2026 Valspar Championship Thursday tee times: Round 1 groupings

The 2026 Valspar Championship kicks off Thursday, March 19, with the opening spherical at Innisbrook’s Copperhead Course in Palm Harbor, Fla. You can discover full Valspar Championship tee occasions for Thursday’s first spherical on the backside of this publish.

Featured tee time for Round 1

Just a number of years in the past, Matt Fitzpatrick seemed like he had the potential to be the subsequent dominant professional on the PGA Tour. His emphatic win on the 2022 U.S. Open on the Country Club proved that.

Fitzpatrick struggled for years following that win. But it seems he’s turned the web page.

His first signal of life was a victory eventually fall’s DP World Tour Championship. Then got here the 2026 PGA Tour season. Fitzpatrick has but to overlook a reduce, and he has two top-10s in six begins.

His greatest Tour efficiency in years got here simply final week on the 2026 Players Championship. Though he made bogey on the ultimate gap to lose by one shot to Cameron Young, the spectacular efficiency ought to give Fitzpatrick plenty of momentum as he chases his third PGA Tour title on the Valspar Championship.

Fitzpatrick will tee off for the opening spherical on Thursday at 1:03 p.m. ET alongside Sam Ryder and Justin Thomas.

You can watch Thursday’s first spherical of the 2026 Valspar Championship from 2-6 p.m. ET on Golf Channel. PGA Tour Live on ESPN+ will present unique early streaming protection beginning on Thursday at 7:30 a.m. ET, along with featured group and featured gap protection.

Check out the entire Round 1 tee occasions and groupings for the Valspar Championship.

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2026 Valspar Championship tee occasions for Thursday: Round 1 (ET)

Tee No. 1

7:35 a.m. – Alex Smalley, Justin Lower, Max McGreevy
7:46 a.m. – Brandt Snedeker, Christiaan Bezuidenhout, Takumi Kanaya
7:57 a.m. – Thorbjørn Olesen, Chandler Phillips, Hank Lebioda
8:08 a.m. – Steven Fisk, Nick Taylor, Aaron Rai
8:19 a.m. – Brian Campbell, Cam Davis, Patrick Rodgers
8:30 a.m. – Matt McCarty, Davis Thompson, Matt Kuchar
8:41 a.m. – Joe Highsmith, Davis Riley, Pierceson Coody
8:52 a.m. – Matthieu Pavon, Eric Cole, Kevin Roy
9:03 a.m. – Chad Ramey, Andrew Putnam, Luke Guthrie
9:14 a.m. – Jeremy Paul, A.J. Ewart, Gordon Sargent
9:25 a.m. – John Parry, John VanDerLaan, Marcelo Rozo
12:30 p.m. – Patton Kizzire, Gary Woodland, Adam Hadwin
12:41 p.m. – Taylor Moore, Beau Hossler, Joel Dahmen
12:52 p.m. – Peter Malnati, Nicolai Højgaard, Marco Penge
1:03 p.m. – Sam Ryder, Justin Thomas, Matt Fitzpatrick
1:14 p.m. – Jacob Bridgeman, Wyndham Clark, Jordan Spieth
1:25 p.m. – Ben Griffin, Sahith Theegala, Tony Finau
1:36 p.m. – Max Homa, Kevin Streelman, Danny Walker
1:47 p.m. – Vince Whaley, Kristoffer Reitan, Johnny Keefer
1:58 p.m. – David Skinns, Dan Brown, Davis Chatfield
2:09 p.m. – Jordan Smith, David Ford, Greg Koch
2:20 p.m. – Adrien Dumont de Chassart, Jimmy Stanger, Tyler Wilkes

Tee No. 10

7:40 a.m. – Emiliano Grillo, Charley Hoffman, Danny Willett
7:51 a.m. – Matt Wallace, Matti Schmid, S.H. Kim
8:02 a.m. – Mackenzie Hughes, Denny McCarthy, Austin Smotherman
8:13 a.m. – Viktor Hovland, Brooks Koepka, Corey Conners
8:24 a.m. – Xander Schauffele, Keegan Bradley, Patrick Cantlay
8:35 a.m. – Ricky Castillo, J.J. Spaun, Billy Horschel
8:46 a.m. – Andrew Novak, Karl Vilips, Sungjae Im
8:57 a.m. – Lee Hodges, Mark Hubbard, Henrik Norlander
9:08 a.m. – Erik van Rooyen, Tom Kim, Zac Blair
9:19 a.m. – Jesper Svensson, Zach Bauchou, Jeffrey Kang
9:30 a.m. – Kris Ventura, Kensei Hirata, Adrien Saddier
12:25 p.m. – Austin Eckroat, Doug Ghim, David Lipsky
12:36 p.m. – Rafael Campos, Seamus Power, Rasmus Højgaard
12:47 p.m. – Adam Svensson, Michael Kim, Bud Cauley
12:58 p.m. – Michael Brennan, Stephan Jaeger, Lucas Glover
1:09 p.m. – Adam Schenk, Kevin Yu, Webb Simpson
1:20 p.m. – Garrick Higgo, Taylor Pendrith, Ryo Hisatsune
1:31 p.m. – Brice Garnett, Dylan Wu, Mac Meissner
1:42 p.m. – Nick Dunlap, Rico Hoey, Chandler Blanchet
1:53 p.m. – Zecheng Dou, Jackson Suber, Neal Shipley
2:04 p.m. – Paul Peterson, Paul Waring, Blades Brown
2:15 p.m. – Patrick Fishburn, Isaiah Salinda, Rasmus Neergaard-Petersen
2:26 p.m. – Alejandro Tosti, Luke Clanton, Pontus Nyholm