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PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. – The PGA TOUR released today the four featured groupings for Thursday-Friday at the penultimate event of the FedExCup Playoffs, the BMW Championship at Medinah Country Club (No. 3) in Medinah, Illinois. Friday’s featured groupings on PGA TOUR LIVE will include Tiger Woods, C.T. Pan and Billy Horschel, while the second will be determined by a Fan Vote. HOW TO FOLLOW TELEVISION: Thursday-Friday, 3-7 p.m. ET (Golf Channel). Saturday, 12-3 p.m. (GC), 3-6 p.m. (NBC). Sunday, 12-2 p.m. (GC), 2-6 p.m. (NBC) PGA TOUR LIVE: Thursday-Friday, 9:45 a.m.-7 p.m. (featured groups). Saturday, 8:15 a.m.-3 p.m. (featured groups), 3-6 p.m. (featured holes). Sunday, 8:15 a.m.-2 p.m. (featured groups), 2-6 p.m. (featured holes). International subscribers (via GOLF.tv): Thursday-Friday, 11:15 to 22:00 GMT. Saturday-Sunday, 12:30 to 22:00. RADIO: Thursday-Friday, 1-7 p.m. ET; Saturday-Sunday, 1-6 p.m. (PGA TOUR Radio on SiriusXM and PGATOUR.com). RELATED: FedExCup standings | Seven things to know about Medinah | Course, field preview Featured Groups Thursday, August 15, 10:48 a.m. Friday, August 16, 12:54 p.m. Brooks Koepka, Patrick Reed, Rory McIlroy (FedExCup Nos. 1, 2 and 3) Koepka enters the event No. 1 in the FedExCup standings on the strength of three wins (THE CJ CUP @ NINE BRIDGES, PGA Championship, World Golf Championships-FedEx St. Jude Invitational) and three runner-up finishes on the season Reed moved to No. 2 in the standings with a win at THE NORTHERN TRUST, his second career victory in the FedExCup Playoffs McIlroy, winner of the event in 2012 and the only past FedExCup champion in the top 10 of the standings, is looking to become just the second player with multiple FedExCup titles (Tiger Woods/2007, 2009) Thursday, August 15, 1:05 p.m. Friday, August 16, 10:48 a.m. Matt Kuchar, Jon Rahm, Patrick Cantlay (FedExCup Nos. 4, 5 and 6) Kuchar held the lead in the FedExCup standings for a TOUR-best 17 weeks during the Regular Season; he will return to the TOUR Championship after missing out in 2018 for the first time in nine seasons Rahm is coming off a T3 at THE NORTHERN TRUST, clinching a berth in the TOUR Championship for the third time in his third full season on TOUR Cantlay, winner of the 2019 Memorial Tournament presented by Nationwide, is second on TOUR in Scoring Average (69.170; leader: Rory McIlroy) Thursday, August 15, 10:37 a.m. Friday, August 16, 12:43 p.m. Xander Schauffele, Abraham Ancer, Gary Woodland (FedExCup Nos. 7, 8 and 9) One of four players to win multiple events this season, Schauffele is No. 7 in the FedExCup standings and finished in the top 15 in both the 2016-17 and 2017-18 seasons With a runner-up at THE NORTHERN TRUST, Ancer moved to No. 8 in the FedExCup standings, clinching a berth in the TOUR Championship as well as a spot on the 2019 International Presidents Cup Team The 2019 U.S. Open champion, Woodland has been in the top 10 in the FedExCup standings since the third week of the season, the longest active streak on TOUR Thursday, August 15, 12:54 p.m. Friday, August 16, 10:37 a.m. Dustin Johnson, Webb Simpson, Justin Rose (FedExCup Nos. 10, 11 and 12) Johnson has four career wins in the FedExCup Playoffs, tied with Rory McIlroy and Tiger Woods for the most all-time Simpson, runner-up in three of his last six starts, has top-10s in each of the last two seasons at the BMW Championship Rose lost to Keegan Bradley in a playoff at the 2018 BMW Championship before going on to win the FedExCup
Jordan Spieth carded a 5-under 67 in the first round of the Valero Texas Open on Thursday, good enough for the solo lead amongst the morning-wave finishers. That was good enough for a one-shot lead over Scottie Scheffler and Tom Hoge. Related: Full leaderboard "I certainly would have signed up for 5 under starting out," Spieth said. "Felt like I played some really nice golf on our front nine, the back nine. Then just kind of got a little loose off the tee on the front nine, our second nine, and was able to kind of make do. "I hit some decent drives, ended up in iffy spots," he continued. "Overall, just chipped and putted really well, which was the difference maker today. I didn’t quite hit it as good as I have been." Mired in a slump at the start of this year, Spieth has regained his form with the help of longtime coach Cameron McCormick but also an unlikely ally: fellow TOUR pro Jason Dufner. Speaking about the upcoming Masters in a conference call Wednesday, Brandel Chamblee and Rich Lerner suggested that Spieth has been copying some of Dufner's moves. "Well, if you watch him when he rehearses before he hits a shot now, it's weird," Chamblee said. "Even when he's hitting bunker shots, he'll make this very flat golf swing and then in transition, he'll bring his right elbow much closer to his left elbow than I've ever seen him, and then he will round it off and sort of curve the hub. "He'll swing very much around and to the left," he continued. "The only other person I've ever seen make practice swings like that is Jason Dufner. So it would not surprise me in the least if he was not — if he wasn't taking lessons from Jason Dufner, talking to Jason Dufner about the golf swing, or watching Jason Dufner make golf shots. Or Cameron McCormick is." Added Lerner: "He has, Brandel. I spoke to their camp at Bay Hill and he has confided in Dufner, which sort of caught me by surprise." Asked about the Dufner connection after making seven birdies and two bogeys, one of them on his last hole, the par-4 ninth, Spieth said they've been friends, but that's about it. "Yeah, he’s somebody that has a good knowledge of the golf swing," he said. "He’s helped a lot of guys. Just kind of bounce ideas off him. He’s been a good friend of mine for a long time. "He’s been somebody I can always kind of bounce off - ‘Hey, I’m trying to do this, you know, what’s this feel like to you?' - that kind of stuff," Spieth added. "He’s been a good buddy, as I’ve had a lot of different guys over the years that have been offering advice on and off the golf course to the young guys and that’s not out of the ordinary out here."
