Dustin Johnson and Paulina Gretzky got married over the weekend

With only 10 events left before the FedExCup Playoffs begin, players will look to make a move in the standings at TPC Potomac at Avenel Farm. David Lingmerth continues to lead after Round 2 at Quicken Loans National. Round 4 tee times Round 4 leaderboard HOW TO WATCH PGA TOUR LIVE: Featured Groups – (11 a.m. – 6:30 p.m. ET), CBS Simulcast – (2:30 p.m. – 6:30 p.m. ET) Telecast: Golf Channel (1 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. ET), CBS (3 p.m. – 6:30 p.m. ET) Listen: Free coverage on PGA TOUR Radio: (1 p.m. – 7 p.m. ET) NOTABLE PAIRINGS Peter Malnati, Patrick Reed 11:25 a.m. ET Rickie Fowler, Brian Gay 12:25 p.m. ET Ricky Barnes, Harris English 12:55 p.m. ET David Lingmerth, Daniel Summerhays 2:05 p.m. ET (Final pairing)

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The tournament debuts of Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy are among the notable storylines entering this week’s Valspar Championship. Not surprising, those two are included among the featured groups when play begins Thursday at the Innisbrook Resort. Tee times have been set for the first two rounds at the Copperhead course, with a field of 144 players that includes defending champion Adam Hadwin. PGA TOUR LIVE will offer live streaming coverage starting at 6:45 a.m. ET on Thursday and Friday; the stream can be accessed on Twitter from 6:45 a.m. to approximately 8:15 a.m. ET. Golf Channel’s coverage begins at 2 p.m., while PGA TOUR Radio will air live play-by-play starting at noon ET. Here’s a look at this week’s Featured Groups (current FedExCup ranking in parenthesis). Gary Woodland (12), Justin Rose (15), Rory McIlroy (175) – McIlroy, who has adjusted his playing schedule this season to include a few new tournaments, is making his first start at Innisbrook after sitting out last week’s World Golf Championships event in Mexico. Woodland’s first win on the PGA TOUR came at Innisbrook in 2011. Rose is playing here for the first time since 2015. Thursday tee time on PGA TOUR LIVE: 7:45 a.m. ET. Matt Kuchar (87), Sergio Garcia (122), Adam Scott (127) – Collectively, these three have won 30 PGA TOUR events. Can you name the one they each have in common? (High-five if you answered THE PLAYERS Championship). Kuchar has been a regular at this event the last few years, but Scott’s making his first start at Innisbrook since 2015; Garcia’s been away even longer, making his first start since 2013. Thursday tee time on PGA TOUR LIVE: 7:56 a.m. ET. Tony Finau (7), Adam Hadwin (35), Charl Schwartzel (160) – Hadwin is the defending champ and Schwartzel won it the year before, but it’s Finau who comes into this event with the most momentum out of the three. He has two top-6 finishes in his last four starts and is the highest-ranked FedExCup player in the field. Friday tee time on PGA TOUR LIVE: 7:45 a.m. ET. Jordan Spieth (52), Henrik Stenson (81), Tiger Woods (132) – The last time Woods was paired with Spieth at a PGA TOUR event was in the second round of the 2015 Waste Management Phoenix Open. It’s probably a round Tiger would rather forget, as he shot 82 that day. He’s in a much better place now with his golf game, as he comes off a 12th-place finish at The Honda Classic. This will be the first time since 2014 that he’s been paired with Stenson, who has played well here in his three starts. Spieth, of course, won Valspar in 2015. Friday tee time on PGA TOUR LIVE: 7:56 a.m. ET.

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HONOLULU, Hawaii – Stewart Cink is looking to continue a trend from 2018 on the PGA TOUR. The 45-year-old hasn’t won on TOUR for nearly nine and a half years but he was a keen observer last year as no less than 11 players broke significant win droughts. On Friday at the Sony Open in Hawaii Cink put up an 8-under 62 to move to 10 under, within striking distance of Matt Kuchar’s 14 under lead. Indeed Kuchar (1,667 days) was one of the players to break a drought in 2018. Charles Howell III (4,292 days), Paul Casey (3262 days), Kevin Na (2,472 days), Keegan Bradley (2,227 days), Ted Potter Jr. (2,045 days), Ian Poulter (1,975 days), Tiger Woods (1,876 days), Phil Mickelson (1,687 days), Webb Simpson (1,666 days) and Gary Woodland (1,646 days) also snapped the famine. Sunday would represent 3,466 days since Cink claimed the 2009 Open Championship in a playoff over Tom Watson for his sixth TOUR win. He had his chances last season. Cink finished T4 at the FedEx St. Jude Classic, T2 at the Travelers Championship and T4 at the PGA Championship last summer showing there is plenty of life in his game. On Friday he needed just 24 putts on the way to nine birdies with just a lone bogey. “It was a great day out there. Really all facets of the game were firing,â€� Cink enthused. “Drove it well and hit a lot of good irons. Rolled in a lot of putts from the range that really makes a difference in your score, which is like, say, 10 to 20 feet. Had a lot of putts like that and made a lot today. “That’s kind of a hallmark of my game over my whole career, is I do have a lot of putts in that range because usually I’m one of the better ball-strikers. When you see them going in the game feels a little bit easy.â€� Indeed Cink gained over two and a half strokes on the field in Strokes Gained: Putting Friday. He was 15 of 18 inside 20-feet.

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