The Masters Tournament: Tee-times for the first two rounds at Augusta National

Thunderstorms which forced Wednesday’s par-three contest to be abandoned continued through the evening and overnight in Augusta.

Tournament officials announced that the first group would start at 8.30am local time instead of 8am, with Tom Watson joining Jack Nicklaus and Gary Player as honorary starters at 8.15.

The trio will hit tee shots on the opening hole before retiring to the clubhouse.

The delay meant Tiger Woods was now scheduled to tee off at 11.04 local time following his remarkable recovery from injuries sustained in a car accident in February last year.

“It’s just truly amazing,” Masters chairman Fred Ridley said in his annual pre-tournament press conference. “I don’t even know how else to say it.

“I would have probably taken some pretty high odds a few weeks or a few months ago whether or not he would be here.

“But when you think about it, it really shouldn’t surprise us. He is one of the most determined, dedicated athletes that I have ever seen in my life.

“I saw him last Tuesday when he was out practicing, he was in great spirits and had (his son) Charlie with him.

“It was interesting in his press conference that he said the only real issue is walking, that his golf swing’s fine. So who knows what might happen this week. But we are excited he’s here.”

Updated Round One tee-times

USA unless stated, all times BST, (x) denotes amateurs

1330 Jose Maria Olazabal (Esp), JJ Spaun

1341 Mike Weir (Can), Padraig Harrington (Irl), Austin Greaser (x)

1352 Larry Mize, Sepp Straka (Aut), Francesco Molinari (Ita)

1403 Fred Couples, Garrick Higgo (Rsa), Guido Migliozzi (Ita)

1414 Vijay Singh (Fij), Ryan Palmer, Kyoung-Hoon Lee (Kor)

1425 Min Woo Lee (Aus), Hudson Swafford, Cameron Young

1436 Stewart Cink, Brian Harman, Harry Higgs

1447 Zach Johnson, Si Woo Kim (Kor), Aaron Jarvis (Cay) (x)

1509 Luke List, Matthew Wolff, Mackenzie Hughes (Can)

1520 Danny Willett (Eng), Jason Kokrak, Talor Gooch

1531 Max Homa, Kevin Na, Shane Lowry (Irl)

1542 Kevin Kisner, Daniel Berger, Tommy Fleetwood (Eng)

1553 Bryson DeChambeau, Cameron Smith (Aus), Paul Casey (Eng)

1604 Tiger Woods, Louis Oosthuizen (Rsa), Joaquin Niemann (Chl)

1615 Hideki Matsuyama (Jpn), Justin Thomas, James Piot (x)

1626 Adam Scott (Aus), Scottie Scheffler, Tony Finau

1646 Sandy Lyle (Sco), Stewart Hagestad (x)

1659 Lucas Glover, Erik van Rooyen (Rsa), Cameron Champ

1710 Bernhard Langer (Ger), Christiaan Bezuidenhout (Rsa), Cameron Davis (Aus)

1721 Charl Schwartzel (Rsa), Robert MacIntyre (Sco), Laird Shepherd (Eng) (x)

1732 Gary Woodland, Justin Rose (Eng), Takumi Kanaya (Jpn)

1743 Lee Westwood (Eng), Russell Henley, Corey Conners (Can)

1754 Patrick Reed, Seamus Power (Irl), Lucas Herbert (Aus)

1805 Bubba Watson, Tom Hoge, Keita Nakajima (Jpn) (x)

1827 Marc Leishman (Aus), Webb Simpson, Sungjae Im (Kor)

1838 Sergio Garcia (Esp), Thomas Pieters (Bel), Harold Varner III

1849 Abraham Ancer (Mex), Tyrrell Hatton (Eng), Sam Burns

1900 Dustin Johnson, Billy Horschel, Collin Morikawa

1911 Will Zalatoris, Patrick Cantlay, Jon Rahm (Esp)

1922 Jordan Spieth, Viktor Hovland (Nor), Xander Schauffele

1933 Matthew Fitzpatrick (Eng), Brooks Koepka, Rory McIlroy (NIrl)