He was the only player among the last 46 players to tee off who broke par.
Critics say Augusta and other men-only golf clubs are more than just places to tee off with the guys.
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Bubba Watson, who had yet to tee off, said it looked like "goofy golf" from what he saw on television.
There is still a wide public acceptance of allowing NHL players the ability to continue to tee off on each other during games.
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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.
"We have contacted a world famous golfer and invited him to be the first to tee off of it when it is ready for the grand opening, " said Bolin's operations manager.
World number one Woods, gunning for his 13th major title, Australian Ogilvy and Briton Ramsay are set to tee off on the first hole at 0806 (1306 BST) in Thursday's opening round.
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McIlroy, who dates former World No.1 tennis player Caroline Wozniacki, will get an early chance to silence the doubters as he is due to tee off next week in the WGC-Cadillac Championship on Doral's daunting Blue Monster Course.
It is still possible to pay green fees to tee off at many Vietnamese clubs, and at least one bank has a deal whereby customers can deposit money and get free games at golf courses near the main cities, Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City.
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Woods is working on his swing and other technical aspects of his game with coach Sean Foley but said his problem area is not just related to his off the tee concerns.
Twelve months ago, the conditions on the exposed Shinnecock Hills layout on New York's Long Island, allied to the USGA's decision to roll some greens before play, produced surfaces so slick that putts rolled off them and perfect tee shots were unable to hold.
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While the Bushes planned to take two shots off the first tee, the younger Bush, after feeling satisfied with his first shot, decided not to take another.
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The fast, baked fairways in Hong Kong enabled Jimenez - generally a 280-yard-a-time striker off the tee - to improve his driving distance stats considerably too with an overall tournament return of 304.9 yards on average.
While the hard ground - because of the underlying sand drying quickly - allows the ball to travel further from the tee, the ground off the fairway is far less forgiving.
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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Unless visitors are fortunate enough to have secured one of the few advance booking slots, they have to take their chances in the daily draw for tee-off times.
As ever, tee-to-green efficiency had to be rounded off with a sure touch on the greens and Scott came up with the goods, taking a more-than-respectable 29 putts a time.
Havret found sand off his tee shot and was forced to lay up short of the green with his second shot, but McIlroy also ended in a greenside bunker with his approach.
Then, on the 17th, Lewis hit into the bunker off the tee and missed a long par putt to card her second bogey of the back nine.
Teixeira managed to strain his right wrist last week while hitting balls off a tee, exactly what the team needed least coming just after a pitch broke Curtis Granderson's forearm.
Schwartzel, who averages around 300 yards a time off the tee over the past three years according to the Reuters Stats, throttled back a little on the tight, parkland track which borders the famous Kruger National Park in South Africa.
Myler was again wayward off the boot but he killed the game off in the 68th minute when Foden brilliantly collected an up-and-under to force an infringement before Myler's kick sailed over off the tee from 40m out.
Ryan Richter played the ball back to Osorio, who paused to tee up a high shot that sailed over New York goalkeeper Luis Robles and glanced off the crossbar and in the net.
But Jones fluffed the conversion as the ball rolled off the tee and he was tackled before he could pick it up to try for a drop goal.
O'Gara was forced to attempt a drop-kick for the conversion after the wind blew the ball off the tee.
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