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2024 Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship: Final round 4 Sunday tee times and pairings
World No. 3 Rory McIlroy, the pre-tournament favourite, is still in with a slim chance of glory on Sunday at Yas Links.
The DP World Tour reached its penultimate event this week, as its top 70 players headed to the Yas Links course for the Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship.
The field includes the likes of Rory McIlroy, Rasmus Hojgaard, Adam Scott and Tyrrell Hatton, although Spanish star Jon Rahm made his excuses.
World No. 3 McIlroy was many experts’ favourite to clinch a sixth Race to Dubai title but the Northern Irishman admitted that he was feeling the effects of a long season. The 35-year-old still has a slim chance of taking the top prize but will go into the final round five shots off the lead in a tie for 13th.
As Saturday’s action came to a close, England’s Paul Waring remains at the top of the leaderboard, although his lead has been cut from five shots to just one. Niklas Norgaard leads the chase, with Shane Lowry, Tommy Fleetwood, Thorbjorn Olesen and Sebastian Söderberg tied for third, three strokes behind Waring.
Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship: Round 4 tee times
With the action taking place in Abu Dhabi, Round 4 tee times will again be at unsociable hours for US-based golf fans hoping to follow the action.
Here’s a look at the full Round 4 schedule (Eastern Time). The early starters will get underway on Saturday night in the United States.
Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship Round 4 tee times and groupings
- 10:00pm: Darius Van Driel, Justin Rose, Calum Hill
- 10:10pm: Sam Bairstow, Adam Scott, Connor Syme
- 10:20pm: Matteo Manassero, Joe Dean, David Ravetto
- 10:30pm: Grant Forrest, Jeff Winther, Jorge Campillo
- 10:40pm: Gavin Green, Dylan Fritelli, Aaron Cockerill
- 10:50pm: Shubhankar Sharma, Jayden Schaper, Matthew Baldwin
- 11:06pm: Frédéric Lacroix, Dan Bradbury, Yannik Paul
- 11:17pm: Adrián Otegui, Ángel Hidalgo, Nacho Elvira
- 11:28pm: Romain Langasque, Casey Jarvis, Guido Migliozzi
- 11:39pm: Sean Crocker, Julien Guerrier, Bernd Wiesberger
- 11:50pm: Jordan Smith, Alejandro Del Rey, David Micheluzzi
- 12:01am: Rikuya Hoshino, Adrian Meronk, Laurie Canter
- 12:20am: Ewen Ferguson, Keita Nakajima, Brandon Stone
- 12:31am: Rasmus Hojgaard, Tom McKibbin, Antoine Rozner
- 12:42am: Matt Wallace, Thriston Lawrence, Alfredo García-Heredia
- 12:53am: Richard Mansell, Adrien Saddier, Marcel Siem
- 1:04am: Min Woo Lee, Jesper Svensson, Alex Fitzpatrick
- 1:15am: Joaquín Niemann, Johannes Veerman, Rory McIlroy
- 1:36am: Andy Sullivan, Joost Luiten, Matthew Jordan
- 1:47am: Ugo Coussaud, Tyrell Hatton, Francesco Laporta
- 1:58am: Robert MacIntyre, Nicolai Hojgaard, Thomas Detry
- 2:09am: Tommy Fleetwood, Thorbjorn Olsen, Sebastian Söderberg
- 2:20am: Shane Lowry, Niklas Norgaard, Paul Waring
Viewers in the United States can watch the Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship on the Golf Channel.
How much is the top prize for the Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship?
The annual tournament was first introduced in 2006, at which point it was one of three European Tour events held in the Arabian Peninsula. Initially, the total prize fund was $2 million.
By 2019, it was drawing many prominent players and was one of 11 tournaments included in the Rolex Series, which comprises the top events on the European Tour. By this point the prize fund had reached $7 million.
In 2022, the event, which had been hosted at the Abu Dhabi Golf Club, was relocated to Yas Links, Abu Dhabi. The 2024 tournament boasts a total prize fund of $9 million, with the winner bagging more than $1.5 million. Last year’s champion was Victor Perez, who managed a narrow one-shot win over Min Woo Lee and Sebastian Söderberg.