diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
index 016446d..e69de29 100644
--- a/.gitmodules
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-[submodule "third_party/OpenROAD-flow-scripts"]
-	path = third_party/OpenROAD-flow-scripts
-	url = git@github.com:The-OpenROAD-Project/OpenROAD-flow-scripts.git
diff --git a/third_party/OpenROAD-flow-scripts b/third_party/OpenROAD-flow-scripts
deleted file mode 160000
index 9adb3d4..0000000
--- a/third_party/OpenROAD-flow-scripts
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Subproject commit 9adb3d4df21c2d47e621ca999d8c22141e3a5640