Tiger Woods returns to the Open Championship at Carnoustie
Tiger Woods returns to the Open Championship at Carnoustie

Open Championship: Tee times for the first and second rounds at Carnoustie


Tiger Woods will have to wait around to get his return to the Open Championship underway after being handed a late first round tee time at Carnoustie on Thursday.

Woods is making his first start in the event since 2015 after missing the last two years due to his career-threatening back injury, and will not tee it up until 1521 BST in the first round.

Three-time winner Woods gets his campaign for a 15th major title under way alongside Japan's Hideki Matsuyama and Scotland's Russell Knox.

The last of Woods' Open titles came back in 2006 at Hoylake and the 42-year-old will encounter similar conditions at Carnoustie, which is playing so hard and fast that players have been driving into the Barry Burn in front of the 18th green in practice.

In the absence of 1999 champion Paul Lawrie, who is ruled out through injury, fellow Scot and 1985 winner Sandy Lyle will hit the opening tee shot at 0635.

Lyle is joined in the opening group by two-time major winner Martin Kaymer and England's Andy Sullivan, with former Masters champion Danny Willett also getting an early start at 0657.

Five-time major winner Phil Mickelson tees off shortly after 8am with defending champion Jordan Spieth starting his bid for back-to-back titles at 0958 alongside Justin Rose and Kiradech Aphibarnrat.

Rory McIlroy, who lifted the Claret Jug in 2014, tees off at 1253 alongside Australia's Marc Leishman and Denmark's Thorbjorn Olesen.

First round groups and tee times:

0635 Sandy Lyle, Martin Kaymer (Ger), Andy Sullivan

0646 Erik Van Rooyen (Rsa), Brady Schnell (USA), Matthew Southgate

0657 Danny Willett, Emiliano Grillo (Arg), Luke List (USA)

0708 Mark Calcavecchia (USA), Danthai Boonma (Tha), Shaun Norris (Rsa)

0719 Kevin Chappell (USA), Oliver Wilson, Eddie Pepperell

0730 Ross Fisher, Paul Dunne, Austin Cook (USA)

0741 Tyrrell Hatton, Patrick Cantlay (USA), Shane Lowry

0752 Thomas Pieters (Bel), Kevin Kisner (USA), Marcus Kinhult (Swe)

0803 Phil Mickelson (USA), Satoshi Kodaira (Jpn), Rafa Cabrera Bello (Esp)

0814 Brian Harman (USA), Yuta Ikeda (Jpn), Andrew Landry (USA)

0825 Si Woo Kim (Kor), Webb Simpson (USA), *Nicolai Hojgaard (Den)

0836 Stewart Cink (USA), Brandon Stone (Rsa), HIdeto Tanihara (Jpn)

0847 Gary Woodland (USA), Yusaku Miyazato (Jpn), Sung Kang (Kor)

0903 Ernie Els (Rsa), Adam Hadwin (Can), Chesson Hadley (USA)

0914 Pat Perez (USA), Julian Suri (USA), George Coetzee (Rsa)

0925 David Duval (USA), Scott Jamieson (Sco), Kevin Na (USA)

0936 Darren Clarke, Bernhard Langer (Ger), Retief Goosen (Rsa)

0947 Matt Kuchar (USA), Anirban Lahiri (Ind), Peter Uihlein (USA)

0958 Jordan Spieth (USA), Justin Rose (Eng), Kiradech Aphibarnrat (Tha)

1009 Jon Rahm (Esp), Rickie Fowler (USA), Chris Wood

1020 Louis Oosthuizen (Rsa), Paul Casey, Patrick Reed (USA)

1031 Tony Finau (USA), Xander Schauffele (USA), Jhonattan Vegas (Ven)

1042 *Yuxin Lin (Chn), Alexander Bjork (Swe), Hyun Sang (Kor)

1053 James Robinson, Haraldur Magnus (Icl), Zander Lombard (Rsa)

1104 Kodai Ichihara (Jpn), Rhys Enoch, Marcus Armitage

1115 Sean Crocker (USA), Gavin Green (Mal), Ash Turner

1136 Brandt Snedeker (USA), *Sam Locke, Cameron Davis (Aus)

1147 Patton Kizzire (USA), Jonas Blixt (Swe), Charles Howell III (USA)

1158 Charl Schwartzel (Rsa), Daniel Berger (USA), Tom Lewis

1209 Alex Levy (Fra), Ryan Moore (USA), Byeong Hun An (Kor)

1220 Michael Hendry (Nzl), Kelly Kraft (USA), Lee Westwood

1231 Henrik Stenson (Swe), Tommy Fleetwood, Jimmy Walker (USA)

1242 Matt Fitzpatrick, Russell Henley (USA), *Jovan Rebula (Rsa)

1253 Rory McIlroy, Marc Leishman (Aus), Thorbjorn Olesen (Den)

1304 Dustin Johnson (USA), Alex Noren (Swe), Charley Hoffman (USA)

1315 Zach Johnson (USA), Adam Scott (Aus), Brendan Steele (USA)

1326 Justin Thomas (USA), Francesco Molinari (Ita), Branden Grace (Rsa)

1337 Jason Day (Aus), Shota Akiyoshi (Jpn), Li Haotong (Chn)

1348 Todd Hamilton (USA), Beau Hossler (USA), Jorge Campillo (Esp)

1404 Ryuko Tokimatsu (Jpn), Chez Reavie (USA), Michael Kim (USA)

1415 Kyle Stanley (USA), Nicolas Colsaerts (Bel), Jens Dantorp (Swe)

1426 Tom Lehman (USA), Dylan Frittelli (Rsa), Grant Forrest

1437 Lucas Herbert (Aus), Min Chel Choi (Kor), Jason Kokrak (USA)

1438 Padraig Harrington, Bubba Watson (USA), Matt Wallace

1459 Ian Poulter, Cameron Smith (Aus), Brooks Koepka (USA)

1510 Sergio Garcia (Esp), Bryson DeChambeau (USA), Shubhankar Sharma (Ind)

1521 Tiger Woods (USA), Hideki Matsuyama (Jpn), Russell Knox

1532 Jason Dufner (USA), Ryan Fox (Nzl), Keegan Bradley (USA)

1543 Ryan Armour (USA), Abraham Ancer (Mex), Masahiro Kawamura (Jpn)

1554 Jazz Janewattananond (Tha), Fabrizio Zanotti (Par), Jordan Smith

1605 Brett Rumford (Aus), Masanori Kobayashi (Jpn), Jack Senior

1616 Matt Jones (Aus), Thomas Curtis, Bronson Burgoon (USA)

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