2023 Open Championship odds, tee times, expert picks, TV schedule: Rory McIlroy among the favorites

Royal Liverpool hosts the 151st Open Championship this week for the first time since 2014. Rory McIlroy won his first Open Championship that year and is the favorite to win the 2023 version. McIlroy birdied the last two holes of the Scottish Open Sunday to win that championship and now heads into golf’s final major of the year with his last chance to win his first major since the 2014 PGA Championship.

Royal Liverpool — also called Hoylake after the Liverpool suburb where it is — also saw Tiger Woods win there in 2006 and is hosting its 13th Open Championship this week. Expect plenty of birdies as Woods won 18-under par in 2006, and McIlroy finished 17-under par in 2014. Bobby Jones won at Hoylake on his way to winning the Grand Slam in 1930.

McIlroy has finished in the top 10 of six of the last seven majors, with the only not top 10 finish being at the 2023 Masters. He finished second to Cameron Smith last year at St. Andrews.

Scottie Scheffler seeks his first major win since winning the 2022 Masters and has finished in the top 10 at every major this year.

2023 Open Championship odds

Odds from BetMGM and update live. 

2023 Open Championship Expert Picks

Brody Miller – Scottie Scheffler 

The overly simplistic reason: Scottie Scheffler is having one of the greatest seasons of consistent, elite golf recorded since Tiger, and the idea of that year ending without a major is unacceptable. The man has finished outside the top 25 just once in his last 13 majors. He hasn’t finished worse than T12 in a tournament this season since October. And the fact that he’s played very well at the Scottish Open, finishing tied for third, and played well at his last two Opens makes me feel even more comfortable. The putting concerns are a little overblown. He’s got this.

John Hayes – Rory McIlroy

Rory. It’s his last chance to win a major this season, and he won the last time The Open was played at Royal Liverpool. McIlroy is showing form at The Scottish Open that is required to win.

Dennis Esser – Scottie Scheffler 

My pick to win the Open Championship is Scottie Scheffler. Scheffler won the Players Championship but has failed to add another major championship trophy to his resume while on a historic run of golf from tee to green.

He’s gaining more than a stroke off the tee and almost 1.5 strokes on approach to the field on average over his last 36 rounds. If his putter was better, we might be looking at a Tiger Woods-esque run of wins. Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy were head and shoulders above the field in their ball-striking numbers coming into their wins at Royal Liverpool. So, I am looking at Scheffler to grab the last major championship of the year due to his superior ball striking. His T3 at this week’s Scottish Open relieves any doubts about how he will perform on foreign soil.

Hugh Kellenberger – Viktor Hovland 

Viktor Hovland continues to show up at major championships, with T7 (Masters), T2 (PGA) and 19th (U.S. Open) place finishes this season. Links golf has not been a problem for him, with a top-five finish at St. Andrews a year ago standing out. Of all the elite golfers in this field who have not won a major championship, he is perhaps the closest to proving he can actually go win one. So I say he goes and does it.

Brendan Quinn – Dustin Johnson

Scottie is a good pick—the best player in the world. And Rory-as-winner is clean and polished smooth — coming off a win, destined to get that next major, returning to Holyoke. But here I present the we-have-forgotten-about-him, why-the-hell-not, it-makes-sense, chaos-theory pick. DJ opened the U.S. Open at LACC with a 64 before taking a quadruple bogey early in round two, but still managed a T8. He followed that with back-to-back top 10 LIV finishes. Recent history at The Open? T8 at Royal St. George and T6 at St. Andrews. DJ, very quietly, could pick up the third leg of a career grand slam. He feels like he has (at least) one more major in him and could cement his place on the Ryder Cup team with a win.

2023 Open Championship TV and Streaming Schedule

All times Eastern. Peacock will stream two featured groups in the morning and afternoon on Thursday and Friday.

Thursday, July 20

1:30 -4 a.m. on Peacock (streaming)4 a.m. – 3 p.m. on USA Network (streaming on Peacock Premium)

3 -4 p.m. on Peacock (streaming)

Friday, July 21 

1:30 -4 a.m. on Peacock (streaming)4 a.m. – 3 p.m. on USA Network (streaming on Peacock Premium)

3 -4 p.m. on Peacock (streaming)

Saturday, July 22

5 -7 a.m. on USA Network (streaming on Peacock Premium)
7 a.m. – 3 p.m. on NBC (streaming on Peacock)

Sunday, July 23 

4 -7 a.m. on USA Network (streaming on Peacock Premium)
7 a.m. – 2 p.m. on NBC (streaming on Peacock)

Open Championship First-Round Tee Times

All times are local. All players go off No. 1 tee. Eastern time zone is five hours behind, and Pacific time zone is eight hours behind. 

6:35 a.m.: Matthew Jordan, Richie Ramsay, Branden Grace

6:46 a.m.: Russell Henley, Jazz Janewattananond, Graeme Robertson

6:57 a.m.: Ryan Fox, Lucas Herbert, Byeong Hun An

7:08 a.m.: Riyuka Hoshino, Charl Schwartzel, Alex Maguire (a)

7:19 a.m.: Adrian Meronk, Pablo Larrazabal, Hiroshi Iwata

7:30 a.m.: Patrick Reed, Connor Syme, Jose Luis Ballester Barrio (a)

7:41 a.m.: Darren Clarke, Victor Perez, Thomas Pieters

7:52 a.m.: Louis Oosthuizen, Joost Luiten, Christo Lambrecht (a)

8:03 a.m.: Stewart Cink, J.T. Poston, Trey Mullinax

8:14 a.m.: Henrik Stenson, Harris English, Andrew Putnam

8:25 a.m.: Scott Stallings, Jordan Smith, Thorbjorn Olesen

8:36 a.m.: Ernie Els, Kurt Kitayama, Takumi Kanaya

8:47 a.m.: Sam Burns, Sepp Straka, Chris Kirk

9:03 a.m.: Jordan Spieth, Matt Fitzpatrick, Jason Day

9:14 a.m.: Padraig Harrington, Seamus Power, Talor Gooch

9:25 a.m.: K.H. Lee, Davis Riley, Taiga Semikawa

9:36 a.m.: Patrick Cantlay, Brooks Koepka, Hideki Matsuyama

9:47 a.m.: Scottie Scheffler, Tommy Fleetwood, Adam Scott

9:58 a.m.: Cameron Smith, Xander Schauffele, Wyndham Clark

10:09 a.m.: Shane Lowry, Rickie Fowler, Robert MacIntyre

10:20 a.m.: Cameron Young, Si Woo Kim, Bryson DeChambeau

10:31 a.m.: Nicolai Hojgaard, Bio Kim, Kazuki Yasumori

10:42 a.m.: Dan Bradbury, Oliver Farr, Haydn Barron

10:53 a.m.: Marcel Siem, Martin Rohwer, Tiger Christensen (a)

11:04 a.m.: Lee Hodges, Antoine Rozner, Richard Bland

11:15 a.m.: Yannik Paul, Sami Valimaki, Laurie Canter

11:36 a.m.: Rasmus Hojgaard, Matthew Southgate, Alex Fitzpatrick

11:47 a.m.: Daniel Hillier, Kyung Nam Kang, Kensei Hirata

11:58 a.m.: Callum Shinkwin, Kazuki Higa, Michael Kim

12:09 p.m.: Zack Fischer, Taichi Kho, Kyle Barker

12:20 p.m.: Brendon Todd, Romain Langasque, Travis Smyth

12:31 p.m.: Gary Woodland, Adrian Otaegui, Alexander Bjork-

12:42 p.m.: Min Woo Lee, Christiaan Bezuidenhout, Harrison Crowe (a)

12:53 p.m.: Corey Conners, Billy Horschel, Alex Noren

1:04 p.m.: Tom Kim, Tom Hoge, Abraham Ancer

1:15 p.m.: Zach Johnson, Matt Wallace, David Micheluzzi

1:26 p.m.: Sahith Theegala, Emiliano Grillo, Dustin Johnson

1:37 p.m.: Francesco Molinari, Denny McCarthy, Mateo Fernandez De Oliveira (a)

1:48 p.m.: Brian Harman, Thriston Lawrence, Thomas Detry

2:04 p.m.: John Daly, Taylor Moore, Danny Willett

2:15 p.m.: David Lingmerth, Ben Griffin, Ockie Strydom

2:26 p.m.: Adri Arnaus, Ewen Ferguson, Keita Nakajima

2:37 p.m.: Keegan Bradley, Sungjae Im, Joaquin Niemann

2:48 p.m.: Viktor Hovland, Tony Finau, Justin Thomas

2:59 p.m.: Rory McIlroy, Jon Rahm, Justin Rose

3:10 p.m.: Collin Morikawa, Max Homa, Tyrrell Hatton

3:21 p.m.: Phil Mickelson, Nick Taylor, Adam Schenk

3:32 p.m.: Nacho Elvira, Marc Warren, Alejandro Canizares-

3:43 p.m.: Guido Migliozzi, Oliver Wilson, Connor McKinney

3:54 p.m.: Kalle Samooja, Shubhankar Sharma, Gunner Wiebe

4:05 p.m.: Jorge Campillo, Brandon Robinson Thompson, Michael Stewart

4:16 p.m.: Hurly Long, Seungsu Han, Marco Peng