Tiger Woods to play with Phil Mickelson at US PGA Championship
GOLF: Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson will play alongside each other
for the first two rounds of the US PGA Championship at Valhalla next
week. The dates are: August 7 to 10.
Woods, 38, has won the tournament four times while fellow American
Mickelson, 44, clinched the title in 2005.
Ireland's Padraig Harrington, the 2008 winner, completes the trio,
which gets under way at 13:35 BST on Thursday. Open champion Rory
McIlroy will join US Open winner Martin Kaymer and Masters champion
Bubba Watson at 18:45.
The par-71 course at the 2008 Ryder Cup venue in Kentucky, which also
hosted the season's final major in 2000 and 1996, is set to be the
longest in the tournament's history at 7,458 yards.
Woods was the winner in 2000 while compatriot Mark Brooks - playing
with fellow past champions John Daly (1991) and Rich Beem (2002) at
13:30 - was victorious in 1996, the first major tournament at the Jack
Nicklaus-designed course. Defending champion Jason Dufner tees off at
18:55 with 2011 winner Keegan Bradley and 2009 victor YE Yang of South
Korea.
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