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2024 Irish Open: round 2 Friday tee times and groups
Home favourite Rory McIlroy is two shots off the lead after day one at Royal County Down Golf Club.
England’s Todd Clements leads the way after round one of the 2024 Irish Open, having shot a five-under round of 66 on the opening day at Royal County Down Golf Club in Northern Ireland.
Clements tops the leaderboard ahead of Spain’s Alejandro del Rey and Finland’s Sami Välimäki, who are both one stroke back.
World No. 3 Rory McIlroy, the bookmakers’ favourite to take victory on home soil, is one of a five-man group of players who finished day one on three under.
2024 Irish Open day two tee times, Friday September 13 (all times ET):
Tee 1
2:30am: Yannik Paul, Calum Hill, Renato Paratore
2:40am: Marcus Armitage, Mark Power, Jannik de Bruyn
2:50am: Conor Purcell, Maximilian Rottluff, Alexander Knappe
3:00am: Sami Välimäki, Stephen Gallacher, Antoine Rozner
3:10am: Alejandro del Rey, Marcel Schneider, Joel Girrbach
3:20am: Todd Clements, Matthew Southgate, Andrea Pavan
3:30am: Gavin Green, Filippo Celli, Espen Kofstad
3:40am: Shubhankar Sharma, Joost Luiten, Darren Fichardt
3:50am: Santiago Tarrio, Brandon Stone, Sun Kang
4:00am: Jason Scrivener, Thomas Aiken, Louis de Jager
4:10am: Johannes Veerman, Francesco Laporta, Tom Vaillant
4:20am: Sebastián García, Tom Lewis, Lorenzo Scalise
4:30am: Lukas Nemecz, Freddy Schott, James Nicholas
7:30am: Rikuya Hoshino, Thorbjorn Olesen, Alex Fitzpatrick
7:40am: Luke Donald, Frederic Lacroix, Rasmus Hojgaard
7:50am: Seamus Power, Aaron Rai, Sebastian Söderberg
8:00am: Padraig Harrington, Nicolai Hojgaard, Thomas Detry
8:10am: Erik van Rooyen, Joe Dean, Mateo Manassero
8:20am: Ewen Ferguson, Harry Hall, Andrew Johnston
8:30am: Ross Fisher, Soren Kjeldsen, John Catlin
8:40am: Pablo Larrazábal, Kiradech Aphibarnrat, Dylan Frittelli
8:50am: Richie Ramsay, Yuto Katsuragawa, Jacques Kruyswijk
9:00am: Grant Forrest, Scott Jamieson, Jorge Campillo
9:10am: Matthias Schwab, Guxin Chen, Daan Huizing
9:20am: Ashun Wu, Matthew Jordan, Nick Bachem
9:30am: Simon Thornton, Ricardo Gouveia, Manuel Elvira
Tee 10
2:30am: Sebastian Friedrichsen, Laure Canter, David Rayetto
2:40am: Shane Lowry, Robert MacIntyre, Ryan Fox
2:50am: Thriston Lawrence, Niklas Norgaard, Romain Langasque
3:00am: Rory McIlroy, Tom McKibbin, Vincent Norrman
3:10am: Nacho Elvira, Ryo Hisatsune, Jordan Smith
3:20am: Edoardo Molinari, Rasmus Neergaard-Petersen, Jimmy Walker
3:30am: Frederik Kjettrup, Darius van Driel, Bernd Wiesberger
3:40am: Eddie Pepperell, Rafa Cabrera Bello, Andy Sullivan
3:50am: Sean Crocker, Ockie Strydom, Daniel Gavins
4:00am: Paul Waring, Ángel Hidalgo, Ugo Coussaud
4:10am: Adrián Otaegui, Daniel Hillier, Richard Mansell
4:20am: Seán Keeling, Hurly Long, Aaron Cockerill
4:30am: Matthis Besard, Stuart Manley, Jaco Prinsloo
7:30am: Casey Jarvis, Marco Penge, Daniel Brown
7:40am: James Morrison, Clément Sordet, Masahiro Kawamura
7:50am: Marcus Kinhult, Chase Hanna, Gunner Wiebe
8:00am: Jeff Winther, Connor Syme, Alfredo García-Heredia
8:10am: Gary Hurley, Dan Bradbury, Maximilian Kieffer
8:20am: Mikko Korhonen, Justin Harding, Iván Cantero
8:30am: Haotong Li, Andrew Wilson, Dale Whitnell
8:40am: Jeong weon Ko, Sam Jones, Fabrizio Zanotti
8:50am: Jayden Schaper, Adrien Saddier, David Law
9:00am: Callum Shinkwin, Oliver Wilson, Jens Dantorp
9:10am: Matthew Baldwin, Jordan Gumberg, Simon Forsström
9:20am: Julien Guerrier, Sam Bairtstow, Max Kennedy
9:30am: David Micheluzzi, Cedric Gugler, Will Enefer
What’s the 2024 Irish Open prize purse?
There is a $6 million purse in County Down, where the winner is due to receive a prize cheque for $1.02 million.