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Tee times: McIlroy with Rahm and Schauffele; Lowry with Rose and Kuchar

Brian Keogh

Rory McIlroy of Northern Ireland plays a stroke from the No. 11 tee during Practice Round 2 for the Masters at Augusta National Golf Club, Tuesday, April 6, 2021.

Rory McIlroy will make his seventh bid to complete the career Grand Slam at the Masters when he plays with Xander Schauffele and new dad Jon Rahm on Thursday.

The world No 12 will tee off at 3:42 pm just ahead of world No 1 Dustin Johnson, who plays with Lee Westwood and amateur Tyler Strafaci.

While Shane Lowry is drawn with Justin Rose and Matt Kuchar at 5:58 pm Irish time, many of the tournament favourites tee off late in the day.

US Open champion Bryson DeChambeau plays with Max Homa and former Masters winner Adam Scott at 6:36 pm while 2015 champion Jordan Spieth goes off in the final group at 7 pm with last year’s runner-up, Cameron Smith of Australia and US PGA champion Collin Morikawa.

Honorary starters Lee Elder, Gary Player and Jack Nicklaus will get the tournament underway by hitting ceremonial tee shots at 1245pm Irish time.

Masters Tournament, Thursday/Friday tee times (US unless stated. * denotes amateur)

(Thurs) 1245 Lee Elder, Gary Player, Jack Nicklaus (Honorary starters)

  1. 1300/1606 Michael Thompson, Hudson Swafford,

  2. 1312/1618 Sandy Lyle (Scotland), Matt Jones (Australia), Dylan Frittelli (S. Africa)

  3. 1324/1630 Ian Woosnam (Wales), Jim Herman, Stewart Cink

  4. 1336/1642 Sebastian Muñoz (Colombia), Henrik Stenson (Sweden), Robert Streb

  5. 1348/1654 Bernhard Langer (Germany), Will Zalatoris, *Joe Long (England)

  6. 1400/1712 Brian Harman, Ian Poulter (England), Brendon Todd

  7. 1412/1724 Charl Schwartzel (S. Africa), Si Woo Kim (Korea), Corey Conners (Canada)

  8. 1424/1736 Danny Willett (England), Joaquin Niemann (Chile), Kevin Kisner

  9. 1436/1748 Jason Day (Australia), Matthew Wolff, Cameron Champ

  10. 1448/1800 Hideki Matsuyama (Japan), Harris English, Abraham Ancer (Mexico)

  11. 1506/1812 Bubba Watson, Brooks Koepka, Viktor Hovland (Norway)

  12. 1518/1824 Sergio Garcia (Spain), Webb Simpson, Christiaan Bezuidenhout (S. Africa)

  13. 1530/1836 Dustin Johnson, Lee Westwood (England), *Tyler Strafaci

  14. 1542/1848 Xander Schauffele, Jon Rahm (Spain), Rory McIlroy (Northern Ireland)

  15. 1554/1900 Patrick Reed, Daniel Berger, Paul Casey (England)

  16. 1606/1300 Vijay Singh (Fiji), Martin Laird (Scotland),

  17. 1618/1312 Larry Mize, Jimmy Walker, Brian Gay

  18. 1630/1324 Carlos Ortiz (Mexico), Mackenzie Hughes (Canada), Bernd Wiesberger (Austria)

  19. 1642/1336 Mike Weir (Canada), C. T. Pan (Chinese Taipei), Robert MacIntyre (Scotland)

  20. 1654/1348 Jose Maria Olazabal (Spain), Matt Wallace (England), Lanto Griffin

  21. 1712/1400 Victor Perez (France), Jason Kokrak, Marc Leishman (Australia)

  22. 1724/1412 Fred Couples, Francesco Molinari (Italy), *Charles Osborne

  23. 1736/1424 Zach Johnson, Kevin Na, Gary Woodland

  24. 1748/1436 Shane Lowry (Ireland), Justin Rose (England), Matt Kuchar

  25. 1800/1448 Billy Horschel, Tyrrell Hatton (England), Ryan Palmer

  26. 1812/1506 Phil Mickelson, Tommy Fleetwood (England), Scottie Scheffler

  27. 1824/1518 Patrick Cantlay, Sungjae Im (Korea), Matthew Fitzpatrick (England)

  28. 1836/1530 Adam Scott (Australia), Bryson DeChambeau, Max Homa

  29. 1848/1542 Tony Finau, Louis Oosthuizen (S. Africa), Justin Thomas

  30. 1900/1554 Jordan Spieth, Cameron Smith (Australia), Collin Morikawa