The PGA Tour heads to Colonial Country Club this week for the Dean & DeLuca Invitational. Here are a few early-round featured groups to keep an eye on this week in Fort Worth, Texas (all times ET):
8:55 a.m. Thursday (No. 10 tee), 1:40 p.m. Friday (No. 1 tee): Jason Dufner, Smylie Kaufman, Emiliano Grillo
This group includes three players who have already won this season, highlighted by Dufner, who lost at Colonial in a playoff in 2014. He won earlier this year in Palm Springs, while Kaufman and Grillo combined to capture the first two events of the fall portion of this season in Las Vegas and Napa, respectively.
9:06 a.m. Thursday (No. 10 tee), 1:51 p.m. Friday (No. 1 tee): Adam Scott, Zach Johnson, Chris Kirk
This trio has combined to win this event four of the last six years, including Kirk’s one-shot victory last year. He has begun to return to form after suffering a broken hand last summer, while Scott already has a pair of trophies to his credit this season and Johnson, a winner at Colonial in 2010 and 2012, enters as the tournament’s all-time money winner.
1:40 p.m. Thursday (No. 1 tee), 8:55 a.m. Friday (No. 10 tee): Brandt Snedeker, Jim Furyk, Bill Haas
Snedeker was a runner-up at this event a year ago, and while he won earlier this year at Torrey Pines he enters in a mini-slump that includes three missed cuts in his last four starts. He’ll be joined by Furyk, who is making his third start since returning from a wrist injury, and Haas, who will look to build on a consistent campaign that includes top-25 finishes in four of his last six starts.
1:51 p.m. Thursday (No. 1 tee), 9:06 a.m. Friday (No. 10 tee): Jordan Spieth, Matt Kuchar, Charl Schwartzel
Spieth will be the main draw once again this week in the Metroplex, having nearly won last week in Dallas despite fighting his swing for much of the tournament. Kuchar enters off two straight third-place finishes at TPC Sawgrass and TPC Four Seasons, while Schwartzel is in search of his second win of the season after capturing the Valspar Championship in March.