Conners paired with McIlroy, stormy weather Sunday at Players Championship.. early TEE TIMES..

 PGA Tour : Players Championship.. Tee Times

Due to a massive Colorado Low stretching from Florida N, NE through the US and Canada there will be high winds and lots of rain Saturday evening through Sunday late afternoon.

So on Sunday the field will play off split tees (1st, 10th) starting at 8am est. paired in three's.

The wind is forecast to blow from the start 26kph SW, with rain moving into Ponte Vedra around noon.

The final 3 groups all off the 1st tee. 

10.01 JJ Spaun, Lucas Glover, Bud Cauley

9.50  Corey Conners, Rory McIlroy, Alex Smalley

9.39  Akshay Bhatia, Danny Walker, Stephan Jaeger

The wind, gusting up to 30mph payed havoc with the scoring on Saturday the last fifteen players to finish had an average score 75.6. Rickie Fowler shot 82. Emiliano Grillo shot 85. TPC Sawgrass was near unplayable at times. Collin Morikawa went from 65 to a 77, Justin Thomas 62 to 73, and that story was repeated up and down the leaderboard.

Corey Conners tied the low round of the windy day, a terrific -6 66 to move up 42 places T5 -8. He controlled his ball flight, has gained 2 strokes on the field in the driving statistics, made clutch putts with his new putter. He is now paired in the penultimate group with Rory McIlroy, they are 4 shots behind the leader JJ Spaun.

He is also in form finishing 3rd last week at the AP Invitational. 

" I did a lot of things really well today, I stayed patient and really committed to every shot that Danny and I thought up. I did a really good job staying in the moment and trusting what we felt the wind would do to the golf ball. "

Spaun, now 34 was about to give up the game last year, well outside the top 125 until he realized he had a wonderful family, enough money that he could just retire, golf wasn't the most important thing in life.

So he went out and relaxed to finish the year, low and behold he made enough top 10 finishes to keep his card, and now he has a chance for the biggest day in his golfing life and $4.500,000 and he has had 2 top 3 finishes this year already.

The other Canadian Taylor Pendrith had a very creditable 73, he will start Sunday T22 -4.

Scottie Scheffler is T16 69 70 72 -5. This wild weather may work in his favour on Sunday, he is the world #1 for many reasons, all good, but he is 7 shots behind, and has been merely human this year.

Bryan Angus