Opening round brackets and tee times for the 90th Masters Tournament at Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta, Georgia.
Ninety-one players will take part in this year’s opening round of the men’s major, with Rory McIlroy returning as the defending champion after a dramatic victory over Justin Rose in last year’s playoffs.
McIlroy, along with last month’s The Players winner Cameron Young and US Amateur champion Mason Howell, has been given an early late draw for the first two rounds of his title defense, which begins at 10:31am local time (3:31pm BST).
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Two-time Masters champion Scottie Scheffler is on the other side of the draw along with former US Open champion Gary Woodland and Scotland’s Robert McIntyre, while Rose also fell behind along with fellow former world No. 1 Jordan Spieth and Brooks Koepka.
Jack Nicklaus, Gary Player and Tom Watson will return for an honorary starter ceremony at 7:25 a.m. Thursday morning (12:25 p.m. local time), ahead of the start of the tournament 15 minutes later.
Thursday R1 groupings and UK start times
Always BST. United States unless otherwise noted. (x) indicates amateur
1240 John Keefer, Haotong Li (Chn)
1250 Naoyuki Kataoka (Japan), Max Homa, Carlos Ortiz (Mexico)
1302 Jose María Olazabal (Spain), Rasmus Neergaard-Petersen (Den), Aldrich Potgieter (Russia)
1314 Angel Cabrera (Arg), Sami Valimaki (Fin), Jackson Herrington (x)
1326 Charles Schwartzel (Russia), Max Glaserman, Ryan Fox (New Zealand)
1338 Vijay Singh (Fiji), Matt McCarty, Rasmus Højgaard (Den)
1350 Kurt Kitayama, Christopher Reitan (Nor), Casey Jarvis (Rsa)
1402 Bubba Watson, Nicholas Echavarria (Colonel), Brandon Holtz (x)
1419 Cameron Smith (Australia), Sam Barnes, Jake Knapp
1431 Keegan Bradley, Ryan Gerrard, Nick Taylor (can)
1443 Dustin Johnson, Shane Lawrie (Ireland), Jason Day (Australia)
1455 Patrick Reed, Tommy Fleetwood (English), Akshay Bhatia
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1507 Bryson DeChambeau, Matt Fitzpatrick (UK), Xander Schaufel
1519 Hideki Matsuyama (Japan), Colin Morikawa, Russell Henry
1531 Rory McIlroy (NIrl), Cameron Young, Mason Howell (x)
1543 Viktor Hovland (Noll), Patrick Cantlay, Alex Nolen (Sweden)
1603 Samuel Stevens, Im Sung-jae (Col)
1615 Andrew Novak, Tom McKibbin (NIrl), Brian Campbell
1627 Mike Weir (can), Windham Clark, Matteo Pulcini (x) (Arg)
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1639 Zach Johnson, Michael Kim, Nikolai Hodgegard (Den)
1651 Danny Willett (English), Davis Riley, Ethan Fang (x)
1703 Adam Scott (Australia), Daniel Berger, Brian Harman
1715 Fred Couples, Minu Lee (Australia), FIFA Laopakdee (x) (Tha)
1727 Sergio Garcia (Spain), Aaron Rai (England), Jacob Bridgman
1744 Harry Hall (English), Corey Connors (Can), Michael Brennan
1756 JJ Spahn, Maverick McNeely, Tyrrell Hutton (English)
1808 Jon Rahm (Spain), Chris Gotterp, Ludwig Oberg (Sweden)
1820 Jordan Spieth, Justin Rose (UK), Brooks Koepka
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1832 Sepp Straka (Aut), Ben Griffin, Justin Thomas
1844 Scotty Scheffler, Robert McIntyre (Scotland), Gary Woodland
1856 Harris English, Marco Penge (Britain), Shi Woo Kim (Korea)
When will the Masters be broadcast live on Sky Sports?
Wall-to-wall coverage of the tournament will begin at 2pm on Thursday, with regular updates from around the course and featured group action on Sky Sports Golf until the global broadcast slot begins at 6pm.
The same timing will apply on Friday, with an early start heading into the weekend. Coverage begins at 4:30 p.m., with serious coverage beginning at 5 p.m. and continuing long after the final putt is holed.
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The most shocking moments in Masters history, including Jordan Spieth’s fall on the 12th hole and injury-plagued Tiger Woods being subdued by security.
The infamous Amen Corner stream will also be available to watch, focusing on the famous three-hole stretch from No. 11, and that featured group of programming will also be available on the Sky Sports+ channel.
Feeds for holes 4, 5 and 6 will be live every day as soon as the opening group arrives on that part of the course, with separate streams covering holes 15 and 16, and featured groups will also be available on Sky Sports+.
Who will win the Masters? Watch the opening match of this year’s Major live exclusively on Sky Sports. Live coverage of the first round will begin on Sky Sports Golf from 2pm on Thursday. Get and stream Sky Sports without a contract.
