Open Championship tee times: Round 1 Thursday groups

The 153rd Open Championship – yes, still the British Open to some – gets under way on Thursday at Royal Portrush, and the iconic Claret Jug is back up for grabs. The final men’s major of the year has brought a stacked field to the rugged north coast of Northern Ireland, where defending champion Xander Schauffele leads 155 other hopefuls into one of golf’s sternest tests.

Welcome to The Open 2025

Royal Portrush, hosting The Open for just the third time and first since 2019, is widely regarded as one of the best links courses in the world. And if the crowds match those of five years ago, when Shane Lowry won in a wave of Irish euphoria, expect a lively four days from tee to green... and pub to pub.

Rory McIlroy will be under intense spotlight once again. The Northern Irishman returns to home soil as a five-time major winner, fresh off his dramatic Masters triumph in April. He’ll be hoping to avoid a repeat of 2019, when an opening-hole disaster ended in a missed cut and collective heartbreak.

The 2025 Open: notable groups to follow

The headline trio of Rory McIlroy, Justin Thomas and Tommy Fleetwood will attract the lion’s share of attention, teeing off at 10:10 a.m. ET. McIlroy is gunning for his second Claret Jug, and his pairing with two of the year’s strongest performers adds serious intrigue.

Just ahead of them, Jordan Spieth, Ludvig Åberg and Viktor Hovland (9:59 a.m. ET) form a fascinating group, while there’s a tasty Scotland-England-USA combination with Robert MacIntyre, Justin Rose and Bryson DeChambeau at 9:48 a.m. ET). Defending champion Xander Schauffele goes off at 4:58 a.m. ET with Jon Rahm and U.S. Open champ J.J. Spaun in another heavyweight trio.

Then there’s the aforementioned Shane Lowry, back where it all happened for him in 2019. He’ll join Scottie Scheffler and Collin Morikawa – two fellow major winners – at 5:09 a.m. ET in a group that could easily produce Sunday’s winner.

Let’s take a look at all the tee times for Day 1.

Round one tee times – Thursday, 17 July (All times ET)

1:35 a.m. | Padraig Harrington, Nicolai Højgaard, Tom McKibbin

1:46 a.m. | Louis Oosthuizen, Guido Migliozzi, K.J. Choi

1:57 a.m. | Cameron Smith, Marco Penge, Justin Hastings

2:08 a.m. | Jason Day, Taylor Pendrith, Jacob Skov Olesen

2:19 a.m. | Phil Mickelson, Daniel Van Tonder, Ryan Peake

2:30 a.m. | Max Greyserman, Byeong Hun An, Niklas Norgaard

2:41 a.m. | Jordan Spieth, Haotong Li, Dustin Johnson

2:52 a.m. | Darren Clarke, Davis Riley, Lucas Herbert

3:03 a.m. | Kevin Yu, Julien Guerrier, Mikiya Akutsu

3:14 a.m. | Thomas Detry, Chris Gotterup, Lee Westwood

3:25 a.m. | Patrick Cantlay, Cameron Young, Mackenzie Hughes

3:36 a.m. | Thorbjørn Olesen, Matthew Jordan, Filip Jakubcik

3:47 a.m. | Henrik Stenson, Stephan Jaeger, Sebastian Soderberg

4:03 a.m. | Kristoffer Reitan, Martin Couvra, Adrien Saddier

4:14 a.m. | Takumi Kanaya, Justin Walters, Bryan Newman

4:25 a.m. | Hideki Matsuyama, Ryan Fox, Matt Fitzpatrick

4:36 a.m. | Sepp Straka, Ben Griffin, Akshay Bhatia

4:47 a.m. | Sam Burns, Aldrich Potgieter, Brooks Koepka

4:58 a.m. | Xander Schauffele, J.J. Spaun, Jon Rahm

5:09 a.m. | Shane Lowry, Collin Morikawa, Scottie Scheffler

5:20 a.m. | Corey Conners, Wyndham Clark, Tom Hoge

5:31 a.m. | Denny McCarthy, Nico Echavarria, Patrick Reed

5:42 a.m. | Matti Schmid, Ryggs Johnston, Richard Teder

5:53 a.m. | Dylan Naidoo, Darren Fitchardt, John Axelsen

6:04 a.m. | Justin Suh, Oliver Lindell, Jesper Sandborg

6:15 a.m. | Sadom Kaekwanjana, Riki Kawamoto, Sampson Zheng

6:26 a.m. | Stewart Cink, Matteo Manassero, Marc Leishman

6:47 a.m. | Francesco Molinari, Jesper Svensson, Connor Graham

6:58 a.m. | Zach Johnson, Daniel Hillier, Daniel Brown

7:09 a.m. | Adam Scott, Rickie Fowler, Ethan Fang

7:20 a.m. | Laurie Canter, Elvis Smylie, Sergio Garcia

7:31 a.m. | Andrew Novak, Matthieu Pavon, Matt Wallace

7:42 a.m. | Davis Thompson, Dean Burmester, Rikuya Hoshino

7:53 a.m. | Si Woo Kim, Shugo Imahira, Sebastian Cave

8:04 a.m. | Michael Kim, Bud Cauley, John Parry

8:15 a.m. | Matt McCarty, Shaun Norris, Angel Hidalgo

8:26 a.m. | Keegan Bradley, Sungjae Im, Daniel Berger

8:37 a.m. | Rasmus Højgaard, Christiaan Bezuidenhout, Romain Langasque

8:48 a.m. | Aaron Rai, Sahith Theegala, Harry Hall

9:04 a.m. | Justin Leonard, Thriston Lawrence, Antoine Rozner

9:15 a.m. | J.T. Poston, Chris Kirk, Carlos Ortiz

9:26 a.m. | Brian Harman, Maverick McNealy, Joaquin Niemann

9:37 a.m. | Russell Henley, Tyrrell Hatton, Min Woo Lee

9:48 a.m. | Robert MacIntyre, Bryson DeChambeau, Justin Rose

9:59 a.m. | Jordan Spieth, Ludvig Åberg, Viktor Hovland

10:10 a.m. | Rory McIlroy, Justin Thomas, Tommy Fleetwood

10:21 a.m. | Harris English, Nick Taylor, Tony Finau

10:32 a.m. | Lucas Glover, Jhonattan Vegas, Tom Kim

10:43 a.m. | Brian Campbell, John Catlin, Frazer Jones

10:54 a.m. | Nathan Kimsey, Jason Kokrak, Cameron Adam

11:05 a.m. | Daniel Young, Curtis Luck, Curtis Knipes

11:16 a.m. | Younghan Song, George Bloor, OJ Farrell

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