This year, the Open Championship is considered to be the 148th Open Championship. The tournament is scheduled for 18 to 21 July at Royal Portrush Golf Club in County Antrim, Northern Ireland. This competition is also the second Open Championship at the course, which has been held after the first in the year 1951, that is 68 years ago.
Tiger Woods is also going to be playing in his first PGA Tour event after his disappointing performance at the U.S. Open. The Masters champion is going to be among a total of three golfers who have fixed their aim to win their second major of the year, a list that also comprises of Brooks Koepka (PGA Championship) as well as Gary Woodland (U.S. Open).
Well, don’t forget our defending 2018 champion, Francesco Molinari, as everyone eyes are on him. The 2018 champion has yet to win on the PGA Tour this year, even though he challenged Woods at Augusta. If he is going to win again this year, then Molinari will be the first golfer to repeat as British Open champion after Padraig Harrington in the year 2008.
As the excitement of this tournament is on craze so we have gathered all the major information that you would like to know about the 2019 British Open. This major information comprises of the TV schedule, participants and much more. So let’s get started….
2019 British Open Championship Contenders
There are going to be top 31 players in the World Golf Rankings who are going to take part in this competition for the championship title. The most notable names in this competition comprise of Woods, Koepka and McIlroy, Dustin Johnson, Justin Rose as well as Bryson DeChambeau.
The field is also going to feature a total of 19 of the top 20 players in the FedEx Cup standings and some of them are as follows: Matt Kuchar and Xander Schauffele, these two have won two PGA Tour events each this year.
The Defending champion Molinari is also going to be among the former winners who are playing in this tournament such as Tom Lehman (1996) and Paul Lawrie (1999), Henrik Stenson (2016) and Jordan Spieth (2017).
2019 British Open Championship Prize Money
This year, the winner is going to get $1,935,000, which is 18 percent of the total purse i.e., $10.75 million. This year, the purse has been increased from the last year i.e., $10,500,000 and the champion of last year that is Molinari has collected $1.44 million for his win in the year 2018.
British Open 2019: TV schedule and Live Stream
- TV Channels: NBC, Golf Channel
- Live Stream: NBC Sports; Golf Channel; fuboTV
- Leaderboard: Follow SN’s live tracker
- All Timings at ET
Round 2: Friday, 19 July 2019
- Round 2 Begins: 1:35 am
- TV coverage: 1:30 am to 4 pm on the Golf Channel
- TV simulcast live stream: 1:30 am to 4 pm on fubo.TV
- Live stream- Holes 5, 6 & 7: Beginning at 3 am on TheOpen.com
- Live stream- Featured groups: Beginning at 4:45 am on TheOpen.com
Round 3 — Saturday, 20 July 2019
- Round 3 Begins: TBA
- TV coverage: 4:30-7 am on Golf Channel, 7 am to 2:30 pm on NBC
- TV simulcast live stream: 4:30 am to 2:30 pm on fubo.TV
- Live stream- Holes 5, 6 & 7: Beginning at TBA on TheOpen.com
- Live stream- Featured groups: Beginning at TBA on TheOpen.com
Round 4: Sunday, 21 July 2019
- Round 4 Begins: TBA
- TV coverage: 4:30-7 am on Golf Channel, 7 am to 2 pm on NBC
- TV simulcast live stream: 4:30 am to 2 pm on fubo.TV
- Live stream- Holes 5, 6 & 7: Beginning at TBA on TheOpen.com
- Live stream- Featured groups: Beginning at TBA on TheOpen.com
Tiger Woods’ British Open Tee Times
Tiger Woods is going to tee off at 5:09 am ET for Round 2 on Friday paired with Patrick Reed and Matt Wallace.
Round 1
- Paring: Patrick Reed, Matt Wallace
- Timings: 10:10 am ET
Round 2
- Paring: Patrick Reed, Matt Wallace
- Timings: 5:09 am ET
2019 British Open tee Timings and Pairings
The time here is listed in Eastern timings. The local timings in Northern Ireland are basically five hours ahead of America’s East Coast.
| Round 1 | Round 2 | Group |
| 1:35 am | 6:36 am | Darren Clarke, James Sugrue, Charley Hoffman |
| 1:46 am | 6:47 am | Emiliano Grillo, Sung Kang, Thomas Thurloway |
| 1:57 am | 6:58 am | Andy Sullivan, C. Bezuidenhout, Alex Levy |
| 2:08 am | 7:09 am | Chan Kim, Zander Lombard, Brandon Wu (a) |
| 2:19 am | 7:20 am | Richard Sterne, Romain Langasque, Mattias Schmid (a) |
| 2:30 am | 7:31 am | Padraig Harrington, Matthew Fitzpatrick, Andrew Putnam |
| 2:41 am | 7:42 am | Bubba Watson, Eddie Pepperell, Rafa Cabrera Bello |
| 2:52 am | 7:53 am | Phil Mickelson, Shane Lowry, Branden Grace |
| 3:03 am | 8:04 am | Alex Noren, Mike Lorenzo-Vera, Sam Locke |
| 3:14 am | 8:15 am | Webb Simpson, Sergio Garcia, C.T. Pan |
| 3:25 am | 8:26 am | Ryan Palmer, Andrea Pavan, Dylan Frittelli |
| 3:36 am | 8:37 am | Kyle Stanley, Bob MacIntyre, Andrew Johnston |
| 3:47 am | 8:48 am | Mikko Korhonen, Oliver Wilson, Curtis Knipes (a) |
| 4:03 am | 9:04 am | Ian Poulter, Sungjae Im, Kiradech Aphibarnrat |
| 4:14 am | 9:15 am | Henrik Stenson, Xander Schauffele, Graeme McDowell |
| 4:25 am | 9:26 am | Haotong Li, Russell Knox, Bernd Wiesberger |
| 4:36 am | 9:37 am | Jason Kokrak, Connor Syme, Austin Connelly |
| 4:47 am | 9:48 am | Zach Johnson, David Duval, Corey Conners |
| 4:58 am | 9:59 am | Francesco Molinari, Bryson DeChambeau, Adam Scott |
| 5:09 am | 10:10 am | Rory McIlroy, Gary Woodland, Paul Casey |
| 5:20 am | 10:21 am | Rickie Fowler, Kevin Kisner, Hideki Matsuyama |
| 5:31 am | 10:32 am | Jim Furyk, Si Woo Kim, Jimmy Walker |
| 5:42 am | 10:43 am | Luke List, Alexander Bjork , Paul Waring |
| 5:53 am | 10:54 am | Shugo Imahira, Nate Lashley, Benjamin Hebert |
| 5:04 am | 11:05 am | Mikumu Horikawa, Callum Shinkwin, Garrick Porteous |
| 5:15 am | 11:16 am | Prom Messawat, Matthew Baldwin, Jack Senior |
| 5:46 am | 1:35 am | Tom Lehman, Joaquin Niemann, M.A. Jimenez |
| 5:58 am | 1:46 am | Byeong Hun An, Jorge Campillo, Chris Wood |
| 7:09 am | 2:08 am | Joel Dahmen, Adri Arnaus, Dimitrios Papadatos |
| 7:20 am | 2:19 am | Erik van Rooyen, Kurt Kitayama, Jake McLeod |
| 7:31 am | 2:30 am | Ryan Fox, Shaun Norris, Dongkyu Jang |
| 7:42 am | 2:41 am | Tyrrell Hatton, Keith Mitchell, Thomas Pieters |
| 7:53 am | 2:52 am | Justin Thomas, Tommy Fleetwood, Thorbjorn Olesen |
| 8:04 am | 3:03 am | Brooks Koepka, Louis Oosthuizen, Shubhankar Sharma |
| 8:15 am | 3:14 am | Billy Horschel, J. Janewattananond, Aaron Wise |
| 8:26 am | 3:25 am | Jordan Spieth, Marc Leishman, Danny Willett |
| 8:37 am | 3:36 am | Cameron Smith, Adam Hadwin, David Lipsky |
| 8:48 am | 3:47 am | Paul Lawrie, Chez Reavie, Justin Harding |
| 9:04 am | 4:03 am | Takumi Kanaya (a), Tom Lewis, Brandon Stone |
| 9:15 am | 4:14 am | Lucas Glover, Joost Luiten, Nino Bertasio |
| 9:26 am | 4:25 am | Ernie Els, J.B. Holmes, Abraham Ancer |
| 9:37 am | 4:36 am | Brandt Snedeker, Lee Westwood, Brian Harman |
| 9:48 am | 4:47 am | Justin Rose, Tony Finau, Lucas Bjerregaard |
| 9:49 am | 4:58 am | Dustin Johnson, Jason Day, Keegan Bradley |
| 10:10 am | 5:09 am | Tiger Woods, Matthew Wallace, Patrick Reed |
| 10:21 am | 5:20 am | Jon Rahm, Patrick Cantlay, Matt Kuchar |
| 10:32 am | 5:31 am | Kevin Streelman, Doc Redman, Robert Rock |
| 10:43 am | 5:42 am | Adrian Otaegui, Yuta Ikeda, Isidro Benitez |
| 10:54 am | 5:53 am | Patton Kizziren, Sang Hyun Park, Yuki Inamori |
| 11:05 am | 5:04 am | Yoshinori Fujimoto, Doyeob Mun, Andrew Wilson |
| 11:16 am | 5:15 am | Gunn Charoenkul, Yosuke Asaji, Ashton Turner |
