Woods drawn with McDowell and Oosthuizen at Muirfield

GULLANE, Scotland, (Reuters) – World number one Tiger Woods has been drawn to play alongside former U.S. Open champion Graeme McDowell and South African Louis Oosthuizen in the first two rounds of this week’s British Open at Muirfield.

The trio will tee-off at 1445 local time (1345 GMT) on Thursday and at 0944 on Friday.

Second-ranked Rory McIlroy has been grouped with American left-hander Phil Mickelson, last week’s Scottish Open winner, and Japan’s Hideki Matsuyama.

Woods, who will be making his first competitive appearance since last month’s U.S.

Open in Pennsylvania, played nine holes in practice on Sunday.