Woods, Duval & Goosen tee up at PGA

Two-time defending champion Tiger Woods will play with David Duval and Retief Goosen in the opening two rounds of the PGA Championship, which starts Thursday at the Atlanta Athletic Club.

The PGA of America traditionally groups the winners of the first three majors of the year together for the opening two rounds. Woods won the Masters, Duval captured the British Open and Goosen claimed the U.S. Open.

The trio will tee off Thursday on the 10th hole at 8:45 a.m. (et), then start at the first hole at 1:50 p.m. (et) on Friday.

Woods won his first PGA title in 1999 at Medinah and captured last year's crown at Valhalla. He is trying to become the first player to win as many as three straight PGA Championships since Walter Hagen in the 1920s.

Former PGA champions Steve Elkington (1995), Vijay Singh (1998) and Nick Price (1992 and '94) will play together in the group directly after the Woods/Duval/Goosen threesome.

Phil Mickelson, still trying to win his first major championship, will play the first two rounds with a pair of former major winners: 1996 British Open champion Tom Lehman and two-time U.S. Open champ Lee Janzen.

Former British Open champions Justin Leonard and Mark Calcavecchia will join Colin Montgomerie for the first two days, while another group of former major champions features two-time U.S. Open winner Ernie Els, two-time Masters champion Jose Maria Olazabal and Tom Watson, who has won every major title except the PGA Championship and captured the Senior PGA crown earlier this year.

Bob May, who lost in a playoff to Woods at last year's PGA Championship, will play with Joe Ozaki and Jerry Pate. Pate captured the 1976 U.S. Open at the Atlanta Athletic Club.

Larry Nelson, who won the 1981 PGA at the Atlanta Athletic Club, will play with 1983 PGA champ Hal Sutton and 1988 PGA winner Jeff Sluman.