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. <strong>____________</strong> <strong>Read more</strong> <strong><a href="https://www.thenational.ae/sport/golf/shane-lowry-learns-from-us-open-collapse-to-win-abu-dhabi-hsbc-championship-presented-by-ega-title-1.815361">Shane Lowry learns from US Open collapse to win Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship presented by EGA title</a></strong> <strong><a href="https://www.thenational.ae/sport/golf/omega-dubai-desert-classic-trophy-winner-li-haotong-quite-happy-to-lift-that-heavy-thing-1.699643">Omega Dubai Desert Classic trophy winner Li Haotong 'quite happy to lift that heavy thing'</a></strong> <strong><a href="https://www.thenational.ae/sport/golf/dubai-desert-classic-round-4-live-updates-li-haotong-birdies-last-to-win-title-by-one-shot-from-rory-mcilroy-1.699376">Dubai Desert Classic 2018: Round 4 live how it happened</a></strong> <strong>____________</strong> <strong>Tee 1</strong> 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 <strong>Tee 10</strong> 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
