Thursday will be a dawn to dusk day for Irish golf fans after the tee times for the opening two rounds of the 153rd Open Championship were released earlier this week.
Rory McIlroy is part of one of the featured groups at 15:10 alongside Tommy Fleetwood and Justin Thomas but if you want to catch all of the five Irish players in action you’ll want to be heading up the M1 quite early.
Pádraig Harrington will hit the opening tee shot at 06:35 alongside Ryder Cup star Nicolai Hojgaard and Tom McKibbin who is playing his maiden Open Championship on home soil.
Just over an hour later, 2011 Open winner Darren Clarke, who hit the opening tee shot here in 2019, gets his championship underway alongside Davis Riley and Lucas Herbert.
2019 Open Champion and defending course champion Shane Lowry has a mouth-watering three-ball at 10:09 with 2021 champion golfer of the year Collin Morikawa and world number one Scottie Scheffler.
Then McIlroy will take the afternoon wave with him.
Below are the full tee times for Thursday.
0635 Padraig Harrington (Irl), Nicolai Hojgaard (Den), Tom McKibbin (NIrl)
0646 Louis Oosthuizen (Rsa) Guido Migliozzi (Ita), KJ Choi (Kor)
0657 Cameron Smith (Aus), Marco Penge (Eng), Justin Hastings (x) (Cym)
0708 Jason Day (Aus), Taylor Pendrith (Can) Jacob Skov Olesen (Den)
0719 Phil Mickelson, Daniel Van Tonder (Rsa) Ryan Peake (Aus)
0730 Max Greyserman, Byeong Hun An (Kor), Niklas Norgaard (Den)
0741 Jordan Smith (Eng), Haotong Li (Chn), Dustin Johnson
0752 Darren Clarke (NIrl), Davis Riley, Lucas Herbert (Aus)
0803 Kevin Yu (Tpe), Julien Guerrier (Fra), Mikiya Akutsu (Jpn)
0814 Thomas Detry (Bel), Chris Gotterup, Lee Westwood (Eng)
0825 Patrick Cantlay, Cameron Young, Mackenzie Hughes (Can)
0836 Thorbjorn Olesen (Den), Matthew Jordan (Eng), Filip Jakubik (x) (Cze)
0925 Hideki Matsuyama (Jpn), Ryan Fox (Nzl), Matt Fitzpatrick (Eng)
0936 Sepp Straka (Aut), Ben Griffin, Akshay Bhatia
0947 Sam Burns, Aldrich Potgieter (Rsa), Brooks Koepka
0958 Xander Schauffele, JJ Spaun, Jon Rahm (Esp)
1009 Shane Lowry (Irl), Collin Morikawa, Scottie Scheffler
1020 Corey Conners (Can), Wyndham Clark, Tom Hoge
1031 Denny McCarthy, Nico Echavarria (Col), Patrick Reed
1042 Matti Schmid (Ger), Ryggs Johnston, Richard Teder (x) (Est)
1053 Dylan Naidoo (Rsa), Darren Fichardt (Rsa), John Axelsen (Den)
1104 John Suh, Oliver Lindell (Fin), Jesper Sandborg (Swe)
1115 Sadom Kaewkanjana (Tha), Riki Kawamoto (Jpn), Sampson Zheng (Chn)
1126 Stewart Cink, Matteo Manassero (Ita), Marc Leishman (Aus)
1147 Francesco Molinari (Ita), Jesper Svensson (Swe), Connor Graham (x) (Sco)
1158 Zach Johnson, Dan Brown (Eng), Daniel Hillier (Nzl)
1209 Adam Scott (Aus), Rickie Fowler, Ethan Fang (x)
1220 Laurie Canter (Eng), Elvis Smylie (Aus), Sergio Garcia (Esp)
1231 Andrew Novak, Matthieu Pavon (Fra), Matt Wallace (Eng)
1242 Davis Thompson, Dean Burmester (Rsa), Rikuya Hoshino (Jpn)
1253 Si Woo Kim (Kor), Shugo Imahira (Jpn), Sebastian Cave (x) (Eng)
1304 Michael Kim (Kor), Bud Cauley, John Parry (Eng)
1315 Matt McCarty, Shaun Norris (Rsa), Angel Hidalgo (Esp)
1326 Keegan Bradley, Sungjae Im (Kor), Daniel Berger
1337 Christiaan Bezuidenhout (Rsa), Rasmus Hojgaard (Den), Romain Langasque (Fra)
1348 Aaron Rai (Eng), Sahith Theegala, Harry Hall (Eng)
1404 Justin Leonard, Thriston Lawrence (Rsa), Antoine Rozner (Fra)
1415 JT Poston, Chris Kirk, Carlos Ortiz (Mex)
1426 Brian Harman, Maverick McNealy, Joaquin Niemann (Chi)
1437 Russell Henley, Tyrrell Hatton (Eng), Min Woo Lee (Aus)
1448 Bob MacIntyre (Sco), Bryson DeChambeau, Justin Rose (Eng)
1459 Jordan Spieth, Ludvig Åberg (Swe), Viktor Hovland (Nor)
1510 Rory McIlroy (NIrl), Justin Thomas, Tommy Fleetwood (Eng)
1521 Harris English, Nick Taylor (Can), Tony Finau
1532 Lucas Glover, Jhonattan Vegas (Ven), Tom Kim (Kor)
1543 Brian Campbell, John Catlin, Frazer Jones (x) (Eng)
1554 Nathan Kimsey (Eng), Jason Kokrak, Cameron Adam (x) (Sco)
1605 Daniel Young (Sco), Curtis Luck (Aus), Curtis Knipes (Eng)
1616 Young han Song (Kor), George Bloor (Eng), OJ Farrell (Eng)
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