DP World Tour Championship: Pairings and tee times - first round

Francesco Molinari, the Race to Dubai leader, tees off with nearest rival Tommy Fleetwood at 12.40pm in the final group of the opening day of the DP World Tour Championship.

Rory McIlroy will be out on the course from 12.20pm with Thorbjorn Olesen, while another group likely to prove popular with fans, Sergio Garcia and Lee Westwood, gets underway at 11.30am.

The full list of tee times are below. All time are local (+4 GMT)

7.40am Robert Rock, Matthew Southgate

7.50am Hideto Tanihara, Joakim Lagergren

8am Lee Slattery, Darren Fichardt

8.10am Joost Luiten, Dean Burmester

8.20am Aaron Rai, Paul Dunne

8.30am Danny Willett, Chris Paisley

8.40am Sam Horsfield, Martin Kaymer

8.50am Tom Lewis, Marcus Kinhult

9am Mike Lorenzo-Vera, Ashun Wu

9.10am Wade Ormsby, Jordan Smith

9.25am Shane Lowry, Lucas Herbert

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9.35am Mikko Korhonen, Henrik Stenson

9.45am Dylan Frittelli, Erik van Rooyen

9.55am Branden Grace, Ian Poulter

10.05am Andrea Pavan, Ross Fisher

10.15am Thomas Detry, Andy Sullivan

10.25am Chris Wood, Alexander Levy

10.35am Thomas Pieters, Shubhankar Sharma

10.45am Adrian Otaegui, Jorge Campillo

10.55am Brandon Stone, Matthew Fitzpatrick

11.10am Rafa Cabrera Bello, Ryan Fox

11.20am Matt Wallace, Alexander Bjork

11.30am Sergio Garcia, Lee Westwood

11.40am Kiradech Aphibarnrat, Russell Knox

11.50am Jon Rahm, Tyrrell Hatton

12pm Lucas Bjerregaard, Eddie Pepperell

12.10pm Haotong Li, Alex Noren

12.20pm Thorbjorn Olesen, Rory McIlroy

12.30pm Xander Schauffele, Patrick Reed

12.40pm Tommy Fleetwood, Francesco Molinari