Nelly Korda and Lilia Vu - the world's top two players - grouped with Charley Hull for the first two days; 2018 champion Georgia Hall out with Evian Championship winner Ayaka Furue and Rose Zhang; Watch the opening round live on Thursday from midday on Sky Sports Golf
Wednesday 21 August 2024 06:15, UK
Charley Hull has been grouped alongside world No 1 Nelly Korda and defending champion Lilia Vu for the first two rounds of the AIG Women’s Open at St Andrews.
Korda won the Chevron Championship earlier this season as part of a run of six LPGA Tour victories in seven starts, while Vu looks to become the first back-to-back winner of the event since Yani Tseng in 2011 after last year's six-shot victory over Hull.
Hull's runner-up finish at Walton Heath was one of two in majors last year, with the world No 10 looking to become the first Englishwoman to win a major since Georgia Hall's victory at this event in 2018.
The star-studded trio have been given a late-early draw for the opening two days around the iconic Old Course, with their group scheduled to tee off at 1.10pm for Thursday's first round before starting at 7.55am on Friday.
A two-tee start is being used for the first two days at St Andrews, with Lexi Thompson among the early starters from the tenth tee as she begins what is possibly her final AIG Women's Open appearance.
Thompson tees off at 7.44am on Thursday with Australia's Minjee Lee and Scotland's Gemma Dryburgh, who needs a strong week on home soil to boost Solheim Cup qualification hopes, with 2018 champion Georgia Hall out in the next group alongside Rose Zhang and Evian Championship winner Ayaka Furue.
Olympic champion Lydia Ko is in the afternoon wave alongside France's Celine Boutier and American Ally Ewing, while former AIG Women's Open champions Ashleigh Buhai and Jin Young Ko have Ireland's Leona Maguire in their threeball.
Play is scheduled to begin at 7am over the first two days, with 144 players in the field, while the final groups will begin on both days at 2.16pm.
USA unless stated; * denotes starting from 10th tee
*0744 Minjee Lee (Aus), Lexi Thompson, Gemma Dryburgh (Sco)
*0755 Georgia Hall (Eng), Ayaka Furue (Jpn), Rose Zhang
1226 Celine Boutier (Fra), Lydia Ko (Nzl), Ally Ewing
1237 Ashleigh Buhai (Rsa), Jin Young Ko (Kor), Leona Maguire (Irl)
1310 Lilia Vu, Nelly Korda, Charley Hull (Eng)
Sky Sports will have extended live coverage from the final women's major of the year, with seven hours of live action for each tournament day from midday and daily one-hour highlights to look back at the best of the previous rounds' action on Sky Sports Golf.
You can download the Sky Sports App to get news, interviews, highlights, clips, leaderboard scores and a dedicated blog, while other special AIG Women's Open programming will be available to download via Sky Sports On Demand.
Sky Sports+ which has officially launched and will be integrated into Sky TV, streaming service NOW and the Sky Sports app, giving Sky Sports customers access to over 50 per cent more live sport this year at no extra cost. Find out more here.
