At 152 years old, the Open Championship, also known as the British Open, is the oldest major golf tournament in the world, and the best athletes in the sport are assembling in Scotland this week to take part at Royal Troon Golf Club.
American Brian Harman is the defending champion of the Open, and this year, Masters winner Scottie Scheffler, Tiger Woods, and Rory McIlroy are among the other 156 players competing to win the coveted Claret Jug (and a prize pot of over $3 million). Whether you want to catch all the early morning action on Peacock and USA, which are covering the tournament’s earliest tee times, or catch up with NBC’s primary coverage over the weekend, there are plenty of ways to watch the Open Tournament on TV and streaming.
Date: July 18 – 21
Where: Royal Troon Golf Club, Troon, South Ayrshire, Scotland
TV channels: USA, NBC
Streaming: Peacock, NBC Sports App, NBCSports.com
The Open Championship will be held from July 18 through the 21st.
The Open Championship will be broadcast on NBC and USA. Early rounds will be broadcast on USA starting at 4 a.m. ET on Thursday and Friday, and NBC will begin its coverage of the tournament Saturday and Sunday at 7 a.m. ET.
While most of the tournament’s biggest moments will be broadcast on NBC and USA, the first two rounds of the tournament will air on Peacock starting just before the first tee time of the tournament, which is at 1:35 a.m. ET on Thursday, July 18. (That’s 6:35 a.m. on Thursday local time in Scotland.) The last three golfers of the tournament will tee off at 11:27 a.m. ET.
Peacock will stream all four days of the tournament, and they will also showcase a featured hole feed highlighting the iconic par-3 Postage Stamp 8th hole during the week.
If you’ve cut the cord but don’t have a Peacock subscription, NBC and USA are both also available with subscriptions to Hulu with Live TV, Fubo, and DirecTV.
The Open Championship starts early, with tee time kicking off just after dawn in Scotland. Tee times for every participant at the Open on Thursday and Friday are as follows (all times listed are ET):
1:35 a.m./6:25 a.m.: Justin Leonard, Todd Hamilton, Jack McDonald
1:46 a.m./6:47 a.m.: Alex Noren, Tom McKibbin, Calum Scott
1:57 a.m./6:58 a.m.: Jesper Svensson, Vincent Norrman, Michael Hendry
2:08 a.m./7:09 a.m.: Younghan Song, Daniel Hillier, Ryosuke Kinoshita
2:19 a.m./7:20 a.m.: Min Woo Lee, Ryo HIsatsune, Abraham Ancer
2:30 a.m./7:31 a.m.: Nicolai Højgaard, Adam Scott, Keita Nakajima
2:41 a.m./7:42 a.m.: Francesco Molinari, Justin Rose, Jasper Stubbs
2:52 a.m./7:53 a.m.: Justin Thomas, Sungjae Im, Matthew Southgate
3:03 a.m./8:04 a.m.: Nick Taylor, Matt Wallace, Laurie Canter
3:14 a.m./8:15 a.m.: Sebastian Soderberg, Matteo Manassero, Shubhankar Sharma
3:25 a.m./8:26 a.m.: Zach Johnson, Austin Eckroat, Thorbjorn Olesen
3:36 a.m./8:37 a.m.: John Daly, Santiago De La Fuente (a), Aaron Rai
3:47 a.m./8:48 a.m.: Stewart Cink, Chris Kirk, Dominic Clemons (a)
4:08 a.m./9:04 a.m.: Stephan Jaeger, Adam Schenk, Joaquin Niemann
4:14 a.m./9:15 a.m.: Adam Hadwin, Lucas Glover, Christiaan Bezuidenhout
4:25 a.m./9:26 a.m.: Tony Finau, Russell Henley, Matthieu Pavon
4:36 a.m./9:37 a.m.: Jon Rahm, Tommy Fleetwood, Robert MacIntyre
4:47 a.m./9:48 a.m.: Ludvig Åberg, Bryson DeChambeau, Tom Kim
4:58 a.m./9:59 a.m.: Brian Harman, Viktor Hovland, Sahith Theegala
5:09 a.m./10:10 a.m.: Rory McIlroy, Max Homa, Tyrrell Hatton
5:20 a.m./10:21 a.m.: Keegan Bradley, Will Zalatoris, Gordon Sargent (a)
5:31 a.m./10:32 a.m.: Harris English, Maverick McNealy, Alexander Bjork
5:42 a.m./10:43 a.m.: Guido Migliozzi, Sean Crocker, Tommy Morrison (a)
5:53 a.m./10:54 a.m.: David Puig, John Catlin, Guntaek Koh
6:04 a.m./11:05 a.m.: Thriston Lawrence, Daniel Bradbury, Elvis Smylie
6:15 a.m./11:16 a.m.: Nacho Elvira, Minkyu Kim, Darren Fichardt
6:26 a.m./11:27 a.m.: Mason Andersen, Masahiro Kawamura, Sam Hutsby
6:47 a.m./1:35 a.m.: Ewen Ferguson, Marcel Siem
6:58 a.m./1:46 a.m.: Cheng-Tsung Pan, Romain Langasque, Yuto Katsuragawa
7:09 a.m./1:57 a.m.: Rikuya Hoshino, Angel Hidalgo, Richard Mansell
7:20 a.m./2:08 a.m.: Corey Conners, Ryan Fox, Jorge Campillo
7:31 a.m./2:19 a.m.: Ernie Els, Gary Woodland, Altin van der Merwe (a)
7:42 a.m./2:30 a.m.: Henrik Stenson, Rasmus Højgaard, Jacob Skov Olesen (a)
7:53 a.m./2:41 a.m.: Louis Oosthuizen, Billy Horschel, Victor Perez
8:04 a.m./2:52 a.m.: Sepp Straka, Brendon Todd, Jordan Smith
8:15 a.m./3:03 a.m.: Denny McCarthy, Taylor Moore, Adrian Meronk
8:26 a.m./3:14 a.m.: Jason Day, Byeong Hun An, Rickie Fowler
8:37 a.m./3:25 a.m.: Alex Cejka, Eric Cole, Kurt Kitayama
8:48 a.m./3:36 a.m.: Darren Clarke, JT Poston, Dean Burmester
9:04 a.m./3:47 a.m.: Phil Mickelson, Joost Luiten, Dustin Johnson
9:15 a.m./4:03 a.m.: Padraig Harrington, Davis Thompson, Matthew Jordan
9:26 a.m./4:14 a.m.: Wyndham Clark, Hideki Matsuyama, Brooks Koepka
9:37 a.m./4:25 a.m.: Tiger Woods, Xander Schauffele, Patrick Cantlay
9:48 a.m./4:36 a.m.: Collin Morikawa, Sam Burns, Si Woo Kim
9:59 a.m./4:47 a.m.: Shane Lowry, Cameron Smith, Matthew Fitzpatrick
10:10 a.m./4:58 a.m.: Jordan Spieth, Scottie Scheffler, Cameron Young
10:21 a.m./5:09 a.m.: Akshay Bhatia, Tom Hoge, Sami Valimaki
10:32 a.m./5:20 a.m.: Emiliano Grillo, Ben Griffin, Mackenzie Hughes
10:43 a.m./5:31 a.m.: Yannik Paul, Joe Dean, Andy Ogletree
10:53 a.m./5:42 a.m.: Ryan van Velzen, Charlie Lindh, Luis Masaveu (a)
11:05 a.m./5:53 a.m.: Kazuma Kobori, Jaime Montojo Fernandez (a), Liam Nolan (a)
11:16 a.m./6:04 a.m.: Daniel Brown, Denwit David Boriboonsub, Matthew Dodd-Berry (a)
11:27 a.m./6:15 a.m.: Jeunghun Wang, Aguri Iwasaki, Sam Horsfeld
This year marks the tenth time that the Open will be played at the Royal Troon Golf Club. Historic and scenic, there’s one feature of Royal Troon that sets it apart from other courses, and that’s that’s the eighth hole on the course which has earned the nickname “the Postage Stamp.” The par three, 123-yard hole is called “the shortest hole in Open Championship golf,” according to Royal Troon, but despite it’s short length, it’s considered one of the more treacherous holes in the sport thanks to its tiny putting green flanked by bunkers. The hole it earned it’s nickname after Scottish golfer William Park referred to it as having “a pitching surface skimmed down to the size of a postage stamp.”