The Open Championship 2013 Tee Times: Complete Look at Saturday's Top Pairings

Through two rounds of the 2013 Open Championship, Miguel Angel Jimenez is the leader at Muirfield Golf Links. 

The Open's official Twitter account had the news that the Spaniard would be taking a one-stroke lead into Saturday's Round 3 action:

As noted by ESPN's Stats & Info, it's his first career lead through 36 holes at a major championship:

While Jimenez stole the show on Friday, this is still anyone's tournament. Tiger Woods, Lee Westwood, Dustin Johnson and Henrik Stenson are all in the hunt at two-under, while Zach Johnson and Angel Cabrera had chances to take home the Day 2 lead but had to settle with a one-under finish. 

For an updated look at the 2013 British Open leaderboard, check out TheOpen.com. 

Tournament officials released Saturday's pairings and tee times shortly after the conclusion of Friday's second-round action. In doing so, they gave us both a comprehensive look at when each golfer will tee off on Saturday and the game within the game, if you will, of the player-to-player dynamic.

The right pairing can push a golfer to play his best on any given day. The wrong partner, or one that makes the other lose the focus necessary to worry about tending to his own backyard, can prove to be disastrous.

With that in mind, here's a complete look at Round 3's tee times and pairings and a look at a few of the top pairings to watch when the action begins on Saturday.  

2013 British Open Information

What: Round 3

When: Saturday, July 20

Where: Muirfield, Gullane, East Lothian, Scotland

Watch: ESPN; coverage from 7 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. (ET)

Live Stream: WatchESPN

Complete Round 3 Tee Times

Top Pairings to Watch

Tiger Woods and Lee Westwood

For so many reasons, this is the top pairing amongst those who made the cut at the 2013 Open. 

Woods, chasing his 15th major championship and first since 2008, is playing lights out by Muirfield's current standards. His scorecard from the second round was a bipolar opposite from most golfers on the course; Woods did not bogey any of the last six holes and finished his round with a birdie on No. 18. 

The world's top golfer and Westwood are currently tied atop the one-putt leaderboard with 18 such trips to the green at the tournament so far. In a tournament where putting brilliance has been few and far between, Woods and Westwood have been a class above the rest of the field. 

The Englishman is seeking his first career major championship win. He came close at the 2010 Open by finishing second, but he has yet to take the necessary steps to capture a major championship at any course on the PGA Tour. 

Could Muirfield be the course? Could this be the week we see the first Westwood major victory and the first English victory at the Open in 20 years?

Not if Woods has anything to say about it. 

Tiger is playing inspired golf right now, and there's no one more desperate (or more covered) in pursuit of this year's Open than Nike's poster boy.

Woods and Westwood will not be phased by the other's performance throughout Round 3, and they should bring out the best in each other's game all afternoon. In other words, expect a lot of ESPN cameras hovering around every shot these two send toward the green on Saturday. 

Phil Mickelson and Justin Leonard 

In one corner, we have Phil Mickelson. Lefty is fresh off a win at the Scottish Open, a second-place finish at the 2013 U.S. Open, has four major championship victories in his career and is one of golf's favorite sons.

In the other corner, Justin Leonard still has more Open titles than the No. 5 player in the World Golf Rankings. Although their careers have taken off in different directions, they do have the Haskins Award in common, which is given to the top collegiate male golfer each year:

To understand the directions in which these two golfers have traveled, you must return to 1997. 

Leonard finished in the top 10 at three of the four (U.S. Open was the exception) major tournaments that year. In addition to winning the British Open, Leonard finished second at the PGA Championship later that year and could hang his hat on a tied-for-seventh finish at The Masters, too. 

Since then, Leonard has just six top 10s in major championships and just one (2009 Open) since 2005. 

Mickelson was a late bloomer of sorts, but he's always in the conversation for contention when talking about a major. Lefty didn't finish in the top 10 at any major in '97, but his four major wins, record six runner-up finishes at the U.S. Open and 24 other top-10 finishes have all come since Leonard last won a major. 

Both men are truly two of the world's top-notch players when it comes to class and exemplifying everything that young golfers should be striving toward if they want to one day play at Muirfield themselves. 

They are also former Ryder Cup teammates for the United States and had an epic playoff battle in 1996 at the FBR Open (now the Waste Management Phoenix Open). 

Mickelson (+1) and Leonard (+2) might have taken different paths to get here, but both are very much alive in the title conversation and have past championships to lean on as the weekend hits in Scotland. 

Ian Poulter and Bubba Watson

With all due respect to the top pairing of Henrik Stenson and Miguel Angel Jimenez, the final pairing that cracks our Round 3 preview is a pair of players who recently went up against each other at the 2012 Ryder Cup. 

CBS Sports' Kyle Porter is looking forward to the duo hitting the links together:

Poulter and Watson were both emotional leaders for Europe and the United States during the Ryder Cup last fall. They went head-to-head in the morning foursomes on the second day of action, with Poulter and teammate Justin Rose knocking down Watson and Webb Simpson to pick up a point in the final tally. 

When it was all said and done, that point was vital in helping Europe capture the 39th Ryder Cup. 

Together again for Round 3 on Saturday, both golfers have an outside shot at bringing home the Claret Jug. Both are sitting at one-over, and in the grand scheme of things, one-over is a score that will likely be near the top of the leaderboard the rest of the way. 

Poulter and Watson were also paired together during the 2013 Masters. Watson, the defending champion at the time, finished tied for 50th. Poulter fared better in finishing tied for 20th. 

With comments like this from Poulter already dominating media attention through the first two rounds, who knows what kind of story will emerge from these two playing together:

Round 3 is sure to provide the field with chances to determine what the blueprint really is for winning at Muirfield this year. When it's all said and done, though, the course is playing in such a way where one or two shots could be the difference in being the champion and just missing out on winning the crown. 

So goes the major championship. 

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