AT&T Byron Nelson, Round 4: Leaderboard, tee times, TV times

Phil Mickelson took to social media to tell a classic story about one of the rare times he beat Tiger Woods, and how Phil used an unwitting accomplice — Tony Romo — to do it.

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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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The golf gods giveth, the golf gods taketh away. Just four days after reclaiming his position as world No. 1 with a victory at the WGC-FedEx St. Jude Invitational, Justin Thomas (1-over 71) lost his ball in a tree at the par-4 seventh hole at the 102nd PGA Championship at TPC Harding Park. RELATED: Full leaderboard | Nine things to know about Harding Park | Woods opens with solid 68 Thomas was in the marquee group of the morning, with Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy, which started on the back nine. Thomas had double-bogeyed the third hole, but steadied himself with three straight pars to remain at even par as he stood on the seventh tee. He lost his tee shot right. Then he literally lost it. The ball soared into the lush greenery of a cypress tree, and lodged there. “It’s going to be a test, with the overhang of these cypress trees and the ball – there may be a couple lost balls here,” Woods said before the tournament. “Cut a corner and ball hangs up there, that could happen very easily here and has happened and I’m sure will this week as well.” It did. Thomas stood in the rough, looking forlornly up at the tree, recalling a similar moment in the first round of the 2014 John Deere Classic, when he also lost a ball in a tree. He later tweeted: Well, it wasn’t the last time. And it wasn’t funny this time, either. When his ball never came down at TPC Harding Park, Thomas was forced to trudge back to the tee and hit three. It was unlucky, and with the stiff penalty he made another double-bogey. He did well just to salvage a 71 with a birdie at the difficult ninth hole. McIlroy shot even-par 70, Woods 68. To Woods’ point, the incident was somewhat predictable. Lee Janzen saw his ball get stuck in a tree at neighboring Olympic Club at the 1998 U.S. Open, but it fell out just before the five-minute search limit and he went on to win the tournament. Lee Westwood lost his ball at the 2012 U.S. Open at Olympic. Even Woods, who attended Stanford University in Palo Alto, just down the peninsula from TPC Harding Park, admitted to having lost golf balls to the cypress trees. “Well, not here,” he said. “I’ve had a few at (nearby) Lake Merced. That’s one of the tightest golf courses and most claustrophobic places that I’ve ever played. Yeah, I’ve lost a few there.”

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