Neither the scores nor the weather will get better on Friday.
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American golfer Mark Calcavecchia, the 1989 Open champion, is among the Friday’s starting threesome. According to the forecast, he will step onto a wet course in rain gear and flop through a damp, muddy day.
The good news? Nobody should have to worry about sticking an approach shot. Instead, they might have to dig a ball or two out of the sod.
Dustin Johnson’s 7 under might be the high-water mark of the tournament. There were 64 players under par through 18 holes. If six are above 72 on Friday, it would be a surprise — especially with the wind off the North Sea picking up.
Johnson and Spieth tee off at 9:34 a.m. ET. Tiger Woods, who was miserable on a good day, starts at 9:56.
Here are the tee times for Friday’s second round of The Open Championship on the Old Course at St. Andrews, Scotland. All times listed are Eastern; add five hours for St. Andrews.
1:32 a.m. — Mark Calcavecchia, Marcel Siem, Jaco Van Zyl 1:43 a.m. — Thomas Aiken, David Lipsky, Jonas Blixt 1:54 a.m. — Soren Kjeldsen, Morgan Hoffmann, Danny Lee 2:05 a.m. — Richie Ramsay, Pablo Larrazabal, Cameron Tringale 2:16 a.m. — Steven Bowditch, Hiroshi Iwata, Ben Martin 2:27 a.m. — George Coetzee, Anirban Lahiri, Rafael Cabrera-Bello 2:38 a.m. — Padraig Harrington, Liang, Wen-Chong, Marc Warren 2:49 a.m. — John Daly, Miguel Angel Jimenez, Jason Dufner 3:00 a.m. — Zach Johnson, Bernd Weisberger, Tommy Fleetwood 3:11 a.m. — Thongchai Jaidee, Danny Willett, Gary Woodland 3:22 a.m. — Geoff Ogilvy, Francesco Molinari, Bill Haas 3:33 a.m. — Mark O’Meara, Russell Henley, Gunn Yang (a) 3:44 a.m. — Bernhard Langer, Tom Lehman, Justin Leonard 4:00 a.m. — Stephen Gallacher. Hiroyuki Fujita, Ryan Moore 4:11 a.m. — Adam Scott, Martin Kaymer, Jimmy Walker 4:22 a.m. — Jamie Donaldson, Yuta Ikeda, Keegan Bradley 4:33 a.m. — Matt Kuchar, Phil Mickelson, Henrik Stenson 4:44 a.m. — Nick Faldo, Justin Rose, Rickie Fowler 4:55 a.m. — Jim Furyk, Paul Casey, Brendan Grace 5:06 a.m. — Harris English, Ashley Chesters (a), Andy Sullivan 5:17 a.m. — Koumei Oda, Marc Leishman, Kiradech Aphibarnrat 5:28 a.m. — Edoardo Molinari, James Morrison, Romain Wattel 5:39 a.m. — Pelle Edberg, Daniel Berger, Mark Young 5:50 a.m. — Brett Rumford, Tom Gillis, Ben Taylor (a) 6:01 a.m. — Marcus Fraser, Scott Strange, Allister Balcombe (a) 6:12 a.m. — Taichi Teshima, Robert Dinwiddie, Rikard Karlberg 6:33 a.m. — Thomas Bjorn, Greg Owen, Rod Pampling 6:44 a.m. — Todd Hamilton, Paul Dunne (a), James Hahn 6:55 a.m. — Graham DeLaet, Brian Harman, Russell Knox 7:06 a.m. — Matt Every, Alexander Levy, David Lingmerth 7:17 a.m. — Joost Luiten, Matt Jones, Robert Streb 7:28 a.m. — Anthony Wall, Byeong-Hun An, Jordan Niebrugge (a) 7:39 a.m. — Sandy Lyle, Charley Hoffman, Kevin Na 7:50 a.m. — Retief Goosen, Shane Lowry, Kevin Streelman 8:01 a.m. — Carl Pettersson, Luke Donald, Hunter Mahan 8:12 a.m. — Ross Fisher, Victor Dubuisson, Billy Horschel 8:23 a.m. — Graeme McDowell, Webb Simpson, Oliver Schniederjans (a) 8:34 a.m. — Ernie Els, Tom Watson, Brandt Snedeker 8:45 a.m. — J.B. Holmes, Brendon Todd, Shinji Tomimura 9:01 a.m. — Ian Poulter, Charl Schwartzel, Bubba Watson 9:12 a.m. — Sergio Garcia, Lee Westwood, Patrick Reed 9:23 a.m. — Darren Clarke, Mateo Manassero, Romain Langasque (a) 9:34 a.m. — Dustin Johnson, Hideki Matsuyama, Jordan Spieth 9:45 a.m. — Paul Lawrie, Ryan Palmer, Kevin Kisner 9:56 a.m. — Tiger Woods, Louis Oosthuizen, Jason Day 10:07 a.m. — John Senden, Tadahiro Takayama, Brooks Koepka 10:18 a.m. — David Duval, Stewart Cink, Ben Curtis 10:29 a.m. — Mikko Ilonen, David Howell, Greg Chalmers 10:40 a.m. — Raphael Jacquelin, David Hearn, Eddie Pepperell 10:51 a.m. — Tyrrell Hatton, Scott Arnold, Paul Kinnear (a) 11:02 a.m. — Adam Bland, Gary Boyd, Daniel Brooks 11:13 a.m. — Scott Hend, Jonathan Moore, Ryan Fox