Good morning everyone, and welcome to the first day of the 149th Open Championship. It’s been two years since Shane Lowry won at Portrush; it’s been too long. So let’s not hang about. Here’s when everyone’s teeing it up on the Kent coast today. We’ll get right up to speed before you know it. (Players are GB & Ireland unless stated, all times BST, -a- denotes amateurs)
06.35 Marcus Armitage, Richard Bland, Andy Sullivan
06.46 Justin Harding (Rsa), Chan Kim (USA), Haotong Li (Chn)
06.57 Gonzalo Fernandez-Castano (Spa), -a- Abel Gallegos (Arg), Michael Lorenzo-Vera (Fra)
07.08 Richard Mansell, Alexander Noren (Swe), J. C. Ritchie (Rsa)
07.19 Dean Burmester (Rsa), -a- Laird Shepherd, Danny Willett
07.30 Christiaan Bezuidenhout (Rsa), Sam Horsfield, Min-Woo Lee (Aus)
07.41 Viktor Hovland (Nor), Ryan Palmer (USA), Thomas Detry (Bel)
07.52 Abraham Ancer (Mex), Paul Casey, Ian Poulter
08.03 Garrick Higgo (Rsa), Brooks Koepka (USA), Jason Kokrak (USA)
08.14 Daniel Berger (USA), Joel Dahmen (USA), Joaquin Niemann (Chi)
08.25 Darren Clarke, -a- Joe Long, Bernd Wiesberger (Aut)
08.36 Marcus Kinhult (Swe), Chris Kirk (USA), Jack Senior
08.47 Talor Gooch (USA), Chengtsung Pan (Tai), Jonathan Thomson
09.03 Ernie Els (Rsa), -a- Cole Hammer (USA), Gary Woodland (USA)
09.14 Sam Burns (USA), Jorge Campillo (Spa), Lucas Herbert (Aus)
09.25 Bryson DeChambeau (USA), Branden Grace (Rsa), Jordan Spieth (USA)
09.36 Brian Harman (USA), Mackenzie Hughes (Can), Dylan Frittelli (Rsa)
09.47 Guido Migliozzi (Ita), Victor Perez (Fra), Kevin Streelman (USA)
09.58 Shane Lowry, Louis Oosthuizen (Rsa), Jon Rahm (Spa)
10.09 Stewart Cink (USA), Martin Kaymer (Ger), Lee Westwood
10.20 Dustin Johnson (USA), Justin Rose, Will Zalatoris (USA)
10.31 Sergio Garcia (Spa), -a- Yuxin Lin (Chn), Scottie Scheffler (USA)
10.42 Harris English (USA), Chez Reavie (USA), Erik van Rooyen (Rsa)
10.53 Byeong-Hun An (Kor), Lucas Glover (USA), Brandt Snedeker (USA)
11.04 Takumi Kanaya (Jpn), Marcel Schneider (Ger), Cameron Tringale (USA)
11.15 Lanto Griffin (USA), Rikuya Hoshino (Jpn), Connor Worsdall
11.36 Daniel Croft, Aaron Rai, Paul Waring
11.47 -a- Christoffer Bring (Den), Jazz Janewattananond (Tha), Daniel van Tonder (Rsa)
11.58 -a- Matthias Schmid (Ger), Brendan Steele (USA), Harold Varner III (USA)
12.09 Jaco Ahlers (Rsa), Troy Merritt (USA), Adam Long (USA)
12.20 Jason Day (Aus), Joost Luiten (Ned), Johannes Veerman (USA)
12.31 John Catlin (USA), Romain Langasque (Fra), Aaron Pike (Aus)
12.42 Sam Forgan, Padraig Harrington, Brad Kennedy (Aus)
12.53 Tony Finau (USA), Adam Hadwin (Can), Billy Horschel (USA)
13.04 Patrick Cantlay (USA), Matthew Fitzpatrick, Ryan Fox (Nzl)
13.15 Marc Leishman (Aus), Francesco Molinari (Ita), Matt Wallace
13.26 Corey Conners (Can), Collin Morikawa (USA), Sebastian Munoz (Col)
13.37 -a- Sam Bairstow, Keith Mitchell (USA), Jason Scrivener (Aus)
13.48 Emiliano Grillo (Arg), Benjamin Hebert (Fra), Charley Hoffman (USA)
14.04 Keegan Bradley (USA), Rafael Cabrera (Spa), Richard T. Lee (Can)
14.15 Carlos Ortiz (Mex), Matthias Schwab (Aut), Brendon Todd (USA)
14.26 Russell Henley (USA), Shaun Norris (Rsa), Webb Simpson (USA)
14.37 Daniel Hillier (Nzl), Matt Jones (Aus), Marcel Siem (Ger)
14.48 Tyrrell Hatton, Kevin Kisner (USA), Phil Mickelson (USA)
14.59 Rickie Fowler (USA), Robert MacIntyre, Xander Schauffele (USA)
15.10 Tommy Fleetwood, Adam Scott (Aus), Justin Thomas (USA)
15.21 Rory McIlroy, Patrick Reed (USA), Cameron Smith (Aus)
15.32 Max Homa (USA), Matt Kuchar (USA), Henrik Stenson (Swe)
15.43 Ben Hutchinson, Ryosuke Kinoshita (Jpn), Antoine Rozner (Fra)
15.54 Kurt Kitayama (USA), Deyen Lawson (Aus), Poom Saksansin (Tha)
16.05 Ricardo Celia (Col), Yuki Inamori (Jpn), Jimmy Walker (USA)
16.16 Rikard Karlberg (Swe), Ryutaro Nagano (Jpn), Nicholas Poppleton