Who surges, who struggles and who wins on Sunday at the U.S. Open

Round 3 of the Rocket Mortgage Classic begins Saturday from Detroit Golf Club. Taylor Pendrith leads Tony Finau by one stroke heading into the weekend. Here’s everything you need to know to follow the action, including Featured Groups for PGA TOUR LIVE and newly expanded and extended coverage on ESPN+. Click here for more details. Leaderboard Full tee times HOW TO FOLLOW (All times ET) Television: Saturday-Sunday, 1 p.m.-3 p.m. (Golf Channel), 3 p.m.-6 p.m. (CBS). Radio: Saturday-Sunday, 1 p.m.-6 p.m. (PGA TOUR Radio on SiriusXM and PGATOUR.com/liveaudio) For outside of the U.S., click here for GOLFTV powered by the PGA TOUR PGA TOUR LIVE PGA TOUR Live is available exclusively on ESPN+ • Main Feed: primary tournament-coverage featuring the best action from across the course • Marquee Group: new “marquee group” showcasing every shot from each player in the group • Featured Groups: traditional PGA TOUR LIVE coverage of two concurrent featured groups • Featured Holes: a combination of par-3s and iconic or pivotal holes FEATURED GROUPS SATURDAY Marquee Group Will Zalatoris, Trey Mullinax Featured Groups Keegan Bradley, Joohyung Kim Max Homa, Tyler Duncan Featured Holes: No. 5 (par 3), No. 11 (par 3), No. 15 (par 3), No. 17 (par 5) MUST READS Taylor Pendrith leads by one at Rocket Mortgage Classic For Davis Love III, a missed cut but an unqualified success U.S. Presidents Cup Mark Hubbard explains ’embarrassing’ hole-in-one at Rocket Mortgage Classic Tony Finau’s heart-warming, and hilarious, ball markings Four! Patrick, Nick, Caroline, Jack Cantlay following own paths Five Things to Know: Detroit Golf Club

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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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SAN ANTONIO – Six-time PGA TOUR winner Jimmy Walker, honored Monday with induction into the Texas Golf Hall of Fame, said he was taking the Lone Star State’s highest golfing honor with his full-time work with new teacher Matt Killen as confidence he can return to golf’s highest levels. “This is a nice honor to be recognized by your home state for golf, along with being recognized by my school Baylor University for their athletic hall of fame, but I have really done it all in my career,� Walker said at the afternoon inductions ceremonies at the A.W. Tillinghast 1916 designed Brackenridge Park, Texas’ first public golf course. “I’ve got my card, I’ve lost my card, I’ve won at every level, I’ve played the Ryder Cup, Presidents Cup, made big putts, won big events. I was ranked as high at 9th in the world and at age 40, I still want to do it again.� Walker, who has battled Lyme Disease, along with his wife Erin, ever since he won the 2016 PGA Championship, said he feels as healthy as he has since before the PGA win and his illness. He has played two PGA TOUR events this fall in the 2019-20 season but will take time off until resuming play at the Sony Open in Hawaii in January. “Golf beat me up pretty good last year and the end of 2018, so I’m taking it easy now, working with Matt, resting and getting healthy,� he said. Walker comes off a season in which he failed to produce a top-10 finish for the first time since 2008 and had just three top-25 finishes, also his lowest since 2008. He failed to make the FedExCup Playoffs for the first time since 2009. “Everything happens for a reason; I really believe that,� Walker said. “I got sick right after I won the PGA Championship, but that gave me a five-year exemption. If I hadn’t done that, I might be out of a job right now.� He started working with Killen, who has worked with Tiger Woods, Justin Thomas and J.B. Holmes, full-time after the British Open at Royal Portrush and said he is excited with the results. “I ask a lot of questions and he had a lot of good answers,� Walker said. “He is working on my club transition, my short game and putting and a lot of good stuff. “Will this Hall of Fame honor bring my game back? Not by itself, but some low numbers and seeing the ball go in the hole will and that’s where I headed. “I know I can get back because I’ve done it before. I’ve been on a real strict diet and I’ve lost 10-20 pounds and I’m added it back with muscle.� Walker is the 40th Texas PGA TOUR player to be inducted into the Texas Golf Hall of Fame, located at Brackenridge Park. and the 11th PGA Championship winner. Walker was a member of the Presidents Cup in 2015 and said he plans to watch the competition on television in December, with the event being held in Melbourne, Australia. He attended Rickie Fowler’s wedding recently and was reunited with many of his previous Presidents Cup and Ryder Cup teammates, further fueling his competitive desire to regain a spot on the U.S. national teams. “I’ve played in two Ryder Cup teams and one Presidents Cup and I love the team game,� Walker said. “I’ve played some really good golf in the past and that’s what I know I can do again. I’m taking is easy for now, but that’s a huge goal of mine.�

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