Darren Clarke who goes out with Justin Leonard

Lee Trevino is out at 0800, in what is probably his final Open, with Hal Sutton, who is currently second on the American money list. Notah Begay impressed at Loch Lomond and he is out with Lee Westwood.

Begay is a good, steady all-round player and he keeps the ball nice and low.

This week is not necessarily going to be about the big-hitters, especially if the wind gets up, so he could come into the reckoning again.

Lee Westwood is back on top form and he has won a lot of money in the past six weeks.

All eyes on Tiger

All eyes will be on the first tee at 0930 when Tiger Woods starts alongside Nick Price and Dave Gossett.

Price is a past Open champion at Turnberry and Gossett is the amateur champion, but Tiger is the 2/1 favourite and even Jack Nicklaus at his peak did not command odds like that.

It's nice to see Nick Faldo playing better again - he seems to have cleared his mind and he's playing golf on his own terms now.

Brown is happy to see Faldo returning to form

He's out at 0940 with Gary Player and if ever a place was going to inspire Faldo back to his former greatness, it's St Andrews.

Last year's champion, Paul Lawrie, is out at 1220. He's played some good, steady golf in the past year, though he's not won anything. But I take my hat off to him because the expectations on him have been raised to the top level.

Dropping the trophy off at the R&A this week will probably be a great pressure off him, and of course, if you've done it once, you can do it again.

Lawrie is out with Fred Couples, and you can never rule him out. Later in the afternoon, you have the winner of the last Open at St Andrews, John Daly.

He's a long shot - the course is a bit more fiery than it was in 1995 and he's had a few injury problems.

Local favourite

The local favourite, Colin Montgomerie, has a very sound game - he's been in the top five in the world for years.

Els is Brown's second favourite

He has played well in Majors before, though not in The Open. He's come in slightly more low-key this time - Tiger Woods takes a lot of the pressure off the others.

Montgomerie is a great long putter and this could be his year. He goes out with Davis Love who will also be in contention. Finally, David Duval and Ernie Els head out together at 1430 in a fascinating match-up.

Duval, the world's number two, is looking for his first Major, while Ernie Els would be my choice to win after Tiger Woods. If Tiger plays his game, no-one can catch him.

But it doesn't take too many mistakes on this course to card a seven and spoil a round.