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The Players Championship 2025 tee times: Full groupings and UK start times for third round at TPC Sawgrass

Rory McIlroy tees off at 6.25pm UK time alongside J.J. Spaun as the 2019 Players Championship winner resumes on nine under; Shane Lowry opens the day in the first pairing with Danny Walker; Watch the third round live on Saturday from 1pm on Sky Sports Golf

Saturday 15 March 2025 18:53, UK

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Rory McIlroy is two off the halfway lead despite a disappointing finish to his second round at The Players Championship as Justin Thomas charged back into contention with a historic comeback.

Groupings and tee times for the third round of The Players, the PGA Tour's flagship event, held at TPC Sawgrass in Florida.

USA unless stated; All times GMT

Starting at Hole One

1225 Shane Lowry (Irl), Danny Walker

1235 CT Pan (Tpe), Justin Lower

1245 Tom Kim (Kor), Mac Meissner

1255 Daniel Berger, Xander Schauffele

1305 Rico Hoey (Phi), Jesper Svensson (Swe)

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1315 Aaron Rai (Eng), Sungjae Im (Kor)

1325 Russell Henley, Corey Conners (Can)

1335 Matt Kuchar, Joel Dahmen

1350 Austin Eckroat, Keegan Bradley

1400 Matthieu Pavon (Fra), Camilo Villegas (Col)

1410 Byeong Hun An (Kor), Kurt Kitayama

1420 Ryan Fox (NZ), Denny McCarthy

1430 Hayden Springer, Will Chandler

1440 J.T. Poston, Chris Kirk

1450 Jordan Spieth, Tom Hoge

1500 Ryan Gerard, Joe Highsmith

1515 Jhonattan Vegas (Ven), Trey Mullinax

1525 Chandler Phillips, Si Woo Kim (Kor)

1535 Isaiah Salinda, Sami Valimaki (Fin)

1545 Sahith Theegala, Davis Thompson

1555 Davis Riley, Justin Thomas

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1605 Cameron Young, Carson Young

1615 Robert MacIntyre (Sco), Bud Cauley

1625 Matt McCarty, Stephan Jaeger (Ger)

1640 Max McGreevy, Beau Hossler

1650 Patrick Cantlay, Sam Ryder

1700 Taylor Moore, Rickie Fowler

1710 Taylor Pendrith (Can), Scottie Scheffler

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1720 Sepp Straka (Aus), Charley Hoffman

1730 Harris English, Billy Horschel

1740 Jacob Bridgeman, Emiliano Grillo (Arg)

1755 Tommy Fleetwood (Eng), Jake Knapp

1805 Lucas Glover, Will Zalatoris

1815 Collin Morikawa, Alex Smalley

1825 J.J Spaun, Rory McIlroy (NIR)

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1835 Min Woo Lee (Aus), Akshay Bhatia

How can I watch The Players on Sky Sports?

Sky Sports is offering extended live coverage of The Players and continues from 1pm on both days over the weekend.

The PGA Tour's main feed, marquee groups, featured groups and featured holes feed will be available all four rounds on Sky Sports+, along with six bonus groups, while you can download the Sky Sports app to get live scores, text commentary and highlights throughout the week.

Who will win The Players? Watch live throughout the week on Sky Sports. Live coverage of the third round begins on Saturday at 11.30am. Get Sky Sports or stream with no contract on NOW.

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