The second round of The Open begins on Friday with home favourite Rory McIlroy out early and right in contention to win a second Claret Jug at Royal Portrush.
McIlroy carded a first round of 70 to sit at -1 and just one shot back, with his group including Justin Thomas and Tommy Fleetwood.
Matt Fitzpatrick is one of five overnight leaders, alongside Christiaan Bezuidenhout, Jacob Skov Olesen, Haotong Li, and Harris English – all at four under par.
Rounds took as long as six hours on Thursday, with the Stewart Cink, Marc Leishman and Matteo Manassero out first on Friday at 6:35am BST, and Sadom Kaewkanjana, Riki Kawamoto, Sampson Zheng not getting their second rounds underway until 4:16pm BST.
See all the groupings and tee times for Friday’s second round at Royal Portrush below:
The Open 2025 tee times
Second Round
(Gbr & Irl unless stated, all times Local):
(a) denotes amateurs
Starting at hole 1
06:35 Stewart Cink (USA), Marc Leishman (Aus), Matteo Manassero (Ita)
06:46 (a) Connor Graham, Francesco Molinari (Ita), Jesper Svensson (Swe)
06:57 Daniel Brown, Daniel Hillier (Nzl), Zach Johnson (USA)
07:08 (a) Ethan Fang (USA), Rickie Fowler (USA), Adam Scott (Aus)
07:19 Laurie Canter, Sergio Garcia (Spa), Elvis Smylie (Aus)
07:30 Andrew Novak (USA), Matthieu Pavon (Fra), Matt Wallace
07:41 Dean Burmester (Rsa), Rikuya Hoshino (Jpn), Davis Thompson (USA)
07:52 (a) Sebastian Cave, Shugo Imahira (Jpn), Si-Woo Kim (Kor)
08:03 Bud Cauley (USA), Michael Kim (USA), John Parry
08:14 Angel Hidalgo (Spa), Matt McCarty (USA), Shaun Norris (Rsa)
08:25 Daniel Berger (USA), Keegan Bradley (USA), Sung-Jae Im (Kor)
08:36 Christiaan Bezuidenhout (Rsa), Rasmus Hoejgaard (Den), Romain Langasque (Fra)
08:47 Harry Hall, Aaron Rai, Sahith Theegala (USA)
09:03 Thriston Lawrence (Rsa), Justin Leonard (USA), Antoine Rozner (Fra)
09:14 Chris Kirk (USA), Carlos Ortiz (Mex), J. T. Poston (USA)
09:25 Brian Harman (USA), Maverick McNealy (USA), Joaquin Niemann (Chi)
09:36 Tyrrell Hatton, Russell Henley (USA), Min-Woo Lee (Aus)
09:47 Bryson DeChambeau (USA), Robert MacIntyre, Justin Rose
09:58 Ludvig Aaberg (Swe), Viktor Hovland (Nor), Jordan Spieth (USA)
10:09 Tommy Fleetwood, Rory McIlroy, Justin Thomas (USA)
10:20 Harris English (USA), Tony Finau (USA), Nick Taylor (Can)
10:31 Lucas Glover (USA), Joo-Hyung Kim (Kor), Jhonattan Vegas (Ven)
10:42 Brian Campbell (USA), John Catlin (USA), (a) Frazer Jones
10:53 (a) Cameron Adam, Nathan Kimsey, Jason Kokrak (USA)
11:04 Curtis Knipes, Curtis Luck (Aus), Daniel Young
11:15 George Bloor, OJ Farrell, Young-Han Song (Kor)
11:26 Padraig Harrington, Nicolai Hoejgaard (Den), Tom McKibbin
11:47 K. J. Choi (Kor), Guido Migliozzi (Ita), Louis Oosthuizen (Rsa)
11:58 (a) Justin Hastings (Cay), Marco Penge, Cameron Smith (Aus)
12:09 Jason Day (Aus), Jacob Skov Olesen (Den), Taylor Pendrith (Can)
12:20 Phil Mickelson (USA), Ryan Peake (Aus), Daniel van Tonder (Rsa)
12:31 Byeong-Hun An (Kor), Max Greyserman (USA), Niklas Noergaard (Den)
12:42 Dustin Johnson (USA), Haotong Li (Chn), Jordan Smith
12:53 Darren Clarke, Lucas Herbert (Aus), Davis Riley (USA)
13:04 Mikiya Akutsu (Jpn), Julien Guerrier (Fra), Chun-An Yu (Tai)
13:15 Thomas Detry (Bel), Chris Gotterup (USA), Lee Westwood
13:26 Patrick Cantlay (USA), Mackenzie Hughes (Can), Cameron Young (USA)
13:37 (a) Filip Jakubcik (Cze), Matthew Jordan, Thorbjoern Olesen (Den)
13:48 Stephan Jaeger (Ger), Sebastian Soederberg (Swe), Henrik Stenson (Swe)
14:04 Martin Couvra (Fra), Kristoffer Reitan (Nor), Adrien Saddier (Fra)
14:15 Takumi Kanaya (Jpn), (a) Bryan Newman (Rsa), Justin Walters (Rsa)
14:26 Matthew Fitzpatrick, Ryan Fox (Nzl), Hideki Matsuyama (Jpn)
14:37 Akshay Bhatia (USA), Ben Griffin (USA), Sepp Straka (Aut)
14:48 Sam Burns (USA), Brooks Koepka (USA), Aldrich Potgieter (Rsa)
14:59 Jon Rahm (Spa), Xander Schauffele (USA), J. J. Spaun (USA)
15:10 Shane Lowry, Collin Morikawa (USA), Scottie Scheffler (USA)
15:21 Wyndham Clark (USA), Corey Conners (Can), Tom Hoge (USA)
15:32 Nicolas Echavarria (Col), Denny McCarthy (USA), Patrick Reed (USA)
15:43 Ryggs Johnston (USA), Matthias Schmid (Ger), (a) Richard Teder (Est)
15:54 John Axelsen (Den), Darren Fichardt (Rsa), Dylan Naidoo (Rsa)
16:05 Oliver Lindell (Fin), Jesper Sandborg (Swe), Justin Suh (USA)
16:16 Sadom Kaewkanjana (Tha), Riki Kawamoto (Jpn), Sampson Zheng (Chn)
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