Exciting groups for Irish golfers as Open Championship tee times announced

There's going to be some crowd following Shane!

Two-time winner Pádraig Harrington will take the opening tee shot at 6.35am.

He has been grouped alongside Northern Ireland's Tom McKibbin, and 2023 Ryder Cup star Nicolai Hojgaard from Denmark.

Shane Lowry, who triumphed the last time the Open was held in Portrush, back in 2019, is in an eye-catching group with two Americans; 2021 champion Colin Morikawa, and the world No 1, Scottie Scheffler.

They tee off at 10.09am

Rory McIlroy will go out at 3.10pm, alongside USA's Justin Thomas, and England's Tommy Fleetwood.

Full tee times:

0635 Padraig Harrington (Irl), Nicolai Hojgaard (Den), Tom McKibbin (NIrl)

0646 Louis Oosthuizen (Rsa) Guido Migliozzi (Ita), KJ Choi (Kor)

0657 Cameron Smith (Aus), Marco Penge (Eng), Justin Hastings (x) (Cym)

0708 Jason Day (Aus), Taylor Pendrith (Can) Jacob Skov Olesen (Den)

0719 Phil Mickelson, Daniel Van Tonder (Rsa) Ryan Peake (Aus)

0730 Max Greyserman, Byeong Hun An (Kor), Niklas Norgaard (Den)

0741 Jordan Smith (Eng), Haotong Li (Chn), Dustin Johnson

0752 Darren Clarke (NIrl), Davis Riley, Lucas Herbert (Aus)

0803 Kevin Yu (Tpe), Julien Guerrier (Fra), Mikiya Akutsu (Jpn)

0814 Thomas Detry (Bel), Chris Gotterup, Lee Westwood (Eng)

0825 Patrick Cantlay, Cameron Young, Mackenzie Hughes (Can)

0836 Thorbjorn Olesen (Den), Matthew Jordan (Eng), Filip Jakubik (x) (Cze)

0847 Henrik Stenson (Swe), Stephan Jaeger (Ger), Sebastian Soderberg (Swe)

0903 Kristoffer Reitan (Nor), Martin Couvra (Fra), Adrien Saddier (Fra)

0914 Takumi Kanaya (Jpn), Justin Walters (Rsa), Bryan Newman (x) (Rsa)

0925 Hideki Matsuyama (Jpn), Ryan Fox (Nzl), Matt Fitzpatrick (Eng)

0936 Sepp Straka (Aut), Ben Griffin, Akshay Bhatia

0947 Sam Burns, Aldrich Potgieter (Rsa), Brooks Koepka

0958 Xander Schauffele, JJ Spaun, Jon Rahm (Esp)

1009 Shane Lowry (Irl), Collin Morikawa, Scottie Scheffler

1020 Corey Conners (Can), Wyndham Clark, Tom Hoge

1031 Denny McCarthy, Nico Echavarria (Col), Patrick Reed

1042 Matti Schmid (Ger), Ryggs Johnston, Richard Teder (x) (Est)

1053 Dylan Naidoo (Rsa), Darren Fichardt (Rsa), John Axelsen (Den)

1104 John Suh, Oliver Lindell (Fin), Jesper Sandborg (Swe)

1115 Sadom Kaewkanjana (Tha), Riki Kawamoto (Jpn), Sampson Zheng (Chn)

1126 Stewart Cink, Matteo Manassero (Ita), Marc Leishman (Aus)

1147 Francesco Molinari (Ita), Jesper Svensson (Swe), Connor Graham (x) (Sco)

1158 Zach Johnson, Dan Brown (Eng), Daniel Hillier (Nzl)

1209 Adam Scott (Aus), Rickie Fowler, Ethan Fang (x)

1220 Laurie Canter (Eng), Elvis Smylie (Aus), Sergio Garcia (Esp)

1231 Andrew Novak, Matthieu Pavon (Fra), Matt Wallace (Eng)

1242 Davis Thompson, Dean Burmester (Rsa), Rikuya Hoshino (Jpn)

1253 Si Woo Kim (Kor), Shugo Imahira (Jpn), Sebastian Cave (x) (Eng)

1304 Michael Kim (Kor), Bud Cauley, John Parry (Eng)

1315 Matt McCarty, Shaun Norris (Rsa), Angel Hidalgo (Esp)

1326 Keegan Bradley, Sungjae Im (Kor), Daniel Berger

1337 Christiaan Bezuidenhout (Rsa), Rasmus Hojgaard (Den), Romain Langasque (Fra)

1348 Aaron Rai (Eng), Sahith Theegala, Harry Hall (Eng)

1404 Justin Leonard, Thriston Lawrence (Rsa), Antoine Rozner (Fra)

1415 JT Poston, Chris Kirk, Carlos Ortiz (Mex)

1426 Brian Harman, Maverick McNealy, Joaquin Niemann (Chi)

1437 Russell Henley, Tyrrell Hatton (Eng), Min Woo Lee (Aus)

1448 Bob MacIntyre (Sco), Bryson DeChambeau, Justin Rose (Eng)

1459 Jordan Spieth, Ludvig Åberg (Swe), Viktor Hovland (Nor)

1510 Rory McIlroy (NIrl), Justin Thomas, Tommy Fleetwood (Eng)

1521 Harris English, Nick Taylor (Can), Tony Finau

1532 Lucas Glover, Jhonattan Vegas (Ven), Tom Kim (Kor)

1543 Brian Campbell, John Catlin, Frazer Jones (x) (Eng)

1554 Nathan Kimsey (Eng), Jason Kokrak, Cameron Adam (x) (Sco)

1605 Daniel Young (Sco), Curtis Luck (Aus), Curtis Knipes (Eng)

1616 Young han Song (Kor), George Bloor (Eng), OJ Farrell (Eng)