As the 2012 Open Championship is set to get underway at Royal Lytham & St. Annes in Lytham St. Annes England, the field is chomping to get their major championship dreams underway.
One of the most important factors at any Open Championship is the weather, and luckily for the players the threat of some rain has been reduced significantly from earlier in the week, and any wet weather may happen before the tourney even starts.
"This course does dry extremely quickly, I'm delighted to say," Royal & Ancient chief executive Peter Dawson said Wednesday afternoon. "The weather forecast we have is that whatever rain we're going to get overnight tonight will stop around 4 a.m., and then the forecast is dry for the rest of the championship."
As for the tee times, the player's will be teeing off very early in the morning here in the States. Some notable pairings include Tiger Woods, Justin Rose and Sergio Garcia teeing off at 4:42 a.m. ET, while Rory McIlroy tees off later with former champ Louis Oosthuizen and Keegan Bradley at 9:21 p.m. ET. Luke Donald, Phil Mickelson and Geoff Ogilvy tee off at 9:43 a.m. ET.
| 1:30 a.m.: Barry Lane, James Driscoll, Garth Mulroy |
| 1:41 a.m.: Matthew Baldwin, Adilson Da Silva, Tadahiro Takayama |
| 1:52 a.m.: Rafael Echenique, Kodai Ichihara, John Huh |
| 2:03 a.m.: Sandy Lyle, Todd Hamilton, Mark Calcavecchia |
| 2:14 a.m.: Alejandro Canizares, Jeev Milkha Singh, Greg Chalmers |
| 2:25 a.m.: John Daly, Chad Campbell, Michael Hoey |
| 2:36 a.m.: Thongchai Jaidee, Justin Leonard, Simon Khan |
| 2:47 a.m.: David Duval, Raphael Jacquelin, Miguel Angel Jimenez |
| 2:58 a.m.: Stephen Ames, Robert Rock, Kyle Stanley |
| 3:09 a.m.: Stewart Cink, Rafael Cabrera-Bello, Johnson Wagner |
| 3:20 a.m.: Jamie Donaldson, Bill Haas, Y.E. Yang |
| 3:31 a.m.: Davis Love III, Tim Clark, Paul Lawrie |
| 3:42 a.m.: Adam Scott, Alan Dunbar (A), Matt Kuchar |
| 3:58 a.m.: Vijay Singh, Nick Watney, Ian Poulter |
| 4:09 a.m.: Darren Clarke, Ernie Els, Zach Johnson |
| 4:20 a.m.: Lee Westwood, Yoshinori Fujimoto, Bubba Watson |
| 4:31 a.m.: Dustin Johnson, Graeme McDowell, Hiroyuki Fujita |
| 4:42 a.m.: Tiger Woods, Justin Rose, Sergio Garcia |
| 4:53 a.m.: Ryo Ishikawa, Martin Kaymer, Tom Watson |
| 5:04 a.m.: Thomas Bjorn, Aaron Baddeley, Charl Schwartzel |
| 5:15 a.m.: Jason Dufner, Martin Laird, Kevin Na |
| 5:26 a.m.: James Morrison, Daniel Chopra, Joost Luiten |
| 5:37 a.m.: Thorbjorn Olesen, Troy Matteson, Thomas Aiken |
| 5:48 a.m.: Brad Kennedy, Mardan Mamat, Steven Tiley |
| 5:59 a.m.: Warren Bennett, Aaron Townsend, Grant Veenstra |
| 6:10 a.m.: Dale Whitnell, Sam Walker, Elliot Saltman |
| 6:31 a.m.: Bob Estes, Steven O'Hara, Brendan Jones |
| 6:42 a.m.: Juvic Pagunsan, Scott Pinckney, Nicholas Cullen |
| 6:53 a.m.: Steven Alker, Lee Slattery, Russ Cochran |
| 7:04 a.m.: Tom Lehman, Pablo Larrazabal, Greg Owen |
| 7:15 a.m.: Marcel Siem, George Coetzee, Chez Reavie |
| 7:26 a.m.: Marcus Fraser, Lucas Glover, Gregory Havret |
| 7:37 a.m.: Charles Howell III, Paul Broadhurst, Richard Sterne |
| 7:48 a.m.: Carl Pettersson, K.T. Kim, Gary Woodland |
| 7:59 a.m.: Ben Curtis, Paul Casey, Trevor Immelman |
| 8:10 a.m.: Richard Finch, Mark Wilson, Branden Grace |
| 8:21 a.m.: Harris English, Simon Dyson, Gonzalo Fdez-Castano |
| 8:32 a.m.: Angel Cabrera, K.J. Choi, Ross Fisher |
| 8:43 a.m.: Jonathan Byrd, Sang-Moon Bae, Alvaro Quiros |
| 8:59 a.m.: Nicolas Colsaerts, Hunter Mahan, John Senden |
| 9:10 a.m.: Bo Van Pelt, Francesco Molinari, Toshinori Muto |
| 9:21 a.m.: Rory McIlroy, Louis Oosthuizen, Keegan Bradley |
| 9:32 a.m.: Rickie Fowler, Padraig Harrington, Manuel Trappel (A) |
| 9:43 a.m.: Luke Donald, Phil Mickelson, Geoff Ogilvy |
| 9:54 a.m.: Steve Stricker, Toru Taniguchi, Anders Hansen |
| 10:05 a.m.: Peter Hanson, Retief Goosen, Robert Allenby |
| 10:16 a.m.: Jim Furyk, Koumei Oda, Fredrik Jacobson |
| 10:27 a.m.: Marc Leishman, Brandt Snedeker, Alexander Noren |
| 10:38 a.m.: Andres Romero, Jbe Kruger, Richie Ramsay |
| 10:49 a.m.: Ted Potter Jr., Ian Keenan, Andrew Georgiou |
| 11 a.m.: Troy Kelly, Morten Orum Madsen, Anirban Lahiri |
| 11:11 a.m.: Prayad Marksaeng, Justin Hicks, Ashley Hall |
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