Big guns kept apart in low-key first round

NINETEEN year-old Rory McIlroy and Japanese Ryo Ishikawa, almost two years his junior, have been drawn in the last match in tomorrow’s first round of the Masters.

There had been speculation McIlroy would be paired with Tiger Woods but the organisers opted for a series of relatively low-key pairings.

McIlroy and Ishikawa are off at 7.03pm Irish time along with US Ryder Cup star Anthony Kim and at 3.56pm on Friday.