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Rory McIlroy and Collin Morikawa will both tee up together at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics Golf event on Thursday. The pair will be joined by South Korea’s Sungjae Im at 2:25am BST in Thursday’s opening round, forming one of the featured groups at the opening day of the Olympic event at Kasumigaseki Country Club.

Japan’s Rikuya Hoshino will open up the event in his native country, as he heads out in the first group at 11:30pm BST on Wednesday alongside Thomas Pieters of Belgium and Austria’s Sepp Straka. 

Team GB representatives Paul Casey and Tommy Fleetwood will tee up just over two hours apart, with Casey the first to head out at 12:25am alongside world number four, and Team USA member Justin Thomas, as well as Joaquin Niemann of Chile.

Fleetwood will then follow at 2:36am, playing with Shane Lowry of Ireland, and Team USA replacement, Patrick Reed who comes in, in place of Bryson DeChambeau after the 2020 US Open champion tested positive for Covid-19.

World number one John Rahm will also be missing from the Olympic field after he also tested positive for coronavirus for the second time in under three months. 

Jorge Campillo replaces Rahm for Team Spain, joining up with fellow countryman, Adri Arnaus to complete the field.

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Here are the tee times for day one.

Wednesday, July 28 – Round one

11:30pm BST

Rikuya HOSHINO, Japan
Thomas PIETERS, Belgium
Sepp STRAKA, Austria

11:41pm BST

Adri ARNAUS, Spain
Sami VALIMAKI, Finland
Matthias SCHWAB, Austria

11:52pm BST

Sebastian MUNOZ, Colombia
Henrik NORLANDER, Sweden
Joachim B. HANSEN, Denmark

Thursday 29 July – Round one

12:03am BST

Carlos ORTIZ, Mexico
Antonie ROZNER, France
Guido MIGLIOZZI, Italy

12:14am BST

Xander SCHAUFFELE, USA
Abraham ANCER, Mexico
Christiaan BEZUIDENHOUT, South Africa

12:25am BST

Justin Thomas, USA
Joaquin Niemann, Chile
Paul Casey, Great Britain

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12:41am BST

Hideki MATSUYAMA, Japan
Marc LEISHMAN, Australia
Corey CONNERS, Canada

12:52am BST

CT PAN, Chinese Taipei
Ryan FOX, New Zealand
Anirban LAHIRI, India

1:03am BST

Hurly LONG, Germany
Yechun YUAN, China
Gavin GREEN, Malaysia

1:14am BST

K.K. JOHANNESSEN, Norway
Adrian MERONK, Poland
Gunn CHAROENKUL, Thailand

1:25am BST

Rory SABBATINI, Slovakia
Mito PEREIRA, Chile
Renato PARATORE, Italy

1:36am BST

Jhonattan VEGAS, Venezuela
Thomas DETRY, Belgium
Kalle SAMOOJA, Finland

1:47am BST

Mackenzie HUGHES, Canada
Alex NOREN, Sweden
Jazz JANEWATTANANOND, Thailand

2:03am BST

Rasmus HOJGAARD, Denmark
Romain LANGASQUE, France
Si Woo Kim, South Korea

2:14am BST

Viktor HOVLAND, Norway
Cameron SMITH, Australia
Garrick HIGGO, South Africa

2:25am BST

Collin MORIKAWA, USA
Rory McILROY, Ireland
Sungjae IM, South Korea

2:36am BST

Patrick REED, USA
Tommy FLEETWOOD, Great Britain
Shane LOWRY, Ireland

2:47am BST

Rafael CAMPOS, Puerto Rico
Max KIEFFER, Germany
Ashun WU, China

2:58am BST

Fabrizio ZANOTTI, Paraguay
Juvic PAGUNSAN, Philippines
Scott VINCENT, Zimbabwe

3:09am BST

Udayan MANE, India
Ondrej LIESER, Czech Republic
Jorge CAMPILLO, Spain

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