Open Championship 2026 LIVE: Round 2 tee times, leaderboard, prize money and where to watch

The 2026 Open Championship is back at the iconic Royal Birkdale this week as Scottie Scheffler defends the Claret Jug.

Scheffler completed the third leg of his Career Grand Slam attempt with glory at Royal Portrush last summer.

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He handed the famous jug back to The R&A on Monday morning and has now headed out to try and reclaim it against a field that will include rival and 2014 champion Rory McIlroy.

Birkdale has undergone a major revamp since it last hosted The Open and it should provide the perfect stage for the fourth and final major of the summer.

After an intriguing opening day, USA’s Jackson Suber is leading the major ahead of Friday’s cut day.

Open Championship 2026: Date and how to follow

The 154th edition of The Open is running from Thursday, July 16 to Sunday, July 19.

It is taking place at Royal Birkdale Golf Club in Southport near Liverpool.

Play will get going at 6:35am over the opening two days and at 9am over the weekend.

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The action will also be shown live on Sky Sports Golf from 6:30am each day.

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Open Championship 2026: Field and tee times

Being the final major of the year, The Open will have an all-star field headlined by McIlroy and Scheffler.

The full field, tee times and groupings for the first two rounds have been confirmed.

The Open does not implement two-tee starts meaning the timings run throughout the entire day from 6:35am to 4:21pm.

McIlroy will be joined by Xander Schauffele and Matt Fitzpatrick for the opening two days and will tee off at 10:09am on Friday.

Scheffler is at 3:04pm and has been grouped with Bryson DeChambeau and Tyrrell Hatton.

The latest leaderboard from Birkdale is up and running.

The prize money for this year’s event has not been officially announced yet but was set at $17million last summer with $3.1m going to the champion.

Round Two (Friday, July 17)

All starting on Hole 1, times BST, * denotes amateur

• 06:35 John Parry (Eng), Eric Cole (US), Tiger Christensen (Ger)
• 06:46 Eugenio Chacarra (Spa), Matt Wallace (Eng), Max Greyserman (US)
• 06:57 Michael Brennan (US), Sahith Theegala (US), Laurie Canter (Eng)
• 07:08 Cameron Smith (Aus), Keith Mitchell (US), Stuart Grehan (Ire)*
• 07:19 Sepp Straka (Aut), Joaquin Niemann (Chi), Kurt Kitayama (US)
• 07:30 Sami Valimaki (Fin), Shaun Norris (SA), Jackson Suber (US)
• 07:41 Darren Clarke (NI), Adrien Saddier (Fra), Bernd Wiesberger (Aut)
• 07:52 Keegan Bradley (US), Corey Conners (Can), Casey Jarvis (SA)
• 08:03 Matt McCarty (US), Harry Hall (Eng), Haotong Li (Chn)
• 08:14 Padraig Harrington (Ire), Marco Penge (Eng), Michael Hollick (SA)
• 08:25 Tom Kim (Kor), Billy Horschel (US), Mason Howell (US)*
• 08:36 Johnny Keefer (US), Pierceson Coody (US), Keita Nakajima (Jpn)
• 08:47 Louis Oosthuizen (SA), Jesper Svensson (Swe), Jack Buchanan (SA)
• 09:03 Bud Cauley (US), Jayden Schaper (SA), Lucas Herbert (Aus)
• 09:14 Kristoffer Reitan (Den), Patrick Reed (US), JT Poston (US)
• 09:25 Chris Gotterup (US), Sam Burns (US), Adam Scott (Aus)
• 09:36 Collin Morikawa (US), JJ Spaun (US), Nicolai Hojgaard (Den)
• 09:47 Shane Lowry (Ire), Aaron Rai (Eng), Brooks Koepka (US)
• 09:58 Cameron Young (US), Wyndham Clark (US), Ludvig Aberg (Swe)
• 10:09 Rory McIlroy (NI), Xander Schauffele (US), Matt Fitzpatrick (Eng)
• 10:20 Jacob Bridgeman (US), Rasmus Neergaard-Petersen (Den), Tim Wiedmeyer (Ger)*
• 10:31 Patrick Cantlay (US), Daniel Berger (US), Nico Echevarria (Col)
• 10:42 Peter Uihlein (US), Alistair Docherty (US), Francesco Laporta (Ita)
• 10:53 Cameron John (Aus), Austen Truslow (US), Sam Bairstow (Eng)
• 11:04 Naoyuki Kataoka (Jpn), Marcus Plunkett (US), Baard Bjoernevik (Den)
• 11:15 Kazuki Higa (Jpn), Jiho Yang (Kor), Nevill Ruiter (Ned)*
• 11:41 Matthew Baldwin (Eng), Thomas Detry (Bel), James Nicholas (US)
• 11:52 Michael Kim (US), David Hillier (NZ), Andy Sullivan (Eng)
• ​12:03 Ryan Fox (NZ), Andrew Novak (US), Matthew Jordan (Eng)
• 12:14 Henrik Stenson (Swe), Max Homa (US), Joe Dean (Eng)
• 12:25 Robert MacIntyre (Sco), Rickie Fowler (US), Alex Fitzpatrick (Eng)
• 12:36 David Duval (US), Martin Couvra (Fra), Matthew Southgate (Eng)
• 12:47 Sungjae Im (Kor), Daniel Brown (Eng), Fifa Laopakdee (Tha)*
• 12:58 Gary Woodland (US), Jake Knapp (US), Jordan Smith (Eng)
• 13:09 Francesco Molinari (Ita), Tom McKibbin (NI), Lev Grinberg (Fra)*
• 13:20 Hennie du Plessis (SA), Jose Luis Ballester (Spa), Dan Bradbury (Eng)
• 13:31 Angel Ayora (Spa), Victor Perez (Fra), Mateo Pulcini (Arg)*
• 13:42 Stewart Cink (US), Scott Vincent (Zim), Joakim Lagergren (Swe)
• 13:53 Michael Thorbjornsen (Den), Kota Kaneko (Jpn), Travis Smyth (Aus)
• 14:09 Alex Smalley (US), Sam Stevens (US), Ryo Hisastune (Jpn)
• 14:20 Akshay Bhatia (US), Harris English (US), Rasmus Hojgaard (Den)
• 14:31 Ben Griffin (US), Hideki Matsuyama (Jpn), Min Woo Lee (Aus)
• 14:42 Russell Henley (US), Justin Rose (Eng), Viktor Hovland (Nor)
• 14:53 Justin Thomas (US), Alex Noren (Swe), Jason Day (Aus)
• 15:04 Scottie Scheffler (US), Tyrrell Hatton (Eng), Bryson Dechambeau (US)
• 15:15 Jordan Spieth (US), Tommy Fleetwood (Eng), Jon Rahm (Spa)
• 15:26 Brian Harman (US), Si Woo Kim (Kor), Nick Taylor (Can)
• 15:37 Ryan Gerard (US), Maverick McNealy (US), David Puig (Spa)
• 15:48 Kazuma Kobori (NZ), Tom Sloman (Eng), David Howard (Ire)*
• 15:59 Antoine Rozner (Fra), Ren Yonezawa (Jpn), Caleb Surratt (US)
• 16:10 MJ Daffue (SA), Frederic Lacroix (Fra), Jack McDonald (Sco)
• 16:21 Jeongwoo Ham (Kor), Ryutaro Nagamo (Jpn), Alejandro De Castro Piera (Spa)*

Open Championship 2026: Course details

Royal Birkdale is hosting the Open for its 11th time with Arnold Palmer, Lee Trevino, Tom Watson and Padraig Harrington among the former winners at the famous course.

Jordan Spieth won when the major was last held in Southport, beating Matt Kuchar by three shots after one of the most dramatic final rounds in recent memory.

Famous for its iconic white Art Deco clubhouse, the club have made some big changes for the 2026 tournament.

The bunkering on the entire course has been redone with several new teeing positions and tighter landing zones.

The dogleg par-4 5th has been revamped to include more treacherous bunkers and make the water hazard in play for those who try to drive the green.

The 7th hole, with its renowned donut-shaped bunker, has a new elevated green with steeper run-offs and deeper traps.

The old par 3 14th has been removed and the par 5 15th will now play as that hole.

A brand new short hole has been built from scratch to play as the 15th.

And the legendary 18th hole has been re-routed with more bunkers and a narrower fairway.

As with the previous four Opens at Birkdale, the course will play to a par 70 but has been extended to 7,223 yards.

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Open Championship 2026: What has been said?

Scheffler dominated at Portrush last year, firing a 64 on Friday before easing to a four-shot win over the weekend.

He said: “It’s a very special feeling. It takes a lot of work to get to this point in my career. 

“This was a tough week – it was challenging. The course was playing really tough. I had to focus very hard over the course of the weekend.

“This one was different from the PGA (in May) because I had a decent lead to start the day. At the PGA, I felt like I struggled on the front nine and then was able to push forward and win it on the back nine.

“This one, I felt like I built up a lead. It got a little close there after the double bogey on eight but as I bounced back at nine I was able to keep a pretty sizeable lead for most of the day.

“To be able to win The Open at Portrush is a feeling that’s hard to describe.

“I grew up a kid in Texas that wanted to play professional golf. I don’t know why I’m so lucky that I get to live out those dreams. It’s something I’m very grateful for.

“It’s amazing to win The Open but having success in life, whether it’s work or golf, is not what fulfils the deepest desires of your heart. This is a cool feeling and I can’t wait to get home and celebrate with the people that have helped me along the way. It’s just tough to describe when you haven’t lived it.

“Just because you win a golf tournament doesn’t make you happy – there’s more to life than playing golf. But I’m pretty excited to celebrate this one.”