2026 Tour Championship Round 2 tee times, pairings: Min Woo Lee headlines Friday schedule
Min Woo Lee will play in the final group with Viktor Hovland after taking the first-round lead at East Lake. Here is the complete Round 2 tee-time schedule for the 2026 Tour Championship.
By StoryBreak
Published August 28, 2026 at 1:11 PM EDT
The 2026 Tour Championship resumes Friday at East Lake Golf Club in Atlanta, with Min Woo Lee carrying the first-round lead into the final pairing of Round 2 alongside Viktor Hovland.
Lee opened his first Tour Championship appearance with an 8-under 62, tying a career low and moving to the top of the leaderboard. Hovland is among the players closest to the lead after opening with a 6-under 64. Their pairing is scheduled for 2 p.m. Eastern time, the final tee time of the day.
The second round will feature a reshuffled schedule based on the opening-round standings. Scottie Scheffler, the world No. 1, is set to play at 1:24 p.m. with Ludvig Åberg. Adam Scott and Ryan Fox will go off 12 minutes earlier, while Collin Morikawa and Chris Gotterup are scheduled for 1:48 p.m.
Rory McIlroy is scheduled to tee off at 11:36 a.m. with Jacob Bridgeman. Xander Schauffele will play alongside Alex Smalley at 12:18 p.m., and Patrick Cantlay is paired with Alex Fitzpatrick at 11:48 a.m.
The tournament began with 30 players, but the field was reduced to 29 after J.J. Spaun withdrew. Cameron Young is listed at 11 a.m. as a single-player group, followed by the first two-player pairing at 11:12 a.m.
All Friday tee times are listed in Eastern time and begin from the first tee. Golf Channel’s live coverage is scheduled to begin at 1 p.m. Eastern, with pregame programming starting at noon.
Complete Round 2 tee times and pairings:
11:00 a.m. — Cameron Young
11:12 a.m. — Kristoffer Reitan, Russell Henley
11:24 a.m. — Hideki Matsuyama, Si Woo Kim
11:36 a.m. — Jacob Bridgeman, Rory McIlroy
11:48 a.m. — Alex Fitzpatrick, Patrick Cantlay
12:06 p.m. — Wyndham Clark, Justin Rose
12:18 p.m. — Alex Smalley, Xander Schauffele
12:30 p.m. — Tom Kim, Robert MacIntyre
12:42 p.m. — Sam Burns, Matt Fitzpatrick
12:54 p.m. — Gary Woodland, Tommy Fleetwood
1:12 p.m. — Ryan Fox, Adam Scott
1:24 p.m. — Ludvig Åberg, Scottie Scheffler
1:36 p.m. — Ryan Gerard, Akshay Bhatia
1:48 p.m. — Collin Morikawa, Chris Gotterup
2:00 p.m. — Min Woo Lee, Viktor Hovland
The Tour Championship is the finale of the FedEx Cup Playoffs and determines the 2026 FedExCup champion. With the leaderboard tightly packed after Thursday’s low-scoring opening round, Friday’s late groups will have a major role in shaping the weekend race at East Lake.
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