Rory McIlroy and Danny Willett, the leading players on The Race to Dubai, will be the last to take to the Earth Course at Jumeirah Golf Estates when the DP World Tour Championship gets under way on Thursday.
With the 60 players teeing off in Race to Dubai Order, Alejandro Canizares and Stephen Gallacher will strike the first blows of the season finale when they tee off at 7.40am. Players will then head out in twos at ten minute intervals over five hours until 12.40pm.
Lee Westwood, winner of the inaugural event in 2009, tees off at 9.55am with Alex Noren, with Luke Donald, the 2012 Race to Dubai champion, following hot on his heels at 10.05am alongside form player Lucas Bjerregaard, whose joint third place last week was his fifth top ten in his last eight events.
Jumeirah Golf Estates ambassador Henrik Stenson will launch his bid of the hat-trick of titles, following his success on 2013 and 2014, at 11.30am in the company of last week’s runner-up Patrick Reed.
Four rookies made it through to the DP World Tour Championship. Rickard Karlberg will be the first of the four to get going when he tees off at 8.20am. Two-time winner Anirban Lahiri will be next up among the rookies at 11.10am, with Matt Fitzpatrick following at 11.40am and Byeong Hun An last of the debutants at 12.10pm as the contest to win the Sir Henry Cotton Rookie of the Year award comes right down to the wire.
An is one of seven players who can still win the Race to Dubai and all eyes will be on the leading challengers. The South African pair of Branden Grace and Louis Oosthuizen will tee off immediately after An at 12.20pm. Shane Lowry and Justin Rose will head out at 12.30pm before the final pairing of Willett and McIlroy launch their assaults on the Earth course at 12.40pm.
CLICK HERE FOR FULL TEE-TIMES
