World Golf Championships-FedEx St. Jude Invitational, Round 2: Leaderboard, tee times, TV times

PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. – The PGA TOUR released today the four featured groupings for Thursday-Friday at this week’s Wells Fargo Championship at Quail Hollow Club in Charlotte, North Carolina. To watch the featured groupings on Thursday-Friday, fans in the United States can tune into the Golf Channel telecast (2-6 p.m. ET) and stream PGA TOUR LIVE via subscription on NBC Sports Gold and Amazon Prime Video Channels. Featured Groups Thursday Afternoon (May 2) Justin Rose – Rickie Fowler – Webb Simpson • NOTABLE: Fowler won his first PGA TOUR event at the Wells Fargo Championship in 2012. • 2018 FedExCup champion Rose, who won the Farmers Insurance Open earlier this season, has top-fives in his last two starts at the Wells Fargo Championship (2014, 2016). • Fowler captured the Waste Management Phoenix Open in January and sits ninth in the FedExCup standings. • 2017 PLAYERS Championship winner Simpson’s home is on the course at Quail Hollow Club. Rory McIlroy – Tony Finau – Sergio Garcia • NOTABLE: McIlroy, winner of THE PLAYERS Championship in March, is the only two-time winner of the Wells Fargo Championship (2010 and 2015); currently third in the FedExCup standings. • Finau finished T5 at the Masters Tournament, his fourth top-10 in his last five major starts. • Garcia returns to the Wells Fargo Championship for the first time since 2013; has four top-10s in eight starts this season, including a runner-up with partner Tommy Fleetwood at last week’s Zurich Classic of New Orleans. Friday Afternoon (May 3) Phil Mickelson – Jason Day – Harold Varner III • NOTABLE: Mickelson has eight top-five finishes in 15 Wells Fargo Championship starts but looking for first title; the Wells Fargo Championship is one of seven PGA TOUR events Mickelson has played 15-plus times without a victory. • Day is the defending champion of the Wells Fargo Championship. • North Carolina native Varner grew up 30 minutes outside of Charlotte in Gastonia. Paul Casey – Patrick Reed – Hideki Matsuyama • NOTABLE: While Casey is fourth in the FedExCup, Matsuyama (44) and Reed (66) sit outside the top 30 in the FedExCup standings; both players have qualified for the season-ending TOUR Championship five straight seasons (2014-18). • Casey is the last player to successfully defend a PGA TOUR title at the Valspar Championship (2018-19). • Reed successfully Monday qualified for the Wells Fargo Championship in 2013 and finished T32; he finished solo-eighth in his last start in 2018

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Kyle Stanley … The 32-year-old has survived only six of 16 cuts this season, but he’s 126th in the FedExCup thanks in part to a T24 two weeks ago at TPC River Highlands. For the week, he landed inside the top 20 in most measurements of his game off the tee and into greens, but that’s been his profile throughout his career. It’s paid handsomely at Muirfield Village where he has a pair of podium finishes among three top 10s, including a playoff loss just two years ago. He deserves attention again due to that success in conjunction with the familiarity of the sightlines and slower greens. Cameron Tringale … A solid first half of the Rocket Mortgage Classic triggered thoughts of the Diaper Dimension but a third-round 72 thwarted a realistic run at his first victory on the PGA TOUR. He settled for a share of 30th place. That there were signs of something special at all suggests that he’s under the influence of the imminent birth of his first child. His irons were dialed in at Detroit Golf Club. With slower greens than usual at Muirfield Village this week, piling up the scoring opportunities will be first priority. Adam Long … When 13 of 23 career cuts made result in a top 25, it’s not a reach to define him as a top-25 machine. It also means that he licks his chops on weekends. As a rookie in 2018-19, his third- and fourth-round scoring averages were lower than his averages for each of the first two rounds. This season, he’s currently 37th on TOUR in final-round scoring average, but he’s also 20th in the second round. So, the key is simply getting to the weekend, which is, well, not always that simple. However, if he strikes his irons with the precision that yielded a T24 at the Travelers Championship, you won’t be surprised. He led the field at TPC River Highlands in proximity to the hole. Henrik Norlander … Shadowed by Bryson DeChambeau’s statistically historic week at Detroit Golf Club was the Swede’s own triumvirate of pacesetting analytics. No one split more than Norlander’s 48 fairways hit, scored better in Strokes Gained: Approach (+8.29) and no one was more efficient in getting up and down for par (15 of 16). All of that outbalanced below-average putting as he manufactured a T12. He arrived at Muirfield Village with nine consecutive red numbers in tow. Richy Werenski … While he didn’t close the Rocket Mortgage Classic as well as he opened, his T21 easily was his best finish of the restart. And he’s yet to rest. In addition to three appearances on the PGA TOUR since play resumed, he stayed warm in a Korn Ferry Tour event. And he’s yet to miss a cut. He’s also been known to go on a heater. Ranked T2 in fairways hit, T8 in greens in regulation and eighth in proximity at Detroit GC to frontload his signature confident putting. NOTE: Sleeper is a relative term, so Rob uses unofficial criteria to determine who qualifies. Each of the following usually is determined to be ineligible for this weekly staple: Winners of the tournament on the current host course; winners in the same season; recent major champions; top 50 in the Official World Golf Ranking; recent participants of team competitions.

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Celine Boutier began the day five shots behind but shot an 8-under 63 to win the ShopRite LPGA Classic as South Korea’s two best players faltered down the stretch.

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