PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Florida – The PGA TOUR released today the four featured groupings for Thursday-Friday at this week’s inaugural Rocket Mortgage Classic at Detroit Golf Club in Detroit, Michigan. Full groupings and starting times for the first two rounds at the Rocket Mortgage Classic will be released officially at approximately 12 p.m. ET on Tuesday, June 25th. HOW TO FOLLOW TELEVISION: Thursday-Friday, 3-6 p.m. ET (Golf Channel). Saturday-Sunday, 1-2:45 p.m. (GC), 3-6 p.m. (CBS). PGA TOUR LIVE: Thursday-Friday, 7 a.m.-6 p.m. (featured groups). Saturday-Sunday, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. (featured groups), 3-6 p.m. (featured holes). International subscribers (via GOLF.tv): Thursday-Friday, 11:030 to 22:00 GMT. Saturday-Sunday, 13:00 to 22:00. RADIO: Thursday-Friday, noon-6 p.m.; Saturday-Sunday, 1-6 p.m. (PGA TOUR Radio on SiriusXM and PGATOUR.com). Dustin Johnson, Chez Reavie, Patrick Reed • Johnson is No. 2 in the Official World Golf Ranking and No. 7 in the FedExCup standings • Reavie won last week’s Travelers Championship, his first TOUR title in 11 years, to move to No. 12 in the FedExCup standings • Reed, who has qualified for the TOUR Championship in five straight seasons (2014-18), sits outside the top 70 in the FedExCup (No. 73) Gary Woodland, Keith Mitchell, Brandt Snedeker • Woodland, making his first start since capturing the U.S. Open at Pebble Beach, is No. 5 in the FedExCup standings and seventh in the U.S. Presidents Cup Team standings • Mitchell, the winner of The Honda Classic earlier this year, is No. 30 in the FedExCup standings • Snedeker – the 2012 FedExCup champion – shot 59 en route to winning the 2018 Wyndham Championship, contested at another Donald Ross course, Sedgefield Country Club Rickie Fowler, Charles Howell III, Kevin Kisner • All three players have wins in the 2018-19 PGA TOUR season and are inside the top 20 in both the FedExCup and the U.S. Presidents Cup Team standings • Fowler, a Rocket Mortgage ambassador, is 10th in the FedExCup and ninth in the U.S. Presidents Cup Team standings • Howell is 15th in the FedExCup and 16th in the U.S. Presidents Cup Team standings on the strength of a victory at the 2018 RSM Classic • Kisner won the WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play in March and sits 17th in the FedExCup and 15th in the U.S. Presidents Cup Team standings Bubba Watson, Hideki Matsuyama, Billy Horschel • All three TOUR Championship regulars sit outside the top 30 in the FedExCup standings • Watson, 71st in the FedExCup standings, has qualified for the TOUR Championship in eight of the last 11 seasons • Matsuyama is 34th in the FedExCup standings and looks to extend his streak of TOUR Championship appearances to six in 2019; currently fourth in the International Presidents Cup Team standings • Horschel, the 2014 FedExCup champion, is 54th in the FedExCup standings after qualifying for the TOUR Championship in three of the last six years
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