The 2026 Valero Texas Open begins Thursday, April 2, with the opening round at TPC San Antonio’s Oaks Course in Texas. You can find the complete Valero Texas Open bracket schedules for Thursday’s first round at the bottom of this post.
Separate training time for round 1
popular veteran Rickie Fowler has only one thing on his mind heading into the Valero Texas Open: winning.
Beyond capping a renaissance to start the 2026 season, a win this week would accomplish two important things for Fowler.
First, it would break a nearly three-year winning drought and give Fowler seven career wins PGA Tour victories. But perhaps just as important, it would give him a seat Next week’s Masterswhere he would make his first start since 2024.
But the same is true for most of the field at the Valero Texas Open, so Fowler won’t be the only one hoping to translate a Texas Open victory into tee time at Augusta National.
Fowler will tee off for Round 1 on Thursday at 9:06 a.m. ET with playing partners Tommy Fleetwood AND Hideki Matsuyama.
You can watch Thursday’s first round of the 2026 Valero Texas Open from 4-7pm ET on Golf Channel. PGA Tour live on ESPN+ will offer exclusive early broadcast coverage beginning Thursday at 8:15 a.m. ET in addition to the band’s featured coverage.
Check out the full first-round bracket times and seedings for the Valero Texas Open below.
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2026 Valero Texas Open bracket times for Thursday: Round 1 (ET)
Tea no. 1
08:30 – Lanto Griffin, Kevin Streelman, Max McGreevy
08:42 – Nick Hardy, Christiaan Bezuidenhout, Austin Smotherman
08:54 – Taylor Moore, Sam Ryder, Bronson Burgoon
9:06 – William Mouw, JT Poston, Lucas Glover
09:18 – Sami Valimaki, Webb Simpson, Charley Hoffman
9:30 – Adam Schenk, Matt Kuchar, Alex Noren
9:42 – Joe Highsmith, Davis Thompson, Ryo Hisatsune
09:54 – Rafael Campos, Emiliano Grillo, Rico Hoey
10:06 – Austin Eckroat, Peter Malnati, Doug Ghim
10:18 – David Ford, Neal Shipley, Davis Chatfield
10:30 a.m. – Frankie Capan III, Luke Clanton, Austin Wylie
1.30pm – Tom Kim, Lee Hodges, Alex Smalley
1:42pm – Matt Wallace, Tom Hoge, Carson Young
1:54pm – Erik van Rooyen, KH Lee, Eric Cole
2:06 pm – Ludvig Åberg, Robert MacIntyre, Jordan Spieth
14:18 – Sepp Straka, Brian Harman, Billy Horschel
2:30pm – JJ Spaun, Russell Henley, Stephan Jaeger
2:42pm – Mark Hubbard, Kevin Roy, Danny Walker
2:54pm – Matthieu Pavon, Denny McCarthy, Johnny Keefer
3:06pm – Kensei Hirata, Adrien Saddier, Paul Waring
3:18 pm – Pontus Nyholm, Marcelo Rozo, Charlie Crockett
3:30pm – Jimmy Stanger, AJ Ewart, John VanDerLaan
Tee no. 10
8:30 a.m. – Ryan Palmer, Dylan Wu, Mac Meissner
08:42 – Joel Dahmen, Bud Cauley, Chandler Phillips
08:54 – Will Zalatoris, Patrick Rodgers, SH Kim
9:06 – Tommy Fleetwood, Hideki Matsuyama, Rickie Fowler
9:18 – Maverick McNealy, Tony Finau, Max Homa
9:30 – Si Woo Kim, Michael Thorbjornsen, Marco Penge
9:42 – Andrew Novak, Garrick Higgo, Sudarshan Yellamaraju
9:54 – Brice Garnett, Adam Svensson, Thorbjørn Olesen
10:06 – Seamus Power, Michael Kim, Vince Whaley
10:18 – Chris Ventura, Chandler Blanchet, Zach Bauchou
10:30 – Adrien Dumont de Chassart, Dan Brown, Christo Lamprecht
1:30pm – Brendon Todd, Jimmy Walker, Hank Lebioda
13:42 – Camilo Villegas, Takumi Kanaya, Kristoffer Reitan
1:54pm – Nick Dunlap, Andrew Putnam, Justin Lower
2:06 pm – Ricky Castillo, Jonathan Vegas, Brandt Snedeker
2:18pm – Nick Taylor, Matt McCarty, Kevin Yu
2:30 pm – Steven Fisk, Karl Vilips, Chris Kirk
2:42pm – Mackenzie Hughes, Chad Ramey, Beau Hossler
2:54pm – Patton Kizzire, Keith Mitchell, Jordan Smith
3:06 pm – Zecheng Dou, Jackson Suber, Gordon Sargent
3:18 pm – Patrick Fishburn, Alejandro Tosti, Jesper Svensson
3:30pm – Haotong Li, John Parry, Jeffrey Kang
