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2023 Grant Thornton Invitational Sunday tee times, how to watch

Everything you need to know for Sunday’s final round in Florida.

With 18 holes to play at the inaugural Grant Thornton Invitational at Tiburon Golf Club in Naples, Florida, Lydia Ko and Jason Day hold a two-shot lead over Nelly Korda/Tony Finau and Leona Maguire/Lucas Glover.

Ko/Day shot an impressive 6-under 66 in Saturday’s alternate shot format.

A new format will enter the fray on Sunday, a “modified fourball” session that will see both players hit a tee shot, then switch balls for their second shots. The players will then play the second ball until they complete the hole, and the lowest of the two scores will count for the team.

Check out the tee times, as well as TV and streaming info, below for the final round of the 2023 Grant Thornton Invitational. All times Eastern.

Grant Thornton: Meet all 16 teams

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Sunday tee times

Tee time Teams
8:50 a.m. Corpuz/Champ and Knight/Hoge
9:05 a.m. Lee/Horschel and Reid/Henley
9:20 a.m. Vu/Dahmen and Zhang/Theegala
9:35 a.m.
Sagstrom/Aberg and Boutier/English
9:50 a.m. Hull/Rose and Khang/McCarthy
10:05 a.m. Yin/Taylor and Henderson/Conners
10:20 a.m.
Thompson/Fowler and Maguire/Glover
10:35 a.m. Korda/Finau and Ko/Day

How to watch

Sunday, Dec. 10

Golf Channel: 1-2 p.m. (Watch FREE on Fubo)
NBC: 2-4 p.m. (Watch FREE on Fubo)
Peacock (streaming): 1-4 p.m.

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2023 Grant Thornton Invitational Saturday tee times, how to watch

Everything you need to know for Saturday’s second round in Florida.

After Friday’s scramble at the inaugural Grant Thornton Invitational at Tiburon Golf Club in Naples, Florida, the team of Nelly Korda and Tony Finau hold a one-shot lead over Leona Maguire/Lucas Glover and Megan Khang/Denny McCarthy at 16 under.

Sahith Theegala and Rose Zhang, one of the fan-favorites pairings, are two back at 14 under.

Saturday’s round will be foursomes (alternate shot). A new format will enter the fray on Sunday, a “modified fourball” session that will see both players hit a tee shot, then switch balls for their second shots. The players will then play the second ball until they complete the hole, and the lowest of the two scores will count for the team.

Check out the tee times, as well as TV and streaming info, below for the second round of the 2023 Grant Thornton Invitational. All times Eastern.

Grant Thornton: Meet all 16 teams

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Saturday tee times

Tee time Teams
11:10 a.m. Lee/Horschel and Knight/Hoge
11:22 a.m. Boutier/English and Reid/Henley
11:34 a.m.
Thompson/Fowler and Vu/Dahmen
11:46 a.m.
Henderson/Conners and Sagstrom/Aberg
11:58 a.m. Hull/Rose and Corpuz/Champ
12:10 p.m. Yin/Taylor and Ko/Day
12:22 p.m.
Khang/McCarthy and Zhang/Theegala
12:34 p.m. Korda/Finau and Maguire/Glover

How to watch

Saturday, Dec. 9

Golf Channel: 2-3 p.m. (Watch FREE on Fubo)
NBC: 3-5 p.m. (Watch FREE on Fubo)
Peacock (streaming): 2-5 p.m.

Sunday, Dec. 10

Golf Channel: 1-2 p.m. (Watch FREE on Fubo)
NBC: 2-4 p.m. (Watch FREE on Fubo)
Peacock (streaming): 1-4 p.m.

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2023 Grant Thornton Invitational Friday tee times feature must-watch pairings

Everything you need to know for Friday’s first round in Florida.

Who’s ready for a little mixed-team golf?

Sixteen teams comprised of PGA Tour and LPGA players will tee it up at the inaugural 2023 Grant Thornton Invitational this week at Tiburon Golf Club in Naples, Florida.

Friday’s first round will be a scramble format, followed on Saturday by a round of foursomes (alternate shot). A new format will enter the fray on Sunday, a “modified fourball” session that will see both players hit a tee shot, then switch balls for their second shots. The players will then play the second ball until they complete the hole, and the lowest of the two scores will count for the team.

Check out the tee times, as well as TV and streaming info, below for the first round of the 2023 Grant Thornton Invitational. All times Eastern.

Grant Thornton: Odds, picks to win | Meet all 16 teams

Friday tee times

Tee time Teams
9:10 a.m. Mel Reid and Russell Henley
Allisen Corpuz and Cameron Champ
9:25 a.m. Leona Maguire and Lucas Glover
Madelene Sagstrom
9:40 a.m. Rose Zhang and Sahith Theegala
Lilia Vu and Joel Dahmen
9:55 a.m. Megan Khang and Denny McCarthy
Cheyenne Knight and Tom Hoge
10:10 a.m. Brooke Henderson and Corey Conners
Ruoning Yin and Nick Taylor
10:25 a.m. Andrea Lee and Billy Horschel
Celine Boutier and Harris English
10:40 a.m. Lydia Ko and Jason Day
Charley Hull and Justin Rose
10:55 a.m. Nelly Korda and Tony Finau
Lexi Thompson and Rickie Fowler

How to watch

Friday, Dec. 8

Golf Channel: 1-4 p.m.
Peacock (streaming): 1-4 p.m.

Saturday, Dec. 9

Golf Channel: 2-3 p.m.
NBC: 3-5 p.m.
Peacock (streaming): 2-5 p.m.

Sunday, Dec. 10

Golf Channel: 1-2 p.m.
NBC: 2-4 p.m.
Peacock (streaming): 1-4 p.m.

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Rose Zhang, Sahith Theegala team up for the Grant Thornton Invitational

Now this is a fun pairing.

Rose Zhang has taken the women’s game by storm since turning pro earlier this year, grabbing a win at the Mizuho Americas Open in her first professional start and finishing inside the top 10 of three of the four major championships she played in after leaving the amateur game behind.

Sahith Theegala has yet to enter the winner’s circle, but thanks to his infectious personality and appearance on Full Swing, the Pepperdine product has quickly become a fan favorite on the PGA Tour.

The two young stars will be teaming up this winter at the PGA Tour-LPGA co-sanctioned event at Tiburon Golf Club in Naples, Florida, the Grant Thornton Invitational.

Other teams have already been announced, including Tony Finau/Nelly Korda, Rickie Fowler/Jessica Korda and Corey Conners/Brooke Henderson.

The three-day event will be held Friday, Dec. 8 through Sunday, Dec. 10

Enjoy the QBE Shootout? Here’s how you can play Tiburon Golf Club

Even if you can’t hit bombs like Nelly or drain clutch putts like Sahith, you can still play the course.

Naples, Florida and the Tiburon Golf Club played host to the 2022 QBE Shootout and it did not disappoint.

Sahith Theegala struggled through an oblique injury but buried a birdie putt when it mattered most to give him and partner Tom Hoge the one-stroke victory over Charley Hoffman and Ryan Palmer.

While it’s not the biggest purse of the year, Theegala and Hoge will both take home a cool $475,000.

In 2023, Tiburon will also host a PGA Tour Champions event, the Chubb Classic in February. In fact, Tiburon is the only golf facility to host LPGA, PGA Tour Champions and PGA Tour-sanctioned tournaments.

Tiburon is one of a handful of golf courses on the PGA Tour’s 2022-23 calendar that can be played – if you’re willing to pay up.

So even if you can’t quite play exactly like the pros, you can in this case at least play the same golf course.

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10 PGA Tour stops you can play in 2022-23

You may not be able to hit it like the pros, but you can play at a number of the same courses.

The PGA Tour kicks off its 2022-23 season this week at the Fortinet Championship in Napa, California.

As the best players in the world prepare to begin another season, golf fans prepare to live vicariously through their heroes competing at courses around the U.S.

To help turn your TV daydream into a reality, Golfweek has compiled 10 courses from the PGA Tour schedule that anyone can play – if their pockets are deep enough.

Want to test your skill at the island green at TPC Sawgrass? No problem. Perhaps you want to feel the ocean breeze on your face as you escape a cliff’s edge at Pebble Beach? We’ve got you covered.

All the courses on this list allow public access in some fashion, be it standard daily green fees, through a resort or by staying at an affiliated hotel. If there’s a will, there’s a tee time. Golfweek’s Best offers many lists of course rankings, with the list of top public-access courses in each state among the most popular. Each of the courses below is public-access, although greens fees at several of them go above $500 per player.

The hundreds of members of the Golfweek’s Best ratings panel continually evaluate courses and rate them based on 10 criteria on a points basis of 1 through 10. They also file a single, overall rating on each course. Those averaged overall ratings are presented for each course below.

After attending uncle’s funeral in Ireland, Padraig Harrington flew to Florida to play in Chubb Classic

“It was six hours (of travel),” he said. “It’s been a lot of travel this week.”

Padraig Harrington nearly withdrew from the Chubb Classic.

Playing the Black Course at Tiburón Golf Club at the Ritz-Carlton Golf Resort sight unseen, he shot a 77 in the first round and followed that up with an even-par 72 on Saturday.

“It’s a tough enough golf course not to know,” Harrington said Saturday. “Some of the green complexes it would’ve been nice to see them, and a few of the doglegs, like 18. I’m still happy to be here.”

Harrington, who turned 50 last August, almost wasn’t.

His uncle died, and he attended the funeral for the 91-year-old in Cork, Ireland. That meant he couldn’t play in either day of the pro-am, and wasn’t going to get into town until Thursday night.

“Yes, it looked like I would withdraw, but they were very accommodating and said, ‘Well, look, you can come and not play the pro-ams,'” he said. “I said, ‘Well, that’s great, I’ll do that.’ It wouldn’t be something that would be usual. They were very accommodating and let me come, and I was thankful for that, and that’s why I’m here.

“It was six hours (of travel),” he said. “It’s been a lot of travel this week.”

Harrington is known for being very meticulous in preparation, but he was able to be flexible.

“I’ve done OK at times in the past, so it’s not ideal, but it’s a bit like routines before you go out,” he said. “You don’t get caught up in everything having to be perfect because things just don’t work out perfect, so that was the case this week.

“I’m delighted that I could come and play. I’m enjoying that element of it.”

Woosnam is third Hall of Famer out

World Golf Hall of Famer Ian Woosnam, a former Masters champion, withdrew after nine holes in Friday’s first round with neck and back issues. He became the third Hall of Famer to withdraw.

Davis Love III withdrew on Monday, and two-time tournament champion Fred Couples withdrew with back issues Wednesday.

Greg Hardwig is a sports reporter for the Naples Daily News and The News-Press, part of the USA Today Network. Follow him on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter: @NDN_Ghardwig, email him at ghardwig@naplesnews.com. 

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Meet the teams for the 2021 QBE Shootout

Meet the 12 two-person teams for the 2021 QBE Shootout at the Ritz-Carlton Golf Resort in Florida.

Golf’s silly season continues this week with the QBE Shootout, the mixed team event that features some of the best players on the PGA Tour, as well as an LPGA star.

Two-time major champion Greg Norman is the host for the year-end event at Tiburon Golf Club in Naples, Florida, which two weeks ago hosted the LPGA’s season-ending CME Group Tour Championship. The course also hosts the Chubb Classic on the PGA Tour Champions in February.

The first round begins on Friday, Dec. 10 with a scramble. Saturday’s second round is modified alternate shot, with four-ball for Sunday’s final round.

Meet the 12 two-person teams for the 2021 QBE Shootout.

QBE Shootout: Tee times, what’s the format, what channel is the tournament on

The QBE Shootout is a silly-season event but there’s real money to be won at Tiburon Golf Club.

The QBE Shootout is a unique event on the pro golf calendar. It’s a team event and it’s also a mixed event.

Sure it’s a silly-season event with no FedEx Cup points or Ryder Cup standings on the line but there’s real money to be won. Last year’s winning team shared $895,000. Even the last-place team will share $170,000.

Greg Norman is the host and the Tiburon Golf Club in Naples, Florida, is the host venue. Golf fans just saw Tiburon take center stage two weeks ago at the LPGA season-ending CME Group Tour Championship. The course also hosts the Chubb Classic on the PGA Tour Champions in February.

Format

First round: scramble. Each player hits a drive and the best drive is selected. From there, each player plays a second shot and the best shot is selected again. The process is repeated until the ball is holed out.

Second round: modified alternate shot. Each player hits a drive and the best drive is selected. Whichever player’s drive is not selected hits the second shot and so on until the ball is holed.

Final round: four-ball. Each player plays his/her own ball till it’s holed out. The player with the lowest score earns the team score for that hole.

The field

Sam Burns, Billy Horschel

Corey Conners, Graeme McDowell

Jason Day, Marc Leishman

Harris English, Matt Kuchar

Brian Harman, Hudson Swafford

Max Homa, Kevin Kisner

Matt Jones, Ryan Palmer

Kevin Na, Kason Kokrak

K.H. Lee, Brandt Snedeker

Will Zalatoris, Sean O’Hair

Ian Poulter, Charles Howell III

Lexi Thompson, Bubba Watson

Matt Jones replaced Harold Varner III, who withdrew with a minor injury. Charles Howell III replaced Lee Westwood, who withdrew due to illness. Will Zalatoris replaced Steve Stricker.

First-round tee times

Time Players
9:45 a.m. Zalatoris/ O’Hair, Palmer/Jones
10 a.m. McDowell/Conners, Snedeker/Lee
10:15 a.m. Kisner/Homa, Swafford/Harman
10:30 a.m. Poulter/Howell III, Na/Kokrak
10:45 a.m. Leishman/Day, Horschel/Burns
11 a.m. Kuchar/English, Watson/Thompson

Defending champions

Harris English and Matt Kuchar.

Helping the community

CureSearch for Children’s Cancer will continue to be the tournament’s primary charitable beneficiary. Since 1989, the Shootout has raised more than $15 million for charitable causes.

How to watch

Friday, Dec. 10

First round, Golf Channel, noon-4 p.m. ET.

Saturday, Dec. 11

Second round, Golf Channel, 1-3 p.m. ET
Second round, NBC, 3-5 p.m. ET

Sunday, Dec. 12

Final round, Golf Channel, noon-2 p.m. ET
Final round, NBC, 2-4 p.m. ET

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Live Fest returns to QBE Shootout as the worlds of music, golf continue to merge

After being canceled in 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic, the QBE Shootout’s concert, Live Fest, is back.

NAPLES, Fla. — After being canceled in 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic, the QBE Shootout’s concert, Live Fest, is back.

Thomas Rhett, Cole Swindell, Runaway June and Ben Allen Band will play on the Tiburón Golf Club driving range from 4:30 to 10 p.m. ET Saturday.

Live Fest is just another example of the meshing of golf and music, with many events across all three major tours having concerts as part of their experience.

Fittingly, when Hartman got together with Lady A’s Charles Kelley, whose band played the inaugural Live Fest in 2019, they did on a golf course. In Nashville.

“The snow melted for a day and we were able to get out to play,” Hartman said. “So many of these artists are really embracing the game.

“The melding of music and golf has been around for a while, but it’s only going to get bigger and better.”

That goes for the second Live Fest as well. After 8,000 fans attended the 2019 concert that featured Darius Rucker, Lady A, Jordan Davis, and Ben Allen Band, organizers have made room for another 1,000 people.

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All tickets are sold out except for general admission, which are $135 (children 10 and under get in a free with a ticketholder) but Hartman said many of the improvements from the 2019 inaugural Live Fest are with the general-admission crowd in mind.

“It was our first time ever hosting a concert,” Hartman said. “We were building a temporary venue for one night. Most of our improvements were in the guest experience. We’ve gone from 43 points of sale to concessions up to 73. We’ve more than doubled our restrooms that we have on property. We’re adding a center walkway. We’re adding a video wall for the GA ticketholders.

“Much of the improvements that we’ve made and investments we’ve made have made have been on the general admission side to improve the overall experience without losing sight of having a first-class hospitality experience for our VIP ticketholders and corporate sponsors.”

Hartman said Kelley made some introductions to Rhett’s and Swindell’s teams to get the ball rolling for this year’s lineup.

“He helped facilitate some conversations,” Hartman said. “At the time, we weren’t sure we were going to be able to have this.”

But since that February meeting, for the most part, live music has returned, and Hartman was buoyed by the response when tickets went on sale.

Field update

One “third” is in the field this week, and another dropped out.

Charles Howell III will make his 12th start in the Shootout after Lee Westwood withdrew due to an illness. Howell will be paired with Ian Poulter.

Harold Varner III withdrew with an injury, and 2021 Honda Classic champion Matt Jones will play with Ryan Palmer instead. When Jones, an Australian, won the Honda, he received a congratulatory video call from Shootout founder and host Greg Norman, his idol.

Last week, U.S. Ryder Cup captain Steve Stricker, a former Shootout champion, withdrew and was replaced by PGA Tour Rookie of the Year Will Zalatoris, who will play with Sean O’Hair.

Pro-am celebs

ESPN’s Chris Berman, a regular during the pro-am, will not play this year due to a “balky back.” Boomer had played in the pro-am every year since 2004.

Country singer Cole Swindell, who is one of the headliners of Saturday’s Live Fest concert, and Bret Baier of Fox News are playing in both pro-ams Wednesday and Thursday.

Winners in the field

Jones joins 10 others who have won on the PGA Tour in 2021 or early in the 2021-22 season. The others are: Sam Burns, Harris English, Max Homa, Billy Horschel, Kevin Kisner, Jason Kokrak, K.H. Lee, Marc Leishman, Kevin Na and Hudson Swafford.

First-timers

Jones is among six first-time participants, joining Burns, Homa, Lee, Swafford and Zalatoris.

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