Tiger Woods will play the first two rounds of the 2012 Open Championship this week at Royal Lytham & St. Annes Golf Club in England with Sergio Garcia and Justin Rose, it was announced Monday.

The trio played its first round Thursday and the second round Friday at 9:43 a.m. ET.

Woods, the only three-time winner on the PGA Tour this year, is trying to capture his fourth Claret Jug. He previously won Open Champion-ship titles in 2000 and 2005 at the Old Course in St. Andrews, Scotland, and in 2006 at Royal Liverpool in England.

Woods has seven top-10 finishes in Open Champion-ships.

First-time winners have won nine straight majors.