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Safeway Open: Round 2 tee times, TV and streaming info

Check out the second-round pairings and tee times for the Safeway Open at Silverado Resort in Napa, California.

The 2020-21 PGA Tour season has officially begun.

Less than one week after Dustin Johnson won the Tour Championship in Atlanta, the Safeway Open is kicking off the new PGA Tour season in Napa, California.

During the first round of the Safeway Open at Silverado Resort & Spa’s North Course, Russell Knox took the early lead at 9 under after a bogey-free 63.

Knox leads Sam Burns, Bo Hoag and Cameron Percy by one shot and Brendan Steele and Pat Perez by two headed into the second round.

Take a look at the second-round tee times and where you can watch below.

Tee times

All times in Eastern

1st tee

Tee time Players
10:00 a.m. Johnson Wagner, Kelly Kraft, Cameron Percy
10:10 a.m. Chris Stroud, Scott Stallings, Roberto Castro
10:20 a.m. Scott Brown, Brian Gay, Roger Sloan
10:30 a.m. Tyler Duncan, Chez Reavie, Hudson Swafford
10:40 a.m. Nate Lashley, Michael Kim, Jason Dufner
10:50 a.m. Martin Trainer, Austin Cook, Wesley Bryan
11:00 a.m. Alex Cejka, John Senden, Jonathan Byrd
11:10 a.m. David Hearn, Wyndham Clark, Bo Hoag
11:20 a.m. Sangmoon Bae, K.J. Choi, Anirban Lahiri
11:30 a.m. Joel Dahmen, J.J. Spaun, Chase Seiffert
11:40 a.m. Joseph Bramlett, Chris Baker, Joohyung Kim
11:50 a.m. Rafael Campos, Tyler McCumber, MJ Daffue
12:00 p.m. Kramer Hickok, Doug Ghim, Steve Watanabe, Jr.
3:00 p.m. Bill Haas, Rafa Cabrera Bello, Cameron Davis
3:10 p.m. Aaron Baddeley, Josh Teater, Maverick McNealy
3:20 p.m. Branden Grace, Fabian Gomez, Matthew NeSmith
3:30 p.m. Shane Lowry, Phil Mickelson, Brendan Steele
3:40 p.m. Kevin Tway, Sergio Garcia, Emiliano Grillo
3:50 p.m. J.B. Holmes, Brice Garnett, William McGirt
4:00 p.m. Robert Streb, Camilo Villegas, Sepp Straka
4:10 p.m. Jhonattan Vegas, Tim Wilkinson, Sam Ryder
4:20 p.m. Nick Watney, Ricky Barnes, Luke List
4:30 p.m. Peter Malnati, Sean O’Hair, Chad Campbell
4:40 p.m. Dominic Bozzelli, Rhein Gibson, Akshay Bhatia
4:50 p.m. Vincent Whaley, Ben Taylor, Isaiah Salinda
5:00 p.m. Brandon Hagy, Michael Gligic, Luke Schniederjans

10th tee

Tee time Players
10:00 a.m. Graham DeLaet, Carlos Ortiz, Sam Burns
10:10 a.m. Lucas Glover, Bo Van Pelt, Shawn Stefani
10:20 a.m. Charley Hoffman, Erik van Rooyen, Will Gordon
10:30 a.m. Brandt Snedeker, Jordan Spieth, Jim Furyk
10:40 a.m. Keegan Bradley, Pat Perez, Kevin Streelman
10:50 a.m. Andrew Putnam, Aaron Wise, Patton Kizzire
11:00 a.m. George McNeill, Bud Cauley, Talor Gooch
11:10 a.m. Charl Schwartzel, Ryan Blaum, Xinjun Zhang
11:20 a.m. Harold Varner III, Robby Shelton, Harry Higgs
11:30 a.m. James Hahn, Hunter Mahan, Kiradech Aphibarnrat
11:40 a.m. Rob Oppenheim, Jim Knous, Sahith Theegala
11:50 a.m. Mark Anderson, Ryan Brehm, Peter Kuest
12:00 p.m. Wes Roach, Michael Gellerman, Shintaro Ban
3:00 p.m. Chesson Hadley, Seamus Power, Kyoung-Hoon Lee
3:10 p.m. Matt Every, Tom Hoge, Mark Hubbard
3:20 p.m. Kyle Stanley, Cameron Tringale, Doc Redman
3:30 p.m. Grayson Murray, Luke Donald, Stewart Cink
3:40 p.m. Scott Piercy, Ryan Armour, Russell Knox
3:50 p.m. Troy Merritt, Ted Potter, Jr., D.A. Points
4:00 p.m. C.T. Pan, Si Woo Kim, Kevin Chappell
4:10 p.m. D.J. Trahan, Jamie Lovemark, Zac Blair
4:20 p.m. Brian Stuard, Denny McCarthy, Adam Schenk
4:30 p.m. Patrick Rodgers, Beau Hossler, Scott Harrington
4:40 p.m. Martin Laird, Peter Uihlein, Henrik Norlander
4:50 p.m. Hank Lebioda, Zack Sucher, Sebastian Cappelen
5:00 p.m. Kristoffer Ventura, Nelson Ledesma, Andy Zhang

TV, streaming information

All times are listed in Eastern.

Friday, Sept. 11

PGA Tour Live on NBC Sports Gold: 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. (featured groups)
Golf Channel on fuboTV (watch for free): 4-7 p.m.
PGA Tour Radio on SiriusXM: 1-7 p.m.

Saturday, Sept. 12

PGA Tour Live on NBC Sports Gold: 11 a.m. – 6 p.m. (featured groups)
PGA Tour Live on ESPN+: 3-6 p.m. (featured holes)
Golf Channel on fuboTV (watch for free): 6-9 p.m.
PGA Tour Radio on SiriusXM: 4-9 p.m.

Sunday, Sept. 13

PGA Tour Live on NBC Sports Gold: 11 a.m. – 6 p.m. (featured groups)
PGA Tour Live on ESPN+: 1:30-6 p.m. (featured holes)
Golf Channel on fuboTV (watch for free): 6-9 p.m.
PGA Tour Radio on SiriusXM: 4-9 p.m.

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Irishman Shane Lowry continues his pre-U.S. Open tour in wine country

British Open champ Shane Lowry said goodbye to his wife and daughter 6 weeks ago and is playing the Safeway Open ahead of next week’s major.

NAPA, Calif. – Shane Lowry’s tour of the United States continues this week in wine country, though the reigning British Open champion isn’t imbibing.

“I do like a glass of wine, but I don’t drink the week of tournaments, so I’m taking it easy; I’m relaxing,” he said. “We are going for a nice meal tonight, we’re going to French Laundry, which is supposed to be very special, so I’m looking forward to that. I’ll leave the drinking to (caddie) Bo. Bo will look after the wine for me this week.”

Lowry squeezed into the FedEx Cup playoffs at No. 123, but missed the cut at the Northern Trust and spent the last two weeks taking a buddy trip to Newport, Rhode Island, and practicing at his U.S. base in Florida for the upcoming U.S. Open.

He arrived here on Sunday and the Irishman was greeted by temperatures reaching 114 degrees. In addition to caddie Brian ‘Bo’ Martin, Lowry is traveling with a childhood friend, who doubles as his physical therapist and keeps Lowry company after his wife and young daughter returned to Ireland six and a half weeks ago.

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“It’s not been easy at times. I miss them an awful lot and to be honest, probably if it wasn’t for the U.S. Open next week, I probably wouldn’t have lasted the full stint over here because it’s just been incredibly hard,” he said. “Especially when your daughter’s growing up and she’s only three and a half, but it is what it is. It’s not like I’m going to war or anything, I’m just going to play golf, so I just have to get on with it.”

Lowry, who didn’t play the week before winning the British Open last year in Northern Ireland, joked he’ll probably never play ahead of that major again, but he didn’t want to go into next week’s U.S. Open at Winged Foot in New York having gone three weeks without competing. While some players may have been turned off by having to go from the West Coast to the East Coast for the re-scheduled national championship, Lowry took a different view.

Shane Lowry studies his putt on the first hole during the second round of the Wyndham Championship golf tournament at Sedgefield Country Club. (Rob Kinnan-USA TODAY Sports)

“I’m close, I’m in America. My family are in Ireland, so I couldn’t go back to Ireland because of the quarantine — there was no point — so, yeah, I just decided to play here,” he said. “I would be down in Florida this week just playing golf every day and practicing and probably with my mind too much on the U.S. Open, so it’s nice to get to an event.”

It also gives him a chance to test drive a slew of new equipment under the gun. Lowry arrived at yesterday’s practice round with six different drivers and whittled it down to one and also said he’ll be putting a fresh set of irons in play in hopes that the new grooves will spin more, “which might be helpful at Winged Foot trying to stop the ball on some of those greens,” he said. “For me, this is the only week that matters right now. Then when I get to Winged Foot next Monday I’ll start to think about that, but obviously this week, first and foremost, I want to do well.”

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Shane Lowry’s buddies’ trip for next week in jeopardy after Friday 63 at Wyndham Championship

Shane Lowry needs a good finish to qualify for the FedEx Cup playoffs. He made his move on Friday, which could impact his buddies’ trip.

GREENSBORO, N.C. – Shane Lowry gets to keep the Claret Jug for an extra year due to the coronavirus pandemic – he’s the Champion Golfer of the Two Years – but what he’d really like is to get his hands around another trophy on Sunday at the Wyndham Championship. Lowry, 33, took a step in the right direction, shooting 7-under 63 at Sedgewood Country Club, his lowest round of the season, to join the trophy hunt.

“I felt like I had a score like that in me yesterday,” Lowry said. “I was quite disappointed to shoot 2 under. It was nice to go out there and shoot a good score today.”

Lowry, who won the British Open at Royal Portrush last July, entered the week at No. 131 in the FedEx Cup point standings and needing a strong finish to improve inside the top 125 to qualify for the Playoffs, which begin next week at the Northern Trust in Boston. But Lowry isn’t stressing it. The Irishman’s wife and daughter flew home three weeks ago and he’s going to be staying in the U.S. through the U.S. Open in September, regardless. Plus, if he doesn’t earn a spot in the Northern Trust field, he’s got a backup plan – Lowry scheduled a buddies’ trip to Rhode Island.

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“Not that that’s a win-win, but at least I have something to look forward to if that doesn’t happen,” he said of the getaway with among others a childhood pal, who joined him in Memphis two weeks ago. When asked if it would be a working vacation, he smiled and said, “We will play some golf, yeah. A little bit, not much.”

Lowry’s second round on Friday, played under preferred lies, got off to an inauspicious start with a bogey at No. 11, his second hole of the day, but it would be his last shot dropped. He canned a 16-foot birdie at 13 to turn the tide and rolled it beautifully on his second nine, draining a 22-foot birdie from the fringe at the second and a 30-footer at the fourth. The highlight of the day was drilling a 4-iron from 242 yards to 7 feet and sinking the eagle putt at the fifth. Lowry finished T-7 here in 2017, when he came up short of qualifying for the FedEx Cup playoffs by two spots, and expressed a fondness for the Donald Ross layout.

“It’s nice to come to this golf course after the course we played last week,” he said. “I feel like (TPC Harding Park) was just stand on every tee and whip driver out and hit as hard as you can whereas this course you have to kind of think your way around and I like that type of golf.”

Lowry came home in 5-under 30, to improve to 9-under 131 and trail clubhouse leaders Tom Hoge, Si Woo Kim and Talor Gooch by one stroke.

“I know what I need to do, a top 15 would probably be OK but at the end of the day, I feel like I’m on another level than that. I’m here to win a golf tournament,” he said. “I’m not just here to get to next week. It’s hopefully going to be a weekend of good golf and on Sunday I won’t have to worry about getting into next week and I’ll be right there with a chance to win the golf tournament.”

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2020 PGA Championship Live Stream, Tee Times, Live Leaderboard, TV Channel, Start Time

The first major event is here with the PGA Championship live from TPC Harding in San Francisco, watch it here.

The 2020 PGA Championship, Round 1 will begin on Thursday from TPC Harding Park in San Francisco, California. This will be an important week for players to show out before the start of the FedExCup Playoffs, and with a ton of star power in the featured groups for Thursday this is shaping up for an exciting day of golf.

Here is everything you need to know to follow the PGA Championship action this weekend!

2020 PGA Championship, Round 1

  • When: Friday, Aug 6
  • Live Coverage: 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. ET
  • Live Stream: ESPN+ (stream now)

We’ll have the live leaderboard as the tournament gets underway with updates throughout the day. Keep checking back for live updates!

Featured Groups, Round 1

11:11 a.m. ET: Gary Woodland, Shane Lowry, Brooks Koepka

11:22 a.m. ET: Jordan Spieth, Dustin Johnson, Justin Rose

11:33 a.m. ET: Justin Thomas, Tiger Woods. Rory McIlroy

4:47 p.m. ET: Rickie Fowler, Bryson DeChambeau. Adam Scott

4:58 p.m. ET: Jon Rahm, Phil Mickelson, Sergio Garcia

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To our heroes: European Tour players thank essential workers in heartfelt video

Rory McIlroy and 13 other European Tour players thanked the essential workers during the coronavirus pandemic with a heartfelt video.

“I am not your hero.”

That was the message a handful of European Tour players wanted to relay to their fans and followers on Saturday night.

Message received, gentlemen. Loud and clear.

The tour released a video on social media sure to tug at your heartstrings, with 14 players thanking “the essential workers we all take for granted” for their efforts during the coronavirus pandemic.

The players thanked everyone from healthcare professionals to social workers and shop workers to food producers and pleaded for fans to follow the advice of the World Health Organization and respective governments around the world to stay home.

“If we do that, we can save lives and become heroes,” Rory McIlroy said to end the video.

The video included appearances from: McIlroy, Sergio Garcia, Shane Lowry, Henrik Stenson, Lee Westwood, Martin Kaymer, Francesco Molinari, Tommy Fleetwood, Thomas Bjorn, Victor Perez, Charl Schwartzel, Padraig Harrington, Justin Rose and Jon Rahm.

Stay safe, everyone.

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Shane Lowry seeks consistency to back up British Open win

Shane Lowry said he wants to be more consistent after his British Open win and that the major title hasn’t changed him.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates – Shane Lowry has a major trophy on his mantelpiece back home in Ireland. What he doesn’t have is the consistency to back up the greatest year of his life.

Lowry’s Open Championship victory at Royal Portrush along with the Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship has propelled the Irishman to fourth on the Race to Dubai. He has a chance to close out the season as European No. 1. Victory in this week’s $8 million DP World Tour Championship, Dubai can help turn a great year into an even greater year.

What he craves more than anything is the chance to contend on a week-to-week basis.

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“The one thing that’s gotten me over the few months since the Open is, you know, when you have bad days and you’re shooting bad scores, people saying to you, ‘You won the Open, it doesn’t matter,’” Lowry said. “But it does matter. Every day it matters to me and I want to shoot the best score I can, and I want to be the best player I can be every day.

“I’ve shown this year what I have is good enough obviously when it’s good. I think the little bit more consistency I want to have would be nice.

“I’m trying to get better. I’m trying to sharpen up my game and trying to become more consistent. It’s not as easy thinking, right, I want to be more consistent and being able to go out and shoot 68 every day.

“My game holds up under a lot of pressure, and it has done this year. So I wouldn’t be trying to improve anything (technically). It would just be kind of mentally when I’m on, I’m really good. So it’s just about getting mentally in that zone more weeks every year.”

Off the golf course, Lowry doesn’t feel he’s become a different person by winning at Royal Portrush.

“Since the Open I actually don’t feel any different,” he revealed. “If you had told me before, were things going to change and would you feel different? I would have said ‘yes.’

“I don’t feel any different as a player, as a person. Honestly, I don’t feel like it’s changed me in any way. It’s obviously changed my career path a little bit, but as a person, I don’t feel any different.”

It might take being named European number one to change the genial Irishman. Then again, maybe not.

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