The Masters tee-times announced as Irish stars to play…

The Masters tee-times announced as Irish stars to play with LIV rebels

The first round tee-times for this year's Masters have been announced and a number of intriguing groupings have been revealed.

Four-time major champion Rory McIlroy is out to end his major championship drought and win the one major title that has eluded him thus far in his career. He is in action on Thursday evening and will play alongside Sam Burns and Tom Kim.

It may be a slightly awkward day at the office for Shane Lowry as he tees it up alongside Mackenzie Hughes and recent LIV Golf defector Thomas Pieters on Thursday afternoon.

Waterford star Seamus Power will also play alongside LIV star and former two-time green jacket winner Bubba Watson and will tee off just twelve minutes after Lowry starts his tournament.

Amateur star and optometrist from Belfast Matthew McClean will play with legendary Masters winner of the past Vijay Singh in the morning wave on Thursday.

Here's the full groupings for the first round (All times are Irish time):

12:40 PM Gary Player (Honorary Starter) Jack Nicklaus (Honorary Starter) Tom Watson (Honorary Starter)

1:00 PM Mike Weir (Canada), Kevin Na

1:12 PM Vijay Singh (Fiji), Scott Stallings, *Matthew McClean (N. Ireland)

1:24 PM Sandy Lyle (Scotland), Jason Kokrak, Talor Gooch

1:36 PM Fred Couples, Russell Henley, Alex Noren (Sweden)

1:48 PM Adrian Meronk (Poland), Kevin Kisner, Louis Oosthuizen (South Africa)

2:00 PM Larry Mize, Min Woo Lee (Australia), *Harrison Crowe (Australia)

2:12 PM Sergio Garcia (Spain), Kazuki Higa (Japan), Keith Mitchell

2:24 PM Patrick Reed, Adam Svensson (Canada), Sahith Theegala

2:36 PM Shane Lowry (Ireland), Mackenzie Hughes (Canada), Thomas Pieters (Belgium)

2:48 PM Bubba Watson, Seamus Power (Ireland), *Mateo Fernandez de Oliveira (Argentina)

3:06 PM Abraham Ancer (Mexico), Chris Kirk, Keegan Bradley

3:18 PM Tiger Woods, Viktor Hovland (Norway), Xander Schauffele

3:30 PM Adam Scott (Australia), Patrick Cantlay, Kurt Kitayama

3:42 PM Justin Thomas, Jon Rahm (Spain), Cameron Young

3:54 PM Hideki Matsuyama (Japan), Cameron Smith (Australia), Sungjae Im (Korea)

4:06 PM Jose Maria Olazabal (Spain), Cameron Champ

4:18 PM Charl Schwartzel (South Africa), Taylor Moore, *Aldrich Potgieter (South Africa)

4:30 PM J. T. Poston, Francesco Molinari (Italy), Bryson DeChambeau

4:42 PM Bernhard Langer (Germany), Mito Pereira (Chile), *Ben Carr

4:54 PM Danny Willett (England), Gary Woodland, Brooks Koepka

5:12 PM Sepp Straka (Austria), Harold Varner III, Kyoung-Hoon Lee (Korea)

5:24 PM Phil Mickelson, Tom Hoge, Si Woo Kim (Korea)

5:36 PM Billy Horschel, Harris English, Ryan Fox (New Zealand)

5:48 PM Zach Johnson, Jason Day (Australia), *Gordon Sargent

6:00 PM Brian Harman, Joaquin Niemann (Chile), Tyrrell Hatton (England)

6:12 PM Dustin Johnson, Corey Conners (Canada), Justin Rose (England)

6:24 PM Matthew Fitzpatrick (England), Collin Morikawa, Will Zalatoris

6:36 PM Scottie Scheffler, Max Homa, *Sam Bennett

6:48 PM Tom Kim (Korea), Rory McIlroy (N. Ireland), Sam Burns

7:00 PM Jordan Spieth, Tommy Fleetwood (England), Tony Finau

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