The PGA TOUR announced today the four Featured Groups for the opening rounds of the 2020-21 PGA TOUR Season this Thursday-Friday at the Safeway Open in Napa, California. The Safeway Open is the first of 50 official FedExCup tournaments in the 2020-21 PGA TOUR Season – including 14 tournaments that were postponed or canceled as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. The tournament, contested at Silverado Resort and Spa (North Course), will serve as the season-opener for the seventh time in eight years since the TOUR went to a wraparound schedule..

HOW TO FOLLOW

Television: Thursday-Friday, 4 p.m.-7 p.m. ET (Golf Channel). Saturday-Sunday, 6 p.m.-9 p.m. (Golf Channel)

PGA TOUR LIVE: Thursday-Friday, 10 a.m.-7 p.m. (Featured Groups), Saturday-Sunday, 11 a.m.-9 p.m. (Featured Groups)

Radio: Thursday-Friday, 1 p.m.-7 p.m. Saturday-Sunday, 4 p.m.-9 p.m. (PGA TOUR Radio on SiriusXM and PGATOUR.com/liveaudio).

FEATURED GROUPS (All times local)

Brandt Snedeker, Jordan Spieth, Jim Furyk
Thursday: 12:30 p.m., No. 1; Friday: 7:30 a.m., No. 10

• Spieth (2015), Snedeker (2012), and Furyk (2010) have each won the FedExCup
•Snedeker will make his fifth start in the Safeway Open where he finished T2 in 2018
• Spieth, who is in search of his first TOUR victory since the 2017 Open Championship, will make his first start in the Safeway Open after ending the 2019-20 season No. 107 in the FedExCup
• Furyk, who made 13 starts on the PGA TOUR in 2019-20 and won in his lone start on PGA TOUR Champions (The Ally Challenge) in August, will make his second start in the Safeway Open (T17/2019)

Keegan Bradley, Pat Perez, Kevin Streelman
12:40 p.m., No. 1; Friday: 7:40 a.m., No. 10

• Bradley, who is making his first start at the Safeway Open since 2017, finished the 2019-20 season No. 99 in the FedExCup standings and qualified for the FedExCup Playoffs for the 10th consecutive season.
• Perez, whose 2019-20 season was highlighted by a solo-third at the Shriners Hospitals for Children Open, won one of three PGA TOUR titles in California (2009 The American Express)
• Streelman was one of only two players with multiple solo-second finishes during the 2019-20 season, recording runner-ups at the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am and Travelers Championship (other player: Abraham Ancer); Ended the season No. 32 in the FedExCup, his best finish since 2013.

Shane Lowry, Phil Mickelson, Brendan Steele
12:30 p.m., No. 1; Thursday: 7:30 a.m., No. 10

• Winner of The Open Championship in 2019, Lowry is playing a domestic event during the fall portion of the PGA TOUR schedule for the first time in his career
• Mickelson, who won in his PGA TOUR Champions debut in his most recent competitive start, is making his fifth consecutive start at the Safeway Open and has two top-10s in that span (T8/2016, T3/2017)
• A two-time winner of the Safeway Open (2016, 2017), Steele finished the 2019-20 season No. 47 in the FedExCup standings after three top-10s

Kevin Tway, Sergio Garcia, Emiliano Grillo
12:40 p.m., No. 1; Thursday: 7:40 a.m., No. 10

Notable: Tway (2018) and Grillo (2015) each won the Safeway Open via playoffs
• Tway won the 2018 Safeway Open for his maiden PGA TOUR title, becoming the 10th son of a PGA TOUR winner to win on TOUR (son of Bob Tway)
• A 10-time PGA TOUR winner, Garcia will make his tournament debut after ending the 2019-20 season at No. 135 in the FedExCup standings
• Grillo, winner of the 2015 Safeway Open, finished the 2019-20 season No. 93 in the FedExCup standings, his fifth straight season qualifying for the FedExCup Playoffs