Tee times for the opening two rounds of the final men’s golf major of the year, The Open, have been released – and there’s some scintillating groups.
It begins with a bang on Thursday afternoon Australian time, when former Open winner Justin Leonard takes the first shot of the tournament. He won in 1997 at Royal Troon, venue of this year’s tournament. In his group is 2004 winner – also at Troon – Todd Hamilton, along with local hope Jack McDonald.
There’s early Australian interest with Min Woo Lee, Adam Scott, and Jasper Stubbs all teeing off before 5pm AEST.
And there are plenty of exciting groups to watch as the evening wears on.
Rory McIlroy, Max Homa, and Tyrrell Hatton (7.09pm) promise great viewing, while
Tiger Woods has been paired with Xander Schauffele and Patrick Cantlay (11.37pm).
It’s a difficult schedule for Woods, who starts late in the first round and has a short back-up to a morning tee time for Round 2.
At 12.10am (Friday morning), there’s a star-studded group of 2017 winner Jordan Spieth, world number one Scottie Scheffler, and 2022 runner-up Cameron Young.
Here’s the full tee times for round one.
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THURSDAY’S TEE TIMES (AEST)
Players are from the USA if not stated otherwise; Aussies in bold, (x) shows amateurs
3.35pm Justin Leonard, Todd Hamilton, Jack McDonald (Sco)
3.46 Tom McKibbin (NIrl), Alex Noren (Swe), Calum Scott (Sco) (x)
3.57 Jesper Svensson (Swe), Vincent Norrman (Swe), Michael Hendry (Nzl)
4.08 Younghan Song (Kor), Daniel Hillier (Nzl), Ryosuke Kinoshita (Jpn)
4.19 Min Woo Lee (Aus), Ryo Hisatsune (Jpn), Abraham Ancer (Mex)
4.30 Nicolai Hojgaard (Den), Adam Scott (Aus), Keita Nakajima (Jpn)
4.41 Francesco Molinari (Ita), Justin Rose (Eng), Jasper Stubbs (Aus) (x)
4.52 Justin Thomas, Sungjae Im (Kor), Matthew Southgate (Eng)
5.03 Nick Taylor (Can), Matt Wallace (Eng), Laurie Canter (Eng)
5.14 Sebastian Soderberg (Swe), Matteo Manassero (Ita), Shubhankar Sharma (Ind)
5.25 Zach Johnson, Austin Eckroat, Thorbjorn Olesen (Den)
5.36 John Daly, Santiago de la Fuente (Mex) (x), Aaron Rai (Eng)
5.47 Stewart Cink, Chris Kirk, Dominic Clemons (Eng) (x)
6.03 Stephan Jaeger (Ger), Adam Schenk, Joaquin Niemann (Chl)
6.14 Adam Hadwin (Can), Lucas Glover, Christiaan Bezuidenhout (Rsa)
6.25 Tony Finau, Russell Henley, Matthieu Pavon (Fra)
6.36 Jon Rahm (Esp), Tommy Fleetwood (Eng), Robert MacIntyre (Sco)
6.47 Ludvig Åberg (Swe), Bryson DeChambeau, Tom Kim
6.58 Brian Harman, Viktor Hovland (Nor), Sahith Theegala
7.09 Rory McIlroy (NIrl), Max Homa, Tyrrell Hatton (Eng)
7.20 Keegan Bradley, Will Zalatoris, Gordon Sargent (x)
7.31 Harris English, Maverick McNealy, Alexander Bjork (Swe)
7.42 Guido Migliozzi (Ita), Sean Crocker, Tommy Morrison (x)
7.53 David Puig (Esp), John Catlin, Guntaek Koh (Kor)
8.04 Thriston Lawrence (Rsa), Daniel Bradbury (Eng), Elvis Smylie (Aus)
8.15 Nacho Elvira (Esp), Minkyu Kim (Kor), Darren Fichardt (Rsa)
8.26 Mason Andersen, Masahiro Kawamura (Jpn), Sam Hutsby (Eng)
8.47 Ewen Ferguson (Sco), Marcel Siem (Ger)
8.58 CT Pan (Tpe), Romain Langasque (Fra), Yuto Katsuragawa (Jpn)
9.09 Rikuya Hoshino (Jpn), Angel Hidalgo (Esp), Richard Mansell (Eng)
9.20 Corey Conners (Can), Ryan Fox (Nzl), Jorge Campillo (Esp)
9.31 Ernie Els (Rsa), Gary Woodland, Altin van der Merwe (Rsa) (x)
9.42 Henrik Stenson (Swe), Rasmus Hojgaard (Den), Jacob Skov Olesen (Den) (x)
9.53 Louis Oosthuizen (Rsa), Billy Horschel, Victor Perez (Fra)
10.04 Sepp Straka (Aut), Brendon Todd, Jordan Smith (Eng)
10.15 Denny McCarthy, Taylor Moore, Adrian Meronk (Pol)
10.26 Jason Day (Aus), Byeong Hun An (Kor), Rickie Fowler
10.37 Alex Cejka (Ger), Eric Cole, Kurt Kitayama
10.48 Darren Clarke (NIrl), JT Poston, Dean Burmester (Rsa)
11.04 Phil Mickelson, Joost Luiten (Ned), Dustin Johnson
11.15 Padraig Harrington (Irl), Davis Thompson, Matthew Jordan (Eng)
11.26 Wyndham Clark, Hideki Matsuyama (Jpn), Brooks Koepka
11.37 Tiger Woods, Xander Schauffele, Patrick Cantlay
11.48 Collin Morikawa, Sam Burns, Si Woo Kim (Kor)
11.59 Shane Lowry (Irl), Cameron Smith (Aus), Matt Fitzpatrick (Eng)
Friday morning AEST
12.10am Jordan Spieth, Scottie Scheffler, Cameron Young
12.21 Akshay Bhatia, Tom Hoge, Sami Valimaki (Fin)
12.32 Emiliano Grillo (Arg), Ben Griffin, Mackenzie Hughes (Can)
12.43 Yannik Paul (Ger), Joe Dean (Eng), Andy Ogletree
12.54 Ryan van Velzen (Rsa), Charlie Lindh (Swe), Luis Masaveu (Esp) (x)
1.05 Kazuma Kobori (Nzl), Jaime Montojo Fernandez (Esp) (x), Liam Nolan (Irl) (x)
1.16 Daniel Brown (Eng), Denwit David Boriboonsub (Tha), Matthew Dodd-Berry (Eng) (x)
1.27 Jeunghun Wang (Kor), Aguri Iwasaki (Jpn), Sam Horsfield (Eng)