Masters 2013: Tee times and TV schedule for Thursday

The big names are spread fairly evenly throughout the first round Thursday.

By jlpennington Apr 11, 2013, 8:00am EDT

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.

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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