Matt Kuchar's ball was blown off the tee before he could hit his opening tee shot.
European team captain Colin Montgomerie revealed Westwood asked to follow Mickelson and Johnson's tee shots as part of the first group to tee off at 0745 BST on Friday.
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If the record is confirmed, an 18 ft diameter hollowed out golf ball will be constructed to sit atop the tee, from where golfers will be able to tee off.
The first shot on each hole is played from a teeing area (known as a tee) with the ball usuallly being placed on a wooden peg (also, confusingly known as a tee).
Once word got out that legendary Orioles shortstop Cal Ripken liked to bust slumps by swatting balls off a batting tee as far as he could, for instance, every high-school team suddenly owned a tee.
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When I got to the golf course for my morning tee time, I was told that the twosome I was scheduled to play with had met another twosome in the casino the night before, and they wanted to play together, so my name had been scratched from the tee sheet.
Instead of a crew-neck tee, reach for a clean-cut accessory in a chalky shade.
He could hit his tee shot 400 yards and land it two feet from the pin.
Both Garcia and Maggert hit tee shots into the drink on TPC Sawgrass's island-green 17th.
Garcia, with a wild swing of emotions whenever he plays, looked subdued on the first tee.
Woods estimated that tee balls were rolling 20 yards farther than earlier in the week.
But in January the White House said they had no involvement at all with the tee-shirts.
Now, the good: you're paying for a heck of a lot more than just tee-vee there.
The role of a virile, axe-wielding, fur-bearing, cranium-smashing barbarian suited Schwarzenegger to a tee.
"That was rough, " Holmes said of his play-off tee shot which found the water.
Woods was not available for comment Saturday morning and will tee off about 1:30 Saturday.
We kept mostly to the front nine holes, following the progress of the early tee times.
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"Sometimes you have to make yourself take a four wood from the tee, " she said.
"He's the best player I've ever seen tee-to-green, period, " McDowell told the official PGA Tour website.
But Davies sent her shot into water and Brewerton's 17th tee-shot landed among the trees.
Having hit his tee shot into the deep rough, he took aim with a wedge.
Henrik Stenson, leading the tournament as he stood on the tee Thursday, quadruple-bogeyed 18.
Golden Tee was developed in 1989 by Incredible Technologies in the Chicago suburb of Arlington Heights.
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"I finally smoothed it out on about the 14th tee, " he told me afterward.
He was the only player among the last 46 players to tee off who broke par.
Next, Stern, Novosel and Campbell go in succession, all hitting reasonably good tee shots.
Mr. Lobban suggested wearing the cummerbund with the crew-neck tee as a contemporary evening look.
But on 16 a wayward tee shot resulted in his third bogey of the day.
"Hopefully our world's largest tee construction receives the Guinness recognition next week, " Bohannon told CNN.
Isom, who described himself as a political independent, said he made his 9 a.m. tee off.
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