The 2026 Open Championship rolls on into the second round on Friday with a surprising name atop the leaderboard. Jackson Suber grabbed a share of the lead at 5 under with a first-round 65 in his only career round at The Open.<\/p>\n
Suber won’t have a long night to sleep on the lead, which might be for the best for his nerves. He will be one of the first out on Friday morning with a 2:30 a.m. ET (7:30 a.m. local) tee time, offering an opportunity to extend his advantage if he can stay hot.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The most notable chaser out early will be Cameron Young (-3), as he’ll tee off at 4:58 a.m. alongside Wyndham Clark (+3) and Ludvig \u00c5berg (+1), who each have work to do to ensure a weekend tee time. In the group behind them, pretournament favorites Rory McIlroy (+2), Matt Fitzpatrick (+2) and Xander Schauffele (+1) will all be grinding to make the cut in the 5:09 a.m. starting time.\u00a0<\/p>\n
In the later wave, Bryson DeChambeau (-3), Scottie Scheffler (-2)<\/a> and Tyrrell Hatton (-1) will see how they handle the likely tougher afternoon conditions at Royal Birkdale at 10:04 a.m., after all three put themselves in contention with rounds in red figures on Thursday morning. Tommy Fleetwood (-1), Jon Rahm (-1) and Jordan Spieth (+3) will be off in the next group at 10:15 with Fleetwood hoping to ride the hometown fan support up the leaderboard heading into the weekend.\u00a0<\/p>\n Below is the complete schedule of tee times and groupings for Friday’s second round at Royal Birkdale as the 156-man field battles for the winner’s share of The Open’s enhanced $17.5 million purse<\/a> for this year’s outing. Don’t miss a second of the action Friday by checking out CBS Sports’ complete 2026 Open TV schedule and coverage guide<\/a> for viewing information across the final 54 holes.<\/p>\n 2026 Open Championship tee times, Friday pairings\u00a0<\/p>\n All times Eastern<\/p>\n 1:35 a.m. — John Parry, Eric Cole, Tiger Christensen
1:46 a.m. — Eugenio Chacarra, Matt Wallace, Max Greyserman
1:57 a.m. — Michael Brennan, Sahith Theegala, Laurie Canter
2:08 a.m. — Cameron Smith, Keith Mitchell, Stuart Grehan (a)
2:19 a.m. — Sepp Straka Joaquin Niemann, Kurt Kitayama
2:30 a.m. — Sami Valimaki, Shaun Norris, Jackson Suber
2:41 a.m. — Darren Clarke, Adrien Saddier, Bernd Wiesberger
2:52 a.m. — Keegan Bradley, Corey Conners, Casey Jarvis
3:03 a.m. — Matt McCarty, Harry Hall, Haotong Li
3:14 a.m. — Padraig Harrington, Marco Penge, Michael Hollick
3:25 a.m. — Tom Kim, Billy Horschel, Mason Howell (a)
3:36 a.m. — Johnny Keefer, Pierceson Coody, Keita Nakajima
3:47 a.m. — Louis Oosthuizen, Jesper Svensson, Jack Buchanan (a)
4:03 a.m. — Bud Cauley, Jayden Schaper, Lucas Herbert
4:14 a.m. — Kristoffer Reitan, Patrick Reed, J.T. Poston
4:25 a.m. — Chris Gotterup, Sam Burns, Adam Scott
4:36 a.m. — Collin Morikawa, J.J. Spaun, Nicolai H\u00f8jgaard
4:47 a.m. — Shane Lowry, Aaron Rai, Brooks Koepka
4:58 a.m. — Cameron Young, Wyndham Clark, Ludivg \u00c5berg
5:09 a.m. — Rory McIlroy, Xander Schauffele, Matt Fitzpatrick
5:20 a.m. — Jacob Bridgeman, Rasmus Neergaard-Petersen, Tim Wiedemeyer (a)
5:31 a.m. — Patrick Cantlay, Daniel Berger, Nico Echavarria
5:42 a.m. — Peter Uihlein, Alistair Docherty, Francesco LaPorta
5:53 a.m. — Cameron John, Austen Truslow, Sam Bairstow
6:04 a.m. — Naoyuki Kataoka, Marcus Plunkett, Baard Skogen
6:15 a.m. — Kazuki Higa, Jiho Yang, Nevill Ruiter (a)
6:41 a.m. — Matthew Baldwin, Thomas Detry, James Nicholas
6:52 a.m. — Michael Kim, Daniel Hillier, Andy Sullivan
7:03 a.m. — Ryan Fox, Andrew Novak, Matthew Jordan
7:14 a.m. — Henrik Stenson, Max Homa, Joe Dean
7:25 a.m. — Robert MacIntyre, Rickie Fowler, Alex Fitzpatrick
7:36 a.m. — David Duval, Martin Couvra, Matthew Southgate
7:47 a.m. — Sungjae Im, Daniel Brown, Fifa Laopakdee (a)
7:58 a.m. — Gary Woodland, Jake Knapp, Jordan Smith
8:09 a.m. — Francesco Molinari, Tom McKibbin, Lev Grinberg (a)
8:20 a.m. — Hennie Du Plessis, Jose Luis Ballester, Dan Bradbury
8:31 a.m. — Angel Ayora, Victor Perez, Mateo Pulcini (a)
8:42 a.m. — Stewart Cink, Scott Vincent, Joakim Lagergren
8:53 a.m. — Michael Thorbjornsen, Kota Kaneko, Travis Smyth
9:09 a.m. — Alex Smalley, Sam Stevens, Ryo Hisatsune
9:20 a.m. — Akshay Bhatia, Harris English, Rasmus H\u00f8jgaard
9:31 a.m. — Ben Griffin, Hideki Matsuyama, Min Woo Lee
9:42 a.m. — Russell Henley, Justin Rose, Viktor Hovland
9:53 a.m. — Justin Thomas, Alex Noren, Jason Day
10:04 a.m. — Scottie Scheffler, Tyrrell Hatton, Bryson DeChambeau
10:15 a.m. — Jordan Spieth, Tommy Fleetwood, Jon Rahm
10:26 a.m. — Brian Harman, Si Woo Kim, Nick Taylor
10:37 a.m. — Ryan Gerard, Maverick McNealy, David Puig
10:48 a.m. — Kazuma Kobori, Tom Sloman, David Howard (a)
10:59 a.m. — Antoine Rozner, Ren Yonexawa, Caleb Surratt
11:10 a.m. — M.J. Daffue, Frederic Lacroix, Jack McDonald
11:21 a.m. — Jeongwoo Ham, Ryutaro Nagano, Alejandro De Castro Piera (a)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 2026 Open Championship rolls on into the second round on Friday with a surprising name atop the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":807580,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[281948,49,48,9469,5559,622,209194,104173,3007,283635,283636,209193,1976,9682,61777,9683,82,94729],"class_list":["post-807579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-british-open-2026","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-field","tag-friday","tag-golf","tag-groupings","tag-groups","tag-open","tag-open-2026","tag-open-championship-2026","tag-pairings","tag-rory-mcilroy","tag-rory-mcilroy-tee-time","tag-round-2","tag-scottie-scheffler-tee-time","tag-sports","tag-tee-times"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807579","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=807579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807579\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/807580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=807579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=807579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=807579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}