DROITWICH'S John Bickerton faces a late start to his Open Championship at Muirfield tomorrow when he tees off at 3.41pm.

Bickerton and playing partners John Kemp (amateur) and Neal Lancaster will be the 47th of 52 groups to head out.

Hereford's David Park has an earlier tee time of 11.29am with Sweden's Mattias Eliason and Englishman Gary Evans.

On Friday Bickerton's group tees off at 10.45am while Park has a later start at 4.25pm.

However all eyes tomorrow are set to be on the new British number one Justin Rose when he tees off with Open favourite Tiger Woods and Japan's Shigeki Maruyama at 9.01am.

Former Open champion Sandy Lyle is in the first group out at 7.11am while Nick Faldo, who won at Muirfield in 1987 and 1992, is off at 2.35pm with Phil Mickelson and Hal Sutton.