It\u2019s crunch time at the Open Championship. With 18 holes to play, it would seem there are any number of contenders in the mix. But who will do the grabbing at Royal Birkdale?<\/p>\n
If history is any indicator, the soon-to-be champion golfer of the year will be somebody within three shots of the 54-hole lead (only 13 times has somebody come back from four or more, the last being Cameron Smith at St Andrews in 2022). Yet history also says the Open winner will be inside the top-four heading into Sunday\u2019s final round (only 13 times has a player outside that spot on the leaderboard gone on to win, the last being Francesco Molinari at Carnoustie in 2018).<\/p>\n
And the biggest comeback of all time? Well that was Paul Lawrie, who found himself 10 shots back of the lead starting the final round at the 1999 Open at Carnoustie, only to win in a playoff after Jean Van de Velde\u2019s 72nd hole collapse.<\/p>\n
They won\u2019t announced Sunday\u2019s final-round tee times until the conclusion of the third round on Saturday. Come back after play ends to see who\u2019ll be paired together for the last round of the 2026 men\u2019s major season.<\/p>\n
Round 4 Parings (in AEST time)<\/p>\n
4:40 pm\u00a0
Game 1 \u2013 Jesper Svensson, Keegan Bradley<\/p>\n
4:50 pm\u00a0
Game 2 \u2013 Matthew Southgate, Laurie Canter<\/p>\n
5:00 pm\u00a0
Game 3 \u2013 Jack McDonald, Ben Griffin<\/p>\n
5:10 pm\u00a0
Game 4 \u2013 Peter Uihlein, Kazuki Higa<\/p>\n
5:20 pm\u00a0
Game 5 \u2013 Sepp Straka, John Parry<\/p>\n
5:30 pm\u00a0
Game 6 \u2013 Andy Sullivan, Aldrich Potgieter<\/p>\n
5:40 pm\u00a0
Game 7 \u2013 Marcus Plunkett, Ryo Hisatsune<\/p>\n
5:50 pm\u00a0
Game 8 \u2013 Min Woo Lee, Tyrrell Hatton<\/p>\n
6:00 pm\u00a0
Game 9 \u2013 Nick Taylor, MJ Daffue<\/p>\n
6:15 pm\u00a0
Game 10 \u2013 Eugenio Chacarra, Rickie Fowler<\/p>\n
6:25 pm\u00a0
Game 11 \u2013 Naoyuki Kataoka, Thomas Detry<\/p>\n
6:35 pm\u00a0
Game 12 \u2013 JJ Spaun, Victor Perez<\/p>\n
6:45 pm\u00a0
Game 13 \u2013 Chris Gotterup, Patrick Cantlay<\/p>\n
6:55 pm\u00a0
Game 14 \u2013 Michael Brennan, Kurt Kitayama<\/p>\n
7:05 pm\u00a0
Game 15 \u2013 Brooks Koepka, Bud Cauley<\/p>\n
7:15 pm\u00a0
Game 16 \u2013 Alex Fitzpatrick, Pierceson Coody<\/p>\n
7:25 pm\u00a0
Game 17 \u2013 Corey Conners, Johnny Keefer<\/p>\n
7:40 pm\u00a0
Game 18 \u2013 Patrick Reed, Adam Scott<\/p>\n
7:50 pm\u00a0
Game 19 \u2013 Michael Thorbjornsen, Shaun Norris<\/p>\n
8:00 pm\u00a0
Game 20 \u2013 Marco Penge, Alex Noren<\/p>\n
8:10 pm\u00a0
Game 21 \u2013 Russell Henley, Matt Wallace<\/p>\n
8:20 pm\u00a0
Game 22 \u2013 Francesco Molinari, Collin Morikawa<\/p>\n
8:30 pm\u00a0
Game 23 \u2013 Jordan Smith, Rory McIlroy<\/p>\n
8:40 pm\u00a0
Game 24 \u2013 Hennie du Plessis, Sahith Theegala<\/p>\n
8:50 pm\u00a0
Game 25 \u2013 Casey Jarvis, Kristoffer Reitan<\/p>\n
9:05 pm\u00a0
Game 26 \u2013 Cameron Young, Robert MacIntyre<\/p>\n
9:15 pm AEST
Game 27 \u2013 Nico Echavarria, Sungjae Im<\/p>\n
9:25 pm AEST
Game 28 \u2013 Jacob Bridgeman, Justin Thomas<\/p>\n
9:35 pm AEST
Game 29 \u2013 Max Homa, Alex Smalley<\/p>\n
9:45 pm\u00a0
Game 30 \u2013 Jose Luis Ballester Barrio, Scottie Scheffler<\/p>\n
9:55 pm\u00a0
Game 31 \u2013 Jon Rahm, Shane Lowry<\/p>\n
10:05 pm\u00a0
Game 32 \u2013 Cameron John, Daniel Brown<\/p>\n
10:15 pm\u00a0
Game 33 \u2013 Hideki Matsuyama, Kazuma Kobori<\/p>\n
10:30 pm\u00a0
Game 34 \u2013 Eric Cole, Xander Schauffele<\/p>\n
10:40 pm\u00a0
Game 35 \u2013 Tommy Fleetwood, Rasmus Neergaard-Petersen<\/p>\n
10:50 pm\u00a0
Game 36 \u2013 Jackson Suber, Bryson DeChambeau<\/p>\n
11:00 pm\u00a0
Game 37 \u2013 Ludvig \u00c5berg, Lucas Herbert<\/p>\n
11:10 pm\u00a0
Game 38 \u2013 Ryan Gerard, Si Woo Kim<\/p>\n
11:20 pm\u00a0
Game 39 \u2013 Ryan Fox, Sam Burns<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s crunch time at the Open Championship. With 18 holes to play, it would seem there are any…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":809542,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[4225,64,63,755,138747,85],"class_list":["post-809541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-article","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-golf","tag-golf-digest","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=809541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809541\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/809542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=809541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=809541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=809541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}