How to look at the Open Championship today: round 1 channel, stream

The 153rd Open Championship marks the return of the tournament to Royal Portrush in Northern Ireland. Rory McIlroy comes from Northern Ireland and will search for redemption after having missed the cut at Portrus in 2019. The reporting in the first round begins on Thursday at 1:30 a.m. (exclusively for Peacock) and then turns on TV at 4 a.m.

2025 Open Championship 1. Round schedule

1:30 a.m. – 4 a.m. peacock

4 a.m. – 3:30 p.m. ET | USA network

The first round of the Open Championship is broadcast in the USA network and live on live Directv (free trial version).

What: Open championship, first round

When: Thursday, July 17, 2025

Where: Royal Portrush Golf Club, Portrush, Northern Ireland

Time: 4 a.m. ET (streams on peacocks at 1:30 a.m.)

TV: USA network

Live stream: Directv (free trial version), Fubotv (free trial version), Hulu + Live -TV, loop, peacock

Here is a recent Open Championship story about the Associated Press:

Portrush, Northern Ireland (AP) – Rory McIlroy had practically royal representation for himself on Monday morning, but not long. When he ended his first round of practice for the British Open – his first time in these links in 2,187 days – there was a large amount that had survived rain and sunshine to finish seeing him.

The circumstances are now very different.

McIlroy remembers that he was poorly prepared for the wave of emotions that met him in the first discount in 2019. He tried to forget the opening t-shirt that sailed outside the interruptions and led to a four-time bogey. And this Friday there was thundering support for him when he made an angry rally to miss the cut from a shot.

On Monday, he went to dozens of spectators who wanted his autograph, including a large flag of his homeland in Northern Ireland with emblems of all four majors in every corner.

The pressure for execution has no longer gone. However, this flag was an example of returning home to Northern Ireland to be celebrated as much as the fans want to see that he ends a more special year with a spectacular note.

This was different from 2019 when he wanted to open these British like everyone else and ignored that the first time that the oldest championship of the Golf has been on his home floor for 68 years.

“I think in '19 I probably tried to isolate and I think it's better for everyone if I hug it,” he said. “It is nice to accept adulation, although I sometimes have to fight with it. I think it is more hugging everything that will come in my way this week and do not try to shy away or hide from her. And I think that will provide better experience for everyone involved.”

He is rarely at home these days, lives in Florida, prepares for moving to London and traveling to the world for Golf. There was never a reason to be at Royal Portrush – Caddy Harry Diamond came on a scouting trip a few weeks ago – but it felt good to be at home.

“When I looked at the calendar for 2025, this was the tournament, which was probably circled for various reasons, even more than the masters,” he said. “It's nice to be in here with a major and everything else that happened this year.”

That “everything else” was the master, the major who teased him for so many years and then brought him as much joy when he had completed the career grand Slam in a playoff.

The next two months were a fight, from the final games to so much tiredness from questions of “What now?” And how to reset goals. He went six rounds at Majors without talking to the media. He didn't seriously fight in any of his six tournaments.

“I think everyone has seen in the past few months how I had to fight with it. I did something that I said to everyone what I wanted to do, but then it is as if I still have the feeling that I have much more to give,” said Mcilroy.

“I probably just didn't give myself enough time to sink everything. But this is the nature of the professional golf. They do a very good job to keep them on the hamster wheel, and they feel that it is sometimes difficult to get out.”

But getting back to these parts recharged him again. He almost won the Scottish Open last week and lost to Chris Gotterup against Chris Gotterup, flew directly to Portrush on Sunday evening and came to his hotel at 1 a.m., he was on the first discount six hours later.

“When I arrived after nine today, there was a nice amount out there,” said Mcilroy. “After the 18th and see all the children and signs of autographs, it is really, very, very nice, and I am sure that this is simply built up during the week.”

It was a clever move. The game was hung up a few times due to storms, occasional rain and possibly lightning. It turned out that not all of the stream in the air was around McIlroy.

“I do not know whether this rain will have a massive impact on the course, depending on how difficult it is. I don't really plan to approach the course differently,” said Shane Lowry, the Champion Golfer of the Year at Royal Portrush in 2019.

“I forgot how good it is.

Scottie Scheffler, No. 1 player in the world, was on the PGA tour in his rookie year in 2019 and is now making his first trip to Royal Portrus. Jordan Spieth was an arrival on Monday that was at home in Dallas last week when his wife gave birth to a boy, Sully, her third child.

The city is already bouncing, and on Sunday evening the sweep sings in the Harbor Bar. The captain of Ryder Cup, Keegan Bradley, is involved with the spectators.

“I still have the feeling that there is still a lot left,” said McIlroy. “The story is certainly not over.”