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The second round of The Open<\/a> begins on Friday with home favourite Rory McIlroy<\/a> out early and right in contention to win a second Claret Jug at Royal Portrush<\/a>. <\/p>\n McIlroy carded a first round of 70 to sit at -1 and just one shot back<\/a>, with his group including Justin Thomas<\/a> and Tommy Fleetwood<\/a>.<\/p>\n Matt Fitzpatrick<\/a> is one of five overnight leaders, alongside Christiaan Bezuidenhout, Jacob Skov Olesen, Haotong Li, and Harris English – all at four under par.<\/p>\n Rounds took as long as six hours on Thursday, with the Stewart Cink, Marc Leishman and Matteo Manassero out first on Friday at 6:35am BST, and Sadom Kaewkanjana, Riki Kawamoto, Sampson Zheng not getting their second rounds underway until 4:16pm BST.<\/p>\n See all the groupings and tee times for Friday\u2019s second round at Royal Portrush below: <\/p>\n The Open 2025 tee times<\/p>\n Second Round<\/p>\n (Gbr & Irl unless stated, all times Local):<\/p>\n (a) denotes amateurs<\/p>\n Starting at hole 1<\/p>\n 06:35 Stewart Cink (USA), Marc Leishman (Aus), Matteo Manassero (Ita)<\/p>\n 06:46 (a) Connor Graham, Francesco Molinari (Ita), Jesper Svensson (Swe)<\/p>\n 06:57 Daniel Brown, Daniel Hillier (Nzl), Zach Johnson (USA)<\/p>\n 07:08 (a) Ethan Fang (USA), Rickie Fowler (USA), Adam Scott (Aus)<\/p>\n 07:19 Laurie Canter, Sergio Garcia (Spa), Elvis Smylie (Aus)<\/p>\n 07:30 Andrew Novak (USA), Matthieu Pavon (Fra), Matt Wallace<\/p>\n 07:41 Dean Burmester (Rsa), Rikuya Hoshino (Jpn), Davis Thompson (USA)<\/p>\n 07:52 (a) Sebastian Cave, Shugo Imahira (Jpn), Si-Woo Kim (Kor)<\/p>\n 08:03 Bud Cauley (USA), Michael Kim (USA), John Parry<\/p>\n 08:14 Angel Hidalgo (Spa), Matt McCarty (USA), Shaun Norris (Rsa)<\/p>\n 08:25 Daniel Berger (USA), Keegan Bradley (USA), Sung-Jae Im (Kor)<\/p>\n 08:36 Christiaan Bezuidenhout (Rsa), Rasmus Hoejgaard (Den), Romain Langasque (Fra)<\/p>\n 08:47 Harry Hall, Aaron Rai, Sahith Theegala (USA)<\/p>\n 09:03 Thriston Lawrence (Rsa), Justin Leonard (USA), Antoine Rozner (Fra)<\/p>\n 09:14 Chris Kirk (USA), Carlos Ortiz (Mex), J. T. Poston (USA)<\/p>\n 09:25 Brian Harman (USA), Maverick McNealy (USA), Joaquin Niemann (Chi)<\/p>\n 09:36 Tyrrell Hatton, Russell Henley (USA), Min-Woo Lee (Aus)<\/p>\n 09:47 Bryson DeChambeau (USA), Robert MacIntyre, Justin Rose<\/p>\n 09:58 Ludvig Aaberg (Swe), Viktor Hovland (Nor), Jordan Spieth (USA)<\/p>\n 10:09 Tommy Fleetwood, Rory McIlroy, Justin Thomas (USA)<\/p>\n 10:20 Harris English (USA), Tony Finau (USA), Nick Taylor (Can)<\/p>\n 10:31 Lucas Glover (USA), Joo-Hyung Kim (Kor), Jhonattan Vegas (Ven)<\/p>\n 10:42 Brian Campbell (USA), John Catlin (USA), (a) Frazer Jones<\/p>\n 10:53 (a) Cameron Adam, Nathan Kimsey, Jason Kokrak (USA)<\/p>\n 11:04 Curtis Knipes, Curtis Luck (Aus), Daniel Young<\/p>\n 11:15 George Bloor, OJ Farrell, Young-Han Song (Kor)<\/p>\n 11:26 Padraig Harrington, Nicolai Hoejgaard (Den), Tom McKibbin<\/p>\n 11:47 K. J. 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