Jason Day grouped with Rory McIlroy and Phil Mickelson at PGA Championship
Friday 22 July 2016 22:34, UK
Jason Day will begin the defence of his PGA Championship title alongside two-time champion Rory McIlroy and 2005 winner Phil Mickelson at Baltusrol next week.
The trio form the first high-profile group out in Thursday's opening round, teeing off from the 10th at 1:30pm BST - an hour and a half after Welsh journeyman Bradley Dredge goes out in the first three-ball of the tournament.
Day clinched his maiden major title in record-breaking style at Whistling Straits last year, narrowly denying Jordan Spieth his third major victory of the season, while Open runner-up Mickelson clinched his lone PGA Championship crown when the event was last played at Baltusrol in 2005.
McIlroy has not added to his haul of four majors since winning his second PGA title at Valhalla in 2014, and the world No 4 will be determined to atone for a disappointing week at Royal Troon as he finished 16 shots behind champion Henrik Stenson.
As is traditional in the final major of the year, Stenson will play the first two rounds with the Masters and US Open champions - Danny Willett and Dustin Johnson - and they begin their campaigns from the first tee at 6:45pm.
The two preceeding groups are also packed full of quality, with Sergio Garcia partnering Spieth and Bubba Watson in game 34, with Justin Rose, Patrick Reed and Charl Schwartzel heading to the first tee next.
98th PGA Championship, Baltusrol - Selected first round tee times (all times BST):
1240 (10th tee) Ernie Els, Zach Johnson, Rickie Fowler
1250 (1st tee) Vijay Singh, John Daly, Padraig Harrington
1310 (10th tee) Brandt Snedeker, Brooks Koepka, Lee Westwood
1320 (10th tee) Keegan Bradley, Adam Scott, Jamie Donaldson
1330 (10th tee) Phil Mickelson, Rory McIlroy, Jason Day
1745 (10th tee) David Toms, Rich Beem, Steve Stricker
1805 (1st tee) Luke Donald, Matt Kuchar, Danny Lee
1805 (10th tee) Jason Dufner, YE Yang, Martin Kaymer
1815 (1st tee) Francesco Molinari, Shane Lowry, Jim Furyk
1825 (1st tee) Sergio Garcia, Jordan Spieth, Bubba Watson
1835 (1st tee) Justin Rose, Patrick Reed, Charl Schwartzel
1345 (1st tee) Danny Willett, Dustin Johnson, Henrik Stenson
1855 (1st tee) Graeme McDowell, Webb Simpson, Louis Oosthuizen
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