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The 137th Open Championship at the Royal Birkdale Golf Club, Southport Lancashire gets underway on Thursday 17th July 2008.

Veteran Sandy Lyle has an early start on Thursday going to the tee at 7.14am, Justin Rose, who made such an impact as a 17 year old amateur in the 1998 Open here at Royal Birkdale, begins his challenge at 7.36am in company with five times winner Tom Watson.

Padraig Harrington starts his title defense at 7.58am his playing partners for the first two rounds are Retief Goosen and Justin Leonard.

Ernie Els begins at 8.31am and Lee Westwood at 8.58am, world number 2 Phil Mickelson starts his challenge at 9.20am followed closely by Colin Montgomerie at 9.31am.

The bookmaker’s favourite Sergio Garcia gets a lie in on Thursday as his tee time is 14.31pm, his compatriot the ultra consistent Miguel Angel Jimenez tees off slightly earlier at 14.09pm. Live Golf Betting.

Below are the tee times and groupings for first and second rounds of the British Open Golf Championship 2008

Great Britain and Ireland unless stated.

All times British Summer Time (GMT +1)

0630 & 1141 Lucas Glover (US), Craig Parry (Aus), Simon Dyson
0641 & 1152 Jean-Baptiste Gonnet (Fra), Pat Perez (US), Peter Fowler (Aus)
0652 & 1203 Soren Kjeldsen (Den), Brendan Jones (Aus), Matt Kuchar (US)
0703 & 1214 Jerry Kelly (US), Darren Fichardt (SA), Damien McGrane
0714 & 1225 Graeme Storm, Scott Strange (Aus), Sandy Lyle
0725 & 1236 Richard Green (Aus), Mark Calcavecchia (US), Anders Hansen (Den)
0736 & 1247 Tom Watson (US), Justin Rose, Aaron Baddeley (Aus)
0747 & 1258 Geoff Ogilvy (Aus), Oliver Wilson, Davis Love III (US)
0758 & 1309 Retief Goosen (SA), Padraig Harrington, Justin Leonard (US)
0809 & 1320 Richard Sterne (SA), Henrik Stenson (Swe), Jeff Quinney (US)
0820 & 1331 Hunter Mahan (US), Vijay Singh (Fij), Reinier Saxton (Ned)
0831 & 1342 Martin Kaymer (Ger), Scott Verplank (US), Ernie Els (SA)
0842 & 1353 David Howell, Andres Romero (Arg), JB Holmes (US)
0858 & 1409 Lee Westwood, KJ Choi (Kor), Ben Curtis (US)
0909 & 1420 Nick O’Hern (Aus), Ian Poulter, Paul Goydos (US)
0920 & 1431 Phil Mickelson (US), Hideto Tanihara (Jpn), Paul Casey
0931 & 1442 Boo Weekley (US), Colin Montgomerie, Mike Weir (Can)
0942 & 1453 Toru Taniguchi (Jpn), Richard Finch, John Daly (US)
0953 & 1504 David Duval (US), Simon Khan, David Frost (SA)
1004 & 1515 Rich Beem (US), Pelle Edberg (Swe), Thomas Sherreard
1015 & 1526 Michoi Matsumura (Jpn), Tom Gillis (US), Barry Hume
1026 & 1537 Shintaro Kai (Jpn), Tim Petrovic (US), Dave Horsey
1037 & 1548 Ariel Canete (Arg), Craig Barlow (US), Phillip Archer
1048 & 1559 Jamie Elson, Rohan Blizard (Aus), Jon Bevan
1059 & 1610 Adam Blyth (Aus), Jamie Howarth, Josh Cunliffe (SA)
1110 & 1621 Thomas Aiken (SA), Gary Boyd, Brad Lamb (Aus)
1141 & 0630 Jean Van de velde (Fra), Steve Webster, Andrew Tampion (Aus)
1152 & 0641 Philip Walton, David Smail (NZ), Michael Letzig (US)

1203 & 0652 Paul Waring, Hennie Otto (SA), Kevin Stadler (US)
1214 & 0703 Paul Lawrie, Rocco Mediate (US), Angel Cabrera (Arg)
1225 & 0714 Niclas Fasth (Swe), Mark O’Meara (US), Michael Campbell (NZ)
1236 & 0725 Graeme McDowell, Rory Sabbatini (SA), Todd Hamilton (US)
1247 & 0736 Jim Furyk (US), Nick Dougherty, Camilo Villegas (Col)
1258 & 0747 Robert Karlsson (Swe), Greg Norman (Aus), Woody Austin (US)
1309 & 0758 Robert Allenby (Aus), Steve Stricker (US), Benjamin Hebert (Fra)
1320 & 0809 Adam Scott (Aus), Zach Johnson (US), Pablo Larrazabal (Spa)
1331 & 0820 Gregory Havret (Fra), Tim Clark (SA), Stewart Cink (US)
1342 & 0831 Wen-chong Liang (Chn), Fredrik Jacobson (Swe), Jeff Overton (US)
1353 & 0842 Trevor Immelman (SA), Soren Hansen (Den), Anthony Kim (US)
1409 & 0858 Miguel Angel Jimenez (Spa), Stephen Ames (Can), Charles Howell III (US)
1420 & 0909 Peter Hanson (Swe), Bart Bryant (US), Rodney Pampling (Aus)
1431 & 0920 Ryuji Imada (Jpn), Sergio Garcia (Spa), Sean O’Hair (US)
1442 & 0931 Stuart Appleby (Aus), Brandt Snedeker (US), Ross Fisher
1453 & 0942 Azuma Yano (Jpn), Johan Edfors (Swe), Tom Lehman (US)
1504 & 0953 Simon Wakefield, Jay Williamson (US), James Kingston (SA)
1515 & 1004 Gregory Bourdy (Fra), Danny Chia (Mas), John Rollins (US)
1526 & 1015 Prayad Marksaeng (Tha), Chris Wood, Scott McCarron (US)
1537 & 1026 Anthony Wall, Alexander Noren (Swe), Ewan Porter (Aus)
1548 & 1037 Peter Baker, Hiroshi Iwata (Jpn), Alex Cejka (Ger)
1559 & 1048 Douglas Labelle (US), Chih-bing Lam (Sin), Jose-Filipe Lima (Por)
1610 & 1059 Martin Wiegele (Aut), Angelo Que (Phi), Doug McGuigan
1621 & 1110 Jonathan Lomas, Yoshinobu Tsukada (Jpn), Peter Appleyard

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