Listened to the press conferences while working today and the US guys basically gave away some of the Friday pairings already.
Reed said that he was told he will be paired with Furyk and Johnson with Mahan.
Kuchar said he will be paired with Spieth.
Given that below were the 3 practice groups today, it looks like Tom Watson is going with a pod system.
Kuchar, Spieth, Simpson, Watson
Furyk, ZJ, Mahan, Reed
Bradley, Mickelson, Fowler, Walker
Pretty easy to deduce that Simpson/Watson, Bradley/Mickelson, Walker/Fowler are the other pairings we will see on Friday if the above info is true.
First session on Friday is fourballs and my guess is we see the following 4 groups go out:
Watson/Simpson
Bradley/Mickelson
Fowler/Walker
Johnson/Mahan
And in the afternoon:
Bradley/Mickelson
Furyk/Reed
Kuchar/Spieth
Fowler/Walker
Of course this all could be a big smoke screen by Watson, but he doesn't strike me as the sneaky type. I think he's saying "here's what we are bringing....see if you can beat it."