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AUGUSTA, Ga. — The pairings for The Masters are out.
Tiger Woods will be teeing off at 10:35 Thursday, with Miguel Angel Jimenez and Korea’s Sang-Moon Bae. Phil Mickelson will be in the afternoon wave, playing in the final group of the day at 1:53 p.m. Lefty has been paired with Hunter Mahan and Peter Hanson of Sweden.
Rory McIlroy will be with 2009 Masters winner Angel Cabrera and Bubba Watson. Defending champion, Charl Schwartzel will be in the tradition pairing alongside the U.S. Amateur champion, Kelly Kraft and PGA Champion, Keegan Bradley.
Dustin Johnson withdrew from the tournament shortly before the pairings were announced, putting the final field at 96 players and seven amateurs.
The first group of the tournament — after the traditional honorary start by Arnold Palmer, Jack Nicklaus and Gary Player — will be at 7:50 a.m., with Craig Stadler, Brendan Steele and Tim Clark.
Here’s a link to the full list on The Masters’ website.
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Dear Tiger,
Please destroy the field and extend middle finger to all in the media, including Stephanie Wei.
Thanks,
Mike
Faster pussy cat, kill kill
How bout using two hands for Alex Micelli, Brandel Chamblee, John Feinstein, and Rick Riley. Sticking his tongue out at the same time would be even be more awesome.
I’ll take players over bitter ‘hater’ Media Guys any day.
Indeed. Kill ‘em all, Tiger.
The world is much more fun with you pissing people off.
‘Kill ‘em all and let God sort them out’
Look at Tiger Woods, sporting the Gary-Player-inspired black outfit. Kind of a Terminator look.
Is Dustin Johnson hurt?
nm, just googled it. some reports say ‘back injury’ others say ‘undisclosed injury’
I am surprised that all the religious players like Webb and Bubba don’t withdraw given that it is Easter weekend after all.
Dear Tiger,
Please abandon your round on the 12th Hole Thursday so we can see all of your Worshippers rending their garments from what the Media says about you. Bonus: the MetLife blimp following you as you drive back to Jupiter and Nance crying on air makes for fascinating TV.
Thanks,
Sahalee Joe
You obviously know nothing about the Masters. There ain’t no blimp during the broadcast.
Dustin hurt his back picking up a jet ski.
Jesper almost cut his finger off winching up a boat.
Casey dislocated his shoulder snowboarding.
What are these guys thinking?
I would love to see Nantz cry. He probably did after his divorce settlement had two commas in it…
@TASCAM – these guys are living life while playing golf for a living.They dont have guaranteed contracts, so they enjoy their lives while young
Hi Steph -enjoy the week you lucky person !!
Can somebody please moderate the comments. I’m finding some of them purile and offensive.
Augusta seriously needs to change the winning-the-Masters-gets-you-in-for-lifetime policy. It’s insane and ridiculous. Does any one really think that the tournament – or golf in general – is better served having a washed-up Ben Crenshaw and creaky Jose Maria in the field over, say, Ernie Els or Mannasero or Ryan Moore? It’s a tradition so stupid… it’s unlike any other.
Or can they at least put in an anti-exemption for that fat garbage can Craig Stadler? Watching that 385lb wad of cookie dough waddle around the course is often enough to make me turn the tournament off all together. Memo to Stadler: Gavage is not an acceptable form of training for a Major tournament.
@MacAttack -thanks for sharing with us the eloquence of your prose and the beauty of your mind. Im humbled to witness such drivel.