Preamble
Just before 10pm last night, qualifier and debutant Dan Brown birdied 18 holes for a 65, giving the 29-year-old from North Yorkshire a surprising 18-hole lead. Look!
-6: Brown
-5: Lowry
-3: Thomas
-2: Norwegians, N Hojgaard, Rose, Henley, Schauffele, Hughes, Dean
-1: A Scott, Wallace, Kirk, Straka, Koepka, Fitzpatrick, Scheffler
Well. Good morning and all that, but the first of the breakaway group to set off, Sepp Straka, doesn’t hit the track until almost 8am BST, while Brown doesn’t tee off until after 11am, Shane Lowry heads out just before 10am and JT is an afternoon activity. So expect this blog to start very slowly, simmering and boiling over of its own accord, a bit like Isaac Hayes’ version of By The Time I Get To Phoenix. Unless otherwise stated, all tee times in Great Britain and Ireland are BST and a indicates amateur. It is on!
0635 Ewen Ferguson, Marcel Siem (German)
0646 Yuto Katsuragawa (Jpn), Chengtsung Pan (Tai)
0657 Angel Hidalgo (Spa), Rikuya Hoshino (Japan), Richard Mansell
0708 Jorge Campillo (Spa), Corey Conners (Canada), Ryan Fox (NZL)
0719 Ernie Els (Rsa), (a) Altin van der Merwe (Rsa), Gary Woodland (US)
0730 Rasmus Hoejgaard (Den), (a) Jacob Olesen (Den), Henrik Stenson (Swe)
0741 Billy Horschel (USA), Louis Oosthuizen (Rsa), Victor Perez (Fra)
0752 Jordan Smith, Sepp Straka (Aut), Brendon Todd (US)
0803 Denny McCarthy (US), Adrian Meronk (Pol), Taylor Moore (US)
0814 Byeong-Hun An (Kor), Jason Day (Aus), Rickie Fowler (US)
0825 Alex Cejka (D), Eric Cole (US), Kurt Kitayama (US)
0836 Dean Burmester (RSA), Darren Clarke, JT Poston (USA)
0847 Dustin Johnson (US), Joost Luiten (Ned), Phil Mickelson (US)
0903 Padraig Harrington, Matthew Jordan, Davis Thompson (USA)
0914 Wyndham Clark (USA), Brooks Koepka (USA), Hideki Matsuyama (Japan)
0925 Patrick Cantlay (US), Xander Schauffele (US), Tiger Woods (US)
0936 Sam Burns (USA), Si-Woo Kim (Kor), Collin Morikawa (USA)
0947 Matthew Fitzpatrick, Shane Lowry, Cameron Smith (Aus)
0958 Scottie Scheffler (US), Jordan Spieth (US), Cameron Young (US)
1009 Akshay Bhatia (US), Tom Hoge (US), Sami Valimaki (Fin)
1020 Ben Griffin (USA), Emiliano Grillo (Argentina), Mackenzie Hughes (Canada)
1031 Joseph Dean, Andy Ogletree (US), Yannik Paul (GER)
1042 Charlie Lindh (Zwe), (a) Luis Masaveu (Spa), Ryan van Velzen (Rsa)
1053 Kazuma Kobori (Nzl), (a) Jaime Montojo (Spa), (a) Liam Nolan
1104 Denwit Boriboonsub (Tha), Daniel Brown, (a) Matthew Dodd-Berry
1115 Sam Horsfield, Aguri Iwasaki (Jpn), Jeung-Hun Wang (Kor)
1126 Todd Hamilton (US), Justin Leonard (US), Jack McDonald
1147 Tom McKibbin, (a) Calum Scott, Alexander Noren (Swe)
1158 Michael Hendry (Nzl), Vincent Norrman (Swe), Jesper Svensson (Swe)
1209 Daniel Hillier (New Zealand), Ryosuke Kinoshita (Japan), Young-Han Song (Kor)
1220 Abraham Ancer (Mex), Ryo Hisatsune (Jpn), Min-Woo Lee (Aus)
1231 Nicolai Hoejgaard (Den), Keita Nakajima (Jpn), Adam Scott (Aus)
1242 Francesco Molinari (Ita), Justin Rose, (a) Jasper Stubbs (Aus)
1253 Sung-Jae Im (Kor), Matthew Southgate, Justin Thomas (USA)
1304 Laurie Canter, Nick Taylor (Can), Matt Wallace
1315 Matteo Manassero (Ita), Shubhankar Sharma (Ind), Sebastian Soederberg (Swe)
1326 Austin Eckroat (US), Zach Johnson (US), Thorbjoern Olesen (Den)
1337 John Daly (US), (a) Santiago De La Fuente (Mex), Aaron Rai
1348 Stewart Cink (US), (a) Dominic Clemons, Chris Kirk (US)
1404 Stephan Jaeger (German), Joaquin Niemann (Chi), Adam Schenk (USA)
1415 Christiaan Bezuidenhout (Rsa), Lucas Glover (US), Adam Hadwin (Can)
1426 Tony Finau (US), Russell Henley (US), Matthieu Pavon (Fra)
1437 Tommy Fleetwood, Robert MacIntyre, Jon Rahm (Spa)
1448 Ludvig Aaberg (Swe), Bryson DeChambeau (US), Joo-Hyung Kim (Kor)
1459 Brian Harman (USA), Viktor Hovland (Nor), Sahith Theegala (USA)
1510 Tyrrell Hatton, Max Homa (USA), Rory McIlroy
1521 Keegan Bradley (US), (a) Gordon Sargent (US), Will Zalatoris (US)
1532 Alexander Bjoerk (Swe), Harris English (US), Maverick McNealy (US)
1543 Sean Crocker (USA), Guido Migliozzi (Ita), (a) Tommy Morrison (USA)
1554 John Catlin (USA), Gun-Taek Koh (Kor), David Puig (Spa)
1605 Daniel Bradbury, Thriston Lawrence (Rsa), Elvis Smylie (Aus)
1616 Ignacio Elvira (Spa), Darren Fichardt (Rsa), Min-Kyu Kim (Kor)
1627 Mason Andersen (USA), Sam Hutsby, Masahiro Kawamura (Japan)