{"id":804901,"date":"2026-07-16T04:34:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T04:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/804901\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T04:34:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T04:34:09","slug":"2026-open-championship-thursday-tv-coverage-watch-round-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/804901\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 Open Championship Thursday TV coverage: Watch Round 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

The 2026 Open Championship gets underway early Thursday morning with the first round at Royal Birkdale<\/a> in England. Here\u2019s everything you need to know to watch the tournament on Thursday, including full Open Championship TV coverage, streaming details and complete Round 1 tee times.<\/p>\n

How to watch Open on Thursday<\/p>\n

It\u2019s been a long time since Rory McIlroy<\/a> hoisted the Claret Jug as Open champion back in 2014. But in recent years, McIlroy has broken his major drought with back-to-back wins at the Masters.<\/p>\n

This week, McIlroy embarks on a different mission: winning his second Open and seventh major championship title. He\u2019s come close in recent years, finishing T7 last season behind winner Scottie Scheffler<\/a>, T6 in 2023 and solo third in 2022 at St. Andrews.<\/p>\n

But Scheffler and a host of other challengers, not to mention Royal Birkdale\u2019s baked-out fairways<\/a>, should give Rory a run for his money this week. And all the action gets started on Thursday.<\/p>\n

If you\u2019re a golf fan watching from the U.S., you\u2019re going to want to wake up early to catch the Open on Thursday.<\/p>\n

You can watch the first round of the Open Championship on TV via USA, which will open the TV coverage at 4 a.m. ET on Thursday morning. Before that, Peacock<\/a> will kick off the streaming coverage at 1:30 a.m. ET. Peacock will also provide featured group coverage all day Thursday.<\/p>\n

Below you will find everything you need to know to watch the first round of the 2026 Open Championship.<\/p>\n

How to watch on TV Thursday<\/p>\n

USA will provide first-round TV coverage of the 2026 Open Championship on Thursday from 4 a.m.-3:30 p.m. ET.<\/p>\n

How to stream online Thursday<\/p>\n

You can stream the first round of the 2026 Open Championship via Peacock<\/a>,\u00a0which will provide early streaming coverage and featured group coverage. USA\u2019s telecast can be streamed via Golf Channel Mobile.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s the full Open Championship streaming schedule for Thursday:<\/p>\n

Open Round 1 Coverage: 1:30 a.m.-4 a.m. (Peacock<\/a>)
Featured Groups: All Day (Peacock<\/a>)
Open Round 1 USA Coverage: 4 a.m.-3:30 p.m. (Golf Channel Mobile)<\/p>\n

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2026 Open Championship Round 1 tee times (ET)<\/p>\n

Tee No. 1<\/p>\n

1:35 a.m. \u2013 Matthew Baldwin, Thomas Detry, James Nicholas
1:46 a.m. \u2013 Michael Kim, Daniel Hillier, Andy Sullivan
1:57 a.m. \u2013 Ryan Fox, Andrew Novak, Matthew Jordan
2:08 a.m. \u2013 Henrik Stenson, Max Homa, Joe Dean
2:19 a.m. \u2013 Robert MacIntyre, Rickie Fowler, Alex Fitzpatrick
2:30 a.m. \u2013 David Duval, Martin Couvra, Matthew Southgate
2:41 a.m. \u2013 Sungjae Im, Daniel Brown, Fifa Laopakdee (a)
2:52 a.m. \u2013 Gary Woodland, Jake Knapp, Jordan Smith
3:03 a.m. \u2013 Francesco Molinari, Tom McKibbin, Lev Grinberg (a)
3:14 a.m. \u2013 Hennie Du Plessis, Jose Luis Ballester, Dan Bradbury
3:25 a.m. \u2013 Angel Ayora, Victor Perez, Mateo Pulcini (a)
3:36 a.m. \u2013 Stewart Cink, Scott Vincent, Joakim Lagergren
3:47 a.m. \u2013 Michael Thorbjornsen, Kota Kaneko, Travis Smyth
4:03 a.m. \u2013 Alex Smalley, Sam Stevens, Ryo Hisatsune
4:14 a.m. \u2013 Akshay Bhatia, Harris English, Rasmus H\u00f8jgaard
4:25 a.m. \u2013 Ben Griffin, Hideki Matsuyama, Min Woo Lee
4:36 a.m. \u2013 Russell Henley, Justin Rose, Viktor Hovland
4:47 a.m. \u2013 Justin Thomas, Alex Noren, Jason Day
4:58 a.m. \u2013 Scottie Scheffler, Tyrrell Hatton, Bryson DeChambeau
5:09 a.m. \u2013 Jordan Spieth, Tommy Fleetwood, Jon Rahm
5:20 a.m. \u2013 Brian Harman, Si Woo Kim, Nick Taylor
5:31 a.m. \u2013 Ryan Gerard, Maverick McNealy, David Puig
5:42 a.m. \u2013 Kazuma Kobori, Tom Sloman, David Howard (a)
5:53 a.m. \u2013 Antoine Rozner, Ren Yonezawa, Caleb Surratt
6:04 a.m. \u2013 M.J. Daffue, Frederic Lacroix, Jack McDonald
6:15 a.m. \u2013 Jeongwoo Ham, Ryutaro Nagano, Alejandro De Castro Piera (a)
6:41 a.m. \u2013 John Parry, Eric Cole, Tiger Christensen
6:52 a.m. \u2013 Eugenio Chacarra, Matt Wallace, Max Greyserman
7:03 a.m. \u2013 Michael Brennan, Sahith Theegala, Laurie Canter
7:14 a.m. \u2013 Cameron Smith, Keith Mitchell, Stuart Grehan (a)
7:25 a.m. \u2013 Sepp Straka, Joaquin Niemann, Kurt Kitayama
7:36 a.m. \u2013 Sami Valimaki, Shaun Norris, Jackson Suber
7:47 a.m. \u2013 Darren Clarke, Adrien Saddier, Bernd Wiesberger
7:58 a.m. \u2013 Keegan Bradley, Corey Conners, Casey Jarvis
8:09 a.m. \u2013 Matt McCarty, Harry Hall, Haotong Li
8:20 a.m. \u2013 Padraig Harrington, Marco Penge, Michael Hollick
8:31 a.m. \u2013 Tom Kim, Billy Horschel, Mason Howell (a)
8:42 a.m. \u2013 Johnny Keefer, Pierceson Coody, Keita Nakajima
8:53 a.m. \u2013 Aldrich Potgieter, Jesper Svensson, Jack Buchanan (a)
9:09 a.m. \u2013 Bud Cauley, Jayden Schaper, Lucas Herbert
9:20 a.m. \u2013 Kristoffer Reitan, Patrick Reed, J.T. Poston
9:31 a.m. \u2013 Chris Gotterup, Sam Burns, Adam Scott
9:42 a.m. \u2013 Collin Morikawa, J.J. Spaun, Nicolai H\u00f8jgaard
9:53 a.m. \u2013 Shane Lowry, Aaron Rai, Brooks Koepka
10:04 a.m. \u2013 Cameron Young, Wyndham Clark, Ludvig \u00c5berg
10:15 a.m. \u2013 Rory McIlroy, Xander Schauffele, Matt Fitzpatrick
10:26 a.m. \u2013 Jacob Bridgeman, Rasmus Neergaard-Petersen, Tim Wiedemeyer (a)
10:37 a.m. \u2013 Patrick Cantlay, Daniel Berger, Nico Echavarria
10:48 a.m. \u2013 Peter Uihlein, Alistair Docherty, Francesco Laporta
10:59 a.m. \u2013 Cameron John, Austen Truslow, Sam Bairstow
11:10 a.m. \u2013 Naoyuki Kataoka, Marcus Plunkett, Baard Skogen
11:21 a.m. \u2013 Kazuki Higa, Jiho Yang, Nevill Ruiter (a)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 2026 Open Championship gets underway early Thursday morning with the first round at Royal Birkdale in England.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":804902,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,82],"class_list":["post-804901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=804901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804901\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/804902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=804901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=804901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=804901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}