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First Round Tee Times for the 2026 Open Championship: Betting Odds, How to Watch Royal Birkdale

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First Round Tee Times for the 2026 Open Championship – Get those alarm clocks ready because the golf starts early again this week.

A field of 156 players will compete over four days for the chance to lift the Claret Jug, one of the most prestigious trophies in sports. Scottie Scheffler, the defending Champion Golfer of the Year, claimed the title last year at Royal Portrush in Northern Ireland. Jordan Spieth won the Open the last time it was held at Royal Birkdale in 2017.

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First Round Tee Times for the 2026 Open Championship

Where: Royal Birkdale – Southport, England

When: Thursday-Sunday, July 16th-19th

Purse: TBA

2026 Open Championship Odds, Favorites

(odds via DraftKings and subject to change)

How to watch the First Round of the 2026 Open Championship

Thursday, July 16th

1:30–4 a.m.: Open Championship, Round 1 (Peacock)
4 a.m.-3:30 p.m.: Open Championship, Round 1 (USA Sports/GC mobile)
3:30–5:30 p.m.: Live From The Open

2026 Open Championship Tee Times: First Round (ET)

Tee No. 1

1:35 a.m. ET — Matthew Baldwin, Thomas Detry, James Nicholas
1:46 a.m. ET — Michael Kim, Daniel Hillier, Andy Sullivan
1:57 a.m. ET — Ryan Fox, Andrew Novak, Matthew Jordan
2:08 a.m. ET — Henrik Stenson, Max Homa, Joe Dean
2:19 a.m. ET — Robert MacIntyre, Rickie Fowler, Alex Fitzpatrick
2:30 a.m. ET — David Duval, Martin Couvra, Matthew Southgate
2:41 a.m. ET — Sungjae Im, Daniel Brown, Fifa Laopakdee (a)
2:52 a.m. ET — Gary Woodland, Jake Knapp, Jordan Smith
3:03 a.m. ET — Francesco Molinari, Tom McKibbin, Lev Grinberg (a)
3:14 AM ET — Hennie du Plessis, Jose Luis Ballester Barrio, Dan Bradbury
3:25 a.m. ET — Angel Ayora, Victor Perez, Mateo Pulcini (a)
3:36 a.m. ET — Stewart Cink, Scott Vincent, Joakim Lagergren
4:03 a.m. ET — Michael Thorbjornsen, Kota Kaneko, Travis Smyth
4:14 AM ET — Alex Smalley, Sam Stevens, Ryo Hisatsune
4:25 a.m. ET — Akshay Bhatia, Harris English, Rasmus Hojgaard
4:36 a.m. ET — Ben Griffin, Hideki Matsuyama, Min Woo Lee
4:47 a.m. ET — Russell Henley, Justin Rose, Viktor Hovland
4:58 AM ET — Justin Thomas, Alex Noren, Jason Day

5:09 a.m. ET — Scottie Scheffler, Tyrrell Hatton, Bryson DeChambeau
5:20 a.m. ET — Jordan Spieth, Tommy Fleetwood, Jon Rahm
5:31 a.m. ET — Brian Harman, Si Woo Kim, Nick Taylor
5:42 a.m. ET — Ryan Gerard, Maverick McNealy, David Puig
5:53 a.m. ET — Kazuma Kobori, Tom Sloman, David Howard (a)
6:04 a.m. ET — Antoine Rozner, Ren Yonezawa, Caleb Surratt
6:15 AM ET — MJ Daffue, Frederic Lacroix, Jack McDonald
6:41 AM ET — Jeongwoo Ham, Ryutaro Nagano, Alejandro De Castro Piera (a)
6:52 a.m. ET — John Parry, Eric Cole, Tiger Christensen
7:03 a.m. ET — Eugenio Chacarra, Matt Wallace, Max Greyserman
7:14 a.m. ET — Michael Brennan, Sahith Theegala, Laurie Canter
7:25 a.m. ET — Cameron Smith, Keith Mitchell, Stuart Grehan (a)
7:36 AM ET — Sepp Straka, Joaquin Niemann, Kurt Kitayama
7:47 a.m. ET — Sami Valimaki, Shaun Norris, Jackson Suber
7:58 a.m. ET — Darren Clarke, Adrien Saddier, Bernd Wiesberger
8:09 a.m. ET — Keegan Bradley, Corey Conners, Casey Jarvis
8:20 a.m. ET — Matt McCarty, Harry Hall, Haotong Li
8:31 a.m. ET — Padraig Harrington, Marco Penge, Michael Hollick
8:42 a.m. ET — Tom Kim, Billy Horschel, Mason Howell (a)
8:53 a.m. ET — Johnny Keefer, Pierceson Coody, Keita Nakajima
9:09 a.m. ET — Aldrich Potgieter, Jesper Svensson, Jack Buchanan (a)
9:20 a.m. ET — Bud Cauley, Jayden Schaper, Lucas Herbert
9:31 a.m. ET — Kristoffer Reitan, Patrick Reed, JT Poston
9:42 AM ET — Chris Gotterup, Sam Burns, Adam Scott
9:53 a.m. ET — Collin Morikawa, JJ Spaun, Nicolai Hojgaard
10:04 a.m. ET — Shane Lowry, Aaron Rai, Brooks Koepka
10:15 a.m. ET — Cameron Young, Wyndham Clark, Ludvig Aberg
10:26 a.m. ET — Rory McIlroy, Xander Schauffele, Matt Fitzpatrick
10:37 a.m. ET — Jacob Bridgeman, Rasmus Neergaard-Petersen, Tim Wiedemeyer (a)
10:48 a.m. ET — Patrick Cantlay, Daniel Berger, Nico Echavarria
10:59 a.m. ET — Peter Uihlein, Alistair Docherty, Francesco Laporta
11:10 a.m. ET — Cameron John, Austen Truslow, Sam Bairstow
11:21 a.m. ET — Naoyuki Kataoka, Marcus Plunkett, Baard Bjoernevik Skogen
11:32 AM ET — Kazuki Higa, Jiho Yang, Nevill Ruiter (a)

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