{"id":273143,"date":"2025-07-18T22:20:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T22:20:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/273143\/"},"modified":"2025-07-18T22:20:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T22:20:12","slug":"the-open-shane-lowry-takes-two-shot-penalty-at-royal-portrush-but-says-he-wont-be-called-a-cheat-as-scottie-scheffler-leads-while-rory-mcilroy-keeps-dream-alive-on-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/273143\/","title":{"rendered":"The Open: Shane Lowry takes two-shot penalty at Royal Portrush but says he ‘wont’ be called a cheat’ as Scottie Scheffler leads while Rory McIlroy keeps dream alive on Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"

Saturday tee-times<\/strong>The Saturday tee-times have been released at The Open, after the R&A confirmed they had been moved forward by around 15 minutes<\/a> to help accommodate both The Open and a loualist band parade, consisting of over 70 bands<\/a> and starting at 8.30pm in Portrush.<\/p>\n

The first group out tomorrow, consisting of Matti Schmid (+1) (and NI caddie Chris Selfridge) and Corey Conners (+1), is out at 9.35am.<\/p>\n

Shane Lowry (E) is out at 11.30am alongside Jon Rahm (E), while Rory McIlroy (-3) tees off at 2.30pm alongside England’s Jordan Smith (-3).<\/p>\n

The leading pair of Scottie Scheffler (-10) and Matt Fitzpatrick (-9) will tee off at 3.35pm.<\/p>\n

Round three tee-times in full<\/strong>
9:35: Matti Schmid (+1), Corey Conners (+1)<\/p>\n

09:45: Sepp Straka (+1), Hideki Matsuyama (+1)<\/p>\n

09:55: Takumi Kanaya (+1), Adrien Saddier (+1)<\/p>\n

10:05: Sebastian Soderberg (+1), Henrik Stenson (+1)<\/p>\n

10:15: Thomas Detry (+1), Jacob Skov Olesen (+1)<\/p>\n

10:25: Nathan Kimsey (+1), Bryson DeChambeau (+1)<\/p>\n

10:35: Maverick McNealy (+1), Thriston Lawrence (+1)<\/p>\n

10:45: Justin Leonard (+1), John Parry (+1)<\/p>\n

11:00: Andrew Novak (+1), Sergio Garcia (+1)<\/p>\n

11:10: Jesper Svensson (+1), Francesco Molinari (+1)<\/p>\n

11:20: Riki Kawamoto (E), Wyndham Clark (E)<\/p>\n

11:30: Shane Lowry<\/strong> (E), Jon Rahm (E)<\/p>\n

11:40: JJ Spaun (E), Dustin Johnson (E)<\/p>\n

11:50: Phil Mickelson (E), Jhonattan Vegas (E)<\/p>\n

12:00: Viktor Hovland (E), Jordan Spieth (E)<\/p>\n

12:15: Russell Henley (E), Antoine Rozner (E)<\/p>\n

12:25: Romain Langasque (E), Daniel Berger (E)<\/p>\n

12:35: Sungjae Im (E), Dean Burmester (E)<\/p>\n

12:45: Matt Wallace (E), Akshay Bhatia (-1)<\/p>\n

12:55: Jason Kokrak (-1), Lucas Glover (-1)<\/p>\n

13:05: Tommy Fleetwood (-1), Justin Thomas (-1)<\/p>\n

13:15: Aaron Rai (-1), Rickie Fowler (-1)<\/p>\n

13:30: Marc Leishman (-1), Oliver Lindell (-2)<\/p>\n

13:40: Ryggs Johnston (-2), Xander Schauffele (-2)<\/p>\n

13:50: Kristoffer Reitan (-2), Matthew Jordan (-2)<\/p>\n

14:00: Ludvig Aberg (-2), Justin Rose (-2)<\/p>\n

14:10: Harry Hall (-2), Christiaan Bezuidenhout (-2)<\/p>\n

14:20: Sam Burns (-3), Lee Westwood (-3)<\/p>\n

14:30: Jordan Smith (-3), Rory McIlroy<\/strong> (-3)<\/p>\n

14:45: Keegan Bradley (-3), Nicolai Hojgaard (-4)<\/p>\n

14:55: Tony Finau (-4), Chris Gotterup (-5)<\/p>\n

15:05: Harris English (-5), Robert MacIntyre (-5)<\/p>\n

15:15: Tyrrell Hatton (-5), Rasmus Hojgaard (-5)<\/p>\n

15:25: Haotong Li (-8), Brian Harman (-8)<\/p>\n

15:35: Matt Fitzpatrick (-9), Scottie Scheffler (-10)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Saturday tee-timesThe Saturday tee-times have been released at The Open, after the R&A confirmed they had been moved…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":273144,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4106],"tags":[2826,79,24411,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-273143","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-golf","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-the-open","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114876568451289834","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273143\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/273144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}