Rory McIlroy watches a tee shot during the final round of the Players Championship on Sunday in Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla.
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UPDATE: Play was suspended at 1:15 p.m. ET due to inclement weather. This story will be updated when more information is available.
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The PGA Tour’s marquee event is staring early today. Tee times were moved up for the 2025 Players Championship at TPC Sawgrass’ Stadium Course due to an ominous weather forecast for the Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla., area.
There’s a chance of thunderstorms, some of them severe, hitting the area at 1 p.m. ET Sunday, which led to tournament organizers making the decision to move up tee times, group players in threesomes and have them go off both sets of tees.
Sunday’s tee times started at 8 a.m. ET with the last threesome — Bud Cauley, Lucas Glover and 54-hole leader J.J. Spaun — beginning their final round at 10:01 a.m.
According to the weather forecast, some of the thunderstorms coming around or after 1 p.m. — when the final groups will have about four or five holes remaining — could be severe. The area is currently in a Tornado Watch and the wind gusts are picking up.
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On Golf Channel’s pre-game show on Sunday morning, a member of the TPC Sawgrass agronomy staff said they were “remarkably” close to delaying play on Saturday but they are keeping their fingers crossed they can get the final round in today — even if that means waiting out an afternoon delay and finishing later Sunday evening.
“[Moving up tee times] gives us the best opportunity to complete the championship on Sunday, even if we do get shut down with weather for a few hours,” he said. “It at least buys us some time at the end of the day. Hopefully it works out.”
Worst case, the Players Championship will finish on Monday. But we’ll wait to see if that’s even needed.
You can watch the final round of the Players from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. ET on Golf Channel, with NBC picking up the coverage from 12:30-3 p.m. Final round tee times are below.
Tee No. 1
8 a.m. – Jesper Svensson, Aaron Rai, Keegan Bradley8:11 a.m. – Davis Riley, Justin Thomas, Justin Lower8:22 a.m. – Tommy Fleetwood, Collin Morikawa, Mac Meissner8:33 a.m. – Tom Hoge, Taylor Moore, Taylor Pendrith8:44 a.m. – Tom Kim, Daniel Berger, Denny McCarthy8:55 a.m. – Sam Ryder, Scottie Scheffler, Min Woo Lee9:06 a.m. – Chris Kirk, Davis Thompson, Robert MacIntyre9:17 a.m. – Jake Knapp, J.T. Poston, Ryan Gerard9:28 a.m. – Max McGreevy, Patrick Cantlay, Sepp Straka9:39 a.m. – Akshay Bhatia. Danny Walker, Stephan Jaeger9:50 a.m. – Alex Smalley, Corey Conners, Rory McIlroy
10:01 a.m. – J.J. Spaun, Bud Cauley, Lucas Glover
Tee No. 10
8 a.m. – Ryan Fox, Jordan Spieth, Joe Highsmith8:11 a.m. – Matt McCarty, Harris English, Jacob Bridgeman8:22 a.m. – Will Zalatoris, Matt Kuchar, Billy Horschel8:33 a.m. – Russell Henley, Joel Dahmen, Austin Eckroat8:44 a.m. – Hayden Springer, Beau Hossler, Shane Lowry8:55 a.m. – Camilo Villegas, Will Chandler, Chandler Phillips9:06 a.m. – Sahith Theegala, Sungjae Im, Matthieu Pavon9:17 a.m. – Byeong Hun An, Isaiah Salinda, Carson Young9:28 a.m. – Charley Hoffman, Si Woo Kim, C.T. Pan9:39 a.m. – Xander Schauffele, Rico Hoey, Kurt Kitayama9:50 a.m. – Jhonattan Vegas, Trey Mullinax, Cameron Young
10:01 a.m. – Rickie Fowler, Sami Valimaki, Emiliano Grillo
