Featured Groups: Rocket Mortgage Classic
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PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Florida – The PGA TOUR released the four featured groupings for Thursday-Friday at this week’s inaugural Rocket Mortgage Classic at Detroit Golf Club in Detroit, Michigan.
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Dustin Johnson, Chez Reavie, Patrick Reed
Thursday: 1:05 p.m. ET (No. 1): Friday: 7:35 a.m. ET (No. 10)
• Johnson is No. 2 in the Official World Golf Ranking and No. 7 in the FedExCup standings
• Reavie won last week’s Travelers Championship, his first TOUR title in 11 years, to move to No. 12 in the FedExCup standings
• Reed, who has qualified for the TOUR Championship in five straight seasons (2014-18), sits outside the top 70 in the FedExCup (No. 73)
Gary Woodland, Keith Mitchell, Brandt Snedeker
Thursday: 12:55 p.m. ET (No. 1); Friday: 7:25 a.m. ET (No. 10)
• Woodland, making his first start since capturing the U.S. Open at Pebble Beach, is No. 5 in the FedExCup standings and seventh in the U.S. Presidents Cup Team standings
• Mitchell, the winner of The Honda Classic earlier this year, is No. 30 in the FedExCup standings
• Snedeker – the 2012 FedExCup champion – shot 59 en route to winning the 2018 Wyndham Championship, contested at another Donald Ross course, Sedgefield Country Club
Rickie Fowler, Charles Howell III, Kevin Kisner
Thursday: 7:35 a.m. ET (No. 10); Friday: 1:05 p.m. ET (No. 1)
• All three players have wins in the 2018-19 PGA TOUR season and are inside the top 20 in both the FedExCup and the U.S. Presidents Cup Team standings
• Fowler, a Rocket Mortgage ambassador, is 10th in the FedExCup and ninth in the U.S. Presidents Cup Team standings
• Howell is 15th in the FedExCup and 16th in the U.S. Presidents Cup Team standings on the strength of a victory at the 2018 RSM Classic
• Kisner won the WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play in March and sits 17th in the FedExCup and 15th in the U.S. Presidents Cup Team standings
Bubba Watson, Hideki Matsuyama, Billy Horschel
Thursday: 7:25 a.m. ET (No. 10); Friday: 12:55 p.m. ET (No. 1)
• All three TOUR Championship regulars sit outside the top 30 in the FedExCup standings
• Watson, 71st in the FedExCup standings, has qualified for the TOUR Championship in eight of the last 11 seasons
• Matsuyama is 34th in the FedExCup standings and looks to extend his streak of TOUR Championship appearances to six in 2019; currently fourth in the International Presidents Cup Team standings
• Horschel, the 2014 FedExCup champion, is 54th in the FedExCup standings after qualifying for the TOUR Championship in three of the last six years