Grouping and tee times for round 2 of the 154th Open at Royal Birkdale, Southport, Merseyside.
This week a record crowd gathered for the final men’s major of the year as Scottie Scheffler returned as the defending champion and is looking to become the first man to win back-to-back The Open since Padraig Harrington.
Scheffler, along with Tyrell Hatton and Bryson DeChambeau, will be trying to avoid missing another major cut on Friday afternoon while Rory McIlroy sits on the other side of the draw.
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Defending Open champion Scottie Scheffler looks back on winning his fourth major title in 2025.
McIlroy leaves at 10:09 a.m. along with Ryder Cup teammates Matt Fitzpatrick and Xander Schauffele. The Northern Irishman is looking to win his second title at The Open and end his major season on a winning note.
Matches begin at 6:35 a.m. Friday, with the second round scheduled to conclude around 9:15 p.m. The top 70 and ties will make the cut and advance through the weekend.
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Justin Rose recalls where it all began for him at Royal Birkdale in 1998, before hosting The Open again.
Friday’s R2 grouping and UK start times
always BST; United States, unless specified; (x) represents amateur.
0635 – John Parry (Eng), Eric Cole, Tiger Christensen (Ger)
0646 – Eugenio Chakara (Esp), Matt Wallace (Eng), Max Grazerman
0657 – Michael Brennan, Sahis Tegalla, Laurie Canter
0708 Cameron Smith (Aus), Keith Mitchell, Stuart Grehan (x) (Ire)
0719 Seb Straka (Aut), Joaquin Niemann (Chi), Kurt Kitayama
0730 Sami Valimaki (Pin), Sean Norris (Rsa), Jackson Subber
0741 Darren Clarke (NIrl), Adrian Sardie (Fra), Bernd Wiesberger (Aut)
0752 Keegan Bradley, Corey Connors (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 Kiefer, Pearson Cudi, Keita Nakajima (JPN)
0847 – Aldrich Potgitter (Rsa), Jesper Svenson (Swe), Jack Buchanan (x) (Rsa)
0903 Bud Cauley, Jayden Schaper (Rsa), Lucas Herbert (Aus)
0914 Christopher Reitan (Nord), Patrick Reed, JT Poston
0925 Chris Gotterup, Sam Burns, Adam Scott (Aus)
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0936 Colin Morikawa, JJ Spaun, Nikolai Hojgaard (Den)
0947 – Shane Lowry (Ire), Aaron Rye (Eng), Brooks Koepka
0958 Cameron Young, Wyndham Clarke, Ludwig Oberg (Swe)
1009 Rory McIlroy (NIrl), Xander Schauffelli, Matt Fitzpatrick (Eng)
1020 Jacob Bridgeman, Rasmus Neergaard-Petersen (Den), Tim Wiedmeyer (x) (Ger)
1031 Patrick Cantlay, Daniel Berger, Nico Echeverria (Col)
1042 Peter Uihlein (USA), Alistair Docherty, Francesco Laporta (Italy)
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), Neville Ruiter (x) (Ned)
1141 Matthew Baldwin (Eng), Thomas Detri (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)
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Joe Dean has made it through the final round of qualifying to qualify for this year’s Open at Royal Birkdale, and the Briton has done so in remarkable fashion.
1225 Robert McIntyre (Sco), Rickie Fowler, Alex Fitzpatrick (Eng)
1236 David Duvall, Martin Kubra (Fra), Matthew Southgate (Eng)
1247 Seongjae Lim (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), Matteo Pulcini (x) (Arg)
1342 Stuart Sink, Scott Vincent (Jim), Joakim Lagergren (Swe)
1353 Michael Thorbjornsen, Kaneko City (Jpn), Travis Smyth (Aus)
1409 Alex Smalley, Sam Stevens, Ryo Hisatsune (Japan)
1420 Akshay Bhatia, Harris English, Rasmus Hojgaard (Den)
1431 Ben Griffin, Hideki Matsuyama (Japan), Lee Min-woo (Australia)
1442 Russell Henry, Justin Rose (Eng), Viktor Hovland (Nor)
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Justin Rose recalls where it all began for him at Royal Birkdale in 1998, before hosting The Open again.
1453 Justin Thomas, Alex Noren (SWE), Jason Day (Australia)
1504 Scotty Scheffler, Tyrrell Hatton (UK), Bryson DeChambeau
1515 Jordan Spieth, Tommy Fleetwood (Eng), Jon Rahm (Esp)
1526 Brian Harmon, Siwoo Kim (Kor), Nick Taylor (Can)
1537 Ryan Gerrard, Maverick McNeely, David Puig (Esp)
1548 – Kazuma Kobori (Aus), Tom Sloman (Eng), David Howard (x) (Ire)
1559 Antoine Rosner (France), Ren Yonezawa (Japan), Caleb Surratt
1610 MJ Daffue (Rsa), Frederic Lacroix (Fra), Jack McDonald (Sco)
1621 Ham Jeong-woo (Kor), Nagano Ryutaro (Japan), Alejandro de Castro Stone (x) (Esp)
When will The Open be shown live on Sky Sports?
Sky Sports is once again the exclusive home of The Open in the UK and Ireland, with the final men’s major of the year continuing on Friday at 6.30am on Sky Sports Golf.
The main group is Sky Sports+ or Sky Sports AppExtended coverage of The Open, with player-centric feeds, starting at 9am on Saturday and 8am on Sunday on Sky Sports Golf.
