The Open: Full R1 groupings and tee times for Royal Birkdale
Groupings and tee times for the opening round of The 154th Open, held at Royal Birkdale in Southport, Merseyside.
Scottie Scheffler is among the morning wave on the opening day, partnering Bryson DeChambeau and Tyrrell Hatton; Rory McIlroy on the opposite side of the draw alongside Xander Schauffele and Matt Fitzpatrick; watch day one live on Thursday from 6.30am on Sky Sports Golf
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Groupings and tee times for the opening round of The 154th Open, held at Royal Birkdale in Southport, Merseyside.
Royal Birkdale member Matthew Baldwin will hit the opening tee shot at 6.35am on Thursday, with Joe Dean - winner of the Last-Chance Qualifier - out early alongside Henrik Stenson and Max Homa.
Reigning Masters champion Rory McIlroy has been handed a late-early draw for the first two days, making up the marquee afternoon group alongside 2024 winner Xander Schauffele and Ryder Cup team-mate Matt Fitzpatrick.
Defending champion Scottie Scheffler is on the opposite side of the draw, with the world No 1 beginning his bid to become the first back-to-back winner of The Open since Padraig Harrington with Bryson DeChambeau and Tyrrell Hatton.
Scheffler's threeball tee off at 9.58am on Thursday, while McIlroy's group go out at 3.15pm, with both players looking to be crowned Champion Golfer of the Year for a second time.
0635 Matthew Baldwin (Eng), Thomas Detry (Bel), James Nicholas
0719 Robert MacIntyre (Sco), Rickie Fowler, Alex Fitzpatrick (Eng)
0730 David Duval, Martin Couvra (Fra), Matthew Southgate (Eng)
0741 Sungjae Im (Kor), Daniel Brown (Eng), Fifa Laopakdee (x) (Tha)
0803 Francesco Molinari (Ita), Tom McKibbin (NIrl), Lev Grinberg (x) (Fra)
0814 Hennie du Plessis (Rsa), Jose Luis Ballester (Esp), Dan Bradbury (Eng)
0825 Angel Ayora (Esp), Victor Perez (Fra), Mateo Pulcini (x) (Arg)
0836 Stewart Cink, Scott Vincent (Zim), Joakim Lagergren (Swe)
0847 Michael Thorbjornsen, Kota Kaneko (Jpn), Travis Smyth (Aus)
0936 Russell Henley, Justin Rose (Eng), Viktor Hovland (Nor)
0958 Scottie Scheffler, Tyrrell Hatton (Eng), Bryson DeChambeau
1042 Kazuma Kobori (Aus), Tom Sloman (Eng), David Howard (x) (Ire)
1053 Antoine Rozner (Fra), Ren Yonezawa (Jpn), Caleb Surratt
1104 MJ Daffue (Rsa), Frederic Lacroix (Fra), Jack McDonald (Sco)
1115 Jeongwoo Ham (Kor), Ryutaro Nagano (Jpn), Alejandro de Castro Piera (x) (Esp)
1152 Eugenio Chacarra (Esp), Matt Wallace (Eng), Max Greyserman
1214 Cameron Smith (Aus), Keith Mitchell, Stuart Grehan (x) (Ire)
1225 Sepp Straka (Aut), Joaquin Niemann (Chi), Kurt Kitayama
1247 Darren Clarke (NIrl), Adrien Saddier (Fra), Bernd Wiesberger (Aut)
1258 Keegan Bradley, Corey Conners (Can), Casey Jarvis (Rsa)
1320 Padraig Harrington (Ire), Marco Penge (Eng), Michael Hollick (Rsa)
1353 Louis Oosthuizen (Rsa), Jesper Svensson (Swe), Jack Buchanan (x) (Rsa)
1515 Rory McIlroy (NIrl), Xander Schauffele, Matt Fitzpatrick (Eng)
1526 Jacob Bridgeman, Rasmus Neergaard-Petersen (Den), Tim Wiedmeyer (x) (Ger)
1548 Peter Uihlein (US), Alistair Docherty, Francesco Laporta (Ita)
1610 Naoyuki Kataoka (Jpn), Marcus Plunkett, Baard Bjoernevik (Den)
1621 Kazuki Higa (Jpn), Jiho Yang (Kor), Nevill Ruiter (x) (Ned)
Sky Sports is once again the exclusive home of The Open in the UK and Ireland, with wall-to-wall action from the final men's major of the year gets under way at 6.30am on Thursday on Sky Sports Golf.
There will be at least 15 hours of action on both the first two rounds, with bonus feeds available on Sky Sports+ or the Sky Sports App , with extended coverage then starting at 9am on Saturday and 8am on Sunday.
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