Omega Dubai Desert Classic: First round groups and tee times

The action at the Omega Dubai Desert Classic gets underway on Thursday morning with half the pairings going from the first tee and the other half from the 10th.

Defending champion Haotong Li is an early starter. He goes off with Lee Westwood and Ian Poulter at 7.40am from the 10th tee.

Shane Lowry, who won the Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship presented by EGA begins his challenge for back-to-back wins on the European Tour at 8.10am, again from the the 10th tee, with Matt Wallace and Tyrrell Hatton his playing partners.

Tommy Fleetwood, Sergio Garcia and Bryson Dechambeau are on the course from 8am.

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Tee 1

07.10 Gonzalo Fdez-Castano, Kim Koivu, Matthieu Pavon

07.20 Peter Hanson, Darren Fichardt, Hideto Tanihara

07.30 Lucas Herbert, Lee Slattery, Joachim Hansen

07.40 Nino Bertasio, Marcus Kinhult, Dean Burmester

07.50 Matthew Southgate, Gavin Green, Jovan Rebula

08.00 Kalle Samooja, Raphael Jacquelin, Phachara Khongwatmai

08.10 Thongchai Jaidee, Paul Waring, Mikko Korhonen

08.20 Andres Romero, Bernd Wiesberger, SSP Chawrasia

08.30 Bradley Dredge, Christiaan Bezuidenhout, Thomas Aiken

08.40 Shaun Norris, James Morrison, Scott Hend

08.50 Anthony Chesters, Victor Riu, Nacho Elvira

11.30 Jeunghun Wang, Renato Paratore, Richard McEvoy

11.40 Edoardo Molinari, Sam Brazel, Joost Luiten

11.50 Jorge Campillo, Andrew Johnston, Andrea Pavan

12.00 Tom Lewis, Adrian Otaegui, Byeong Hun AN

12.10 Eddie Pepperell, Alexander Bjork, Kurt Kitayama

12.20 Martin Kaymer, Rafa Cabrera Bello, David Lipsky

12.30 Lucas Bjerregaard, Thomas Pieters, Matthew Fitzpatrick

12.40 Robert Karlsson, Thomas Detry, Aaron Rai

12.50 Brandon Stone, Soren Kjeldsen, Richard Sterne

13.00 Richie Ramsay, Eric van Rooyen, Romain Langasque

13.10 Kristoffer Reitan, Marc Warren, Oliver Fisher

Tee 10

07.10 Gaganjeet Bhullar, David Drysdale, Trevor Immelman

07.20 Ryan Fox, Shubhankar Sharma, Rayhan Thomas

07.30 Thomas Bjorn, Stephen Gallacher, Miguel Angel Jimenez

07.40 Lee Westwood, Ian Poulter, Haotong Li

07.50 Louis Oosthuizen, Henrik Stenson, Thorbjorn Olesen

08.00 Tommy Fleetwood, Sergio Garcia, Bryson Dechambeau

08.10 Matt Wallace, Shane Lowry, Tyrrell Hatton

08.20 Ernie Els, Colin Montgomerie, Jose Maria Olazabal

08.30 Ross Fisher, Andy Sullivan, Jason Scrivener

08.40 George Coetzee, Jaco van Zyl, Mike Lorenzo-Vera

08.50 Chris Paisley, David Horsey, Ahmed Marjan

11.30 Callum Shinkwin, Matthias Schwab, Scott Jamieson

11.40 Yusaku Miyazato, Tapio Pulkkanen, Justin Harding

11.50 Alvaro Quiros, Justin Walters, David Howell

12.00 Fabrizio Zanotti, Jordan Smith, Ashen Wu

12.10 Wade Ormsby, Romain Wattel, Paul Dunne

12.20 Jacques Kruyswijk, Steven Brown, Victor Dubuisson

12.30 Benjamin Herbert, Maximilian Kiefer, Pelle Edberg

12.40 Nicolas Colsaerts, Pablo Larrazabal, Robert Rock

12.50 Alexander Levy, Joakim Lagergren, Kristoffer Broberg

13.00 Jens Dantorp, Haydn Porteous, Victor Perez

13.10 Sam Horsfield, Sean Crocker, Adri Arnaus