Jordan Spieth wins in playoff at RBC Heritage

Saturday will bring another star-studded Featured Group – Tony Finau, Brooks Koepka and Justin Rose – and the opportunity for fans to pick the other threesome they’d like to watch. Voting will take place on the PGA TOUR’s Twitter account. PGA TOUR LIVE will broadcast from 8:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. on Friday and Saturday. The coverage also will be available on Twitter for approximately the first hour of the broadcast. Here’s a look at this week’s Featured Groups (Note: FedExCup rankings in parentheses; all times Eastern): FRIDAY Marc Leishman (24), Tiger Woods (25), Chez Reavie (26): Woods won here in 2006, the year before the FedExCup Playoffs began. Leishman and Reavie both contended at TPC Boston en route to their best FedExCup finishes. In five starts at TPC Boston since the start of the FedExCup, Woods has finished in the top 11 four times. Leishman finished third at TPC Boston last year, then won the BMW Championship and finished sixth in the final FedExCup standings. Reavie was the runner-up here seven years ago to earn his lone TOUR Championship berth. Tee times: 8:51 a.m. off No. 10 on Friday; 1:16 p.m. off No. 1 on Saturday. Bryson DeChambeau (1), Dustin Johnson (2), Justin Thomas (3): Take me to your leaders. These are the top three players in the FedExCup. Johnson and Thomas also played in this group last week, while DeChambeau moved into this elite company with his win at THE NORTHERN TRUST. DeChambeau is the youngest player to lead the FedExCup standings after the first event of the postseason. Thomas is the defending champion at TPC Boston after last year’s three-shot win. Tee times: 9:03 a.m. off No. 10 on Friday; 1:28 p.m. off No. 1 on Saturday. SATURDAY Tony Finau (4), Brooks Koepka (5), Justin Rose (6): Finau moved into the top five with his second-place finish at THE NORTHERN TRUST. It was his third runner-up, and ninth top-10, of the season. Koepka and Rose both have two wins this season. Koepka’s victories came at the PGA Championship and U.S. Open, while Rose won the Fort Worth Invitational and World Golf Championships-HSBC Champions. Tee times: 1:28 p.m. off No. 1 on Friday; 9:03 a.m. off No. 10 on Saturday. These are the groups that you will be able to vote for on Twitter. One group will be selected as Saturday’s second Featured Group: 8:51 a.m. off No. 1: Austin Cook (36), Gary Woodland (37), Ian Poulter (38) 8:51 a.m. off No. 10: Billy Horschel (14), Aaron Wise (15), Cameron Smith (16) 9:15 a.m. off No. 1: Paul Casey (20), Kyle Stanley (21), Tommy Fleetwood (22) 9:15 a.m. off No. 10: Phil Mickelson (10), Patrick Cantlay (11), Patrick Reed (12)

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SOUTHAMPTON, Bermuda – If you’re wondering if a golfer with aspirations for a PGA TOUR career has time to feel sorry for himself after missing by six shots at the second stage of the Korn Ferry Tour Qualifying Tournament, the answer could be a resounding, no. And if you wanted to be more emphatic, you could add, “Just go ask Patrick Flavin.” As in the same Patrick Flavin whose 5-under 66 in Friday’s second round of the Butterfield Bermuda Championship pushed him to 7-under 135 and in contention in just his second PGA TOUR start, a mere two weeks after failing in that KFT qualifier. Fortunately, Flavin didn’t have time to bemoan his fate. The world of pro golf being filled with chances, Flavin teed it up three days later in a Monday qualifier, shot 67, and was one of four players given a spot into the Bermuda field. “I believe in myself,” said Flavin, 25, who missed the cut in his previous PGA TOUR start, the 2020 Waste Management Phoenix Open. Most of his pro golf has been played on the Korn Ferry Tour (14 tournaments, most of them in 2020) and PGA LatinoAmerica (21, most of them in 2019). But it’s that LatinoAmerica experience that he is drawing on this week in Bermuda. “It’s a similar vibe (given the warm weather, island culture, cozy confines) and I’ve had success in this sort of environment.” But mostly, Flavin came to Bermuda with his parents (“It’s a road trip for them,” he laughed), gave his father, Mark, his bag, and committed to a simple plan. “Just put my head down and believe in myself.” For the Highwood, Ill., native who went to Miami University in Ohio, being within four of Taylor Pendrith’s lead is owed to that pair of blinders he metaphorically put on this week. Playing in Thursday afternoon’s robust win, Flavin bogeyed three times going out and was 2-over for his first 12 holes. He’s played the last 24 holes in 9-under. Not bad, considering the hiccup his career took a few weeks ago and the mad scramble to make all the international travel plans on short notice. “But having my dad on the bag has been really, really nice,” said Flavin. “We’ve made it work and this is a dream come true.”

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