Justin Rose will begin his pursuit of a third Turkish Airlines Open victory in a row when he tees off in a star studded threeball alongside Race to Dubai Presented by Rolex leader Bernd Wiesberger and Open Champion Shane Lowry in Antalya.
The 39-year-old Englishman has won the last two editions of the Turkish Airlines Open and is in contention to become the first player to win the same European Tour even in three consecutive years since Colin Montgomerie in 2000.
The tournament returns to The Montgomerie Maxx Royal, which hosted the first three editions and is the first of three season-ending Rolex Series Events in the 2019 Race To Dubai Rankings.
Wiesberger leads the Race To Dubai Rankings ahead of Spaniard Jon Rahm, with Open Champion Lowry currently third in the standings.
The Austrian tees off alongside Rose and Lowry at 12.00pm and the group will be the main focus of attention in Antalya, but there are plenty of other big names to watch out for.
Francesco Molinari, the 2018 Open Champion tees off in the previous group alongside 2016 Masters Tournament Champion Danny Willett and Matt Wallace, who sits sixth on the Race To Dubai Rankings, at 11.50am.
Robert MacIntyre and Kurt Kitayama, who are battling it out to be the leading rookie this season, are paired together and tee off alongside 2018 Masters Tournament Champion Patrick Reed at 11.40am.
South Africa's Christiaan Bezuidenhout, who is 12th on the Race To Dubai rankings after claiming his maiden European Tour title at the Estrella Damm N.A. Andalucía Masters hosted by the Sergio Garcia Foundation in June, starts at 11.10am in a threeball with 2016 Ryder Cup player Thomas Pieters and Englishman Eddie Pepperell.
Padraig Harrington, the 2020 European Ryder Cup Captain, tees off at 11.30am with Alfred Dunhill Links Championship winner Victor Perez and Austria's Matthias Schwab while Lee Westwood, Swede Alex Noren and South African Erik van Rooyen start ten minutes earlier.
At 11.00am, 2018 European Ryder Cup player Tyrrell Hatton tees off in a group with two time Major Champion Martin Kaymer and Spaniard Jorge Campillo, with Andy Sullivan starting alongside Adri Arnaus and Tom Lewis at 10.30am.
