{"id":654847,"date":"2026-03-14T10:26:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T10:26:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/654847\/"},"modified":"2026-03-14T10:26:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T10:26:16","slug":"players-championship-2026-tee-times-pairings-and-field-for-round-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/654847\/","title":{"rendered":"Players Championship 2026 tee times, pairings and field for Round 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"Article-featuredImageImg\" alt=\"xander.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/xander.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"433\" width=\"770\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>After a rain-soaked Thursday, players were treated to ideal scoring conditions in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/golf\/news\/players-championship-2026-leaderboard-live-updates-scores-coverage-round-2\/live\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">second round of the 2026 Players Championship<\/a> and some of the biggest stars in the game took advantage.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Ludvig \u00c5berg nearly matched the course record with a 9-under 63 to climb into the solo lead at 12 under, with Xander Schauffele shooting a 65 to stay on his heels at 10 under. Others big names like Cameron Young, Justin Thomas, Sepp Straka, Tommy Fleetwood, Viktor Hovland, Russell Henley and Matt Fitzpatrick lurk in the top 10, and we are set for a thrilling weekend at TPC Sawgrass as they battle it out for one of the most coveted trophies of the season.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The big question going into the weekend is whether the winds pick up to help bring back the firm, fast conditions we saw early on Thursday before the rain came, or if Mother Nature will keep enough moisture in the course for players to continue attacking on Moving Day in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>No matter what, the Stadium Course always manages to produce some weekend drama, and whether someone has a healthy lead or it&#8217;s bunched up late on Saturday and Sunday, the leaders still have to stare down the island green on No. 17 and the terrifying tee shot on No. 18 before they safely arrive at the clubhouse.<\/p>\n<p>Take a look at the complete list of tee times for Round 3 at TPC Sawgrass below and check out a complete\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/golf\/news\/players-championship-2026-tv-schedule-coverage-where-to-watch-live\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">2026 Players Championship TV schedule and coverage guide<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>2026 Players Championship: Rounds 3 tee times, pairings<\/p>\n<p>All times Eastern<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>8:15 a.m. \u2014 Seamus Power<\/li>\n<li>8:20 a.m. \u2014 Patrick Cantlay, Michael Brennan<\/li>\n<li>8:30 a.m. \u2014 Danny Walker, Kristoffer Reitan<\/li>\n<li>8:40 a.m. \u2014 Rico Hoey, Daniel Berger<\/li>\n<li>8:50 a.m. \u2014 Zach Bauchou, Eric Cole<\/li>\n<li>9 a.m. \u2014 Stephan Jaeger, Steven Fisk<\/li>\n<li>9:10 a.m. \u2014 J.T. Poston, Kevin Roy<\/li>\n<li>9:25 a.m. \u2014 Si Woo Kim, Scottie Scheffler<\/li>\n<li>9:35 a.m. \u2014 Sudarshan Yellamaraju, Ricky Castillo<\/li>\n<li>9:45 a.m. \u2014 Nico Echavarria, Takumi Kanaya<\/li>\n<li>9:55 a.m. \u2014 Joe Highsmith, Rory McIlroy<\/li>\n<li>10:05 a.m. \u2014 Nicolai H\u00f8jgaard, Chris Kirk\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>10:15 a.m. \u2014 Tony Finau, Robert MacIntyre<\/li>\n<li>10:25 a.m. \u2014 Max McGreevy, Bud Cauley<\/li>\n<li>10:40 a.m. \u2014 Sam Burns, Chris Gotterup<\/li>\n<li>10:50 a.m. \u2014 Adam Scott, Nick Taylor<\/li>\n<li>11 a.m. \u2014 Taylor Pendrith, Sam Stevens<\/li>\n<li>11:10 a.m. \u2014 Matti Schmid, Max Homa<\/li>\n<li>11:20 a.m. \u2014 J.J. Spaun, Wyndham Clark<\/li>\n<li>11:30 a.m. \u2014 Taylor Moore, Keegan Bradley<\/li>\n<li>11:45 a.m. \u2014 Akshay Bhatia, Brooks Koepka<\/li>\n<li>11:55 a.m. \u2014 Min Woo Lee, Alex Noren<\/li>\n<li>12:05 p.m. \u2014 Rickie Fowler, Hideki Matsuyama<\/li>\n<li>12:15 p.m. \u2014 Ryan Gerard, Andrew Putnam<\/li>\n<li>12:25 p.m. \u2014 Jordan Spieth, William Mouw<\/li>\n<li>12:35 p.m. \u2014 Chad Ramey, Sahith Theegala<\/li>\n<li>12:50 p.m. \u2014 Justin Rose, Jason Day<\/li>\n<li>1 p.m. \u2014 Alex Smalley, Ryo Hisatsune<\/li>\n<li>1:10 p.m. \u2014 Patrick Rodgers, Keith Mitchell<\/li>\n<li>1:20 p.m. \u2014 Russell Henley, Matt Fitzpatrick<\/li>\n<li>1:30 p.m. \u2014 Brian Harman, Viktor Hovland<\/li>\n<li>1:40 p.m. \u2014 Michael Thorbjornsen, Tommy Fleetwood<\/li>\n<li>1:55 p.m. \u2014 Maverick McNealy, Austin Smotherman<\/li>\n<li>2:05 p.m. \u2014 Lee Hodges, Jacob Bridgeman<\/li>\n<li>2:15 p.m. \u2014 Justin Thomas, Sepp Straka<\/li>\n<li>2:25 p.m. \u2014 Cameron Young, Corey Conners<\/li>\n<li>2:35 p.m. \u2014 Ludvig \u00c5berg, Xander Schauffele\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Getty Images After a rain-soaked Thursday, players were treated to ideal scoring conditions in the second round of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":654848,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[47],"tags":[2091,1430,277166,103642,277165,5395,16495,62,247428,6996,89052,277650,106918,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-654847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-field","tag-golf","tag-groupings","tag-groups","tag-pairings","tag-saturday","tag-schedule","tag-sports","tag-start-times","tag-tee-times","tag-the-players","tag-the-players-championship-round-3","tag-tpc-sawgrass","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116227052963235406","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=654847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654847\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/654848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=654847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=654847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=654847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}