Fans will have to wake up bright and early to see Rory McIlroy and Bryson DeChambeau play their first round at the 2024 Open Championship, but Tiger Woods and Brooks Koepka will be among the players teeing off at a more manageable time on Thursday.

Woods will be paired with fellow Americans Xander Xchauffele and Patrick Cantlay. He'll be looking to make his first cut at an Open Championship since his sixth-place finish in 2018.

Due to a combination of injuries and poor play, Woods has played the weekend at a British Open just twice in the last decade. He has been cut twice and finished 60th at the Masters Tournament in three major appearances so far in 2024.

McIlroy, by contrast, is a decade removed from his last major but is a mortal lock to be in contention heading into the weekend. The 35-year-old has finished in the top 10 in seven of the last golf majors, a borderline unprecedented run of consistency—particularly when considering he's won none of those events.

McIlroy is coming off a heartbreaking second-place finish at the 2024 U.S. Open, bogeying three of his last four holes to hand the title over to Bryson DeChambeau. Only Scottie Scheffler (+450) has better odds than McIlroy (+750) to win this weekend at FanDuel Sportsbook.

Scheffler play alongside Jordan Spieth and Cam Young in one of the final groups to tee off Thursday. The world No. 1 has never finished better than eighth at an Open Championship and was outside the top 20 each of the last two years.

Spieth hasn't won a major since his 2017 triumph in the Open Championship but has finished in the top 10 two of the last three years, including a second-place finish in 2021.