The 2012 U.S. Open begins on Thursday at the Olympic Club, and Luke Donald is in one of the most exciting pairings of the day. Donald will hit the tees with Rory McIlroy and Lee Westwood in spectacular trio scheduled to start from tee No. 1 at 3:29 p.m CT.
TV coverage on Thursday begins at 11 a.m. CT on ESPN, continues on NBC at 2 p.m. CT and resumes on ESPN at 4 p.m. CT. USOpen.com will have live streaming starting at 9:33 a.m. CT and continuing into the afternoon at 3:29 p.m. CT. You can also stream the action on WatchESPN.com, as ESPN3 coverage will start at 11:00 a.m. CT.
Here is a list of the tee times and pairings for Thursday (all times CT):
Tee No. 1
9:15 a.m.: Beau Hossler (a), Scott Langley, Steve LeBrun
9:26 a.m.: Jason Bohn, Raphael Jacquelin, J.B. Park (a)
9:37 a.m.: Colt Knost, Steve Marino, Michael Thompson
9:48 a.m.: Gregory Bourdy, George Coetzee, Brendan Jones
9:59 a.m.: Jonathan Byrd, Patrick Cantlay (a), Kyle Stanley
10:10 a.m.: Retief Goosen, Zach Johnson, Vijay Singh
10:21 a.m.: Hiroyuki Fujita, Mark Wilson, Andy Zhang (a)
10:32 a.m.: Keegan Bradley, Adam Scott, Webb Simpson
10:43 a.m.: Tim Clark, Rod Pampling, Toru Taniguchi
10:54 a.m.: Peter Hanson, Francesco Molinari, Bo Van Pelt
11:05 a.m.: Dong-Hwan Lee (a), D.A. Points, Kevin Streelman
11:16 a.m.: Paul Claxton, Edward Loar, Alistair Presnell
11:27 a.m.: Cole Howard, Mark McCormick, Nick Sherwood (a)
2:45 p.m.: Casey Martin, Dennis Miller, Cameron Wilson (a)
2:56 p.m.: Jim Herman, Bill Lunde, David Mathis
3:07 p.m.: Nicholas Colsaerts, Simon Dyson, Charlie Wi
3:18 p.m.: Alvaro Quiros, John Senden, Gary Woodland
3:29 p.m.: Luke Donald, Rory McIlroy, Lee Westwood
3:40 p.m.: Jim Furyk, Sergio Garcia, Graeme McDowell
3:51 p.m.: Stewart Cink, Lucas Glover, Trevor Immelman
4:02 p.m.: Angel Cabrera, Ernie Els, Geoff Ogilvy
4:13 p.m.: Ben Crane, Anders Hansen, Martin Laird
4:24 p.m.: Aaron Baddeley, Miguel A. Jimenez, Matteo Manassero
4:35 p.m.: Brian Harman, Mikko Ilonen, Spencer Levin
4:46 p.m.: Brice Garnett, Justin Hicks, Jesse Mueller
4:57 p.m.: Brian Gaffney, Brian Rowell, Alberto Sanchez (a)
Tee No. 9
9:00 a.m.: Shane Bertsch, Tommy Biershenk, Martin Flores
9:11 a.m.: Matthew Baldwin, Matt Bettencourt, Scott Piercy
9:22 a.m.: Thomas Bjorn, Branden Grace, Kevin Na
9:33 a.m.: Phil Mickelson, Bubba Watson, Tiger Woods
9:44 a.m.: Stephen Ames, Tim Herron, Joe Ogilvie
9:55 a.m.: Padraig Harrington, Davis Love III, David Toms
10:06 a.m.: Charles Howell III, Carl Pettersson, Charl Schwartzel
10:17 a.m.: Bob Estes, Robert Karlsson, Robert Rock
10:28 a.m.: K.J. Choi, Kyung-Tae Kim, Y.E. Yang
10:39 a.m.: Robert Garrigus, Fredrik Jacobson, Alexander Noren
10:50 a.m.: Sang-Moon Bae, Rafael Cabrera-Bello, Gonzalo Fernandez-Castano
11:01 a.m.: Michael Allen, Anthony Summers, Marc Warren
11:12 a.m.: Hunter Hamrick (a), Scott Smith, Tim Weinhart
2:30 p.m.: Morgan Hoffmann, John Peterson, Aaron Watkins
2:41 p.m.: Jeff Curl, Nicholas Thompson, Casey Wittenberg
2:52 p.m.: Soren Kjeldsen, Peter Lawrie, Chez Reavie
3:03 p.m.: Olin Browne, Michael Campbell, Joe Durant
3:14 p.m.: Bill Haas, Jordan Spieth (a), Nick Watney
3:25 p.m.: Martin Kaymer, Hunter Mahan, Justin Rose
3:36 p.m.: Matt Kuchar, Ian Poulter, Steve Stricker
3:47 p.m.: Jason Day, Jason Dufner, Louis Oosthuizen
3:58 p.m.: Rickie Fowler, Ryo Ishikawa, Dustin Johnson
4:09 p.m.: Hunter Haas, Lee Slattery, Tadahiro Takayama
4:20 p.m.: Blake Adams, Alex Cejka, Kevin Chappell
4:31 p.m.: Roberto Castro, James Hahn, Darron Stiles
4:42 p.m.: Brooks Koepka (a), Samuel Osborne, Kyle Thompson
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