The second round of the 2012 British Open gets underway in the middle of the night on Friday, with nearly ten hours of tee times at Royal Lytham & St. Annes. The first group off will start at 1:30 a.m. in the East. Unlike the USGA, the R&A sends every group off the first tee during one of the longest days in in golf -- taking full advantage of the extended daylight.
While the middle-of-the-night tee times are not ideal for television, ESPN will provide wall-to-wall coverage for Friday's action. They come on the air at 4:30 a.m. ET and will broadcast live until 3 p.m. ET. They will then put on a highlights show from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. ET with another "Best Of" show from 7 p.m. to 10p.m. ET. ESPN3 will provide live streaming to mirror the television coverage, with an additional stream featuring holes 9 through 11 going live at 4 a.m. ET.
TheOpen.com will also provide online coverage via livestream.com, scheduled to come on the air at 5 a.m. ET.
The full list of tee times:
1:30 a.m.: Bob Estes, Steven O'Hara, Brendan Jones
1:41 a.m.: Juvic Pagunsan, Scott Pinckney, Nicholas Cullen
1:52 a.m.: Steven Alker, Lee Slattery, Michael Thompson
2:03 a.m.: Tom Lehman, Pablo Larrazabal, Greg Owen
2:14 a.m.: Marcel Siem, George Coetzee, Chez Reavie
2:25 a.m.: Marcus Fraser, Lucas Glover, Gregory Havret
2:36 a.m.: Charles Howell III, Paul Broadhurst, Richard Sterne
2:47 a.m.: Carl Pettersson, K.T. Kim, Gary Woodland
2:58 a.m.: Ben Curtis, Paul Casey, Trevor Immelman
3:09 a.m.: Richard Finch, Mark Wilson, Branden Grace
3:20 a.m.: Harris English, Simon Dyson, Gonzalo Fernandez-Castano
3:31 a.m.: Angel Cabrera, K.J. Choi, Ross Fisher
3:42 a.m.: Jonathan Byrd, Sang-Moon Bae, Alvaro Quiros
3:58 a.m.: Nicolas Colsaerts, Hunter Mahan, John Senden
4:09 a.m.: Bo Van Pelt, Francesco Molinari, Toshinori Muto
4:20 a.m.: Rory McIlroy, Louis Oosthuizen, Keegan Bradley
4:31 a.m.: Rickie Fowler, Padraig Harrington, Manuel Trappel (amateur)
4:42 a.m.: Luke Donald, Phil Mickelson, Geoff Ogilvy
4:53 a.m.: Steve Stricker, Toru Taniguchi, Anders Hansen
5:04 a.m.: Peter Hanson, Retief Goosen, Robert Allenby
5:15 a.m.: Jim Furyk, Koumei Oda, Fredrik Jacobson
5:26 a.m.: Marc Leishman, Brandt Snedeker, Alexander Noren
5:37 a.m.: Andres Romero, Jbe Kruger, Richie Ramsay
5:48 a.m.: Ted Potter Jr., Ian Keenan, Andrew Georgiou
5:59 a.m.: Troy Kelly, Morten Orum Madsen, Anirban Lahiri
6:10 a.m.: Prayad Marksaeng, Justin Hicks, Ashley Hall
6:31 a.m.: Barry Lane, James Driscoll, Garth Mulroy
6:42 a.m.: Matthew Baldwin, Adilson Da Silva, Tadahiro Takayama
6:53 a.m.: Rafael Echenique, Kodai Ichihara, John Huh
7:04 a.m.: Sandy Lyle, Todd Hamilton, Mark Calcavecchia
7:15 a.m.: Alejandro Canizares, Jeev Milkha Singh, Greg Chalmers
7:26 a.m.: John Daly, Chad Campbell, Michael Hoey
7:37 a.m.: Thongchai Jaidee, Justin Leonard, Simon Khan
7:48 a.m.: David Duval, Raphael Jacquelin, Miguel Angel Jimenez
7:59 a.m.: Stephen Ames, Robert Rock, Kyle Stanley
8:10 a.m.: Stewart Cink, Rafael Cabrera-Bello, Johnson Wagner
8:21 a.m.: Jamie Donaldson, Bill Haas, Y.E. Yang
8:32 a.m.: Davis Love III, Tim Clark, Paul Lawrie
8:43 a.m.: Adam Scott, Alan Dunbar (amateur), Matt Kuchar
8:59 a.m.: Vijay Singh, Nick Watney, Ian Poulter
9:10 a.m.: Darren Clarke, Ernie Els, Zach Johnson
9:21 a.m.: Lee Westwood, Yoshinori Fujimoto, Bubba Watson
9:32 a.m.: Dustin Johnson, Graeme McDowell, Hiroyuki Fujita
9:43 a.m.: Tiger Woods, Justin Rose, Sergio Garcia
9:54 a.m.: Ryo Ishikawa, Martin Kaymer, Tom Watson
10:05 a.m.: Thomas Bjorn, Aaron Baddeley, Charl Schwartzel
10:16 a.m.: Jason Dufner, Martin Laird, Kevin Na
10:27 a.m.: James Morrison, Daniel Chopra, Joost Luiten
10:38 a.m.: Thorbjorn Olesen, Troy Matteson, Thomas Aiken
10:49 a.m.: Brad Kennedy, Mardan Mamat, Steven Tiley
11 a.m.: Warren Bennett, Aaron Townsend, Grant Veenstra
11:11 a.m.: Dale Whitnell, Sam Walker, Elliot Saltman
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