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

Brooks Koepka understood the feel-good story, the one everyone wanted. On Sunday at the PGA Championship, he just wasn’t going allow it to happen.

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Rob Bolton lists five against-the-grain fantasy selections for this week’s event at Colonial CC. Kyle Reifers … He’s survived 11 of 20 cuts this season but still ranks just 138th in the FedExCup standings. However, he was 160th prior to a T20 at the AT&T Byron Nelson where he ranked T10 in greens in regulation and second in proximity to the hole. It was his second-best result in 10 months. His best finish of 2015-16 occurred at Colonial. En route to that solo fifth, he led the field in both GIR and proximity to the hole. He also ranked T2 in conversion percentage inside 10 feet, going 66-for-69. All of that speaks to his comfort level on the classic track as he’s perfect in four trips since 2012. Sung Kang … For some, the Zurich Classic of New Orleans presented an opportunity to put FedExCup points on the board amid a dry spell. For him, it wound up as a disruption, albeit a blip. Since his runner-up performance at the Shell Houston Open on the first Sunday in April, the 29-year-old is perfect in individual competition with four top 20s and sits 29th in the FedExCup standings. He displayed a characteristically strong short game en route to a T20 at the AT&T Byron Nelson. For the season, he’s T46 in greens in regulation, 34th in strokes gained: putting and 26th in adjusted scoring. This is his third appearance at Colonial. Blayne Barber … Arguably one of the four forgotten also-rans who Mackenzie Hughes outlasted in the playoff at The RSM Classic, it was nonetheless a career-best finish for Barber. Alas, it didn’t portend a hot restart after the holiday break as he missed his first four cuts of 2017. He then went without a top 25 until a T16 in his last start at THE PLAYERS. True to form, he led the field in proximity to the hole, strokes gained: putting and average distance of putts made. For the season, he ranks a respective T12, 12th and first in those categories. Not a stranger to Colonial, either. He placed T34 in his debut here last year. Ben Martin … Since the wraparound schedule was introduced in 2013-14, when a golfer wins an event in the fall portion, it immediately feels like his exemption is longer than any other golfer who wins later in the season, but standard two-year exemptions earned in the same season expire at the same time. His exemption for capturing the 2014 Shriners Hospitals for Children Open ends in three months, which means that he still has this period of time to save his PGA TOUR card. The 29-year-old is 144th in the FedExCup standings with only two top 25s on the season (both are T18s). If he just goes about his business as he has in every prior appearance at Colonial where he’s 3-for-3 with a T21 in 2014 and a T10 in 2015, he’ll relieve some of the pressure. Chris Stroud … The Texan has been limited to 10 starts due to conditional status and he’s missed six cuts, but he’s just inside the top 150 of the FedExCup standings thanks to a trio of top-15 finishes. The veteran of 282 PGA TOUR starts understands more than many the value of every opportunity, especially since he’s still chasing his first trophy. Colonial is a course where it would make sense to happen, at least if you base it on his past experience. He’s logged top 15s in four of the last five editions during which his scoring average is 68.83. Leads the circuit in par-3 scoring.

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PONTE VEDRA BEACH, FLORIDA – The PGA TOUR announced Monday the four featured groupings for Thursday-Friday at the RBC Heritage, to be contested at Harbour Town Golf Links in Hilton Head, South Carolina. The RBC Heritage, traditionally played the week following the Masters Tournament, was originally scheduled to be played April 13-19, and was announced as canceled on March 17 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. However, due to flexibility allowed by the postponement of 2020 major championships, the RBC Heritage returned to the PGA TOUR schedule. Full groupings and starting times for the first two rounds of the Charles Schwab Challenge will be released officially at approximately noon ET on Tuesday, June 16. HOW TO FOLLOW Television: Thursday-Friday, 3 p.m.-6 p.m. ET (Golf Channel). Saturday-Sunday, 1 p.m.-3 p.m. (Golf Channel), 3 p.m.-6 p.m. (CBS). PGA TOUR LIVE: Thursday-Friday 6:45 a.m.-6 p.m. (featured groups), Saturday-Sunday 7:45 a.m.-3 p.m. (featured groups). Saturday-Sunday 3 p.m.-6 p.m. (featured holes). Radio: Thursday-Friday, 12 p.m.-6 p.m. Saturday-Sunday 1 p.m.-6 p.m. (PGA TOUR Radio on SiriusXM and PGATOUR.com/liveaudio). Rory McIlroy, C.T. Pan, Rickie Fowler • McIlroy, who is making his first start at the RBC Heritage since 2009, snapped his streak of seven consecutive top-fives on TOUR with a T32 at last week’s Charles Schwab Challenge • Pan earned his first career PGA TOUR victory at the 2019 RBC Heritage, defeating Matt Kuchar by one stroke • Fowler has two top-10s in seven starts on the season (T5/Sentry Tournament of Champions, T10/The American Express); he missed the cut at last week’s Charles Schwab Challenge Daniel Berger, Brooks Koepka, Patrick Reed • Daniel Berger earned his third career PGA TOUR title at last week’s Charles Schwab Challenge and holds the PGA TOUR’s longest active streak of par-or-better scores (28) • Koepka, making his tournament debut, enters the week No. 204 in the FedExCup standings and has been limited to just six starts during the 2019-20 season due to injury • With five top-10s on the season, including a win at the World Golf Championships-Mexico Championship, Reed is No. 4 in the FedExCup standings Jon Rahm, Justin Rose, Justin Thomas • Rahm has four top-10s in six starts on the season, highlighted by a runner-up result at the Farmers Insurance Open; he will compete at the RBC Heritage for the first time • Rose, competing at the RBC Heritage for the first time since 2008, finished T3 at last week’s Charles Schwab Challenge, his best finish on TOUR since the 2019 U.S. Open (T3) • Thomas enters the week No. 2 in the FedExCup standings as one of two players with multiple wins on the season (THE CJ CUP @ NINE BRIDGES, Sentry Tournament of Champions) Dustin Johnson, Hideki Matsuyama, Gary Woodland • RBC ambassador and South Carolina native Johnson is currently No. 115 in the FedExCup standings and has not missed the TOUR Championship since 2008 (his rookie season) • Matsuyama will make his first start on TOUR since the season was suspended in March and has four top-10s on the season; he missed the cut in his lone start at the RBC Heritage (2014) • Woodland, the reigning U.S. Open champion, has five top-10s on the season, including a ninth-place result at last week’s Charles Schwab Challenge

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