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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Tee off on the Cascata Golf Club's rolling greens, or get your outdoor fix by biking, hiking, fishing or even stand-up paddle boarding.
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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Jason Day was 6 under with two holes left, but he missed a birdie putt by inches on 17, and was in the sand off the tee on 18.
Players were averaging about 350 yards off the tee on the first hole, with the trade wind at their backs.
The Englishman will tee off at Pebble Beach on Thursday in sparkling form having won last week's St Jude Classic and finished second in April's Masters.
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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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It broke sharply into the cup, and then he hit 3-wood off the tee on the 10th, leaving it some 10 yards short of the green with the left pin.
Woods' current inaccuracy off the tee has put pressure on the rest of his game, but all things are relative.
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Such is the interest generated by the six-footer, Wie will tee off in her first pro event on 13 October as her sport's top female earner.
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The Wallabies put the All Blacks on the back-foot from the off but Kurtley Beale was twice wayward off the tee as six points went begging early on.
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.
His day could have been much worse except for a tee shot that caromed off a tree and into the fairway on the second hole, and a big hook on the third that hit the tire of a golf cart and stayed in play.
Garcia finds the green with his tee-shot off the 154 yard second - the shortest hole on the Wentworth course - but misses a 12-foot birdie putt.
There were only 13 rounds under par on the final day and those with early tee-off times benefited.
Realizing the pin was not tucked on the side, he laid back off the tee with a 3-wood, and then hit 6-iron into 10 feet for a birdie.
Bubba Watson, who had yet to tee off, said it looked like "goofy golf" from what he saw on television.
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.
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.
Hanson bogeyed two of the first three holes, and Mickelson suffered an excruciating triple bogey on the par-three fourth hole when his tee shot pinged off the spectator railing into a bamboo thicket.
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Scott, who plays most of his golf these days on the PGA Tour in the US, was hardly conservative off the tee either.
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.
On the fifth hole Thursday, for example, Woods's low-boring iron off the tee found the left side of the fairway.
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