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Arnold Palmer Invitational: Thursday tee times, TV and streaming info

From tee times to TV and streaming info, here’s everything you need to know for Thursday’s opening round of the Arnold Palmer Invitational.

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For the second consecutive week the PGA Tour is in Florida as it makes its annual stop at Arnie’s place.

Bay Hill Club and Lodge in Orlando, Florida, plays host this week to the 2021 Arnold Palmer Invitational. Seven of the top 15 players in the Golfweek/Sagarin men’s ranking are in the field, making for plenty of worthy fantasy golf picks.

Marquee groups include: Max Homa, Patrick Reed and Billy Horschel (12:45 p.m., No. 1); Viktor Hovland, Rickie Fowler, Jason Day (12:57 p.m., No. 1); Tyrrell Hatton, Rory McIlroy and Francesco Molinari (8:06 a.m., No. 10); Bryson DeChambeau, Justin Rose and Jordan Spieth (8:17 a.m., No. 10).

From tee times to TV info here’s everything you need to know for the first round of the Arnold Palmer Invitational. All times Eastern.

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Round 1

1st tee

Time Players
7 a.m. Sam Burns, Robby Shelton, Bo Hoag
7:11 a.m. Matt Every, Luke List, Bernd Wiesberger
7:22 a.m. Henrik Norlander, Sepp Straka, Tyler McCumber
7:33 a.m. Robert Streb, Hudson Swafford, Andrew Putnam
7:44 a.m. Jason Kokrak, Jason Dufner, Steve Stricker
7:55 a.m. Tyler Duncan, Brendan Steele, Danny Willett
8:06 a.m. Cameron Champ, Chez Reavie, Hideki Matsuyama
8:17 a.m. Nick Taylor, Lanto Griffin, Patton Kizzire
8:28 a.m. Adam Hadwin, Chris Kirk, Tom Hoge
8:39 a.m. Cameron Tringale, Tommy Fleetwood, Alex Noren
8:50 a.m. Matt Wallace, Kramer Hickok, Matthias Schmid
11:40 a.m. Lucas Glover, Patrick Rodgers, Doc Redman
11:51 a.m. Rory Sabbatini, Wyndham Clark, Will Zalatoris
12:02 p.m. Charley Hoffman, Matt Jones, Lee Westwood
12:13 p.m. Graeme McDowell, Paul Casey, Keith Mitchell
12:24 p.m. Kevin Na, Shane Lowry, Ian Poulter
12:35 p.m. Branden Grace, Harris English, Matthew Fitzpatrick
12:46 p.m. Max Homa, Patrick Reed, Billy Horschel
12:57 p.m. Viktor Hovland, Rickie Fowler, Jason Day
1:08 p.m. Camilo Villegas, Erik van Rooyen, Robert MacIntyre
1:19 p.m. Kristoffer Ventura, Jazz Janewattananond, Kamaiu Johnson

10th tee

Time Players
7 a.m. Kyle Stanley, Talor Gooch, Victor Perez
7:11 a.m. Brian Stuard, Emiliano Grillo, Tim Herron
7:22 a.m. Harold Varner III, Kyoung-Hoon Lee, Maverick McNealy
7:33 a.m. Si Woo Kim, Jim Herman, Austin Cook
7:44 a.m. Brian Gay, Marc Leishman, Charles Howell III
7:55 a.m. Martin Laird, Brandt Snedeker, Aaron Wise
8:06 a.m. Tyrrell Hatton, Rory McIlroy, Francesco Molinari
8:17 a.m. Bryson DeChambeau, Justin Rose, Jordan Spieth
8:28 a.m. Louis Oosthuizen Denny McCarthy, Cameron Davis
8:39 a.m. Peter Malnati, John Huh, Cameron Percy
11:40 a.m. Mark Hubbard, Will Gordon, Christiaan Bezuidenhout
11:51 a.m. Charl Schwartzel, Byeong Hun An, Joel Dahmen
12:02 p.m. Danny Lee, Anirban Lahiri, Doug Ghim
12:13 p.m. Richy Werenski, Sung Kang, Kevin Kisner
12:24 p.m. Sebastián Muñoz, J.T. Poston, Adam Long
12:35 p.m. Brendon Todd, Dylan Frittelli, Henrik Stenson
12:46 p.m. C.T. Pan, Corey Conners, Zach Johnson
12:57 p.m. Sungjae Im, Keegan Bradley, Russell Knox
1:08 p.m. Padraig Harrington, Paul Goydos, Matthew NeSmith
1:19 p.m. Robert Gamez, Rod Perry, John Augenstein

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TV, radio information

Thursday, March 4

TV

Golf Channel (Watch for free on fuboTV): 2-6 p.m.

STREAMING

PGA Tour Live: 7 a.m.-6 p.m.

RADIO

PGA Tour Radio on SiriusXM: 12-6 p.m.

Friday, March 5

TV

Golf Channel (Watch for free on fuboTV): 2-6 p.m.

STREAMING

PGA Tour Live: 7 a.m.-6 p.m.

RADIO

PGA Tour Radio on SiriusXM: 12-6 p.m.

Saturday, March 6

TV

Golf Channel (Watch for free on fuboTV): 12:30-2:30 p.m.
NBC (Stream on CBS All Access): 2:30-6 p.m.

STREAMING

PGA Tour Live: 8 a.m.-6 p.m

RADIO

PGA Tour Radio on SiriusXM: 1-6 p.m.

Sunday, March 7

TV

Golf Channel (Watch for free on fuboTV): 12:30-2:30 p.m.
NBC (Stream on CBS All Access): 2:30-6 p.m.

STREAMING

PGA Tour Live: 8 a.m.-6 p.m.

RADIO

PGA Tour Radio on SiriusXM: 1-6 p.m.

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Sweepstakes offers unique golf experiences, like a round at Bay Hill with Johnny Damon

A new charity sweepstakes offers unique golf experiences, like a round at Bay Hill with Johnny Damon.

Eric Sedransk is at it again.

The man on Instagram known as @Member4aDay raised more than $100,000 over just eight days back in May by simply auctioning off rounds of golf at famous courses. That money provided more than 10,000 meals for frontline hospital workers in New York City.

Sedransk can’t sit still, so on Friday he launched a sweepstakes for the Johnny Damon Foundation in support of Athletes and Causes that runs until July 23. Entries are as low as $50, with an ultimate goal of $50,000.

If you’re a golf fan looking for a unique experience, check out the eight items on the table:

  • Round at Bay Hill with former MLB star Johnny Damon
  • Round at Baltusrol (Springfield Township, N.J.), host of 2016 PGA Championship
  • Round at Whippoorwill Golf Club (Armonk, N.Y.) with former New York Giants star Justin Tuck
  • One year membership at Dormie Network (Access to eight clubs, valued at $16,000)
  • Round at Philadelphia Cricket Club
  • Round at Maidstone Golf Club (East Hampton, N.Y.)
  • Round at Sleepy Hollow (Briarcliff Manor, N.Y.)

So if you’re feeling lucky, make your bids here.

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Arnold Palmer Cup postponed to December, relocated to U.S. venue due to coronavirus

The 2020 Arnold Palmer Cup has been postponed until December 21-23 and will be played at Bay Hill Lodge & Club in Orlando.

In light of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Arnold Palmer Cup originally scheduled for July 3-5 at Lahinch Golf Club in Ireland, will be postponed and rescheduled for December 21-23, 2020.

The competition also has shifted and will take place at Arnold Palmer’s Bay Hill Club & Lodge in Orlando, which hosted the inaugural playing of the Arnold Palmer Cup in 1997. Lahinch Golf Club will now host in 2024.

“We look forward to welcoming the top men and women collegiate golfers to Bay Hill,” said Amy Palmer Saunders. “My father would have wanted to find a way to honor their excellence in these unprecedented times and hosting the rescheduled Arnold Palmer Cup at Bay Hill will be a fitting way to do so. While we are disappointed not to visit Lahinch this summer, we are thrilled that Lahinch has agreed to host in 2024.”

The annual Ryder Cup-style competition features 12 male and female collegiate players from the United States against their International counterparts. Renowned for having been the winter home of Arnold Palmer, Bay Hill has been home to the PGA Tour’s Arnold Palmer Invitational since 1979. Arnold Palmer Cup alumni Francesco Molinari (2019) and Matt Every (2014-15) have claimed victory at Mr. Palmer’s tournament.

Padraig McInerney, tournament director at Lahinch Golf Club stated that “the postponement of this year’s Arnold Palmer Cup is perfectly understandable amidst this current pandemic. While it is a great disappointment for Lahinch Golf Club, its members and the entire local community we remain fully committed to the event and the wonderful concept of honoring young, talented golfers and, in doing so, providing them with the opportunity to experience international competition over some of the world’s great courses. We offer our congratulations to those honored with selection in 2020 and look forward to continuing our relationship with the Arnold & Winnie Palmer Foundation, college golf and to hosting the 2024 Arnold Palmer Cup.”

The final selection of team members was announced on March 27, but even then the growing coronavirus threat presented great concern for the viability of the matches. The guidance of leading public health authorities will dictate any further changes to the schedule.

Tyrrell Hatton loses his mind, but holds on to win Arnold Palmer Invitational

Tyrrell Hatton lost his mind before regaining his cool and survived the torture chamber that was Bay Hill for his maiden PGA Tour victory.

ORLANDO – During an interview at a golf tournament, Tyrrell Hatton was once asked what his stage name would be if he were to become a D.J.

“Head case Hatton,” he said without hesitation as he broke into laughter.

It would be a fitting nickname given that the 28-year-old Englishman has developed a reputation of being one swing away from self-combustion. Indeed, there were some testy moments for Hatton in the final round of the Arnold Palmer Invitational, including slamming his club, flipping the bird, and pointing his putter like a rifle and firing a pretend shot back in the general direction of a pond on the 11th hole where his ball found a watery grave. He wasn’t the only one whose patience was tested as Bay Hill Club & Lodge turned into a windy U.S. Open-like struggle. Only four golfers managed to break par for 72 holes.

Yet leave it to Hatton to keep his cool down the stretch as others faltered to hang on to win the Arnold Palmer Invitational by one stroke over Australian Marc Leishman. Juicy rough, greens as hard as cement and howling wind brought the field to its knees with Hatton the ultimate survivor, and winning his maiden PGA Tour title despite a 2-over 74 and a 72-hole total of 4-under 284.

“To hold on and win here at such an iconic venue,” Hatton said, “I’m over the moon.”

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How tough did Bay Hill play this year? Four-time major winner Brooks Koepka shot 81 on Saturday, the highest score of his career, on a day when the average score was 75.9. On Sunday, World No.1 Rory McIlroy, who started the day tied for second and two strokes back, came unglued on the front nine. Tied for the lead in the early going, he hit a bunker shot into a penalty area at No. 6 and hooked his tee shot out of bounds at nine en route to two double bogeys and stumbled to a front-nine 40. He finished T-5 after a 76.

“I stood up here yesterday saying that the key tomorrow was to keep the big numbers off your card and I made two of those today,” McIlroy said, “and that’s what cost me.”

“I can’t think of anywhere else that played as hard as this, really,” said Englishman Matthew Fitzpatrick, who finished T-9 after posting a 69 on Sunday, the only score of the weekend in the 60s.

Joel Dahmen summarized the feelings of everyone else when he said, “I’m so happy I’m done.”

Hatton, a four-time winner on the European Tour and the 54-hole leader, regained sole possession of the lead after two early bogeys when he stiffed his tee shot at the par-3 seventh hole to 2 feet and canned a 10-foot birdie at No. 8. He led by three strokes when he tugged his tee shot at 11 into the water, made double-bogey and had his melt down. But he closed with seven gritty pars when it mattered most.

“Of all the courses on the PGA Tour, this is the last one you’d pick if you had a two-shot lead your three to go,” said Leishman, who signed for 1-over 73. “So Tyrell never gave up. He did what he needed to do there at the end.”

“He’s good under the gun,” Graeme McDowell said. “He’s not scared.”

Honda Classic champion Sungjae Im, who was bidding to win for the second week in a row, shared the lead momentarily until he hit into the water at 13 and made double bogey. He shot 73 and finished at 2-under 286. Bryson DeChambeau made four birdies over the final seven holes and was the top American finisher in fourth at 1-under 287.

New Zealand’s Danny Lee (75) and Americans Keith Mitchell (71) and Dahmen (71), shared fifth place and earned spots in the British Open in July as the top three players in the top 10 and ties who weren’t already exempt for the season’s final major.

Hatton was making just his second start since having surgery on his right wrist, which he originally injured at the 2017 Masters when he slipped on the pine straw during the par-3 contest. He was sidelined for three months beginning in late November. When asked how he spent his downtime, he said, “I drank a lot of red wine and played Xbox. That was it.”

It should be quite the celebration now that Hatton is a winner on the PGA Tour.

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Blown away: Wind the winner Saturday at Arnold Palmer Invitational; Hatton leads by two

England’s Tyrrell Hatton birdied 18 to grab a two-stroke lead at the Arnold Palmer Invitational on a day when only one golfer broke par.

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ORLANDO – During the third round of the Arnold Palmer Invitational, winds huffed and puffed out of the south sending scores ballooning at Bay Hill Lodge & Club.

Eight golfers failed to break 80, including four-time major champion Brooks Koepka, who shot the highest score of his career. Only Max Homa, who shot 2-under 70, managed to break par of the 69 players that made the cut. Need more proof that it was a day of carnage? For the first time in six years, not a single golfer shot in the 60s. The average score of 75.9 is the highest here since the second round in 1983.

“It’s just hard. There’s really no other way of explaining it,” said Rickie Fowler, who posted 77. “I think a lot of people are sitting at home saying what they would do out here, but I wouldn’t wish it on any average or normal player to go try and play what we did out there.”

England’s Tyrrell Hatton overcame a double-bogey at the ninth, which dropped him two strokes behind, to card three birdies and two bogeys on the incoming nine and shoot 1-over 73 to take a two-stroke lead over Northern Ireland’s Rory McIlroy and Australia’s Marc Leishman, who are both former champions of this event.

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Hatton delivered an exclamation mark to his round by holing a 31-foot birdie putt at 18 and pumping his fist straight to the heavens.

“I don’t normally fist pump on a Saturday,” said Hatton, who signed for a 54-hole aggregate of 6-under 210. “I think it was more shock that the ball actually went in the hole and very relieved.”

Shell shock is more like what most of the field felt on a cool day when gusting winds dried out the greens and gave them a glassy shine.

“It was like putting on cement in your garage,” said Davis Love III, who has played in this event since 1986 and called it the toughest conditions he’s ever faced here.

“I’ve never seen it this windy three consecutive days,” said Harris English, who shot 74, and enters the final round among a quartet of players at 3-under 213. “Never seen the rough this high before.”

“It felt like a U.S. Open out there,” McIlroy said. “I’m trying to enjoy it as much as I can and as I said, just hanging around.”

Rory McIlroy walks off of the ninth green after lipping out his birdie putt during the third round of the Arnold Palmer Invitational. (Photo: Reinhold Matay-USA TODAY Sports)

At one point in the round, the top 12 players on the leaderboard had played the 11th hole in 13 over. When the scoreboard at the ninth hole flashed the day’s “hot rounds,” Homa, who made double at 18 to shoot 70, was the only round under par and he remained alone. Leishman, who won here in 2017, added up his score after the round and said he did a double take.

“It felt like I shot a 65, not a 72,” Leishman said.

How brutal was it? Through seven holes, Graeme McDowell and fellow competitor Hideki Matsuyama had each made a double bogey and four bogeys.

“People are paying to watch this, you know?” said McDowell’s caddie Ken Comboy, and McDowell, who rallied for 76, wasn’t ruling 85 out after his start.

“That’s really unsettling in itself,” he said. “It’s scary when you’re trying to shoot 60 and it’s scary when 90 is in the equation as well. Each is equally terrifying.”

Among the big numbers: triples at Nos. 11 and 18 for Sung Kang, who led by two at the turn and finished trailing by five; an 8 at 13 for Sam Burns, who is part of a logjam at even; and a quintuple-bogey double-bogey finish for Ryan Moore, who shot 82, and is ahead of only Rob Oppenheim, who signed for the highest score of the day, an 83.

“It’s such a difficult day to avoid the old skidmark on the scorecard,” NBC’s David Feherty said.

Hatton was among the lone survivors. He said it felt like a summer day in Scotland and he was pleased that he packed his jumper. The 28-year-old counts four European Tour wins on his resume, but is still seeking his first triumph on the PGA Tour. He knows there is much work still to be done before he can enjoy hoisting a trophy and slipping into the winner’s red cardigan.

“There’s doubles and triples just around the corner, so that two-shot lead can go extremely quickly,” he said. “Just got to see what happens. It’s, 18 holes is a lot of golf, and I’m sure it will be interesting to watch tomorrow.”

It sure was interesting on Saturday, that is if you’re the type of fan that tunes into the Indy 500 for the crashes.

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