2024 Irish Open: round 1 tee times and pairings

Rory McIlroy is being backed by the bookmakers to take victory on home soil this week, as the 2024 Irish Open takes place at Royal County Down Golf Club in Northern Ireland.

The 68th edition of the European Tour event, which runs until Sunday, gets underway tomorrow.

Who are other favourites at the Irish Open?

McIlroy, who won the tournament in 2016, is the +600 favourite, per Oddschecker, ahead of the Republic of Ireland’s Shane Lowry (+1100), who is also a former champion. Scotland’s Robert MacIntyre, whose prospects of triumphing are valued at +1600, is the third favourite.

Sweden’s Vincent Norrman goes into the 2024 Irish Open as the defending champion, but is a +27500 outsider to retain his title.

2024 Irish Open day one tee times, Thursday September 12 (all times ET):

Tee 1

2:30am: Casey Jarvis, Marco Penge, Daniel Brown

2:40am: James Morrison, Clément Sordet, Masahiro Kawamura

2:50am: Marcus Kinhult, Chase Hanna, Gunner Wiebe

3:00am: Jeff Winther, Connor Syme, Alfredo García-Heredia

3:10am: Gary Hurley, Dan Bradbury, Maximilian Kieffer

3:20am: Mikko Korhonen, Justin Harding, Iván Cantero

3:30am: Haotong Li, Andrew Wilson, Dale Whitnell

3:40am: Jeong weon Ko, Sam Jones, Fabrizio Zanotti

3:50am: Jayden Schaper, Adrien Saddier, David Law

4:00am: Callum Shinkwin, Oliver Wilson, Jens Dantorp

4:10am: Matthew Baldwin, Jordan Gumberg, Simon Forsström

4:20am: Julien Guerrier, Sam Bairtstow, Max Kennedy

4:30am: David Micheluzzi, Cedric Gugler, Will Enefer

7:30am: Guido Migliozzi, Laure Canter, David Rayetto

7:40am: Shane Lowry, Robert MacIntyre, Ryan Fox

7:50am: Thriston Lawrence, Niklas Norgaard, Romain Langasque

8:00am: Rory McIlroy, Tom McKibbin, Vincent Norrman

8:10am: Nacho Elvira, Ryo Hisatsune, Jordan Smith

8:20am: Edoardo Molinari, Rasmus Neergaard-Petersen, Jimmy Walker

8:30am: Frederik Kjettrup, Darius van Driel, Bernd Wiesberger

8:40am: Eddie Pepperell, Rafa Cabrera Bello, Andy Sullivan

8:50am: Sean Crocker, Ockie Strydom, Daniel Gavins

9:00am: Paul Waring, Ángel Hidalgo, Ugo Coussaud

9:10am: Adrián Otaegui, Daniel Hillier, Richard Mansell

9:20am: Seán Keeling, Hurly Long, Aaron Cockerill

9:30am: Matthis Besard, Stuart Manley, Jaco Prinsloo

Tee 10

2:30am: Rikuya Hoshino, Thorbjorn Olesen, Alex Fitzpatrick

2:40am: Luke Donald, Frederic Lacroix, Rasmus Hojgaard

2:50am: Seamus Power, Aaron Rai, Sebastian Söderberg

3:00am: Padraig Harrington, Nicolai Hojgaard, Thomas Detry

3:10am: Erik van Rooyen, Joe Dean, Mateo Manassero

3:20am: Ewen Ferguson, Harry Hall, Andrew Johnston

3:30am: Ross Fisher, Soren Kjeldsen, John Catlin

3:40am: Pablo Larrazábal, Kiradech Aphibarnrat, Dylan Frittelli

3:50am: Richie Ramsay, Yuto Katsuragawa, Jacques Kruyswijk

4:00am: Grant Forrest, Scott Jamieson, Jorge Campillo

4:10am: Matthias Schwab, Guxin Chen, Daan Huizing

4:20am: Ashun Wu, Matthew Jordan, Nick Bachem

4:30am: Simon Thornton, Ricardo Gouveia, Manuel Elvira

7:30am: Yannik Paul, Calum Hill, Renato Paratore

7:40am: Marcus Armitage, Mark Power, Jannik de Bruyn

7:50am: Conor Purcell, Maximilian Rottluff, Alexander Knappe

8:00am: Sami Välimäki, Stephen Gallacher, Antoine Rozner

8:10am: Alejandro del Rey, Marcel Schneider, Joel Girrbach

8:20am: Todd Clements, Matthew Southgate, Andrea Pavan

8:30am: Gavin Green, Filippo Celli, Espen Kofstad

8:40am: Shubhankar Sharma, Joost Luiten, Darren Fichardt

8:50am: Santiago Tarrio, Brandon Stone, Sun Kang

9:00am: Jason Scrivener, Thomas Aiken, Louis de Jager

9:10am: Johannes Veerman, Francesco Laporta, Tom Vaillant

9:20am: Sebastián García, Tom Lewis, Lorenzo Scalise

9:30am: Lukas Nemecz, Freddy Schott, James Nicholas

How much prize money is at stake at the 2024 Irish Open?

There will be a $6 million purse at Royal County Down Golf Club, with the winner pocketing prize money of $1.02 million.