The 2026 Masters will begin on Thursday, April 9, with the first round at Augusta National Golf Club. You can find the full Masters tee times for the opening round at the bottom of this post.
Included tee times for round 1
No matter how he plays or how his body feels, Rory McIlroy will be the center of attention when the 2026 Masters starts on Thursday.
After several near misses and heartbreak, McIlroy finally captured his first title and green jacket last year at Augusta National. With it, he completed a career Grand Slam and placed his place in the history of the tournament.
The dramatic victory was the highlight of last season, but so far in the 2026 season, McIlroy hasn’t looked as sharp. While finishing second at the Genesis Invitational, he finished T46 at the Players Championship and withdrew from the Arnold Palmer Invitational due to back discomfort.
McIlroy crashed out of the Masters as a result, but he’s still the World No. 2, and he’s a threat whenever he does it at Augusta National.
McIlroy will enter Thursday’s opening round at 10:31 a.m. ET along with Cameron Young and rookie Mason Howell.
You can watch Thursday’s first round of the 2026 Masters on TV on ESPN, with coverage from 3-7:30 pm ET. Amazon Prime Video and Masters.com will provide early coverage from 1-3 pm ET. Or you can watch other streaming coverage throughout the day via Masters.com, the Masters app, the ESPN App, Amazon Prime Video, Paramount+ and DirecTV including exclusive early action, featured team coverage and much more.
You can check the full times for round 1 of the 2026 Masters below.
2026 Masters Thursday Sessions: Round 1 (ET)
It is No. 1
7:40 am – John Keefer, Haotong Li
7:50 am – Naoyuki Kataoka, Max Homa, Carlos Ortiz
8:02 am – José María Olazábal, Rasmus Neergaard-Petersen, Aldrich Potgieter
8:14 am – Angel Cabrera, Sami Valimaki, Jackson Herrington (A)
8:26 am – Charl Schwartzel, Max Greyserman, Ryan Fox
8:38 am – Vijay Singh, Matt McCarty, Rasmus Højgaard
8:50 am – Kurt Kitayama, Kristoffer Reitan, Casey Jarvis
9:02 am – Bubba Watson, Nicolas Echavarria, Brandon Holtz (A)
9:19 am – Cameron Smith, Sam Burns, Jake Knapp
9:31 am – Keegan Bradley, Ryan Gerard, Nick Taylor
9:43 am – Dustin Johnson, Shane Lowry, Jason Day
9:55 am – Patrick Reed, Tommy Fleetwood, Akshay Bhatia
10:07 am – Bryson DeChambeau, Matt Fitzpatrick, Xander Schauffele
10:19 am – Hideki Matsuyama, Collin Morikawa, Russell Henley
10:31 am – Rory McIlroy, Cameron Young, Mason Howell (A)
10:43 am – Viktor Hovland, Patrick Cantlay, Alex Noren
11:03 am – Samuel Stevens, Sungjae Im
11:15 am – Andrew Novak, Tom McKibbin, Brian Campbell
11:27 am – Mike Weir, Wyndham Clark, Mateo Pulcini (A)
11:39 am – Zach Johnson, Michael Kim, Nicolai Højgaard
11:51 am – Danny Willett, Davis Riley, Ethan Fang (A)
12:03 pm – Adam Scott, Daniel Berger, Brian Harman
12:15 pm – Fred Couples, Min Woo Lee, Fifa Laopakdee (A)
12:27 pm – Sergio Garcia, Aaron Rai, Jacob Bridgeman
12:44 pm – Harry Hall, Corey Conners, Michael Brennan
12:56 pm – JJ Spaun, Maverick McNealy, Tyrrell Hatton
1:08 pm – Jon Rahm, Chris Gotterup, Ludvig Åberg
1:20 pm – Jordan Spieth, Justin Rose, Brooks Koepka
1:32 pm – Sepp Straka, Ben Griffin, Justin Thomas
1:44 pm – Scottie Scheffler, Robert MacIntyre, Gary Woodland
1:56 pm – Harris English, Marco Penge, Si Woo Kim
