Quicken Loans National TV Schedule, Tee Times, Odds: Can Rickie Fowler Right the Ship?
By Michael Shamburger
With two major championships behind us, both with enough drama to fill an entire season, it’s now time for five golf tournaments that shouldn’t be quite as stressful before The Open Championship begins on July 14th.
This year the Quicken Loans National moves back from Robert Trent Jones Golf Club in Gainesville, Virginia to Congressional Country Club in Bethesda, Maryland. There is no Dustin Johnson, Jordan Spieth, Rory McIlroy, Jason Day, or Bubba Watson this week, but Rickie Fowler and his SB2K16 bros Smylie Kaufman and Justin Thomas are in the field and are grouped together for the first two rounds.
Also in the field this week is Jim Furyk, who is coming off of another successful outing at Oakmont. The field is chalk full of players who have wins on the PGA Tour this year: Smylie Kaufman, Justin Thomas, Peter Malnati, Fabian Gomez, Vaughn Taylor, Tony Finau, Jim Herman, Charley Hoffman, Brian Stuard, and James Hahn, along with defending champion Troy Merritt, who won his first and only PGA Tour event at the Quicken Loans National last year.
TV Schedule
Th – 3:30 – 6:30 PM – Golf Channel
Fr – 3:30 – 6:30 PM – Golf Channel
Sa – 1:00 – 2:30 PM – Golf Channel, 3:00 – 6:00 PM – CBS
Su – 1:00 – 2:30 PM – Golf Channel, 3:00 – 6:30 PM – CBS
Notable Tee Times
1 – 7:00 AM – Lucas Glover, Brendan Steele, Tyler Aldridge
10 – 7:48 AM – Brian Stuard, Matt Jones, Webb Simpson
1 – 8:00 AM – Camilo Villegas, Brian Harman, Chesson Hadley
10 – 8:00 AM – Charley Hoffman, Bill Haas, Ernie Els
1 – 8:12 AM – Tony Finau, Ben Crane, Scott Stallings
10 – 8:12 AM – Davis Love III, Jim Furyk, Keegan Bradley
1 – 8:24 AM – Vaughn Taylor, Fabian Gomez, Russell Henley
10 – 12:00 PM – Marc Leishman, Charles Howell III, Luke List
10 – 12:48 PM – Peter Malnati, Ben Martin, Seung-Yul Noh
1 – 1:00 PM – Troy Merritt, Patrick Reed, K.J. Choi
10 – 1:00 PM – James Hahn, Kevin Streelman, John Senden
1 – 1:12 PM – Justin Thomas, Smylie Kaufman, Rickie Fowler
10 – 1:12 PM – Jim Herman, Ryan Palmer, Vijay Singh
1 – 1:24 PM – Daniel Summerhays, Zac Blair, Anirban Lahiri
1 – 1:48 PM – Martin Piller, Dawie van der Walt, Bryson DeChambeau
10 – 1:48 PM – Rob Oppenheim, Jordan Niebrugge, Wesley Bryan
Odds
Rickie Fowler – 14/1
Jim Furyk – 18/1
Patrick Reed – 18/1
Marc Leishman – 25/1
Brendan Steele – 27/1
Justin Thomas – 27/1
Byeong Hun An – 30/1
Charley Hoffman – 30/1
Gary Woodland – 33/1
Kevin Chappell – 33/1
Bill Haas – 35/1
Bryson Dechambeau – 35/1
Ryan Palmer – 35/1
Russell Henley – 40/1
Tony Finau – 45/1
Webb Simpson – 45/1
Chris Kirk – 50/1
Daniel Summerhays – 50/1
Jamie Lovemark – 50/1
Roberto Castro – 50/1
My Pick
Last week I wrote that I had seen nothing from Rickie Fowler that suggested he would win the U.S. Open, he didn’t even make the cut, but this week I’m singing a different tune. Fowler has missed four cuts in his last six events, three of those were his last three events, the Players, the Memorial, and the U.S. Open. Even though Fowler hasn’t been very successful at Congressional, like he said, eventually things have to turn around for him.