The Open tee-times: Jason Day to play with Danny Willett and Rickie Fowler as Colin Montgomerie opens championship
Rory McIlroy will play with Bubba Watson and Hideki Matsuyama on Thursday and Friday while Jordan Spieth is with Justin Rose and Shane Lowry
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Your support makes all the difference.Colin Montgomerie gets to hit the opening tee shot at Royal Troon in what likely will be his final British Open.
Montgomerie's father was a longtime secretary at Royal Troon, so this effectively is his home course on the Open rotation. The 53-year-old Scot went through final local qualifying to make it back to golf's oldest championship.
Montgomerie will be joined in the first group at 6:35 a.m. Thursday with Luke Donald and Marc Leishman, who lost in a playoff at St. Andrews last year.
Jason Day, the world's No. 1 player, has been drawn with Rickie Fowler and Masters champion Danny Willett.
U.S. Open champion Dustin Johnson plays with Martin Kaymer and Russell Knox.
Jordan Spieth is with Justin Rose and Shane Lowry.
Rory McIlroy is with Bubba Watson and Hideki Matsuyama.
The Open tee-times (first and second round)
(Gbr & Irl unless stated, all times BST, (x) denotes amateurs)
Starting at hole 1
0635 Marc Leishman (Aus), Colin Montgomerie, Luke Donald
0646 Steven Alker (Nzl), Marcus Fraser (Aus), Sang-hee Lee (Kor)
0657 Jeunghun Wang (Kor), Jon Rahm (Spa), Ryan Palmer (USA)
0708 Scott Gregory (a), Sandy Lyle, David Duval (USA)
0719 Richie Ramsay, Danny Lee (Nzl), Harris English (USA)
0730 Steven Bowditch (Aus), Alex Noren (Swe), Kevin Chappell (USA)
0741 Thorbjorn Olesen (Den), Darren Clarke, Jim Furyk (USA)
0752 Justin Thomas (USA), David Lingmerth (Swe), Kiradech Aphibarnrat (Tha)
0803 Patrick Reed (USA), Branden Grace (Rsa), Byeong-Hun An (Kor)
0814 Paul Lawrie, Brandt Snedeker (USA), Thongchai Jaidee (Tha)
0825 Padraig Harrington, Louis Oosthuizen (Rsa), Jamie Donaldson
0836 Scott Piercy (USA), Paul Dunne, Jamie Lovemark (USA)
0847 Victor Dubuisson (Fra), Jimmy Walker (USA), Scott Hend (Aus)
0903 Justin Rose, Jordan Spieth (USA), Shane Lowry
0914 Ross Fisher, Steve Stricker (USA), Vijay Singh (Fij)
0925 Danny Willett, Rickie Fowler (USA), Jason Day (Aus)
0936 Hideki Matsuyama (Jpn), Rory McIlroy, Bubba Watson (USA)
0947 Gary Woodland (USA), James Morrison, Soomin Lee (Kor)
0958 Chris Kirk (USA), Smylie Kaufman (USA), George Coetzee (Rsa)
1009 Matthew Fitzpatrick, Billy Horschel (USA), Hideto Tanihara (Jpn)
1020 Matteo Manassero (Ita), Shugo Imahira (Jpn), Russell Henley (USA)
1031 Robert Rock, Kodai Ichihara (Jpn), William McGirt (USA)
1042 Brendan Steele (USA), Richard Sterne (Rsa), Matt Jones (Aus)
1053 Patton Kizzire (USA), Nicolas Colsaerts (Bel), Rod Pampling (Aus)
1104 Dave Coupland, Nathan Holman (Aus), Phachara Khongwatmai (Tha)
1115 Rikard Karlberg (Swe), Scott Fernandez (Spa), Haydn Porteous (Rsa)
1136 Kristoffer Broberg (Swe), Greg Chalmers (Aus), Clement Sordet (Fra)
1147 David Howell, Seung-Yul Noh (Kor), Tony Finau (USA)
1158 Jordan Niebrugge (USA), Nick Cullen (Aus), Robert Streb (USA)
1209 Stefano Mazzoli (a) (Ita), Ben Curtis (USA), John Daly (USA)
1220 Francesco Molinari (Ita), Kevin Kisner (USA), K.T. Kim (Kor)
1231 Justin Leonard (USA), Todd Hamilton (USA), Mark Calcavecchia (USA)
1242 Lasse Jensen (Den), Soren Kjeldsen (Den), Bill Haas (USA)
1253 Paul Casey, Charl Schwartzel (Rsa), Kevin Na (USA)
1304 Joost Luiten (Ned), Emiliano Grillo (Arg), Charley Hoffman (USA)
1315 Graeme McDowell, Matt Kuchar (USA), Andrew Johnson (USA)
1326 Phil Mickelson (USA), Lee Westwood, Ernie Els (Rsa)
1337 Satoshi Kodaira (Jpn), James Hahn (USA), Andrew Sullivan
1348 Bernd Wiesberger (Aut), Ryan Moore (USA), Tommy Fleetwood
1404 Martin Kaymer (Ger), Dustin Johnson (USA), Russell Knox
1415 Zach Johnson (USA), Adam Scott (Aus), Henrik Stenson (Swe)
1426 Yusaku Miyazato (Jpn), Chris Wood, Mark O'Meara (USA)
1437 Miguel Angel Jimenez (Spa), Jason Dufner (USA), Marc Warren
1448 Anirban Lahiri (Ind), Sergio Garcia (Spa), Keegan Bradley (USA)
1459 Webb Simpson (USA), Yuta Ikeda (Jpn), Thomas Pieters (Bel)
1510 Rafael Cabrera-Bello (Spa), J.B. Holmes (USA), Brandon Stone (Rsa)
1521 Matthew Southgate, Marco Dawson (USA), Yosuke Tsukada (Jpn)
1532 Jack Senior, James Heath, Brian Gay (USA)
1543 Fabian Gomez (Arg), Jim Herman (USA), Anthony Wall
1554 Paul Howard (Gbr), Daniel Summerhays (USA), Colt Knost (USA)
1605 Oskar Arvidsson (Swe), Harold Varner III (USA), Tyrrell Hatton
1616 Ryan Evans, Callum Shinkwin, Zander Lombard (Rsa)
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