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Westwood matched the world number one's score that day, both going round Torrey Pines in two-over-par 73s, but the big difference was that Woods started with a one-stroke lead.

And while he went into a play-off with fellow American Rocco Mediate and won his 14th major despite a left knee so bad he did not play again all season, Westwood had to content himself with coming closer than he ever has to his first major title.

A massive gallery is sure to follow the pair when they tee off in the opening round at 9.09am - and the number of television cameras trained on them could be a record because the third member of the group is 17-year-old Japanese star Ryo Ishikawa.

Padraig Harrington's attempt to win the Claret Jug for the third year running, something not achieved in any of the four majors since Peter Thomson in 1956, does not start until 2.20pm.

The Dubliner, winner at Carnoustie and Birkdale the last two years, partners two former US Open champions in American Jim Furyk and Australian Geoff Ogilvy.

Play on the first two days starts at 6.30am and it is a star-studded group which gets the action under way.

First to tee off will be former Ryder Cup player Paul Broadhurst, joint holder of the Open record with his 63 scored at St Andrews in 1990, and he is alongside 2006 US Open winner Michael Campbell and Mark Calcavecchia, the American who was Open champion just up the coast at Troon in 1989.

Greg Norman, who Calcavecchia beat in a play-off that year and who was a brilliant third at the age of 53 last summer, begins his challenge at 7.36am with world number four Kenny Perry and European Ryder Cup player Oliver Wilson.

Twenty-year-old Rory McIlroy, now established as a star of the world game in only his second full season as a professional, plays at 1.31pm alongside American Ryder Cup player Anthony Kim and double US Open champion Retief Goosen.