The poor conditions at Olympia Fields weren’t conducive to a goal on Friday, but Rory McIlroy and Patrick Cantlay made their first below-average laps of the week when they started as co-leaders in the BMW Championship on Saturday. Cantlay’s 2-under-par 68 tied for the best round of the field in Round 2, taking him from just outside the top 10 of the leaderboard to T1, while McIlroy lined up his most complete round of the week, taking the lead by a whopping 355.5 yards -Average of the tees as his length and precision drove its run in the overall standings.
Behind the duo, Hideki Matsuyama is in third place, on par with Dustin Johnson, who ended his day with consecutive birdies after a slow start to the day. Adam Scott, Brendon Todd, Louis Oosthuizen, Tony Finau and Billy Horschel are all lurking 1 over and two strokes ahead.
Elsewhere on Friday’s course, Tiger Woods fell out of the pack with a 5-over-par 75 and dropped out of the top 50 as he struggled with his putter for a second straight day. Justin Thomas had similar problems when he carded a 4 over par 74. It takes Tiger a huge weekend to qualify for next week’s Tour Championship and it takes Thomas a weekend to get back on his feet with the FedEx Cup Final coming up next week.
Please find below the full tee times and pairings for Round 3 for Saturday.
Starting times of the BMW Championship, pairings for Saturday
All times east | Selected groups are in italics
Hole # 1
8:10 am – Marc Leishman
8:15 am – Talor Gooch, Kevin Streelman
8:25 am – Sungjae Im, Andrew Landry
8:35 am – Cameron Champ, Matt Kuchar
8:45 am – Jason Day, Charles Howell III
8:55 am – Adam Long, JT Poston
9:05 am – Tiger Woods, Collin Morikawa
9:15 am – Joel Dahman, Cameron Smith
9:25 am – Dylan Frittelli, Robby Shelton
9:35 am – Scottie Scheffler, Maverick McNealy
9:45 a.m. – Daniel Berger, Ryan Palmer
9:55 am – Mark Hubbard, Justin Thomas
10:10 am – Nick Taylor, Byeong Hun An
10:20 am – Jon Rahm, Kevin Na
10:30 a.m. – Max Homa, Richy Werenski
10:40 am – Harris English, Adam Hadwin
10:50 am – Matthew Fitzpatrick, Paul Casey
11:00 a.m. – Sebastian Munoz, Jason Kokrak
11:10 am – Michael Thompson, Brian Harman
11:20 am – Gary Woodland, Corey Conners
11:30 am – Carlos Ortiz, Danny Lee
11:40 am – Harry Higgs, Patrick Reed
11:50 am – Viktor Hovland, Abraham Ancer
12:00 PM – Tom Hoge, Tyler Duncan
12:15 pm – Russell Henley, Jim Herman
12:25 p.m. – Brendan Steele, Lanto Griffin
12:35 pm – Alex Noren, Joaquin Niemann
12:45 p.m. – Tyrrell Hatton, Bryson DeChambeau
12:55 p.m. – Matthew Wolff, Xander Schauffele
1:05 p.m. – Kevin Kisner, Bubba Watson
1:15 p.m. – Billy Horschel, Mackenzie Hughes
1:25 p.m. – Louis Oosthuizen, Tony Finau
1:35 p.m. – Adam Scott, Brendon Todd
1:45 p.m. – Hideki Matsuyama, Dustin Johnson
1:55 p.m. – Patrick Cantlay, Rory McIlroy
