The 141st British Open Championship gets underway at Royal Lytham and St Annes on Thursday with no fewer than 14 South Africans in the field.
Defending champion Darren Clarke of Northern Ireland will be joined by Zach Johnson of the United States and South Africa's Ernie Els at 9:09am on Thursday, three groups in front of Tiger Woods, Sergio Garcia and Justin Rose.
Two groups behind the Tiger Woods grouping is 2011 Masters Champion Charl Schwartzel alongside Aaron Baddely and Thomas Bjorn.
Northern Ireland's Rory McIlroy will start at 2:21pm on Thursday alongside reigning PGA Champion Keegan Bradley and 2010 British Open winner Louis Oosthuizen.
Fancourt's Branden Grace tees off at 10 past one on Thursday and plays the first two rounds in the company of Sweden's Robert Karlsson and Mark Wilson of the US.
Tee times Thursday for the British Open at Royal Lytham & St.
Annes
All times GMT(a-amateur)
0519 - Barry Lane, James Driscoll.
0530 - Richard Finch, Garth Mulroy.
0541 - Matthew Baldwin, Adilson Da Silva, Tadahiro Takayama.
0552 - Rafael Echenique, Kodai Ichihara, John Huh.
0603 - Sandy Lyle, Todd Hamilton, Mark Calcavecchia.
0614 - Alejandro Canizares, Jeev Milkha Singh, Greg Chalmers.
0625 - John Daly, Chad Campbell, Michael Hoey.
0636 - Thongchai Jaidee, Justin Leonard, Simon Khan.
0647 - David Duval, Raphael Jacquelin, Miguel Angel Jimenez.
0658 - Stephen Ames, Robert Rock, Kyle Stanley.
0709 - Stewart Cink, Rafael Cabrera-Bello, Johnson Wagner.
0720 - Jamie Donaldson, Bill Haas, Y.E. Yang.
0731 - Davis Love III, Tim Clark, Paul Lawrie.
0742 - Adam Scott, a-Alan Dunbar, Matt Kuchar.
0758 - Vijay Singh, Nick Watney, Ian Poulter.
0809 - Darren Clarke, Ernie Els, Zach Johnson.
0820 - Lee Westwood, Yoshinori Fujimoto, Bubba Watson.
0831 - Dustin Johnson, Graeme McDowell, Hiroyuki Fujita.
0842 - Tiger Woods, Justin Rose, Sergio Garcia.
0853 - Ryo Ishikawa, Martin Kaymer, Tom Watson.
0904 - Thomas Bjorn, Aaron Baddeley, Charl Schwartzel.
0915 - Jason Dufner, Martin Laird, Kevin Na.
0926 - James Morrison, Daniel Chopra, Joost Luiten.
0937 - Thorbjorn Olesen, Troy Matteson, Thomas Aiken.
0948 - Brad Kennedy, Mardan Mamat, Steven Tiley.
0959 - Warren Bennett, Aaron Townsend, Grant Veenstra.
1010 - Dale Whitnell, Sam Walker, Elliot Saltman.
1031 - Bob Estes, Steven O'Hara, Brendan Jones.
1042 - Juvic Pagunsan, Scott Pinckney, Nicholas Cullen.
1053 - Steven Alker, Lee Slattery, Russ Cochran.
1104 - Tom Lehman, Pablo Larrazabal, Greg Owen.
1115 - Marcel Siem, George Coetzee, Chez Reavie.
1126 - Marcus Fraser, Lucas Glover, Gregory Havret.
1137 - Charles Howell III, Paul Broadhurst, Richard Sterne.
1148 - Carl Pettersson, K.T. Kim, Gary Woodland.
1159 - Ben Curtis, Paul Casey, Trevor Immelman.
1210 - Robert Karlsson, Mark Wilson, Branden Grace.
1221 - Harris English, Simon Dyson, Gonzalo Fernandez-Castano
1232 - Angel Cabrera, K.J. Choi, Ross Fisher.
1243 - Jonathan Byrd, Sang-moon Bae, Alvaro Quiros.
1259 - Nicolas Colsaerts, Hunter Mahan, John Senden.
1310 - Bo Van Pelt, Francesco Molinari, Toshinori Muto.
1321 - Rory McIlroy Louis Oosthuizen, Keegan Bradley.
1332 - Rickie Fowler, Padraig Harrington, a-Manuel Trappel.
1343 - Luke Donald, Phil Mickelson, Geoff Ogilvy.
1354 - Steve Stricker, Toru Taniguchi, Anders Hansen.
1405 - Peter Hanson, Retief Goosen, Robert Allenby.
1416 - Jim Furyk, Koumei Oda, Fredrik Jacobson.
1427 - Marc Leishman, Brandt Snedeker, Alexander Noren.
1438 - Andres Romero, Jbe Kruger, Richie Ramsay.
1449 - Ted Potter Jr., Ian Keenan, Andrew Georgiou.
1501 - Troy Kelly, Morten Orum Madsen, Anirban Lahiri.
1511 - Prayad Marksaeng, Justin Hicks, Ashley Hall.
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