British Open 2018: Tee times, pairings for Friday

We’re only a quarter of the way through the 147th Open Championship and Friday brings another marathon day. It’s back to another 15-hours of golf, with Golf Channel live for almost that whole spread, beginning just after 1:30 a.m. ET in the States.

Carnoustie is the northernmost venue on the Open rota, which is full of courses with ample daylight in mid July. This course has the most, with some 17 hours or so during the summer. That means there is ample room to maneuver 156 players through 18 holes in a day. They almost never call things for weather here, unless the winds make the greens unplayable. There just aren’t electrical thunderstorms like we often get during a U.S. Open or PGA back in the States. So it’s relatively easy, even with the field so large, to consistently stay on schedule.

The weather this week does not look like it will be disruptive, although there is some rain in the forecast overnight and early tomorrow. That may slow things down slightly but the die is cast at Carnoustie after almost no precipitation over the last eight weeks. A sprinkle or one-day storm is not going to change the browned-out, concrete nature of this glorious iteration of the Open.

The tee sheet flips in the customary practice for Friday. Tiger will be out about five hours earlier for the second round after playing extremely late on Thursday and catching probably the toughest conditions of the day. Woods will go alongside Hideki Matsuyama and Russell Knox at 5:20 a.m. ET. That should yield a finish just before 10 a.m. ET, so you can wake up and watch the second half of his round during your morning routine.

The first group will go at 1:35 a.m. and the last group will not tee off until 11:16 a.m. ET. Only at the Open can they have the full field going off one tee over almost 10 hours. Here’s the full tee sheet for Friday’s second round at the British Open: