On Thursday, 156 golfers began their week with dreams of raising the Claret Jug on Sunday to celebrate a 2026 British Open win. By Friday afternoon, however, over half of the field will be sent home.In order to make the weekend at the British Open, golfers need to finish with one of the 70 lowest scores (including ties) through 36 holes. There is no 10-stroke rule, meaning if a player is within 10 shots of the leader but outside of the top 70 scores, his tournament is still over. Compared to the other three majors, the British Open is tied with the PGA Championship for bringing the largest field to Saturday and Sunday. Both the British Open and PGA Championship bring the top 70 scores (plus ties) to the weekend, while the U.S. Open allows 60 (plus ties), and only the top 50 scores (plus ties) make it to Saturday and Sunday at the Masters. NEXT: Meet Dan Brown, the Surprise British Open Contender Who Just Wants to Rip CigarettesThe last time Royal Birkdale played host to the British Open, the cut line was five-over par. Despite the course getting even tougher than it was nine years ago, Data Golf projects a less favorable cut line for Friday at either one-over (34.5%), two-over (38.6%) or three-over par (13.4%). If ends up being two-over par, big names like Jordan Spieth (three over), Sam Burns (three over), Cameron Smith (three over) and 2023 British Open winner Brian Harman (four over) would be on the outside looking in. But there are 18 holes for them to get things back on track. For context, here is a list of the cutlines for the last 10 British Opens:YEARSITECUT2025Royal Portrush+12024Royal Troon+62023Royal Liverpool+32022St. AndrewsE2021Royal St. George’s+12019Royal Portrush+12018Carnoustie+32017Royal Birkdale+52016Royal Troon+42015St. AndrewsENEXT: Bryson DeChambeau Made One Golf Legend Look Really Silly Thursday at the British OpenFull list of tee times for Friday’s second round1:35 a.m.: John Parry, Eric Cole, Tiger Christensen1:46 a.m.: Eugenio Chacarra, Matt Wallace, Max Greyserman1:57 a.m.: Michael Brennan, Sahith Theegala, Laurie Canter2:08 a.m.: Cameron Smith, Keith Mitchell, Stuart Grehan (a)2:19 a.m.: Sepp Straka, Joaquin Niemann, Kurt Kitayama2:30 a.m.: Sami Valimaki, Shaun Norris, Jackson Suber2:41 a.m.: Darren Clarke, Adrien Saddier, Bernd Wiesberger2:52 a.m.: Keegan Bradley, Corey Conners, Casey Jarvis3:03 a.m.: Matt McCarty, Harry Hall, Haotong Li3:14 a.m.: Padraig Harrington, Marco Penge, Michael Hollick3:25 a.m.: Tom Kim, Billy Horschel, Mason Howell (a)3:36 a.m.: Johnny Keefer, Pierceson Coody, Keita Nakajima3:47 a.m.: Louis Oosthuizen, Jesper Svensson, Jack Buchanan (a)4:03 a.m.: Bud Cauley, Jayden Schaper, Lucas Herbert4:14 a.m.: Kristoffer Reitan, Patrick Reed, JT Poston4:25 a.m.: Chris Gotterup, Sam Burns, Adam Scott4:36 a.m.: Collin Morikawa, J.J. Spaun, Nicolai Højgaard4:47 a.m.: Shane Lowry, Aaron Rai, Brooks Koepka4:58 a.m.: Cameron Young, Wyndham Clark, Ludvig Åberg5:09 a.m.: Rory McIlroy, Xander Schauffele, Matt Fitzpatrick5:20 a.m.: Jacob Bridgeman, Rasmus Neergaard-Petersen, Tim Wiedemeyer (a)5:31 a.m.: Patrick Cantlay, Daniel Berger, Nicolas Echavarria5:42 a.m.: Peter Uihlein, Alistair Docherty, Francesco Laporta5:53 a.m.: Cameron John, Austen Truslow, Samuel Bairstow6:04 a.m.: Naoyuki Kataoka, Marcus Plunkett, Baard Bjoern6:41 a.m.: Matthew Baldwin, Thomas Detry, James Nicholas6:52 a.m.: Michael Kim, Daniel Hillier, Andy Sullivan7:03 a.m.: Ryan Fox, Andrew Novak, Matthew Jordan7:14 a.m.: Henrik Stenson, Max Homa, Joe Dean7:25 a.m.: Robert MacIntyre, Rickie Fowler, Alex Fitzpatrick7:36 a.m.: David Duval, Martin Couvra, Matthew Southgate7:47 a.m.: Sungjae Im, Dan Brown, Fifa Laopakdee (a)7:58 a.m.: Gary Woodland, Jake Knapp, Jordan Smith8:09 a.m.: Francesco Molinari, Tom McKibbin, Lev Grinberg (a)8:20 a.m.: Hennie du Plessis, Jose Luis Ballester Barrio, Dan Bradbury8:31 a.m.: Angel Ayora, Victor Perez, Mateo Pulcini (a)8:42 a.m.: Stewart Cink, Scott Vincent, Joakim Lagergren8:53 a.m.: Michael Thorbjornsen, Kota Kaneko, Travis Smyth9:09 a.m.: Alex Smalley, Sam Stevens, Ryo Hisatsune9:20 a.m.: Akshay Bhatia, Harris English, Rasmus Højgaard9:31 a.m.: Ben Griffin, Hideki Matsuyama, Min Woo Lee9:42 a.m.: Russell Henley, Justin Rose, Viktor Hovland9:53 a.m.: Justin Thomas, Alex Noren, Jason Day10:04 a.m.: Scottie Scheffler, Tyrrell Hatton, Bryson DeChambeau10:15 a.m.: Jordan Spieth, Tommy Fleetwood, Jon Rahm10:26 a.m.: Brian Harman, Si Woo Kim, Nick Taylor10:37 a.m.: Ryan Gerard, Maverick McNealy, David Puig10:48 a.m.: Kazuma Kobori, Tom Sloman, David Howard (a)10:59 a.m.: Antoine Rozner, Ren Yonezawa, Caleb Surratt11:10 a.m.: MJ Daffue, Frederic Lacroix, Jack McDonald11:21 a.m.: Jeongwoo Ham, Ryutaro Nagano, Alejandro de Castro Piera (a)More from Sports IllustratedAdd us as a preferred source on GoogleFollow