Rickie Fowler, pictured during last year's Zozo in California, is in the field again this week.
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The 2021 Zozo Championship begins on late Wednesday night, October 20, in Japan. You can find full Round 1 tee times for the tournament at the bottom of this post.
Fowler will tee off for the opening round at Narashino Country Club at 8:14 p.m. ET on Wednesday night. He’ll play the first round alongside Ryan Palmer and Harry Higgs. But plenty of other star players are in the field.
World No. 3 Collin Morikawa will take his talents (and two major trophies) to the Zozo to try and capture his own sixth career win. Morikawa begins his quest at 8:03 p.m. ET with Erik van Rooyen and Garrick Higgo.
Other notable groupings for the opening round include Hideki Matsuyama, C.T. Pan and Xander Schauffele (9:20 p.m. ET); Keegan Bradley, Tommy Fleetwood and Naoyuki Kataoka (7:52 p.m. ET); and Carlos Ortiz, Joaquin Niemann and Will Zalatoris (9:09 p.m. ET).
Check out complete first-round tee times for the 2021 Zozo Championship below.
2021 Zozo Championship Round 1 tee times (All times ET)
Tee No. 1
7:30 p.m. – Cameron Tringale, Brandon Hagy, Yuki Inamori 7:41 p.m. – Andrew Putnam, Sepp Straka, Tomoyasu Sugiyama 7:52 p.m. – Jhonattan Vegas, Luke List, Jinichiro Kozuma 8:03 p.m. – Si Woo Kim, Sung Kang, Adam Long 8:14 p.m. – Matt Jones, Robert Streb, Lanto Griffin 8:25 p.m. – Satoshi Kodaira, Chris Kirk, Tomoharu Otsuki 8:36 p.m. – Bill Haas, Tom Hoge, Ryuichi Oiwa 8:47 p.m. – Ryuji Imada, Roger Sloan, Ryosuke Kinoshita 8:58 p.m. – Alex Noren, Maverick McNealy, Keita Nakajima 9:09 p.m. – Carlos Ortiz, Joaquin Niemann, Will Zalatoris 9:20 p.m. – Hideki Matsuyama, C.T. Pan, Xander Schauffele 9:31 p.m. – Pat Perez, Henrik Norlander, Naoto Nakanishi 9:42 p.m. – Sam Ryder, Adam Schenk, Kazuki Higa
Tee No. 10
7:30 p.m. – Brendan Steele, Doc Redman, Ryutaro Nagano 7:41 p.m. – Troy Merritt, Doug Ghim, Shaun Norris 7:52 p.m. – Keegan Bradley, Tommy Fleetwood, Naoyuki Kataoka 8:03 p.m. – Erik van Rooyen, Collin Morikawa, Garrick Higgo 8:14 p.m. – Ryan Palmer, Rickie Fowler, Harry Higgs 8:25 p.m. – Kyle Stanley, Peter Malnati, Shugo Imahira 8:36 p.m. – Emiliano Grillo, Kramer Hickok, Chan Kim 8:47 p.m. – Wyndham Clark, Matthew NeSmith, Ryo Hisatsune 9:09 p.m. – K.H. Lee, Brendon Todd, Charley Hoffman 9:20 p.m. – Branden Grace, Sebastián Muñoz, Wesley Bryan 9:31 p.m. – Mackenzie Hughes, Matt Wallace, Rikuya Hoshino 9:42 p.m. – Chesson Hadley, Hiroshi Iwata, Scott Vincent
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