Young won last month\u2019s Players Championship while fellow American Howell captured last year\u2019s US Amateur at The Olympic Club in San Francisco aged 18.<\/p>\n
In other groupings, top-ranked Scottie Scheffler is in the 30th and penultimate group at 5.44am alongside fellow American Gary Woodland and Scotsman Robert MacIntyre.<\/p>\n
Two-time Masters winner Scheffler, the reigning PGA Championship and British Open champion, won at LaQuinta earlier this year.<\/p>\n
Woodland took an emotional PGA Houston Open victory two weeks ago, his first triumph since the 2019 US Open. Earlier last month, Woodland revealed he still fights anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorder following 2023 brain surgery.<\/p>\n
MacIntyre, last year\u2019s US Open runner-up, was second in last week\u2019s Texas Open.<\/p>\n
Following ceremonial starters Jack Nicklaus, Gary Player and Tom Watson, are the twosome of American John Keefer and China\u2019s Li Haotong.<\/p>\n
Americans Bryson DeChambeau and Xander Schauffele and England\u2019s Matt Fitzpatrick start at 2.07am, with Americans Collin Morikawa and Russell Henley joining Japan\u2019s Hideki Matsuyama 12 minutes later in the group just ahead of McIlroy\u2019s trio.<\/p>\n
Other later groups include Spain\u2019s Jon Rahm, Sweden\u2019s Ludvig Aberg and American Chris Gotterup at 5.08am followed by England\u2019s Justin Rose and Americans Brooks Koepka and Jordan Spieth.<\/p>\n
– With AFP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Young won last month\u2019s Players Championship while fellow American Howell captured last year\u2019s US Amateur at The Olympic…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":368512,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[192557,95,193086,2245,55893,4131,4999,193085,209,102225,305,58253,33813,10136,111,139,69,48760,10521,18833,5128,193087,213,4497,69932,14005,1533,102,2963],"class_list":{"0":"post-368511","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-90th","9":"tag-and","10":"tag-charl","11":"tag-early","12":"tag-fifth","13":"tag-fox","14":"tag-friday","15":"tag-greyserman","16":"tag-group","17":"tag-grouped","18":"tag-have","19":"tag-masters","20":"tag-max","21":"tag-named","22":"tag-new-zealand","23":"tag-newzealand","24":"tag-nz","25":"tag-nzt","26":"tag-opening","27":"tag-round","28":"tag-ryan","29":"tag-schwartzel","30":"tag-sports","31":"tag-start","32":"tag-tee","33":"tag-times","34":"tag-will","35":"tag-with","36":"tag-zealands"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=368511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368511\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/368512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}