AUGUSTA (USA): Defending champion and world No.1 Dustin Johnson will play alongside England’s Lee Westwood and four-time major winner Rory McIlroy will join Jon Rahm in the first two rounds of the Masters.
Reigning US Open champion Bryson DeChambeau will play alongside 2013 winner Adam Scott of Australia and second-ranked Justin Thomas with Tony Finau and South African Louis Ooosthuizen for the first two days after the pairings were released on Tuesday.
Johnson will tee off at 10:30 a.m. (1430 GMT) Thursday with Westwood, a runner-up at Bay Hill and the Players Championship last month at age 47, and 2020 US Amateur winner Tyler Strafaci.
In the next group off the first tee 12 minutes later will come McIlroy, trying to complete a career Grand Slam by capturing the green jacket, along with Spain’s Rahm, whose wife gave birth to their first child last weekend, and sixth-ranked American Xander Schauffele.
Among the latest starters Thursday will be long-hitting DeChambeau, the world number five, and Scott, the only Aussie ever to capture a Masters title, alongside American Max Homa at 1:36 p.m.
