2026 Open tee-times in full: Who are Rory McIlroy, Scottie Scheffler paired with at Royal Birkdale?

Defending champion Scottie Scheffler has been paired alongside Bryson Dechambeau for the opening 2 rounds of the 2026 Open Championship.

After a 78-tournament streak of making cuts came to an extremity astatine past week's Scottish Open, the satellite fig 1 volition beryllium other motivated to support a crown that helium lifted astatine Royal Portrush 12 months ago.

The American volition spell retired connected Thursday alongside 2 of the stars of LIV Golf successful Dechambeau and Tyrrell Hatton.

Meanwhile, six-time large champion Rory McIlroy volition play alongside Xander Schauffele and Matt Fitzpatrick.

While Scheffler and co volition spell retired astatine 9:58am connected Thursday morning, McIlroy volition person to hold until 3.15pm to get his tourney underway.

Recently-crowned US PGA Championship champion Aaron Rai volition commencement astatine 2:53pm alongside Brooks Koepka and Shane Lowry.

The Open first-round tee-times successful full:

6.35am: Matthew Baldwin, Thomas Detry, James Nicholas

6:46am: Michael Kim, David Hillier, Andy Sullivan

6:57am: Ryan Fox, Andrew Novak, Matthew Jordan

7:08am: Henrik Stenson, Max Homa, Joe Dean

7:19am: Robert MacIntyre, Rickie Fowler, Alex Fitzpatrick

7:30am: David Duval, Martin Couvra, Matthew Southgate

7:41am: Sungjae Im, Daniel Brown, Fifa Laopakdee

7:52am: Gary Woodland, Jake Knapp, Jordan Smith

8:03am: Francesco Molinari, Tom McKibbin, Lev Grinberg

8:14am: Hennie Du Plessis, Jose Luis Ballester Barrio, Dan Bradbury

8:25am: Angel Ayora, Victor Perez, Mateo Pulcini

8:36am: Stewart Cink, Scott Vincent, Joakim Lagergren

8:47am: Michael Thorbjornsen, Kota Kaneko, Travis Smyth

9:03am: Alex Smalley, Sam Stevens, Ryo Hisastune

9:14am: Akshay Bhatia, Harris English, Rasmus Hojgaard

9:25am: Ben Griffin, Hideki Matsuyama, Min Woo Lee

9:36am: Russell Henley, Justin Rose, Viktor Hovland

9:47am: Justin Thomas, Alex Noren, Jason Day

9:58am: Scottie Scheffler, Tyrrell Hatton, Bryson Dechambeau

10:09am: Jordan Spieth, Tommy Fleetwood, Jon Rahm

10:20am: Brian Harman, Si Woo Kim, Nick Taylor

10:31am: Ryan Gerard, Maverick McNealy, David Puig

10:42am: Kazuma Kobori, Tom Sloman, David Howard

10:53am: Antoine Rozner, Ren Yonezawa, Caleb Surratt

11:04am: MJ Daffue, Frederic Lacroix, Jack McDonald

11:15am: Jeongwoo Ham, Ryutaro Nagamo, Alejandro De Castro Piera

11:41am: John Parry, Eric Cole, Tiger Christensen

11:52am: Eugenio Chacarra, Matt Wallace, Max Greyserman

12:03pm: Michael Brennan, Sahith Theegala, Laurie Canter

12:14pm: Cameron Smith, Keith Mitchell, Stuart Grehan

12:25pm: Sepp Straka, Joaquin Niemann, Kurt Kitayama

12:36pm: Sami Valimaki, Shaun Norris, Jackson Suber

12:47pm: Darren Clarke, Adrien Saddier, Bernd Wiesberger

12:58pm: Keegan Bradley, Corey Conners, Casey Jarvis

1:09pm: Matt McCarty, Harry Hall, Haotong Li

1:20pm: Padraig Harrington, Marco Penge, Michael Hollick

1:31pm: Tom Kim, Billy Horschel, Mason Howell

1:42pm: Johnny Keefer, Pierceson Coody, Keita Nakajima

1:53pm: Louis Oosthuizen, Jesper Svensson, Jack Buchanan

2:09pm: Bud Cauley, Jayden Schaper, Lucas Herbert

2:20pm: Kristoffer Reitan, Patrick Reed, JT Poston

2:31pm: Chris Gotterup, Sam Burns, Adam Scott

2:42pm: Collin Morikawa, JJ Spaun, Nicolai Hojgaard

2:53pm: Shane Lowry, Aaron Rai, Brooks Koepka

3:04pm: Cameron Young, Wyndham Clark, Ludvig Aberg

3:15pm: Rory McIlroy, Xander Schauffele, Matt Fitzpatrick

3:26pm: Jacob Bridgeman, Rasmus Neergaard-Petersen, Tim Wiedmeyer

3:37pm: Patrick Cantlay, Daniel Berger, Nico Echevarria

3:48pm: Peter Uihlein, Alistair Docherty, Francesco Laporta

3:59pm: Cameron John, Austen Truslow, Sam Bairstow

4:10pm: Naoyuki Kataoka, Marcus Plunkett, Baard Bjoernevik

4:21pm: Kazuki Higa, Jiho Yang, Nevill Ruiter