Rory McIlroy will look to put his latest major near miss behind him when he tees off in the Open at Royal Troon on Thursday morning.
The four-time major winner, who faltered over the final few holes in last month's US Open at Pinehurst to allow Bryson DeChambeau to win, will continue his quest for a first major victory in a decade at 10.09am alongside Ryder Cup team-mate Tyrrell Hatton and American Max Homa.
McIlroy won the last of his four majors at the 2014 US PGA Championship, a month after lifting the Claret Jug at Royal Liverpool and since then his record at the Open has brought five top-six finishes in seven outings.
Defending champion Brian Harman goes out in a group with Viktor Hovland and Sahith Theegala immediately ahead of McIlroy at 9.58am, while world number one Scottie Scheffler is out at 3.10pm, with 2017 Open champion Jordan Spieth and fellow American Cameron Young.
Shane Lowry, the winner of the 2019 Open, has been grouped with 2022 major champions Cameron Smith and Matt Fitzpatrick. That trio will have a late start and get underway at 2:59pm.
Tom McKibbin will be one of the earliest risers. He's grouped with Calum Scott and Alexander Noren and they will be the second group out at 6:46am.
Padraig Harrington, winner of the Open in consecutive years in 2007 and 2008 also has a later start. He tees off at 2:15pm alongside Davis Thompson and Matthew Jordan.
2011 winner Darren Clarke starts at 1:58pm with American JT Poston and South Africa's Dean Burmester.
Irish amateur Liam Nolan is part of one of the final groups to start. He tees off at 4:05pm alongside fellow amateur Jaime Montojo and Australia's Kazuma Kobori.
Fifteen-time major winner Tiger Woods is off at 2.37pm on Thursday alongside US PGA champion Xander Schauffele and Patrick Cantlay.
The victorious Ryder Cup trio of Jon Rahm, Tommy Fleetwood and home favourite Robert MacIntyre - winner of the Scottish Open on Sunday - begin at 9.36am, with another of Europe's heroes Ludvig Aberg in the next group at 9.47am with DeChambeau and Tom Kim.
The first shot of the 152nd Championship will be hit by Justin Leonard, winner of the Claret Jug at Troon in in 1997, at 6.35am after being paired with another Troon champion, Todd Hamilton and qualifier Jack McDonald, whose grandad is an honorary member at the club.
The Open 2024, first round tee-off times.
06:35 Todd Hamilton (USA), Justin Leonard (USA), Jack McDonald
06:46 Tom McKibbin, (a) Calum Scott, Alexander Noren (Swe)
06:57 Michael Hendry (Nzl), Vincent Norrman (Swe), Jesper Svensson (Swe)
07:08 Daniel Hillier (Nzl), Ryosuke Kinoshita (Jpn), Young-Han Song (Kor)
07:19 Abraham Ancer (Mex), Ryo Hisatsune (Jpn), Min-Woo Lee (Aus)
07:30 Nicolai Hoejgaard (Den), Keita Nakajima (Jpn), Adam Scott (Aus)
07:41 Francesco Molinari (Ita), Justin Rose, (a) Jasper Stubbs (Aus)
07:52 Sung-Jae Im (Kor), Matthew Southgate, Justin Thomas (USA)
08:03 Laurie Canter, Nick Taylor (Can), Matt Wallace
08:14 Matteo Manassero (Ita), Shubhankar Sharma (Ind), Sebastian Soederberg (Swe)
08:25 Austin Eckroat (USA), Zach Johnson (USA), Thorbjoern Olesen (Den)
08:36 John Daly (USA), (a) Santiago de la Fuente (Mex), Aaron Rai
08:47 Stewart Cink (USA), (a) Dominic Clemons, Chris Kirk (USA)
09:03 Stephan Jaeger (Ger), Joaquin Niemann (Chi), Adam Schenk (USA)
09:14 Christiaan Bezuidenhout (Rsa), Lucas Glover (USA), Adam Hadwin (Can)
09:25 Tony Finau (USA), Russell Henley (USA), Matthieu Pavon (Fra)
09:36 Tommy Fleetwood, Robert MacIntyre, Jon Rahm (Spa)
09:47 Ludvig Aaberg (Swe), Bryson DeChambeau (USA), Joo-Hyung Kim (Kor)
09:58 Brian Harman (USA), Viktor Hovland (Nor), Sahith TRheegala (USA)
10:09 Tyrrell Hatton, Max Homa (USA), Rory McIlroy
10:20 Keegan Bradley (USA), (a) Gordon Sargent (USA), Will Zalatoris (USA)
10:31 Alexander Bjoerk (Swe), Harris English (USA), Maverick McNealy (USA)
10:42 Sean Crocker (USA), Guido Migliozzi (Ita), (a) Tommy Morrison (USA)
10:53 John Catlin (USA), Gun-Taek Koh (Kor), David Puig (Spa)
11:04 Daniel Bradbury, Thriston Lawrence (Rsa), Elvis Smylie (Aus)
11:15 Ignacio Elvira (Spa), Darren Fichardt (Rsa), Min-Kyu Kim (Kor)
11:26 Mason Andersen (USA), Sam Hutsby, Masahiro Kawamura (Jpn)
11:47 Ewen Ferguson, Marcel Siem (Ger)
11:58 Yuto Katsuragawa (Jpn), Romain Langasque (Fra), Chengtsung Pan (Tai)
12:09 Angel Hidalgo (Spa), Rikuya Hoshino (Jpn), Richard Mansell
12:20 Jorge Campillo (Spa), Corey Conners (Can), Ryan Fox (Nzl)
12:31 Ernie Els (Rsa), (a) Altin van der Merwe (Rsa), Gary Woodland (USA)
12:42 Rasmus Hoejgaard (Den), (a) Jacob Olesen (Den), Henrik Stenson (Swe)
12:53 Billy Horschel (USA), Louis Oosthuizen (Rsa), Victor Perez (Fra)
13:04 Jordan Smith, Sepp Straka (Aut), Brendon Todd (USA)
13:15 Denny McCarthy (USA), Adrian Meronk (Pol), Taylor Moore (USA)
13:26 Byeong-Hun An (Kor), Jason Day (Aus), Rickie Fowler (USA)
13:37 Alex Cejka (Ger), Eric Cole (USA), Kurt Kitayama (USA)
13:48 Dean Burmester (Rsa), Darren Clarke, J. T. Poston (USA)
14:04 Dustin Johnson (USA), Joost Luiten (Ned), Phil Mickelson (USA)
14:15 Padraig Harrington, Matthew Jordan, Davis Thompson (USA)
14:26 Wyndham Clark (USA), Brooks Koepka (USA), Hideki Matsuyama (Jpn)
14:37 Patrick Cantlay (USA), Xander Schauffele (USA), Tiger Woods (USA)
14:48 Sam Burns (USA), Si-Woo Kim (Kor), Collin Morikawa (USA)
14:59 Matthew Fitzpatrick, Shane Lowry, Cameron Smith (Aus)
15:10 Scottie Scheffler (USA), Jordan Spieth (USA), Cameron Young (USA)
15:21 Akshay Bhatia (USA), Tom Hoge (USA), Sami Valimaki (Fin)
15:32 Ben Griffin (USA), Emiliano Grillo (Arg), Mackenzie Hughes (Can)
15:43 Joseph Dean, Andy Ogletree (USA), Yannik Paul (Ger)
15:54 Charlie Lindh (Swe), (a) Luis Masaveu (Spa), Ryan van Velzen (Rsa)
16:05 Kazuma Kobori (Nzl), (a) Jaime Montojo (Spa), (a) Liam Nolan
16:16 Denwit Boriboonsub (Tha), Daniel Brown, (a) Matthew Dodd-Berry
16:27 Sam Horsfield, Aguri Iwasaki (Jpn), Jeung-Hun Wang (Kor)
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