The Open 2022: third round tee times at St Andrews

Rory McIlroy believes he is in a strong position to end his major drought after maintaining his promising start to the Open at St Andrews.

The Northern Irishman followed up his first-round 66 with 68 on Friday to sit on 10-under at the halfway stage, three behind leader Cameron Smith.

World No 2 McIlroy, 33, has not won any of golf's major prizes for eight years but, despite feeling he could have shot even better, feels he is now well poised.

"Overall I felt like it was a good day," said the 2014 Open champion. "I'm in a good position going into the weekend and that's all I can really ask of myself.

"There was a couple of short putts there that I could have held and could have been a bit closer to the lead. It would have been nice to make a three at 18. But it's two really, really solid rounds to open with and really happy with that."

Third round tee times (all times BST)

(x) denotes amateurs

8.35 – Richard Mansell

8.45 – Trey Mullinax, Kevin Kisner

8.55 – Tony Finau, Adri Arnaus

9.05 – Justin De Los Santos, Robert MacIntyre

9.15 – Francesco Molinari, Dean Burmester

9.25 – Lars van Meijel, Robert Dinwiddie

9.40 – Sebastian Munoz, Jordan Smith

9.50 – Sungjae Im, Aaron Jarvis (x)

10.00 –Wyndham Clark, Sam Bairstow (x)

10.10 – Christiaan Bezuidenhout, John Parry

10.20 – Anthony Quayle, Chris Kirk

10.30 – Hideki Matsuyama, Bryson DeChambeau

10.45 – Jamie Rutherford, Jason Scrivener

10.55 – Joaquin Niemann, Paul Casey

11.05 – Marcus Armitage, Adrian Meronk

11.15 – Justin Thomas, Jason Kokrak

11.25 – Danny Willett, Corey Conners

11.35 – Billy Horschel, Cameron Tringale

11.50 – Laurie Canter, Thomas Pieters

12.00 – Russell Henley, Dylan Frittelli

12.10 – Brian Harman, Tommy Fleetwood

12.20 – Kurt Kitayama, Garrick Higgo

12.30 – Ian Poulter, Sam Burns

12.40 – David Law, Filippo Celli (x)

12.55 – Sergio Garcia, Will Zalatoris

13.05 – Shane Lowry, Nicolai Hojgaard

13.15 – Victor Perez, Brad Kennedy

13.25 – JH Kim, Patrick Reed

13.35 – Harold Varner III, Jon Rahm

13.45 – Jordan Spieth, Thriston Lawrence

14.00 – Thomas Detry, Xander Schauffele

14.10 – Lee Westwood, David Carey

14.20 – Yuto Katsuragawa, Abraham Ancer

14.30 – Aaron Wise, Lucas Herbert

14.40 – Barclay Brown (x), Sadom Kaewkanjana

14.50 – Min Woo Lee, Matt Fitzpatrick

15.05 – Si Woo Kim, Sahith Theegala

15.15 – Patrick Cantlay, Adam Scott

15.25 – Talor Gooch, Tyrrell Hatton

15.35 – Scottie Scheffler, Dustin Johnson

15.45 – Rory McIlroy, Viktor Hovland

15.55 – Cameron Young, Cameron Smith