2021 Open Championship tee times: Third round pairings for Saturday

Once play wraps up Friday evening at the 2021 2021 Open Championship, the cut will be made and the competitors who survived will take on Royal St. George’s during Saturday’s third round. Third round tee times will be determined upon the completion of Round 2. Once they are released they will be reproduced at the bottom of this post.

Predicting Open Championship Round 3 tee times

We don’t yet know what the official tee times will be for Saturday at the Open, but there are a couple ways we can predict when they will fall, at least well enough to prepare you for watching the third-round action.

First, we look to rounds 1 and 2. Sandwich, England, the host city of this week’s Open, is in British Summer Time right now, which is five hours ahead of the East Coast of the United States. On Thursday and Friday, tee times began around 1:30 a.m. ET, or 6:30 a.m. local time, with the final groups teeing off just after 11 a.m. ET.

But the field will be halved with the cut, and with less competitors playing the weekend, the tee times will change as well. So for further insight, it’s best to look back to the last Open Championship. In 2019, the Open was played at Royal Portrush in Northern Ireland in the same BST time zone as this year’s tournament. That year, Paul Waring had the opening tee time on Saturday, going off alone at 4:35 a.m. ET.

The final pairing for the third round at Portrush featured J.B. Holmes and eventual champion Shane Lowry. They teed off at 10:50 a.m. ET. So we can expect third round tee times to be similar this year, falling somewhere between the window of 4-11 a.m. ET, depending on the weather.

2021 Open Championship Round 3 tee times (All times ET)

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