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The Valspar Championship 2026 will begin on Thursday, March 19, at the Innisbrook Resort and Golf Club’s Copperhead Course in Palm Harbor, Florida. The event will be a non-Signature event taking place just a few days after the Players Championship.
The first round of the Valspar Championship 2026 will tee off on Thursday at 7:35 a.m. ET. Alex Smalley, Justin Lower and Max McGreevy will be the first group to tee off from the first hole, while Emiliano Grillo, Charley Hoffman and Danny Willett will simultaneously kick off from the tenth tee.
Valspar Championship, Round 1 pairings explored

Here’s a look at the tee time details for the Valspar Championship, Round 1:
Hole 1:
- 7:35 AM: Alex Smalley, Justin Lower, Max McGreevy
- 7:46 AM: Brandt Snedeker, Christiaan Bezuidenhout, Takumi Kanaya
- 7:57 AM: Thorbjørn Olesen, Chandler Phillips, Hank Lebioda
- 8:08 AM: Steven Fisk, Nick Taylor, Aaron Rai
- 8:19 AM: Brian Campbell, Cam Davis, Patrick Rodgers
- 8:30 AM: Matt McCarty, Davis Thompson, Matt Kuchar
- 8:41 AM: Joe Highsmith, Davis Riley, Pierceson Coody
- 8:52 AM: Matthieu Pavon, Eric Cole, Kevin Roy
- 9:03 AM: Chad Ramey, Andrew Putnam, Luke Guthrie
- 9:14 AM: Jeremy Paul, A.J. Ewart, Gordon Sargent
- 9:25 AM: John Parry, John VanDerLaan, Marcelo Rozo
- 12:30 PM: Patton Kizzire, Gary Woodland, Adam Hadwin
- 12:41 PM: Taylor Moore, Beau Hossler, Max Greyserman
- 12:52 PM: Peter Malnati, Nicolai Højgaard, Marco Penge
- 1:03 PM: Akshay Bhatia, Justin Thomas, Matt Fitzpatrick
- 1:14 PM: Jacob Bridgeman, Wyndham Clark, Jordan Spieth
- 1:25 PM: Ben Griffin, Sahith Theegala, Tony Finau
- 1:36 PM: Max Homa, Kevin Streelman, Danny Walker
- 1:47 PM: Vince Whaley, Kristoffer Reitan, Johnny Keefer
- 1:58 PM: David Skinns, Dan Brown, Davis Chatfield
- 2:09 PM: Jordan Smith, David Ford, Greg Koch
- 2:20 PM: Adrien Dumont de Chassart, Jimmy Stanger, Tyler Wilkes
Hole 10:
- 7:40 AM: Emiliano Grillo, Charley Hoffman, Danny Willett
- 7:51 AM: Matt Wallace, Matti Schmid, S.H. Kim
- 8:02 AM: Mackenzie Hughes, Denny McCarthy, Austin Smotherman
- 8:13 AM: Viktor Hovland, Brooks Koepka, Corey Conners
- 8:24 AM: Xander Schauffele, Keegan Bradley, Patrick Cantlay
- 8:35 AM: Ricky Castillo, J.J. Spaun, Billy Horschel
- 8:46 AM: Andrew Novak, Karl Vilips, Sungjae Im
- 8:57 AM: Lee Hodges, Mark Hubbard, Henrik Norlander
- 9:08 AM: Erik van Rooyen, Tom Kim, Zac Blair
- 9:19 AM: Jesper Svensson, Zach Bauchou, Jeffrey Kang
- 9:30 AM: Kris Ventura, Kensei Hirata, Adrien Saddier
- 12:25 PM: Austin Eckroat, Doug Ghim, David Lipsky
- 12:36 PM: Rafael Campos, Seamus Power, Rasmus Højgaard
- 12:47 PM: Adam Svensson, Michael Kim, Bud Cauley
- 12:58 PM: Michael Brennan, Stephan Jaeger, Lucas Glover
- 1:09 PM: Adam Schenk, Kevin Yu, Webb Simpson
- 1:20 PM: Garrick Higgo, Taylor Pendrith, Ryo Hisatsune
- 1:31 PM: Brice Garnett, Dylan Wu, Mac Meissner
- 1:42 PM: Nick Dunlap, Rico Hoey, Chandler Blanchet
- 1:53 PM: Zecheng Dou, Jackson Suber, Neal Shipley
- 2:04 PM: Paul Peterson, Paul Waring, Blades Brown
- 2:15 PM: Patrick Fishburn, Isaiah Salinda, Rasmus Neergaard-Petersen
- 2:26 PM: Alejandro Tosti, Luke Clanton, Pontus Nyholm