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The 2013 Masters tees off at 8 a.m. ET Thursday, and it isn't much longer before the true household names of golf flood Augusta National as groups of three tee off every 11 minutes.
The first Masters champion to tee off is Sandy Lyle, the 1988 green jacket winner who tees off right at 8 a.m. in the first group with John Peterson and Nathan Smith. The first five groups have former champs in them, though none of them won more recently than Ian Woosnam in 1991.
Charl Schwarzel, Webb Simpson and Peter Hanson tee off at 9:39 a.m. ET, and the next group out at 9:50 features Zach Johnson, K.J. Choi and Graeme McDowell. Bubba Watson, the defending Masters champion, tees off at 10:34 a.m. ET with Ian Poulter and Steven Fox. World No. 1 Tiger Woods goes off in the next group at 10:45. He's pairing on the first day with Luke Donald and Scott Piercy.
The last three groups of the day feature a handful of big names. Phil Mickelson, Louis Oosthuizen and Martin Kaymer start their rounds at 1:30 p.m. ET. Rory McIlroy and Keegan Bradley are part of the group that tees off at 1:41 p.m., and the final group of the day features Jason Dufner and Matt Kuchar.
Here are some of the other top pairings and their Thursday times (all times ET):
Thursday Time | Players | ||
8 a.m. | Sandy Lyle | John Peterson | Nathan Smith |
8:11 a.m. | Larry Mize | Brian Gay | Russell Henley |
8:22 a.m. | Ian Woosnam | David Lynn | Kevin Na |
8:33 a.m. | David Toms | Richard Sterne | Ted Potter Jr. |
8:44 a.m. | Tom Watson | Ryan Moore | Kevin Streelman |
8:55 a.m. | Robert Garrigus | Carl Pettersson | Tim Clark |
9:06 a.m. | Mike Weir | Lee Westwood | Jim Furyk |
9:17 a.m. | Brandt Snedeker | Ryo Ishikawa | Justin Rose |
9:28 a.m. | Jose Maria Olazabal | Marc Leishman | T.J. Vogel |
9:39 a.m. | Charl Schwartzel | Webb Simpson | Peter Hanson |
9:50 a.m. | Zach Johnson | K.J. Choi | Graeme McDowell |
10:12 a.m. | Michael Thompson | John Huh | John Senden |
10:23 a.m. | Stewart Cink | Nicolas Colsaerts | Thaworn Wiratchant |
10:34 a.m. | Bubba Watson | Ian Poulter | Steven Fox |
10:45 a.m. | Tiger Woods | Luke Donald | Scott Piercy |
10:56 a.m. | Jason Day | Rickie Fowler | Padraig Harrington |
11:07 a.m. | John Merrick | Thorbjorn Olesen | D.A. Points |
11:18 a.m. | Craig Stadler | Ben Curtis | Michael Weaver |
11:29 a.m. | Mark O'Meara | Martin Laird | Jamie Donaldson |
11:40 a.m. | Paul Lawrie | Thomas Bjorn | Gonzalo Fernandez-Castano |
11:51 a.m. | Trevor Immelman | George Coetzee | Alan Dunbar |
12:13 p.m. | Ernie Els | Steve Stricker | Nick Watney |
12:24 p.m. | Ben Crenshaw | Matteo Manassero | Tianlang Guan |
12:35 p.m. | Bernhard Langer | Lucas Glover | Henrik Stenson |
12:46 p.m. | Vijay Singh | Bo Van Pelt | Y.E. Yang |
12:57 p.m. | Angel Cabrera | Sergio Garcia | Adam Scott |
1:08 p.m. | Fred Couples | Dustin Johnson | Branden Grace |
1:19 p.m. | Hunter Mahan | Hiroyuki Fujita | Francesco Molinari |
1:30 p.m. | Phil Mickelson | Louis Oosthuizen | Martin Kaymer |
1:41 p.m. | Rory McIlroy | Keegan Bradley | Fredrik Jacobson |
1:52 p.m. | Jason Dufner | Matt Kuchar | Bill Haas |
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