Featured Groups: Safeway Open

As the PGA TOUR heads to California for the third week of the 2019-20 Regular Season, Thursday-Friday featured groupings for the Safeway Open have been released, with a number of stars making their respective PGA TOUR season debuts including Justin Thomas, Patrick Cantlay, Adam Scott, Hideki Matsuyama and Bryson DeChambeau.

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To watch the featured groupings on Thursday-Friday, fans in the United States can tune into the Golf Channel telecast (2-6 p.m. PST on Thursday, 3-6 p.m. PST on Friday). Additionally, PGA TOUR LIVE, the PGA TOUR’s Over-The-Top subscription service, has expanded its coverage to the fall and will broadcast Thursday-Friday at all domestic PGA TOUR events during the fall portion of the 2019-20 schedule. PGA TOUR LIVE can be viewed via subscription on NBC Sports Gold (www.nbcsports.com/pgatour) and Amazon Prime Video Channels (amazon.com/video/pgatourlive).

FEATURED GROUPS (ALL TIMES LOCAL)

Justin Thomas, Brandt Snedeker, Jim Furyk
Thursday, 12:35 p.m. (No. 1); Friday, 7:50 a.m. (No. 10)

• 2010 FedExCup champion Furyk making first-ever start at the Safeway Open
• 2012 FedExCup champion Snedeker held the 54-hole lead at the 2018 Safeway Open and finished runner-up to Kevin Tway in a playoff
• 2017 FedExCup champion Thomas finished T3 (2015) and T8 (2016) in his last two Safeway Open starts

Phil Mickelson, Collin Morikawa, Patrick Cantlay
Thursday, 12:45 p.m. (No. 1); Friday, 8 a.m. (No. 10)

• 44-time winner Mickelson, who won 2019 AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am, is looking to extend his record streak of 12 consecutive U.S. Presidents Cup Team appearances
• Fresh off an All-America career at Cal, Morikawa won the 2019 Barracuda Championship in his sixth professional start
• Cantlay captured the 2019 Memorial Tournament presented by Nationwide and played his way onto the 2019 U.S. Presidents Cup Team

Kevin Tway, Bryson DeChambeau, Francesco Molinari
Thursday, 7:50 a.m. (No. 10); Friday, 12:35 p.m. (No. 10)

• Defending champion Tway finished 31st in the final FedExCup standings, just missing out on his first trip to the TOUR Championship
• DeChambeau, winner of the 2018 Shriners Hospitals for Children Open, was one of six fall winners last season to qualify for the TOUR Championship; member of the 2019 U.S. Presidents Cup Team
• Molinari, who captured the 2019 Arnold Palmer Invitational presented by MasterCard, will make his first-ever start at the Safeway Open

Adam Scott, Hideki Matsuyama, Sebastian Munoz
Thursday, 8 a.m. (No. 10); Friday, 12:45 p.m. (No. 10)

• Scott is set to make his ninth consecutive Presidents Cup appearance for the International Team as the event returns to Melbourne in December
• Matsuyama, poised for his fourth Presidents Cup, looks to return to the winner’s circle after a winless 2018-19 campaign
• Colombia native Munoz captured last week’s Sanderson Farms Championship and sits No. 1 in the FedExCup standings

HOW TO FOLLOW

Television: Thursday 5 p.m.-9 p.m. ET; Friday 6 p.m. - 9 p.m. ET (Golf Channel). Saturday-Sunday, 6 p.m.-9 p.m. ET (Golf Channel)

PGA TOUR LIVE: Thursday-Friday, 10 a.m.-9 p.m. ET (Featured Groups)

Radio: Thursday-Friday, 3 p.m.-9 p.m. ET. Saturday-Sunday, 4 p.m.-9 p.m. (PGA TOUR Radio on SiriusXM and PGATOUR.com/liveaudio).