Viktor Hovland will tee off Round 1 of The Players Championship 2024 on Thursday at 8:24 AM. The Norwegian golfer will join ace golfers Rory McIlroy and Jordan Spieth on the 10th tee at TPC Sawgrass, Florida. One of the fan favorites at the event, the World No.4 golfer will follow the grouping of Xander Schauffele, Tommy Fleetwood and Sam Burns.It is pertinent to note that Hovland is the third highest-ranked player on The Players Championship 2024 field after Scottie Scheffler and McIlroy. Unsurprisingly, he is also among the top five favorites for the event. According to SportsLine, the 2023 FedEx Cup champion comes into the Florida weekend with +2200 odds.The 26-year-old golfer sits behind Scheffler (+500), Rory McIlroy (+1200), Xander Schauffele (+2000) and Justin Thomas (+2000) on The Players Championship odds list. Hovland will tee off alongside 45 of the top 50 OWGR-ranked players this weekend.For the unversed, Viktor Hovland has had a bumpy start to the 2024 season. The 6x PGA Tour winner started the year with a T22 finish at The Sentry. He followed it up with a forgettable T58 finish at the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am and a T19 finish at The Genesis Open.Coming off the back of a T36 finish at the Arnold Palmer Invitational last week, the star golfer will be eyeing a strong finish at The Players Championship.The Players Championship 2024 round 1 tee timesRound 1 of The Players Championship 2024 will begin at 7:40 am ET. The pairing of Zac Blair, Ryan Moore and Chesson Hadley will take the first tee.Listed below are the complete day 1 tee times for The Players Championship 2024 (All times ET):Hole 17:40 AM - Zac Blair, Ryan Moore, Chesson Hadley7:51 AM - Carson Young, Brandon Wu, Ben Taylor8:02 AM - Joseph Bramlett, Thomas Detry, Alex Noren8:13 AM - Lee Hodges, Camilo Villegas, Tom Hoge8:24 AM - Kurt Kitayama, Chad Ramey, Adam Schenk8:35 AM - Chez Reavie, Sepp Straka, Vincent Norrman8:46 AM - Russell Henley, Steve Stricker, Brice Garnett8:57 AM - Taylor Moore, Emiliano Grillo, Scott Stallings9:08 AM - Webb Simpson, Billy Horschel, Sungjae Im9:19 AM - Keegan Bradley, Adam Hadwin, K.H. Lee9:30 AM - David Lipsky, Justin Lower, Tyson Alexander9:41 AM - Ryo Hisatsune, Ben Silverman, Robert MacIntyre12:45 PM - Kevin Yu, Hayden Buckley, Doug Ghim12:56 PM - Alex Smalley, Peter Malnati, Beau Hossler1:07 PM - Cam Davis, Sam Ryder, Stephan Jaeger1:18 PM - Nick Dunlap, Matthieu Pavon, Jake Knapp1:29 PM - Hideki Matsuyama, Matt Fitzpatrick, Max Homa1:40 PM - Justin Thomas, Scottie Scheffler, Rickie Fowler1:51 PM - Wyndham Clark, Brian Harman, Collin Morikawa2:02 PM - Tony Finau, Will Zalatoris, Shane Lowry2:13 PM - Sahith Theegala, Akshay Bhatia, Austin Eckroat2:24 PM - Andrew Novak, Garrick Higgo, S.H. Kim2:35 PM - Ben Martin, Harry Hall, Eric Cole2:46 PM - Charley Hoffman, Sami Valimaki, Sam StevensHole 107:40 AM - Troy Merritt, Taylor Pendrith, Taylor Montgomery7:51 AM - Carl Yuan, Aaron Rai, Michael Kim8:02 AM - Christiaan Bezuidenhout, Min Woo Lee, Joel Dahmen8:13 AM - Si Woo Kim, Jason Day, Matt Kuchar8:24 AM - Xander Schauffele, Tommy Fleetwood, Sam Burns8:35 AM - Rory McIlroy, Viktor Hovland, Jordan Spieth8:46 AM - Ludvig Aberg, Patrick Cantlay, Adam Scott8:57 AM - Justin Rose, Nick Taylor, Tom Kim9:08 AM - Lucas Glover, Brendon Todd, Erik van Rooyen9:19 AM - Kevin Streelman, Ryan Fox, C.T. Pan9:30 AM - Martin Laird, Greyson Sigg, Justin Suh9:41 AM - Ben Kohles, Robby Shelton, Nate Lashley12:45 PM - Matti Schmid, Byeong Hun An, Patrick Rodgers12:56 PM - Denny McCarthy, Nicolai Hojgaard, Matthew NeSmith1:07 PM - Keith Mitchell, Mark Hubbard, Dylan Wu1:18 PM - Grayson Murray, Seamus Power, Francesco Molinari1:29 PM - Matt Wallace, Adam Svensson, Nick Hardy1:40 PM - Nicolas Echavarria, J.T. Poston, Harris English1:51 PM - Corey Conners, J.J. Spaun, Davis Riley2:02 PM - Cameron Young, Luke List, Gary Woodland2:13 PM - Andrew Putnam, Mackenzie Hughes, Chris Kirk2:24 PM - Ben Griffin, Aaron Baddeley, Davis Thompson2:35 PM - Tyler Duncan, Maverick McNealy, Callum Tarren2:46 PM - Chan Kim, Jimmy Stanger, David SkinnsTee times for the second round of the PGA Tour's The Players Championship 2024 be updated after Thursday’s play.