The Open R2 Tee Times and Groupings Revealed for Royal Birkdale Championship

The groupings and tee times for the second round of The 154th Open at Royal Birkdale in Southport, Merseyside, have been announced.

A record-breaking attendance is expected as the final men’s major of the year unfolds, with Scottie Scheffler returning as defending champion and aiming to become the first player since Padraig Harrington to win back-to-back Open Championships.

Scheffler will compete in the afternoon wave on Friday alongside Tyrell Hatton and Bryson DeChambeau, as he seeks to secure his place in the weekend rounds. Meanwhile, Rory McIlroy starts in the morning wave at 10.09am alongside Matt Fitzpatrick and Xander Schauffele, hoping to add a second Open title to his career.

Friday’s R2 groupings and UK start times

All times BST; USA unless stated; (x) denotes amateur

0635 John Parry (Eng), Eric Cole, Tiger Christensen (Ger)

0646 Eugenio Chacarra (Esp), Matt Wallace (Eng), Max Greyserman

0657 Michael Brennan, Sahith Theegala, Laurie Canter (Eng)

0708 Cameron Smith (Aus), Keith Mitchell, Stuart Grehan (x) (Ire)

0719 Sepp Straka (Aut), Joaquin Niemann (Chi), Kurt Kitayama

0730 Sami Valimaki (Fin), Shaun Norris (Rsa), Jackson Suber

0741 Darren Clarke (NIrl), Adrien Saddier (Fra), Bernd Wiesberger (Aut)

0752 Keegan Bradley, Corey Conners (Can), Casey Jarvis (Rsa)

0803 Matt McCarty, Harry Hall (Eng), Haotong Li (Chn)

0814 Padraig Harrington (Ire), Marco Penge (Eng), Michael Hollick (Rsa)

0825 Tom Kim (Kor), Billy Horschel, Mason Howell (x)

0836 Johnny Keefer, Pierceson Coody, Keita Nakajima (Jpn)

0847 Aldrich Potgieter (Rsa), Jesper Svensson (Swe), Jack Buchanan (x) (Rsa)

0903 Bud Cauley, Jayden Schaper (Rsa), Lucas Herbert (Aus)

0914 Kristoffer Reitan (Nor), Patrick Reed, JT Poston

0925 Chris Gotterup, Sam Burns, Adam Scott (Aus)

0936 Collin Morikawa, JJ Spaun, Nicolai Hojgaard (Den)

0947 Shane Lowry (Ire), Aaron Rai (Eng), Brooks Koepka

0958 Cameron Young, Wyndham Clark, Ludvig Åberg (Swe)

1009 Rory McIlroy (NIrl), Xander Schauffele, Matt Fitzpatrick (Eng)

1020 Jacob Bridgeman, Rasmus Neergaard-Petersen (Den), Tim Wiedmeyer (x) (Ger)

1031 Patrick Cantlay, Daniel Berger, Nico Echevarria (Col)

1042 Peter Uihlein (US), Alistair Docherty, Francesco Laporta (Ita)

1053 Cameron John (Aus), Austen Truslow, Sam Bairstow (Eng)

1104 Naoyuki Kataoka (Jpn), Marcus Plunkett, Baard Bjoernevik (Den)

1115 Kazuki Higa (Jpn), Jiho Yang (Kor), Nevill Ruiter (x) (Ned)

1141 Matthew Baldwin (Eng), Thomas Detry (Bel), James Nicholas

1152 Michael Kim, Daniel Hillier (Nzl), Andy Sullivan (Eng)

1203 Ryan Fox (Nzl), Andrew Novak, Matthew Jordan (Eng)

1214 Henrik Stenson (Swe), Max Homa, Joe Dean (Eng)

1225 Robert MacIntyre (Sco), Rickie Fowler, Alex Fitzpatrick (Eng)

1236 David Duval, Martin Couvra (Fra), Matthew Southgate (Eng)

1247 Sungjae Im (Cor), Daniel Brown (Eng), Fifa Laopakdee (x) (Tha)

1258 Gary Woodland, Jake Knapp, Jordan Smith (Eng)

1309 Francesco Molinari (Ita), Tom McKibbin (NIrl), Lev Greenberg (x) (Fr)

1320 Hennie du Plessis (Rsa), Jose Luis Ballester (Esp), Dan Bradbury (Eng)

1331 Angel Ayora (Esp), Victor Perez (Fra), Mateo Pulcini (x) (Arg)

1342 Stewart Cink, Scott Vincent (Zim), Joakim Lagergren (Swe)

1353 Michael Thorbjornsen, Kaneko City (Jpn), Travis Smyth (Aus)

1409 Alex Smalley, Sam Stevens, Ryo Hisatsune (Jpn)

1420 Akshay Bhatia, Harris English, Rasmus Hojgaard (Den)

1431 Ben Griffin, Hideki Matsuyama (Jpn), Min Woo Lee (Aus)

1442 Russell Henley, Justin Rose (Eng), Viktor Hovland (Nor)

1453 Justin Thomas, Alex Noren (Swe), Jason Day (Aus)

1504 Scottie Scheffler, Tyrrell Hatton (Eng), Bryson DeChambeau

1515 Jordan Spieth, Tommy Fleetwood (Eng), Jon Rahm (Esp)

1526 Brian Harman, Si Woo Kim (Kor), Nick Taylor (Can)

1537 Ryan Gerard, Maverick McNealy, David Puig (Esp)

1548 Kazuma Kobori (Aus), Tom Sloman (Eng), David Howard (x) (Ire)

1559 Antoine Rozner (Fra), Ren Yonezawa (Jpn), Caleb Surratt

1610 MJ Daffue (Rsa), Frederic Lacroix (Fra), Jack McDonald (Sco)

1621 Jeongwoo Ham (Kor), Ryutaro Nagano (Japan), Alejandro de Castro Stone (x) (Esp)

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