FedEx St. Jude Round 3 Tee Times; Matsuyama, McCarthy co-lead

Despite going through distressing circumstances stemming from a theft in London earlier within the week, Hideki Matsuyama holds a share of the 36-hole lead with Denny McCarthy on the FedEx St. Jude Championship.

McCarthy has additionally needed to overcome his justifiable share of struggles, which embody a perspiration challenge and a nagging hip damage that has bothered him for fairly a while.

Yet, regardless of these setbacks, each gamers soared to the highest of the leaderboard on Friday as they every sit at 11-under-par. McCarthy shot a 7-under 63, the bottom spherical of the week, matched by Viktor Hovland and Sam Burns earlier within the day on Friday. Matsuyama, in the meantime, posted a 6-under 64, a spherical that included seven birdies and one bogey on the par-3 4th.

Speaking of Burns, the Texan received off to a blistering begin on Friday, going birdie-eagle-birdie on the 2nd, third, and 4th holes. He went on to shoot a 6-under 29 on the entrance aspect, which in the end turned a 63. Burns sits one again of Matsuyama and McCarthy at 10-under-par.

But the perfect participant on the planet is lurking at 9-under, one again of Burns and two off the lead. Scottie Scheffler performed flawless but once more, taking pictures a bogey-free, 5-under 65 to climb up the leaderboard and into solo fourth. He stays the odds-on favourite on the halfway level of the championship, and it might shock no person if he received a seventh PGA Tour title on Sunday in Memphis. It would shock everyone if he didn’t contend, faltered, and didn’t submit one other top-5 end.

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With that mentioned, the oppressive warmth in Memphis has led many gamers to battle by 36 holes. Look at Rory McIlroy, Jordan Spieth, and Cameron Young, every of whom failed to interrupt par over the primary two rounds.

But something can occur, particularly contemplating unhealthy climate is forecasted within the afternoon. As such, the PGA Tour moved up tee occasions to earlier within the day. Groups will go off in threesomes, which is able to result in an extended spherical within the warmth, humidity, and swampy situations.

Round 3 Tee Times for FedEx St. Jude Championship (ET)

* – Denotes tenth tee begin

10:45 a.m. — Adam Scott, Sepp Straka, Maverick McNealy

10:45 a.m.* — Alex Noren, Davis Thompson, Matthieu Pavon

10:56 a.m. — Wyndham Clark, Seamus Power, Eric Cole

10:56 a.m.* — Shane Lowry, Min Woo Lee, Keegan Bradley

11:07 a.m. — Austin Eckroat, Justin Thomas, Akshay Bhatia

11:07 a.m.* — J.T. Poston, Corey Conners, Jason Day

11:18 a.m. — Tommy Fleetwood, Taylor Pendrith, Emiliano Grillo

11:18 a.m.* — Tom Hoge, Patrick Cantlay, Byeong Hun An

11:29 a.m. — Christiaan Bezuidenhout, Russell Henley, Ben Griffin

11:29 a.m.* — Sahith Theegala, Victor Perez, Cameron Davis

11:40 a.m. — Brendon Todd, Harris English, Nick Taylor

11:40 a.m.* — Sungjae Im, Ludvig Åberg, Collin Morikawa

11:51 a.m. — Xander Schauffele, Tom Kim, Brian Harman

11:51 a.m.* — Peter Malnati, Patrick Rodgers, Stephan Jaeger

12:02 p.m. — Matt Fitzpatrick, Aaron Rai, Tony Finau

12:02 p.m.* — Taylor Moore, Mackenzie Hughes, Cameron Young

12:13 p.m. — Erik van Rooyen, Will Zalatoris, Chris Kirk

12:13 p.m.* — Rory McIlroy, Adam Hadwin, Thomas Detry

12:24 p.m. — Viktor Hovland, Robert MacIntyre, Billy Horschel

12:24 p.m.* — Jhonattan Vegas, Jordan Spieth, Max Greyserman

12:35 p.m. — Scottie Scheffler, Justin Rose, Nick Dunlap

12:35 p.m.* — Mark Hubbard, Si Woo Kim

12:46 p.m. — Denny McCarthy, Hideki Matsuyama, Sam Burns

12:46 p.m.* — Jake Knapp, Max Homa

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