When will Scottie Scheffler tee off on Thursday at the 2024 Arnold Palmer Invitational? Tee time and pairing explored

Modified Mar 07, 2024 08:31 GMT

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Scottie Scheffler will tee off Round 1 of the 2024 Arnold Palmer Invitational on Thursday at 10:10 am ET. The Northern Irishman will join Sam Burns at the first tee of the Bay Hill Club and Lodge, Orlando, Florida. The World No. 1 golfer will follow the grouping of Wyndham Clark and Tom Kim.

Scheffler is the highest-ranked player on the Arnold Palmer Invitational field. Unsurprisingly, the 2022 Masters champion winner is also the favorite to win this weekend. According to SportsLine, the 27-year-old comes into the event with +650 odds. He is followed by World No.2 Rory McIlroy, who comes in with +900 odds.

The top two favorites are followed by Xander Schauffele (+1400), Viktor Hovland (+1400), Patrick Cantlay (+1600), and Ludvig Aberg (+1800) on the odds list.

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It is pertinent to note that Scottie Scheffler has had a strong start to his 2024 PGA Tour season. The golfer started 2024 with a T5 finish at The Sentry in January. He followed it up with a T17 finish at the American Express. The PGA star finished T6 at the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am and T3 at the Phoenix Open.

Coming off the back of a T10 finish at the Cognizant Classic, Scheffler will be eyeing a big result this week. Notably, the golfer had finished T4 in the competition last year, as Kurt Kitayama lifted the trophy. It’ll be interesting to see if he manages to better the result on the 69-player field, which features 42 of the top 50 OWGR-ranked players.