Bjorn on Tiger's tail again

Thomas Bjorn will go head-to-head with Tiger Woods again in the first two rounds of the Masters on Thursday and Friday.

The Ryder Cup Dane beat the world number one in the 2001 Dubai Desert Classic after they were paired together all four days.

The other member of the group is 19-year-old US Amateur runner-up Casey Wittenberg – and they have a long time to wait for their start. Their threeball is the next-to-last one in the opening round at 1.30pm.

British amateur champion Gary Wolstenholme, who led after nine holes playing with Arnold Palmer in 1992, partners Tom Watson this time. They are much earlier at 8.44am, by which time Sandy Lyle and Justin Rose will already be on the course.

Padraig Harrington could well have one of the biggest galleries of the day after the draw paired him with world number two Vijay Singh and John Daly.

Daren Clarke is with Phil Mickelson and Japan’s Shigeki Maruyama, while Colin Montgomerie partners US PGA champion Shaun Micheel and Jay Haas.