Tiger Woods will go head-to-head with Open champion Ernie Els and defending champion David Toms over the first two rounds of the USPGA Championship at Hazeltine in Chaska, Minnesota later this week.
The world number one was grouped with the South African and Toms to tee off from the 10th hole at just after half-past-eight local time (1.35 p.m. Irish time) as he bids for victory in the fourth and final major of the year.
The chance of completing the grand slam may now have gone following his 28th-place tie at Muirfield last month, but Woods still has the opportunity to rewrite the record books once again.
Victory at Hazeltine for the 2002 Masters and US Open winner will see Woods become the first golfer to twice win three majors in a year.
The late great American Ben Hogan managed the feat back in 1953 when he won the US Open, Masters and the Open.
Woods - who has won seven of the last 12 majors - did it two years ago when only a fifth place at the Masters denied him a clean sweep.
"It would rank right up there," said Woods. "Myself and Mr Hogan have done it and hopefully I can do it again.
"It's already been a successful year and I would just like to make it more successful. You want to feel like you're playing well going into a championship and any time you win, you feel good."
Padraig Harrington, a top 10 finisher in all three majors so far this season, has a lunchtime start with Mark Calcavecchia and Chris DiMarco for company.
Paul McGinley, who like Harrington starts on the first tee, will be bidding to break back into the top-50 in the world rankings at Hazeltine and hoping for a better showing than at the Open.
The Dubliner missed the cut at Muirfield but is hoping a morale boosting sixth in last weekend’s Wales Open can help him turn the corner and get his game back on track. McGinley tees it up with Dean Wilson and Carl Paulson at 8.55 local time.
Darren Clarke, the final Irishman a field containing the top 100 players in the world, will have the sartorial elegance of Duffy Waldorf to look forward to when he tees off from the tenth at 1.10 p.m. local time. Clarke will also be playing alongside Justin Leonard.
World number two Phil Mickelson has yet to win a major and will be hoping to have a reverse of fortunes at Hazeltine when he bids to go one better than his agonising one-stroke defeat by Toms last year.
Mickelson will be in illustrious company over his first two rounds, having been grouped with twice British Open champion Greg Norman and eight-times major winner Tom Watson.
There is an early start for leading European hope Sergio Garcia along with Tom Lehman and Welsh Open winner Paul Lawrie.
"I will now go to the US PGA and try my best," said 1999 Open champion Lawrie.
"I'm looking forward to going there with my game in good shape."