17 and give myself a putt at it and make the putt on 18 was pretty special.”

Springer, 28, shot two strokes better than Sami Valimaki, who finished with a trio of birdies, and three better than Harry Hall, who shot a bogey-free 63. Preferred lies were in effect on Thursday due to wet conditions at TPC Deere Run and conditions were ideal for low scoring at a course that has a reputation for being a birdie-fest.

Springer went out in 27 on the front nine, including a stretch where he made a 13-foot eagle at the second and four straight birdies.

“It just seemed like I made every putt I looked at on the front nine,” said Springer, who took just 21 putts in all and holed 112 feet, 6 inches of putts.

When his 20-foot birdie putt from the fringe dropped at No. 6, he said he started to think this had the makings of a special round.

“That putt going in was kind of the trigger of, OK, like we might be able to go super low,” he said.

But Springer, who added birdies at Nos. 8 and 9 to post the lowest front nine in tournament history at TPC Deere Run, cooled off with pars on the first five holes on the back nine, including having to work hard to do so on Nos. 12 and 14 to keep his card clean. He tacked on another birdie at 15, but it was the hole out from 55 yards in the left rough at 17 for his second eagle of the day that got the juices flowing for Springer.

“It landed right where we were looking, just short left, and happened to go in,” he said. “I didn’t ever think I would make that shot really, but it kind of changed the momentum to actually be able to go shoot 59. I immediately knew, OK, now I have a chance.”

He stuck his approach at 18 to 13 feet and poured in the putt to post 12-under 59 and join an exclusive club — though its membership has been growing. Cameron Young shot 59 in the third round of the Travelers Championship two weeks ago and 11 of the 59s or better have come since 2010. Springer merely tied the course record because 5,110 days ago Paul Goydos shot 59 at TPC Deere Run in the first round of the 2010 John Deere Classic. TPC Deere Run became the third course to surrender to sub-60s, joining TPC River Highlands (Jim Furyk’s 58 and Young’s 59) and The Old White TPC (Stuart Appleby and Kevin Chappell).

In November, Springer and his wife endured the death of their three-year-old daughter, Sage, to a rare genetic disorder. In the midst of grieving, Springer earned the last of five cards available at PGA Tour Q-School to make it to the big leagues for the first time. His rookie season has had its pitfalls. Springer had missed six straight cuts before finishing T-10 last week at the Rocket Mortgage Classic and entered the week ranked No. 127 in the FedEx Cup point standings. Asked to name what’s been the difference in his game of late, he credited Rosey Bartlett, who has coached him since he was six years old at his home club, Trophy Club Country Club, near Dallas.

“I took a little break from her for a couple years and then before last week, these last six tournaments missing those cuts I felt like I needed to get something going,” he said, noting it was mostly related to his setup. “She straightened me out a little bit and helped me get back to some feels that worked in the past. You know, so that’s made a little bit of a difference.”

Kid therapy at Kevin Kisner’s mountain home has given Kevin Chappell renewed mindset for John Deere Classic

What magic did Chappell find between his last start and Thursday? Let’s call it kid therapy.

After digging himself into a hole with an opening-round 75 at the RBC Canadian Open in late May, Kevin Chappell went on to miss the cut, marking the fourth time in his last five PGA Tour starts he’d failed to reach the weekend.

These have been trying times for Chappell, now 37, as the UCLA product has slipped from a career-best Official World Golf Ranking of 23rd back in 2017 — after winning the Valero Texas Open — to his current place at No. 458.

But there he was on Thursday at the John Deere Classic in Silvis, Illinois, opening the day with birdies on four of his first seven holes and carding a 64 to put his name near the top of the leaderboard at TPC Deere Run.

So what magic did Chappell find between his last start nearly five weeks ago and Thursday?

Let’s call it kid therapy.

Chappell, who has children ages three, seven and nine, spent a couple of weeks as a guest at the mountain home of buddy Kevin Kisner, a fellow member of the 2017 Presidents Cup team. While the two families spent one full week together, the Kisners left their two kids behind for some of the second week, giving Chappell and his wife Elizabeth time to soak in five little ones all under 10 years old.

The move seems to have cleared his mind. And the move helped Kisner, who opened with a 68 on Thursday.

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But Chappell, who mixed a total of seven birdies into a bogey-free round on Thursday, said his kids are a driving force behind his desire to get back near the top.

“It’s my job, so it’s how I feed my family. I think I am driven right now by having my kids getting older. A lot of my success happened when they were young and they don’t have memories of it,” he said. “I would love for them to have memories of Dad playing good golf, not packing the car up on Fridays. I think that’s what drives me right now. Continue to provide, do something I really enjoy. I am getting to live my dream. 30 years of this, getting to play professional golf or work towards playing professional golf.

“So even the bad days can’t be that bad. That’s the ultimate goal, is to show them that hard work pays off and there could be success there, especially though there have been years where there hasn’t been.”

Chappell will need to keep the birdie train rolling to compete for a title at TPC John Deere, where low scores are often the norm. Although Thursday’s round was his second-lowest of the season (he fired a 63 in the final round of the CJ Cup), reigning champion Sepp Straka won last year’s event with a 62 on Sunday.

And there’s more at stake than just a payday in the Quad Cities. Two spots are available into the 152nd Open. The top players, not otherwise exempt, who make the cut at the John Deere Classic will earn an exemption to Royal Troon.

“I’m still out here to win, out here to compete. I generally feel as good as I have felt in years, and think my best golf could be ahead of me because of that. I just haven’t seen it,” he said. “It’s hard to hold onto that hope when you’re not seeing the results. Rounds like today are great. I played a good final round at the CJ Cup, which felt like I was going to have some momentum and haven’t seen any momentum since then.

“But a good round today is awesome, and something to build off and something I can really feel like can project me forward into some good results.”

Photos: 2024 John Deere Classic at TPC Deere Run

This year marks the 25th year of John Deere’s partnership with the PGA Tour.

The 2024 John Deere Classic has returned to TPC Deere Run. This year marks the 25th year of John Deere’s partnership with the PGA Tour. It’s the second-longest title sponsorship after AT&T at Pebble Beach.

The golf course opened in 2000 and will play as a par 71 at 7,289 yards.

The JDC is the 30th event of the regular season and is part of The Open Qualifying Series which means two players not already qualified can play their way into the 152nd Open at Royal Troon.

Jason Day and Jordan Spieth headline the field. Defending champion Sepp Straka is there as well.

Take a look at some photos of TPC Deere Run for the 2024 John Deere Classic.

350 starts ago, Jason Day debuted on PGA Tour at the John Deere Classic, where he ‘stayed down at the Super 8 hotel somewhere’

“This was my first start as a professional golfer. I still remember it.”

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Jason Day and Jordan Spieth are both making return visits to the John Deere Classic after extended periods away.

Day, in particular, last played it in 2011 but his first time to TPC Deere Run was 18 years ago, or to put it another way, 350 starts ago, which made it his PGA Tour debut.

“Yeah, this was my first start as a professional golfer. I still remember it,” he said Wednesday ahead of the 2024 rendition of the event. “Actually, I think we might have stayed down at the Super 8 hotel somewhere.”

Needless to say, golf’s been good to Day, who has gone on to win 13 times on Tour and along the way he became one of 11 golfers to surpass the $60 million mark in career earnings. Needless to say, his Super 8 days are now a thing of the past, but the memories certainly stick.

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“My caddie at the time, Colin, you walk into his room and it had a heart-shaped bathtub right next to the bed. It was like high rent stuff back then,” Day said.

“I tried to come back a couple years ago and my back didn’t allow me to,” he continued. “It’s nice to be back. I know Clair Peterson [former tournament director] way back in the day, you know, 18 years ago, was nice enough to give me my first start here, and I’ve always enjoyed the people and the golf tournament. John Deere has been a special partner to the PGA Tour for a long time, so it’s nice to go over those stories from 18 years ago.”

John Deere is celebrating its 25th year with the Tour in 2024.

Day confirmed that he is not, in fact, back at the Super 8 but instead staying in his motorcoach with his family.

As for the on-course stuff, Day says this week is the beginning of a serious ramp-up to his season, which has tailed off lately. He has four top-10s in 2024 but three of those were back in January and February.

“I think I need a little bit of a spark to try and get something going here,” he said. “Obviously coming into the heavy part of the season. We’ve only got seven tournaments left for the year. Guys that are looking, on the outside looking in on the FedEx [Playoffs], it’s kind of crunch time for them.

“Me personally, I’m looking to try and find the good play that I had at the start of the year and try and replicate that through my end part of my year. I’ve got a busy schedule after this. Kind of goes week on here at John Deere and week off and then the Open Championship, week off, Olympics, week off, then the Playoffs. So it’s stop and start, but it’s pretty condensed. Feels like it’s been a pretty full on year so far.”

Tee times, groupings, TV info for 2024 John Deere Classic Thursday first round at TPC Deere Run

TPC Deere Run takes centerstage in the golf world for the July 4th holiday week.

It’s the only game in town this week.

With the LPGA, PGA Tour Champions and LIV Golf all off, the John Deere Classic takes center stage in the golf world on its own during this July 4th holiday week.

TPC Deere Run, a par-71 that will play 7,289 yards this week for the 156 players in the field, was designed by D.A. Weibring and Chris Gay. It opened in 2000.

The top names in the field this week are Jordan Spieth and Jason Day. Spieth won the tournament in 2013 and 2015 but hasn’t been back since. Day’s last visit was 2011.

Also in the field in Silvis, Illinois: Joel Dahmen, Nick Dunlap, Harry Higgs, Sungjae Im, Denny McCarthy, Keith Mitchell and Jake Knapp.

Patrick Cantlay was originally listed in the field but he has since withdrawn. Russell Knox gets his spot.

Thursday tee times

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The first groups will tee off at the 1st and 10th tee at 7:45 a.m. ET.

How to watch, stream the 2024 John Deere Classic

Thursday, July 4

Golf Channel/Peacock: 4-7 p.m.

Sirius XM: 1-7 p.m

ESPN+: 7:45 a.m.-7 p.m

Friday, June 28

Golf Channel/Peacock: 4-7 p.m.

Sirius XM: 12-6 p.m

ESPN+: 7:45 a.m.-7 p.m

Saturday, June 29

Golf Channel/Peacock: 1-3 p.m

CBS: 3-6 p.m.

Sirius XM: 1-6 p.m

ESPN+: 8 a.m.-6 p.m

Sunday, June 30

Golf Channel/Peacock: 1-3 p.m

CBS: 3-6 p.m.

Sirius XM: 1-6 p.m

ESPN+: 8 a.m.-6 p.m