Here are the television times for this weekend’s Farmers Insurance Open.
Thu, 1/27:
GOLF 3p – 6p EST
Fri, 1/28:
GOLF 3p – 6p EST
Sat, 1/29:
CBS 3p – 6p SET
Sun, 1/30:
CBS 3p – 6:30p EST
The West Coast location places live coverage in the late afternoon on the East Coast. But with the three hour time difference, 10:30 start for the last group, and the slow PGA Tour pace of play, there still will be groups on the course as coverage ends. It’s good strategic thinking, then, that what might be the “marquee” grouping, featuring Rocco Mediate and Tiger Woods—the last two men standing at the 2008 US Open at Torrey Pines—gets going at 9:00 am EST along with Anthony Kim. That means they’ll start at noon eastern, and be into the back nine during live coverage.
Still, I’m surprised that Golf only has three hours of coverage.
The rest of the tee times follow:
| Time | Players | ||
| 8:30 am | Boo Weekley | John Daly | Jesper Parnevik |
| 8:40 am | Kevin Sutherland | Harrison Frazar | Alex Cejka |
| 8:50 am | Derek Lamely | Troy Matteson | Robert Allenby |
| 9:00 am | Robert Garrigus | Arjun Atwal | Ben Crane |
| 9:10 am | Chad Campbell | David Duval | Matt Jones |
| 9:20 am | Michael Putnam | Michael Thompson | Brendan Steele |
| 9:30 am | Nate Smith | William McGirt | Josh Anderson |
| 9:40 am | Kevin Streelman | Kris Blanks | Michael Connell |
| 9:50 am | Paul Goydos | Michael Sim | Chad Collins |
| 10:00 am | Bubba Watson | Stewart Cink | Davis Love III |
| 10:10 am | Dustin Johnson | Justin Rose | Phil Mickelson |
| 10:20 am | Tim Herron | Chris Couch | Webb Simpson |
| 10:30 am | Andres Gonzales | Kevin Kisner | James Oh |
| 8:30 am | Nick O’Hern | Kent Jones | Kevin Stadler |
| 8:40 am | Brandt Snedeker | Aaron Baddeley | J.J. Henry |
| 8:50 am | Stuart Appleby | Shane Bertsch | Chez Reavie |
| 9:00 am | Hunter Mahan | Stephen Ames | K.J. Choi |
| 9:10 am | Brian Davis | Bryce Molder | Josh Teater |
| 9:20 am | Jamie Lovemark | Colt Knost | Fabian Gomez |
| 9:30 am | Bobby Gates | Billy Horschel | Jeff Hart |
| 9:40 am | Richard S. Johnson | Billy Mayfair | Paul Stankowski |
| 9:50 am | Dean Wilson | D.A. Points | Tom Gillis |
| 10:00 am | Martin Laird | Lucas Glover | Angel Cabrera |
| 10:10 am | Nathan Green | Vijay Singh | J.B. Holmes |
| 10:20 am | Shigeki Maruyama | Peter Tomasulo | Cameron Tringale |
| 10:30 am | Kevin Chappell | Alexandre Rocha | Anthony Paolucci |
| 8:30 am | Rich Beem | Scott McCarron | Blake Adams |
| 8:40 am | Lee Janzen | Brandt Jobe | James Driscoll |
| 8:50 am | Bill Haas | Carl Pettersson | Michael Bradley |
| 9:00 am | Andres Romero | Ben Curtis | Charlie Wi |
| 9:10 am | Gary Woodland | Keegan Bradley | Bio Kim |
| 9:20 am | Justin Hicks | Joseph Bramlett | Brian Smock |
| 9:30 am | Jarrod Lyle | Hunter Haas | Will Strickler |
| 9:40 am | Ryuji Imada | Joe Durant | Steve Marino |
| 9:50 am | Chris Riley | Spencer Levin | Alex Prugh |
| 10:00 am | Matt Bettencourt | Y.E. Yang | Rory Sabbatini |
| 10:10 am | Bill Lunde | Camilo Villegas | Pat Perez |
| 10:20 am | Scott Gutschewski | Chris Baryla | Daniel Summerhays |
| 10:30 am | Steven Bowditch | Joe Affrunti | Scott Gordon |
| 8:30 am | Jason Gore | Chris DiMarco | Greg Chalmers |
| 8:40 am | John Senden | Garrett Willis | Duffy Waldorf |
| 8:50 am | Jhonattan Vegas | Charley Hoffman | Nick Watney |
| 9:00 am | Rocco Mediate | Anthony Kim | Tiger Woods |
| 9:10 am | Tommy Gainey | David Hearn | Zack Miller |
| 9:20 am | Chris Kirk | Scott Stallings | Sunghoon Kang |
| 9:30 am | D.J. Brigman | Ben Martin | Jon Fiedler |
| 9:40 am | Len Mattiace | Tag Ridings | Troy Merritt |
| 9:50 am | Fredrik Jacobson | Kevin Na | Jimmy Walker |
| 10:00 am | John Rollins | Kenny Perry | Mike Weir |
| 10:10 am | Charles Howell III | Rickie Fowler | Marc Leishman |
| 10:20 am | David Mathis | Jim Herman | Matt McQuillan |
| 10:30 am | Kyle Stanley | Martin Piller | Jim Renner |
I wish Tiger’s threesome was Phil, Tiger and Jesper Parnevik. And that Golf Channel got to mic all three. Now that would be awesome.
Now THAT would be worth watching