Sony Open in Hawaii, Round 3: Leaderboard, tee times, TV times

PALM HARBOR, Fla. – Jimmy Walker missed his tee time Friday at the Valspar Championship, but he is still expected to make the cut. Walker was penalized two shots for being late for his 7:39 a.m. starting time off Innisbrook’s first tee. He was paired with fellow major winners Justin Rose and Danny Willett in the day’s fifth group. An official located Walker in the practice area a minute before he was scheduled to tee off, but Walker was unable to arrive at the tee in time. Walker’s par on the first hole became a double-bogey after the penalty was applied. He bogeyed the fourth hole to fall to 4 over for the tournament but made five birdies and no bogeys the rest of the way. He shot 1-under 141 (72-69) and is expected to make the cut on the number. “Pro tip…. don’t be late for your tee time,” Walker wrote on Instagram. “Thirty years in (tournament) golf and that’s a first. I hope we get to play the weekend.” Walker, a six-time TOUR winner, is 211th in this season’s FedExCup, having made the cut in five of 15 starts.

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Playoffs in professional sports, in general, are defined by certain elements. Heightened anticipation. Win-or-go home anxiety. High drama. Soaring dreams and crashing-to-earth defeats. Players feel the increased significance of every play — or in the case of the FedExCup Playoffs, shot — and all are poised to leave it all on the field of play in the pursuit of glory. Playoffs in professional hockey, in particular, are defined by one element: beards. The 1984-85 Detroit Red Wings were the first hockey entry in the catalog of playoff beards, and defenseman Brad Park is credited with the first utterance of the phrase. Odyssey is seeking to bring the scruffy spirit of the playoff beard from the ice to the FedExCup Playoffs with its “Survive and Advance” putter covers, which debuted this week at THE NORTHERN TRUST. “The tradition of hockey players not shaving during the postseason — letting their beards grow longer and longer as they advance — was an inspiration for these Odyssey headcovers,” Sean Toulon, SVP, Callaway Golf & GM of Odyssey Putters said. “We know how much every shot counts this time of year and the effort players need to put in to win the championship trophy at the end. We hope that this headcover can be a fun, motivational piece that inspires the pros who put it in the bag.” The covers, spotted in both blade and mallet variety, feature a helmeted hockey player sporting a few inches of black fuzz. Appropriately, both the helmets and the embroidered “Survive and Advance” feature FedEx’s signature orange and purple color pallet. Check out the covers below. We’ll see if the covers compel any PGA TOUR pros to abandon their razors.

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Bryson DeChambeau and Brooks Koepka will compete live during the Thanksgiving holiday week in the latest installment of Capital One’s: The Match. The 12-hole event will take place in Las Vegas at the Wynn Golf Course. Here’s everything you need to know to watch the event. HOW TO WATCH When: Friday, Nov. 26 at 4 p.m. ET Broadcast coverage: Live on TNT, TBS, truTV and HLN.

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