The third round of the 2026 Open will be must-see TV as Moving Day of the final major championship of the season takes center stage at Royal Birkdale. With an inexperienced final pairing of Lucas Herbert and Jackson Suber set to start their third rounds at 10:50 a.m. ET, eyes and interest will drift elsewhere as competitors begin to trickle onto the golf course.The biggest question heading into Saturday is whether Bryson DeChambeau’s claims of potentially not playing come to fruition. The two-time U.S. Open champion is scheduled to begin his third round alongside Sam Burns at 10:30 a.m. DeChambeau was in line to play in the final group before he was assessed a two-stroke penalty Friday evening for improving his lie and swing path on the par-4 5th in Round 2.He will start a bit earlier than expected, as will Rory McIlroy, who did not enjoy the sharpest first round. McIlroy clawed his way back into red figures on Friday and will start Saturday at 7:20 a.m. with Jacob Bridgeman. Meanwhile, world No. 1 Scottie Scheffler will begin Round 3 at 9:45 a.m. with 2018 champion Francesco Molinari just 10 minutes after Jon Rahm and Southport’s own Tommy Fleetwood kick off their days.2026 Open Championship tee times, Saturday pairings All times Eastern
4:10 a.m. — Jack McDonald, Russell Henley4:20 a.m. — Min Woo Lee, Ryo Hisatsune4:30 a.m. — Jose Luis Ballester, Kazuki Higa4:40 a.m. — Marcus Plunkett, Naoyuki Kataoka4:50 a.m. — Peter Uihlein, Brooks Koepka5 a.m. — Aldrich Potgieter, Keegan Bradley5:10 a.m. — Alex Noren, Alex Smalley5:20 a.m. — Rickie Fowler, Max Homa5:30 a.m. — Ryan Fox, Xander Schauffele5:45 a.m. — Kristoffer Reitan, Marco Penge5:55 a.m. — Casey Jarvis, Kurt Kitayama6:05 a.m. — Laurie Canter, Sahith Theegala6:15 a.m. — Michael Brennan, Eugenio Chacarra6:25 a.m. — Eric Cole, MJ Daffue6:35 a.m. — Kazuma Kobori, Nick Taylor6:45 a.m. — Justin Thomas, Hideki Matsuyama6:55 a.m. — Ben Griffin, Hennie Du Plessis7:10 a.m. — Andy Sullivan, Patrick Cantlay7:20 a.m. — Jacob Bridgeman, Rory McIlroy7:30 a.m. — Jesper Svensson, Shaun Norris7:40 a.m. — John Parry, Michael Thorbjornsen7:50 a.m. — Jordan Smith, Sungjae Im8 a.m. — Matthew Southgate, Nico Echavarria8:10 a.m. — Rasmus Neergaard-Petersen, Collin Morikawa8:20 a.m. — Adam Scott, Chris Gotterup8:35 a.m. — Patrick Reed, Johnny Keefer8:45 a.m. — Corey Conners, Sepp Straka8:55 a.m. — Tyrrell Hatton, Victor Perez9:05 a.m. — Daniel Brown, Cameron John9:15 a.m. — Ludvig Åberg, Shane Lowry9:25 a.m. — J.J. Spaun, Pierceson Coody9:35 a.m. — Jon Rahm, Tommy Fleetwood9:45 a.m. — Scottie Scheffler, Francesco Molinari10 a.m. — Alex Fitzpatrick, Robert MacIntyre10:10 a.m. — Thomas Detry, Bud Cauley10:20 a.m. — Matt Wallace, Si Woo Kim10:30 a.m. — Bryson DeChambeau, Sam Burns10:40 a.m. — Ryan Gerard, Cameron Young10:50 a.m. — Jackson Suber, Lucas Herbert
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