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The final chance to make it into the FedExCup Playoffs is here as players tee it up at the Wyndham Championship and position themselves in the top 125. The past two winners of THE PLAYERS Championship Si Woo Kim and Webb Simpson tee it up alongside Sergio Garcia as Henrik Stenson tries to successfully defend his title. He will do so against a strong field that includes the 2012 and 2014 FedExCup champions, Brandt Snedeker and Billy Horschel respectively, Hideki Matsuyama and 2017 Masters winner Sergio Garcia. Facebook Watch will offer streaming coverage of this weekend’s action from 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. ET on Saturday and Sunday. Here’s everything you need to know for Round 1: Round 1 leaderboard Round 1 tee times HOW TO WATCH/LISTEN (ALL TIMES ET) PGA TOUR LIVE: 7:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. TELEVISION: 3:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. (Golf Channel) RADIO: 12 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. (PGA TOUR RADIO on Sirius XM or at PGATOUR.COM) NOTABLE GROUPINGS 7:40 a.m.: Bill Horschel, Brandt Snedeker, Hideki Matsuyama 7:50 a.m.: Webb Simpson, Si Woo Kim, Sergio Garcia 12:40 p.m.: Daniel Berger, Jason Dufner, Bill Haas 12:50 p.m.: Henrik Stenson, Jhonattan Vegas, Ryan Moore MUST-READS Featured Groups TOUR Insider: Grading bold predictions Saving the best for last: Top performances to reach the FedExCup Playoffs Power Rankings

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How it works: Each week, our experts from PGATOUR.COM will make their selections in PGA TOUR Fantasy Golf. Each lineup consists of four starters and two bench players that can be rotated after each round. Adding to the challenge is that every golfer can be used only three times per each of four Segments. Aside from the experts below, Fantasy Insider Rob Bolton breaks down the field at this year’s AT&T Byron Nelson in this week’s edition of the Power Rankings. For more fantasy, check out Rookie Ranking, Qualifiers and Reshuffle. RELATED: Play Pick ‘Em Live THINK YOU’RE BETTER THAN OUR EXPERTS? The PGA TOUR Experts league is once again open to the public. You can play our free fantasy game and see how you measure up against our experts below. Joining the league is simple. Just click here to sign up or log in. Once you create a team, click the “LEAGUES” tab. Then click on “FEATURED,” and then on the PGA TOUR Experts league that populates. SEASON SEGMENT

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FORT WORTH, Texas – Few could find fault with Jordan Spieth’s putting stroke, but the former FedExCup champion said a “somewhat significant” change was needed before this week’s Charles Schwab Challenge. It worked. Spieth was impeccable with the putter en route to a bogey-free 63 that gave him a three-shot lead after Thursday’s morning wave at Colonial Country Club. RELATED: Full leaderboard | Tee times | Spieth reacts to Mickelson’s historic win “I just needed to do a bit of adjustment in my stroke feel on some bad tendencies I got into,” Spieth said. “Cameron (McCormick, Spieth’s instructor) … was able to really pinpoint a way to get a stroke feel that left me just a little more comfortable over it.” A lack of confidence was causing Spieth to leave putts about a foot short of his target. Spieth finished 30th in last week’s PGA Championship despite ranking 69th in Strokes Gained: Putting (-0.55) among the 81 players who made the cut. He’s 48th in that statistic this season. He gained more than 4 strokes on the greens Thursday, missing just one of the 18 putts he faced from inside 20 feet. He was 3 for 3 from 5-10 feet, missed just one of the four putts he faced from 10-15 feet and made a 19-foot birdie putt on the 17th hole. He started the day with a 12-foot birdie putt on his opening hole, the par-4 10th. He added birdies at 12 and 17 to shoot 32 on the front nine. Another birdied at No. 2 got him to 4 under before he birdied his final three holes, including a chip-in on the par-3 eighth hole. Spieth, who recently ended a winless drought of nearly four years, is now seeking his second win in his home state in less than two months. His victory in last month’s Valero Texas Open was his first PGA TOUR win since the 2017 Open Championship. He’s ninth in this season’s FedExCup standings thanks to seven top-10s in his last 10 starts. And now he brings his good form into Colonial, one of the courses where he feels most comfortable. He won here in 2016, one of six top-10s in eight starts. “Colonial, it’s Hogan’s Alley,” he said. “Fit it into tight windows, trying to hit fairways, and control the ball on the green. I’ve putted these greens historically very well, that’s No. 1. I’ve had a knack for reading and dialing in the speed out here.” The familiar bentgrass putting surfaces of Colonial Country Club can seemingly fix anything that may ail Spieth’s putting stroke. He showed it Thursday.

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