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Tiger Woods is paired with Stewart Cink and Angel Cabrera in this week’s Quail Hollow Championship in North Carolina. Phil Mickelson will enjoy the company of Jim Furyk and Rory Sabbatini.

Mickelson is out 12:50 local time from the first tee, while Woods is out 7:40 from the 10th tee.

Lee Westwood is teeing off on 10, only 20 minuters before Woods, together with Bryce Molder and Matt Bettencourt.

After finishing runner-up to Phil Mickelson in the Masters at Augusta, Westwood was quoted as saying: "I'm playing the best golf of anyone. It's hard to argue for anyone else. If you are (the best) you might as well say it. It builds confidence."

Westwood was asked about that comment during a press conference here ahead of this week's Quail Hollow Championship.

"I've been out here long enough to know that things get just twisted around slightly to suit people," the Briton told reporters.

"Somebody asked me, 'tee to green, do you think you are the best player in the world at the moment'?

"And I said 'the way I played at Augusta, which is the last time I played and the last time all the best players in the world got together, I led the greens in regulation, so it was very difficult to argue against that the last time we all played.

"At least talking to you here now I can tell you the question I was asked and what I replied."

Westwood has enjoyed a leisurely fortnight break since the Masters. Last week's airline shutdown in Europe scuppered a holiday in Barbados, so he spent the time instead at home in the Midlands in England.

Now he is back in the United States for this week's PGA Tour event, as well as next week's Players Championship in Florida.

"I feel a bit rusty," continued the world number four, part of a star-studded field headed by Woods and Mickelson.

"After the Masters, I felt I needed a bit of a rest, so I've been switched off the last couple of weeks, but I think I'll sharpen as the week goes on hopefully.

"It's nice to be back at Quail Hollow. It's an old, traditional course that makes you think a lot. You have to drive the ball well.

"All your game has to be in good shape and once you get on the greens, there's some really fast putts out there. These are as quick as anything I've seen all year."


First round tee-times
(USA unless stated, all times local. Add 1 hour for Eastern Time):


Starting at hole 1

0700 Billy Mayfair, David Duval, Webb Simpson

0710 Charles Warren, Omar Uresti, Jason Day (Aus)

0720 Woody Austin, Paul Goydos, Brett Quigley

0730 Geoff Ogilvy (Aus), Anthony Kim, D.J. Trahan

0740 Derek Lamely, Hunter Mahan, Robert Allenby (Aus)

0750 Johnson Wagner, Brian Gay, John Senden (Aus)

0800 Parker McLachlin, Martin Laird (Sco), Stuart Appleby (Aus)

0810 Davis Love III, Chez Reavie, Ryuji Imada (Jpn)

0820 Michael Allen, Rodney Pampling (Aus), Scott Piercy

0830 Tim Petrovic, Kevin Na, Jimmy Walker

0840 Scott McCarron, Bubba Watson, Rory McIlroy (NIrl)

0850 Rich Barcelo, Cameron Tringale, Cameron Percy (Aus)

0900 Spencer Levin, Michael Connell, Josh Teater

1210 Chris Stroud, Garrett Willis, Tim Wilkinson (Nzl)

1220 George McNeill, Aaron Baddeley (Aus), John Merrick

1230 Joe Ogilvie, J.P. Hayes, James Nitties (Aus)

1240 Lucas Glover, Camilo Villegas (Col), J.B. Holmes

1250 Jim Furyk, Phil Mickelson, Rory Sabbatini (Rsa)

1300 Richard S Johnson (Swe), Vijay Singh (Fij), Trevor Immelman (Rsa)

1310 Troy Matteson, Cameron Beckman, Heath Slocum

1320 Pat Perez, Adam Scott (Aus), David Toms

1330 Brian Davis (Eng), Kevin Sutherland, Nick O’Hern (Aus)

1340 Brandt Snedeker, Alex Prugh, Ross Fisher (Eng)

1350 Charley Hoffman, Jason Dufner, Kris Blanks

1400 Henrik Bjornstad (Nor), Steve Wheatcroft, David Lutterus (Rsa)

1410 Chris Tidland, Tom Gillis, Cortland Lowe

Starting at hole 10

0700 Nicholas Thompson, Chris Riley, Steve Marino

0710 Tim Herron, Alex Cejka (Ger), Roland Thatcher

0720 Lee Westwood (Eng), Bryce Molder, Matt Bettencourt

0730 Bill Haas, Jason Bohn, Nick Watney

0740 Tiger Woods, Stewart Cink, Angel Cabrera (Arg)

0750 Boo Weekley, Nathan Green (Aus), Steve Lowery

0800 Greg Kraft, Ryan Moore, Fred Couples

0810 Bo Van Pelt, Mark Wilson, Daniel Chopra (Swe)

0820 Greg Chalmers (Aus), Jeff Maggert, Jeff Overton

0830 James Driscoll, Rickie Fowler, Bill Lunde

0840 Harrison Frazar, Kevin Stadler, Ricky Barnes

0850 Vance Veazey, Roger Tambellini, Brian Stuard

0900 Aron Price (Aus), Brendon De Jonge, Willis Ring

1210 Rocco Mediate, Chad Campbell, D.A. Points

1220 Charles Howell III, Mathew Goggin (Aus), Jeff Klauk

1230 Greg Owen (Eng), J J Henry, Kevin Streelman

1240 Zach Johnson, Sean O’Hair, Padraig Harrington (Irl)

1250 Dustin Johnson, Matt Kuchar, Kenny Perry

1300 Will MacKenzie, Andres Romero (Arg), Mark Calcavecchia

1310 Carl Pettersson (Swe), Ben Curtis, Brad Faxon

1320 Notah Begay III, Ted Purdy, Jeff Quinney

1330 Jonathan Byrd, Vaughn Taylor, Carlos Franco (Par)

1340 Craig Bowden, Fredrik Jacobson (Swe), Chad Collins

1350 Matthew Jones (Aus), Jarrod Lyle (Aus), Garth Mulroy (Rsa)

1400 Troy Merritt, Kevin Johnson, Jerod Turner

1410 Blake Adams, Martin Flores, Jeff Peck

(x) denotes amateurs