Groupings and tee instances for the opening spherical of The 153rd Open, held at Royal Portrush in Northern Eire.
Rory McIlroy has been given a late-early draw as he chases a second main victory of the season, with the world No 2 partnering two-time PGA champion Justin Thomas and England’s Tommy Fleetwood for the primary two rounds.
Scottie Scheffler is on the other facet of the draw alongside Collin Morikawa and Shane Lowry, who gained when The Open was final held at Royal Portrush in 2019, whereas defending champion Xander Schauffele companions US Open champion JJ Spaun and Jon Rahm.
Full R1 groupings and tee instances
All instances BST; USA until said; (x) denotes amateurs
Ranging from Gap 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 Greyserman, Byeong Hun An (Kor), Niklas Norgaard (Den)
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0741 Jordan Smith (Eng), Haotong Li (Chn), Dustin Johnson
0752 Darren Clarke (NIrl), Davis Riley, Lucas Herbert (Aus)
0803 Kevin Yu (Tpe), Julien Guerrier (Fra), Mikiya Akutsu (Jpn)
0814 Thomas Detry (Bel), Chris Gotterup, Lee Westwood (Eng)
0825 Patrick Cantlay, Cameron Younger, 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 (Fra), Adrien Saddier (Fra)
0914 Takumi Kanaya (Jpn), Justin Walters (Rsa), Bryan 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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1020 Corey Conners (Can), Wyndham Clark, Tom Hoge
1031 Denny McCarthy, Nico Echavarria (Col), Patrick Reed
1042 Matti Schmid (Ger), Ryggs Johnston, Richard Teder (x) (Est)
1053 Dylan Naidoo (Rsa), Darren Fichardt (Rsa), John Axelsen (Den)
1104 John Suh, Oliver Lindell (Fin), Jesper Sandborg (Swe)
1115 Sadom Kaewkanjana (Tha), Riki Kawamoto (Jpn), Sampson Zheng (Chn)
1126 Stewart Cink, Matteo Manassero (Ita), Marc Leishman (Aus)
1147 Francesco Molinari (Ita), Jesper Svensson (Swe), Connor Graham (x) (Sco)
1158 Zach Johnson, Dan Brown (Eng), Daniel Hillier (Nzl)
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1209 Adam Scott (Aus), Rickie Fowler, Ethan Fang (x)
1220 Laurie Canter (Eng), Elvis Smylie (Aus), Sergio Garcia (Esp)
1231 Andrew Novak, Matthieu Pavon (Fra), Matt Wallace (Eng)
1242 Davis Thompson, Dean Burmester (Rsa), Rikuya Hoshino (Jpn)
1253 Si Woo Kim (Kor), Shugo Imahira (Jpn), Sebastian Cave (x) (Eng)
1304 Michael Kim (Kor), Bud Cauley, John Parry (Eng)
1315 Matt McCarty, Shaun Norris (Rsa), Angel Hidalgo (Esp)
1326 Keegan Bradley, Sungjae Im (Kor), Daniel Berger
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