Hero World Challenge, third round: Leaderboard, tee times, TV schedule

There are enough reasons to think Tiger Woods can pull this off on Sunday. There are just as many reasons to think he won’t. We look at them all.

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PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. – The PGA TOUR today announced an expansive agreement with Facebook to distribute daily highlight packages globally on Facebook Watch in 2020 starting at this week’s Farmers Insurance Open. The PGA TOUR will publish daily round recaps and player-specific highlights from more than 30 events, including THE PLAYERS Championship and FedExCup Playoffs. These expanded highlights will feature content from the TOUR’s core telecasts, along with content from PGA TOUR LIVE, the TOUR’s OTT service featuring more than 1,200 hours of exclusive Featured Groups coverage in 2020. “We’re excited to expand our partnership with Facebook by delivering additional content for our fans,� said Chris Wandell, Vice President Media Business Development at the PGA TOUR. “This is in response to our fans’ appetite for additional coverage packaged in a way that is convenient for them to consume.� The TOUR will create a robust and timely highlights experience for PGA TOUR fans around the world on Facebook Watch. Fans can stay up to date with the latest highlights by following the PGA TOUR Facebook Page at https://www.facebook.com/PGATour. Content will be posted daily at the completion of each tournament round. As part of the agreement, the TOUR will also engage fans in its Facebook Group, The Gallery, with interactive elements such as Facebook Lives and Facebook Watch Parties. “We’re thrilled to add PGA TOUR recaps to our growing portfolio of sports highlights on Facebook Watch,� said Sidhant Rao, Facebook Sports League Partnerships.� Through this content, as well as products such as Facebook Groups and Watch Party, the TOUR will be able to engage its fans in exciting new ways this year.� In 2018, the PGA TOUR and Facebook teamed up to stream live coverage from THE PLAYERS Championship and several other PGA TOUR events leading into the 2018 FedExCup Playoffs.

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ATLANTA – Rory McIlroy is seeking history at this week’s TOUR Championship as he tries to become the first three-time winner of the FedExCup. McIlroy arrived at East Lake ranked seventh in the FedExCup after wins at THE CJ CUP @ SUMMIT and RBC Canadian Open. He had top-10s in all four majors and finished outside the top 25 just three times in his 15 starts, a level of consistency that was reminiscent of his second FedExCup-winning season, in 2019. “I’m back to playing the golf that I’m used to playing and the golf that I know that I can play,” McIlroy said two weeks earlier at the first event of the FedExCup Playoffs, the FedEx St. Jude Championship. “This year feels very similar to the way I played in 2019. It’s a carbon copy in terms of the consistency and the numbers and the strokes gained numbers, but my finishes in the majors have been better and that’s been a real positive looking ahead into next year and the future.” McIlroy started this week six shots back of FedExCup leader Scottie Scheffler, a large deficit but not an insurmountable one. McIlroy should know. He was five back to start the 2019 TOUR Championship, the first one using the Starting Strokes format. His 72-hole score of 267 was the lowest of the week by three shots and gave him a four-shot win over Xander Schauffele. The gap between McIlroy and Scheffler quickly grew Thursday, however, after McIlroy hit his opening tee shot out of bounds. He made a triple-bogey on the first hole and a bogey on the next. He didn’t make his first par until the seventh hole, sandwiching a bogey on the fourth hole between birdies on Nos. 3 and 5. Then he eagled the par-5 sixth by holing a 35-yard pitch shot from the rough. Another birdie on the eighth hole got him to even par for the day but he bogeyed No. 9 to make the turn in 1-over 36. McIlroy and Tiger Woods, who earlier this week announced a partnership to start an indoor, data-driven golf league, are the only players to win the FedExCup twice.

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