Groupings and tee times for the opening round of The 153rd Open, held at Royal Portrush in Northern Ireland.
Rory McIlroy has been given a late-early draw as he chases a second major victory of the season, with the world No 2 partnering two-time PGA champion Justin Thomas and England’s Tommy Fleetwood for the first two rounds.
Scottie Scheffler is on the opposite side of the draw alongside Collin Morikawa and Shane Lowry, who won when The Open was last held at Royal Portrush in 2019, while defending champion Xander Schauffele partners US Open champion JJ Spaun and Jon Rahm.
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Xander Schauffele was at the Open Zone to reflect upon his win last year at Royal Troon, where he lifted the Claret Jug for the first time
Full R1 groupings and tee times
All times BST; USA unless stated; (x) denotes amateurs
Starting from Hole One
0635 Padraig Harrington (Irl), Nicolai Hojgaard (Den), Tom McKibbin (NIrl)
0646 Louis Oosthuizen (RSA) Guido Migliozzi (Ita), Kj Choi (Kor)
0657 Cameron Smith (Aus), Marco Penge (Eng), Justin Hastings (x) (Cym)
0708 Jason Day (AUS), Taylor Pendrith (Can) Jacob Skov Olesen (Den)
0719 Phil Mickelson, Daniel van Tonder (RSA) Ryan Peake (AUS)
0730 Max Greysman, byeong she an (kor), Niklas Norgragaard (the)
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Jamie Weir runs through the A to Z of everything you need to know about at this year’s Open at Royal Portrush
0741 Jordan Smith (Eng), Haotong Li (Chn), Dustin Johnson
0752 Darren Clarke (nirl), Davis Riley, Lucas Herbert (from)
0803 Kevin Yu (TPE), Julien Guerrier (from), Mikiya Akutsu (JPN)
0814 Thomas Detry (Bel), Chris Gotterup, Lee Westwood (Eng)
0825 Patrick Cantlay, Cameron Young, Mackenzie Hughes (Can)
0836 Thorbjorn Olesen (Den), Matthew Jordan (Eng), Filip Jakubik (X) (Cze)
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0847 Henrik Stenson (Swe), Stephan Jaeger (Ger), Sebastian Soderberg (Swe)
0903 Kristoffer Reitan (NOR), Martin Couvra (from), Adrien Saddier (from)
0914 Karaya (JPN), Justin Walters (RSA), BYA Newman (X) (RSA)
0925 Hideki Matsuyama (Jpn), Ryan Fox (Nzl), Matt Fitzpatrick (Eng)
0936 Sepp Straka (Aut), Ben Griffin, Akshay Bhatia
0947 Sam Burns, Aldrich Potgieter (Rsa), Brooks Koepka
0958 Xander Schauffele, JJ Spaun, Jon Rahm (ESP)
1009 Shane Lowry (Irl), Collin Morikawa, Scottie Scheffler
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Ahead of The Open at Royal Portrush Shane Lowry discusses the pressure he faced in 2019 triumph and the ‘want to succeed’
1020 Corey Conners (Can), Wyndham Clark, Tom Hoge
1031 Denny McCarthy, Nico Echavarria (Col), Patrick Reed
1042 Matti Schmid (Ger), Back Johnston, Richard Teder (X) (EST)
1053 Dylan Naidoo (RSA), Darren Fichardt (RSA), John Axelsen (it)
1104 John Suh, Oliver Lindell (Fin), Jesper Sandborg (Swe)
1115 (Jk):
1126 Stewart Cink, Matteo Manassero (ITA), Marc Leishman (AUS)
1147 Francesco Molinari (Swe), Jesper Svensson (SWE), Connor Graham (x) (SCO)
1158 Zach Johnson, Dan Brown (Eng), Daniel Hillier (Nzl)
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Sky Sports’ Jamie Weir looks ahead to The Open and analyses Rory McIlroy’s chances to win a sixth major title
1209 Adam Scott (from), Rickie Fowler, Ethan Fang (X)
1220 Laurie Canter (one), Elvis SmiYlie (out), Sergio Garcia (ESP)
1231 Andrew Novak, Mathieu Pavon (Woman), Matt Wallace (one)
1242 Davis Thompson, Dean Burmester (RSA), Rikuya Hoshino (JPN)
1253 Singer (Kor), Shugo Immia (Jpn), Sebastian Cave (x) (Eng)
1304 Michael Kim (Kor), Bud Cauley, John Parry (Eng)
1315 Matt McCarty, Shaun Norris (Rsa), Angel Hidalgo (Esp)
1326 Daniel Berger, Bradley.
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Sky Sports’ Jamie Weir and Sir Nick Faldo sit down with Ryder Cup captain Keegan Bradley and look at the possibility of him playing and captaining the USA
1337 Christiaan peasuage (RSA), Rasmus Hojgaaard (the), Romain Laskque (wife)
1348 Aaron Rai (Eng), Sahith Theegala, Harry Hall (Eng)
1404 Justin Leonard, Thriston Lawrence (Rsa), Antoine Rozner (Fra)
1415 JT Poston, Chris Kirk, Carlos Ortiz (Mex)
1426 Brian Harman, Maverick McNealy, Joaquin Niemann (Chi)
1437 Russell Henley, Tyrrell Hiron (one), MO WOO LOE (OFF)
1448 Bob MacIntyre (Sco), Bryson DeChambeau, Justin Rose (Eng)
1459 Jordan Spieth, Ludvig Åberg (Swe), Viktor Hovland (NOR)
1510 Rory McIlroy (NIrl), Justin Thomas, Tommy Fleetwood (Eng)
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Rory McIlroy reacts to 16-year-old-self shooting 61 at Portrush, almost 20 years to the day
1521 Harris English, Nick Taylor (Can), Tony Finau
1532 Lucas Glover, Jhonattan Vegas (Ven), Tom Kim (choir)
1543 Brian Campbell, John Catlin, Frazer Jones (x) (Eng)
1554 Nathan Kimsey (ENG), Jason Kokrak, Cameron Man (X) (SCO)
1605 Daniel Young (Sco), Curtis Luck (Aus), Curtis Knipes (Eng)
1616 Young Song (Kor), George Bloor, OJ Farrell (Eng)
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