Wednesday, March 9, 2011

Mickelson and Woods Together at Cadillac


Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson will be back playing together in the same group for the first two rounds at the TPC Blue Monster at Doral.

Woods and Mickelson will join reigning U.S. Open Champion Graeme McDowell as one of the featured groups in this week's WGC-Cadillac Championship.

Tee times for the first two rounds of the tournament were released yesterday, with the top 21 players in the Official World Golf Ranking grouped together in groups of three based on their ranking positions.

That means the top three players in the world — No. 1 Martin Kaymer, No. 2 Lee Westwood and No. 3 Luke Donald, are also together for the first two days.

Kaymer replaced Westwood atop the rankings at the Accenture Match Play when he reached the championship final. Kaymer eventually lost to Donald, 3 and 2.

McDowell (No. 4), Woods (No. 5) and Mickelson (No. 6) followed in the World Rankings.

For Woods and Mickelson, Thursday’s round will the 26th round in which they’ve been paired together at an official PGA TOUR event, and the first since the final round of last year’s BMW Championship.