Top-ranked defending champion Scottie Scheffler will be joined by fifth-ranked Max Homa while world number two Rory McIlroy opens alongside Tom Kim and Sam Burns when the 87th Masters begins Thursday.
Augusta National revealed the pairings on Tuesday with no shocking moves involving LIV Golf players, who were scattered among the field alongside PGA rivals throughout the a six-hour span.
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Scheffler, who won last month’s Players Championship, will be joined by Homa, who won his sixth PGA title in January at Torrey Pines, and reigning US Amateur champion Sam Bennett.
Four-time major winner McIlroy, trying to complete a career Grand Slam, will play the first two rounds alongside 20-year-old South Korean Kim, who won two PGA titles last year, and 11th-ranked American Burns, who won the WGC Match Play two weeks ago.
Scheffler’s group tees off 1:36 p.m. in Thursday’s opening round, 12 minutes ahead of the McIlroy trio in the day’s penultimate group.
Canada’s Mike Weir will hit the first competitive shot at 8 a.m., playing alongside US LIV Golf player Kevin Na.
Reigning British Open champion Cameron Smith, the world number six and LIV Golf player from Australia, will tee off at 10:54 a.m. Thursday alongside 2021 Masters winner Hideki Matsuyama of Japan and South Korea’s Im Sung-jae.
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Starting in the group just ahead of them at 10:42 will be 2022 PGA Championship winner Justin Thomas, Spain’s third-ranked Jon Rahm and American Cameron Young, the 2022 PGA Rookie of the Year.
Tiger Woods, a 15-time major winner and five-time Masters champion, tees off at 10:18 a.m. alongside Norway’s Viktor Hovland and Tokyo Olympic champion Xander Schauffele.
FRIDAY TEE TIMES (ALL TIMES AEST, AUSSIES BOLDED)
9:40pm (Thursday night) Gary Player (Honorary Starter), Jack Nicklaus (Honorary Starter), Tom Watson (Honorary Starter)
10pm Mike Weir, Kevin Na
10:12pm — Vijay Singh, Scott Stallings, Matthew McClean
10:24pm — Sandy Lyle, Jason Kokrak, Talor Gooch
10:36pm — Fred Couples, Russell Henley, Alex Noren
10:48pm. — Adrian Meronk, Kevin Kisner, Louis Oosthuizen
11pm — Larry Mize, Min Woo Lee, Harrison Crowe
11:12pm– Sergio Garcia, Kazuki Higa, Keith Mitchell
11:24pm– Patrick Reed, Adam Svensson, Sahith Theegala
11:36pm — Shane Lowry, Mackenzie Hughes, Thomas Pieters
11:48pm — Bubba Watson, Seamus Power, Mateo Fernandez de Oliveira
12:06am (Friday morning) — Abraham Ancer, Chris Kirk, Keegan Bradley
12:18am — Tiger Woods, Viktor Hovland, Xander Schauffele
12:30am — Adam Scott, Patrick Cantlay, Kurt Kitayama
12:42am — Justin Thomas, Jon Rahm, Cameron Young
12:54am — Hideki Matsuyama, Cameron Smith, Sungjae Im
1:06am — Jose Maria Olazabal, Cameron Champ
1:18am — Charl Schwartzel, Taylor Moore, Aldrich Potgieter
1:30am — J.T. Poston, Francesco Molinari, Bryson DeChambeau
1:42am — Bernhard Langer, Mito Pereira, Ben Carr
1:54am — Danny Willett, Gary Woodland, Brooks Koepka
2:12am — Sepp Straka, Harold Varner III, K.H. Lee
2:24am — Phil Mickelson, Tom Hoge, Si Woo Kim
2:36am — Billy Horschel, Harris English, Ryan Fox
2:48am — Zach Johnson, Jason Day, Gordon Sargent
3am — Brian Harman, Joaquin Niemann, Tyrrell Hatton
3:12am– Dustin Johnson, Corey Conners, Justin Rose
3:24am– Matt Fitzpatrick, Collin Morikawa, Will Zalatoris
3:36am — Scottie Scheffler, Max Homa, Sam Bennett
3:48am — Tom Kim, Rory McIlroy, Sam Burns
4am — Jordan Spieth, Tommy Fleetwood, Tony Finau
