The Open 2022: third round tee times at St Andrews
Rory McIlroy believes he is in a strong position to end his major drought after maintaining his promising start to the Open at St Andrews.
The Northern Irishman followed up his first-round 66 with 68 on Friday to sit on 10-under at the halfway stage, three behind leader Cameron Smith.
World No 2 McIlroy, 33, has not won any of golf's major prizes for eight years but, despite feeling he could have shot even better, feels he is now well poised.
"Overall I felt like it was a good day," said the 2014 Open champion. "I'm in a good position going into the weekend and that's all I can really ask of myself.
"There was a couple of short putts there that I could have held and could have been a bit closer to the lead. It would have been nice to make a three at 18. But it's two really, really solid rounds to open with and really happy with that."
Third round tee times (all times BST)
(x) denotes amateurs
8.35 – Richard Mansell
8.45 – Trey Mullinax, Kevin Kisner
8.55 – Tony Finau, Adri Arnaus
9.05 – Justin De Los Santos, Robert MacIntyre
9.15 – Francesco Molinari, Dean Burmester
9.25 – Lars van Meijel, Robert Dinwiddie
9.40 – Sebastian Munoz, Jordan Smith
9.50 – Sungjae Im, Aaron Jarvis (x)
10.00 –Wyndham Clark, Sam Bairstow (x)
10.10 – Christiaan Bezuidenhout, John Parry
10.20 – Anthony Quayle, Chris Kirk
10.30 – Hideki Matsuyama, Bryson DeChambeau
10.45 – Jamie Rutherford, Jason Scrivener
10.55 – Joaquin Niemann, Paul Casey
11.05 – Marcus Armitage, Adrian Meronk
11.15 – Justin Thomas, Jason Kokrak
11.25 – Danny Willett, Corey Conners
11.35 – Billy Horschel, Cameron Tringale
11.50 – Laurie Canter, Thomas Pieters
12.00 – Russell Henley, Dylan Frittelli
12.10 – Brian Harman, Tommy Fleetwood
12.20 – Kurt Kitayama, Garrick Higgo
12.30 – Ian Poulter, Sam Burns
12.40 – David Law, Filippo Celli (x)
12.55 – Sergio Garcia, Will Zalatoris
13.05 – Shane Lowry, Nicolai Hojgaard
13.15 – Victor Perez, Brad Kennedy
13.25 – JH Kim, Patrick Reed
13.35 – Harold Varner III, Jon Rahm
13.45 – Jordan Spieth, Thriston Lawrence
14.00 – Thomas Detry, Xander Schauffele
14.10 – Lee Westwood, David Carey
14.20 – Yuto Katsuragawa, Abraham Ancer
14.30 – Aaron Wise, Lucas Herbert
14.40 – Barclay Brown (x), Sadom Kaewkanjana
14.50 – Min Woo Lee, Matt Fitzpatrick
15.05 – Si Woo Kim, Sahith Theegala
15.15 – Patrick Cantlay, Adam Scott
15.25 – Talor Gooch, Tyrrell Hatton
15.35 – Scottie Scheffler, Dustin Johnson
15.45 – Rory McIlroy, Viktor Hovland
15.55 – Cameron Young, Cameron Smith