The Open 2021 tee times: Full schedule for Day 1

Tournament favourite John Rahm begins his bid alongside defending champion Shane Lowry as the Open returns to Royal St George’s for the first time since 2011

Defending champion Shane Lowry will tee off with US Open champion John Rahm as The Open gets underway at Royal St George’s in Sandwich today.

The Irishman, who won the Claret Jug at Royal Portrush in 2019, belatedly gets the chance to defend his title and will begin his bid alongside one of the favourites in Spaniard Rahm, as well as 2010 Open champion Louis Oosthuizen.

Rory McIlroy tees off alongside Ryder Cup rival Patrick Reed and Australia’s Cameron Smith, while Bryson DeChambeau has been paired with Jordan Spieth.

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PGA Championship winner Phil Mickelson starts with England’s Tyrell Hatton later in the afternoon, before Robert McIntyre tees off alongside Rickie Fowler and Xander Schauffele, and then Tommy Fleetwood gets his bid underway with Adam Scott and Justin Thomas.

Here are Thursday’s tee times in full:

Round one tee times (BST)

06:35 Marcus Armitage (Eng), Richard Bland (Eng), Andy Sullivan (Eng)

06:46 Justin Harding (SA), Chan Kim (US), Haotong Li (Chn)

06:57 Gonzalo Fernandez-Castano (Spa), Abel Gallegos (Arg)*, Michael Lorenzo-Vera (Fra)

07:08 Richard Mansell (Eng), Alexander Noren (Swe), JC Ritchie (SA)

07:19 Dean Burmester (SA), Laird Shepherd (Eng)*, Danny Willett (Eng)

07:30 Christiaan Bezuidenhout (SA), Sam Horsfield (Eng), Min-Woo Lee (Aus)

07:41 Viktor Hovland (Nor), Ryan Palmer (US), Thomas Detry (Bel)

07:52 Abraham Ancer (Mex), Paul Casey (Eng), Ian Poulter (Eng)

08:03 Garrick Higgo (SA), Brooks Koepka (US), Jason Kokrak (US)

08:14 Daniel Berger (US), Joel Dahmen (US), Joaquin Niemann (Chi)

08:25 Darren Clarke (NI), Joe Long (Eng)*, Bernd Wiesberger (Aut)

08:36 Marcus Kinhult (Swe), Chris Kirk (US), Jack Senior (Eng)

08:47 Talor Gooch (US), Chengtsung Pan (Tai), Jonathan Thomson (Eng)

09:03 Ernie Els (SA), Cole Hammer (US)*, Gary Woodland (US)

09:14 Sam Burns (US), Jorge Campillo (Spa), Lucas Herbert (Aus)

09:25 Bryson DeChambeau (US), Branden Grace (SA), Jordan Spieth (US)

09:36 Brian Harman (US), Mackenzie Hughes (Can), Dylan Frittelli (SA)

09:47 Guido Migliozzi (Ita), Victor Perez (Fra), Kevin Streelman (US)

09:58 Shane Lowry (Ire), Louis Oosthuizen (SA), Jon Rahm (Spa)

10:09 Stewart Cink (US), Martin Kaymer (Ger), Lee Westwood (Eng)

10:20 Dustin Johnson (US), Justin Rose (Eng), Will Zalatoris (US)

10:31 Sergio Garcia (Spa), Yuxin Lin (Chn)*, Scottie Scheffler (US)

10:42 Harris English (US), Chez Reavie (US), Erik van Rooyen (SA)

10:53 Byeong-Hun An (Kor), Lucas Glover (US), Brandt Snedeker (US)

11:04 Takumi Kanaya (Jpn), Marcel Schneider (Ger), Cameron Tringale (US)

11:15 Lanto Griffin (US), Rikuya Hoshino (Jpn), Connor Worsdall (Eng)

11:36 Daniel Croft (Eng), Aaron Rai (Eng), Paul Waring (Eng)

11:47 Christoffer Bring (Den)*, Jazz Janewattananond (Tha), Daniel van Tonder (SA)

11:58 Matthias Schmid (Ger)*, Brendan Steele (US), Harold Varner III (US)

12:09 Jaco Ahlers (SA), Troy Merritt (US), Adam Long (US)

12:20 Jason Day (Aus), Joost Luiten (Ned), Johannes Veerman (US)

12:31 John Catlin (US), Romain Langasque (Fra), Aaron Pike (Aus)

12:42 Sam Forgan (Eng), Padraig Harrington (Ire), Brad Kennedy (Aus)

12:53 Tony Finau (US), Adam Hadwin (Can), Billy Horschel (US)

13:04 Patrick Cantlay (US), Matthew Fitzpatrick (Eng), Ryan Fox (NZ)

13:15 Marc Leishman (Aus), Francesco Molinari (Ita), Matt Wallace (Eng)

13:26 Corey Conners (Can), Collin Morikawa (US), Sebastian Munoz (Col)

13:37 Sam Bairstow (Eng)*, Keith Mitchell (US), Jason Scrivener (Aus)

13:48 Emiliano Grillo (Arg), Benjamin Hebert (Fra), Charley Hoffman (US)

14:04 Keegan Bradley (US), Rafael Cabrera (Spa), Richard T Lee (Can)

14:15 Carlos Ortiz (Mex), Matthias Schwab (Aut), Brendon Todd (US)

14:26 Russell Henley (US), Shaun Norris (SA), Webb Simpson (US)

14:37 Daniel Hillier (NZ), Matt Jones (Aus), Marcel Siem (Ger)

14:48 Tyrrell Hatton (Eng), Kevin Kisner (US), Phil Mickelson (US)

14:59 Rickie Fowler (US), Robert MacIntyre (Sco), Xander Schauffele (US)

15:10 Tommy Fleetwood (Eng), Adam Scott (Aus), Justin Thomas (US)

15:21 Rory McIlroy (NI), Patrick Reed (US), Cameron Smith (Aus)

15:32 Max Homa (US), Matt Kuchar (US), Henrik Stenson (Swe)

15:43 Ben Hutchinson (Eng), Ryosuke Kinoshita (Jpn), Antoine Rozner (Fra)

15:54 Kurt Kitayama (US), Deyen Lawson (Aus), Poom Saksansin (Tha)

16:05 Ricardo Celia (Col), Yuki Inamori (Jpn), Jimmy Walker (US)

16:16 Rikard Karlberg (Swe), Ryutaro Nagano (Jpn), Nicholas Poppleton (Eng)

*denotes amateur