Illinois golf coach Mike Small will hit the first shot in the 88thPGA Championship, while the pairing that fans have been waiting forwill tee off 90 minutes later.
Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson, Nos. 1 and 2 in the worldrankings, will begin play Thursday at Medinah Country Club at 8:30a.m. off the 10th tee. First- and second-round starting times wereannounced Friday.
British Open champion Woods and Masters winner Mickelson are inthe traditional grouping of the year's first three major champions,along with U.S. Open champ Geoff Ogilvy.
The same trio will start at 1:35 p.m. Friday off the first tee.
Small will be first to play off the first tee at 7 a.m. Thursdayin a group with Ryan Palmer and Andres Romero.
In another interesting grouping, Senior PGA champion Jay Haas willplay the first two rounds with his younger brother Jerry, the golfcoach at Wake Forest and one of 20 players who qualified via the PGAProfessional National Championship.
The first two alternates, Joey Sindelar and Craig Barlow, alreadyare in the field because Darren Clarke and Shingo Katayama havewithdrawn.
Clarke revealed at the British Open that he would be taking anextended leave from golf to be with his wife, Heather, who isbattling cancer.
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