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Aug 7th, 2016
Men’s Olympic draw confirmed
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The International Golf Federation has announced the draw for the first and second rounds of the Men’s Golf Competition at Rio 2016.
At 7.30am local time on Thursday 11th August, history will be made when Brazilian, Adilson da Silva, hits the opening tee shot and golf’s return to the Olympic Games will be complete.
Two further Olympic connections are celebrated in the first group. Canada’s Graham DeLaet, whose countryman George Lyon won the Olympic gold medal in 1904, the last time golf was part of the Olympic programme, will tee off second. And, Byeong Hun An, the son of two Olympic table tennis medalists at the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul, will complete the group.
Three-time major champion Padraig Harrington from Ireland and Italy’s Matteo Manassero, both of whom formed part of the International Golf Federation’s delegation that presented golf’s case for inclusion in the Games at the 2009 IOC Session in Copenhagen, will play together in the second group out at 7.41am.
The Irishman and Italian will be joined by New Zealand’s Danny Lee.
Other notable tee times include 2016 Masters champion Danny Willett from Great Britain who will play with American Matt Kuchar and China’s Haotong Li at 9.03am.
Two-time Masters winner, Bubba Watson, will tee off at 9.14am in the same group as former US Open champion Martin Kaymer from Germany and India’s Anirban Lahiri.
Siddikur Rahman, who carried Bangladesh’s flag during the Opening Ceremony, will begin their first round at 10.14am in a group with the Netherlands’ Joost Luiten and Ricardo Melo Gouveia from Portugal.
At 10.58am, world number seven Rickie Fowler, former US Open champion Justin Rose and last month’s winner of the Canadian Open, Jhonattan Vegas, will begin their bid for Olympic gold.
And, at 11.09am The Open champion and world number five Henrik Stenson will play alongside Thailand’s Thongchai Jaidee and Rafa Cabrera Bello in Thursday’s final group.
TEE TIMES & PAIRINGS FOR DAYS ONE & TWO:
7:30 9:25 BRA da SILVA A CAN DELAET G KOR AN Byeonghun
7:41 9:36 IRL HARRINGTON P ITA MANASSERO M NZL LEE Danny
7:52 9:47 THA APHIBARNRAT K MAS GREEN GK BEL PIETERS T
8:03 10:03 FRA QUESNE J AUS FRASER M JPN KATAYAMA S
8:14 10:14 BEL COLSAERTS N KOR WANG J NOR KOFSTAD E
8:25 10:25 CHI AGUILAR F MAS CHIA Danny DEN KJELDSEN S
8:41 10:36 ARG GOMEZ Fabian SWE LINGMERTH D POR LIMA JF
8:52 10:47 MEX CAZAUBON R AUT WIESBERGER B RSA STONE B
9:03 10:58 GBR WILLETT D USA KUCHAR M CHN LI Haotong
9:14 11:09 USA WATSON Bubba GER KAYMER M IND LAHIRI A
9:25 7:30 RSA van ZYL Jaco Green FIN ILONEN Mikko CAN HEARN David
9:36 7:41 FRA BOURDY G PAR ZANOTTI TPE PAN C.T.
9:47 7:52 JPN IKEDA Yuta FIN KAKKO Roope PHI TABUENA M
10:03 8:03 CHN WU Ashun ITA BERTASIO N AUS HEND Scott
10:14 8:14 NED LUITEN Joost POR GOUVEIA R BAN RAHMAN S
10:25 8:25 ESP GARCIA S USA REED Patrick ARG GRILLO E
10:36 8:41 DEN OLESEN T GER CEJKA Alex NZL FOX Ryan
10:47 8:52 IND CHAWRASIA S.S.P. IRL POWER Seamus TPE LIN Wen-Tang
10:58 9:03 USA FOWLER R GBR ROSE Justin VEN VEGAS J
11:09 9:14 SWE STENSON H THA JAIDEE T ESP CABRERA BELLO
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