Staff Reporter.
Masters champion Rory McIlroy will begin his quest to win a second Open Championship at 15:10 BST on Thursday, 17 July.
The Northern Irishman will play alongside England’s Tommy Fleetwood and American Justin Thomas in the opening two rounds at Royal Portrush.
Scotland’s Robert MacIntyre will be out at 14:48 in another marquee group with England’s Justin Rose and American Bryson DeChambeau.
Ireland’s two-time champion Padraig Harrington has the honour of hitting the first tee shot at 06:35, while defending champion Xander Schauffele is out at 09:58 and will play with US Open winner JJ Spaun and Spain’s Jon Rahm.
Ireland’s Shane Lowry, winner of the Claret Jug when it was last contested at the course in 2019, is in the following group alongside world number one Scottie Scheffler and 2021 champion Collin Morikawa.
Round one – Thursday, 17 July
06:35 Padraig Harrington (Ire), Nicolai Hojgaard (Den), Tom McKibbin (NI)
06:46 KJ Choi (Kor), Guido Migliozzi (Ita), Louis Oosthuizen (SA)
06:57 Justin Hastings (Cay)*, Marco Penge (Eng), Cameron Smith (Aus)
07:08 Jason Day (Aus), Jacob Skov Olesen (Den), Taylor Pendrith (Can)
07:19 Phil Mickelson (US), Ryan Peake (Aus), Daniel van Tonder (SA)
07:30 Byeong-Hun An (Kor), Max Greyserman (US), Niklas Noergaard (Den)
07:41 Dustin Johnson (US), Haotong Li (Chn), Jordan Smith (Eng)
07:52 Darren Clarke (NI), Lucas Herbert (Aus), Davis Riley (US)
08:03 Mikiya Akutsu (Jpn), Julien Guerrier (Fra), Chun-An Yu (Tai)
08:14 Thomas Detry (Bel), Chris Gotterup (US), Lee Westwood (Eng)
08:25 Patrick Cantlay (US), Mackenzie Hughes (Can), Cameron Young (US)
08:36 Filip Jakubcik (Cze)*, Matthew Jordan (Eng), Thorbjorn Olesen (Den)
08:47 Stephan Jaeger (Ger), Sebastian Soederberg (Swe), Henrik Stenson (Swe).