Woods, McIlroy & Gallacher Drawn For Opening Two Rounds Of 25th Dubai Desert Classic.

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Organisers have spiced-up this week’s 25th anniversary Dubai Desert Classic grouping 14-Major winning Tiger Woods with double Major victor Rory McIlroy for the opening two rounds of the event.

Tour Miss 'embraces' the Omega Dubai Desert Classic trophy.

Tour Miss ’embraces’ the Omega Dubai Desert Classic trophy.

Joining the duo will by defending Dubai champion, Stephen Gallacher of Scotland.

Woods joined Gallacher, along with triple winning Presidents Cup captain Fred Couples, for Former Champions Challenge played over 18 holes of the magnificently prepared Majlis course.

Strangely, Woods had only played in Gallacher’s company once before this week and that was when the duo faced each other on the opening day of the 1995 Walker Cup at Royal Portcawl in Wales.

Woods was then 20-years of age and having won straight US Amateur titles whereas Gallacher was a year older and qualified for the GB & I side winning the Scottish Amateur Stroke Play title and also the prestigious Lytham Trophy.

Here is the full draw for the first two days of this week’s $2.5m event with 1 in front of time meaning off the 1st tee and 10 indicating hitting off the 10th tee.

1 07:15 Roope KAKKO JB HANSEN Brooks KOEPKA
1 07:25 Adrian OTAEGUI Johan CARLSSON Gaganjeet BHULLAR
1 07:35 Victor RIU Fabrizio ZANOTTI Niclas FASTH
1 07:45 Paul LAWRIE Craig LEE Ricardo SANTOS
1 07:55 Søren KJELDSEN Michael HOEY Marcel SIEM
1 08:05 Eduardo DE LA RIVA David HORSEY Jin JEONG
1 08:15 Steve WEBSTER Hennie OTTO Faycal SERGHINI
1 08:25 Ricardo GONZALEZ Shiv KAPUR Daan HUIZING
1 08:35 Paul WARING Gareth MAYBIN Magnus A CARLSSON
1 08:45 Carlos DEL MORAL Romain WATTEL Eddie PEPPERELL
1 08:55 Mustapha ELMAOUAS (AM) Lee CORFIELD Marco CRESPI
10 07:15 Thomas LEVET Richard GREEN Robert-Jan DERKSEN
10 07:25 Anthony WALL Alvaro QUIROS Gary STAL
10 07:35 Dawie VAN DER WALT Grégory BOURDY Fred COUPLES
10 07:45 Mark O’MEARA David HOWELL Mikko ILONEN
10 07:55 Richard STERNE Branden GRACE Peter UIHLEIN
10 08:05 Rory MCILROY Stephen GALLACHER Tiger WOODS
10 08:15 Jamie DONALDSON Rafa CABRERA-BELLO Matteo MANASSERO
10 08:25 Tommy FLEETWOOD Julien QUESNE Colin MONTGOMERIE
10 08:35 Darren FICHARDT Peter HANSON Ross FISHER
10 08:45 Simon DYSON Grégory HAVRET José COCERES
10 08:55 Seung-yul NOH Andy SULLIVAN Derek MCKENZIE
1 11:35 Danny WILLETT Jbe KRUGER Justin WALTERS
1 11:45 Lee SLATTERY Damien MCGRANE Jorge CAMPILLO
1 11:55 Thorbjørn OLESEN Robert KARLSSON José María OLAZÁBAL
1 12:05 Paul CASEY Morten Ørum MADSEN Shane LOWRY
1 12:15 Joost LUITEN Francesco MOLINARI Miguel Angel JIMÉNEZ
1 12:25 Thomas BJÖRN Ernie ELS Henrik STENSON
1 12:35 Brett RUMFORD Thongchai JAIDEE Pablo LARRAZÁBAL
1 12:45 Scott JAMIESON John DALY Raphaël JACQUELIN
1 12:55 Marc WARREN Bernd WIESBERGER Chris WOOD
1 13:05 Javier BALLESTEROS (AM) Wayne WESTNER Soren HANSEN
1 13:15 Stephen DODD Barry LANE Scott HEND
10 11:35 José-Filipe LIMA Richard BLAND Nacho ELVIRA
10 11:45 Matthew NIXON Peter WHITEFORD Chris DOAK
10 11:55 Kristoffer BROBERG Maximilian KIEFFER Andrea PAVAN
10 12:05 Sihwan KIM David DRYSDALE Peter LAWRIE
10 12:15 Tom LEWIS Jamie MCLEARY François CALMELS
10 12:25 Garth MULROY Jeev Milkha SINGH Robert ROCK
10 12:35 Alejandro CAÑIZARES Marcus FRASER Simon THORNTON
10 12:45 Tyrrell HATTON Edoardo MOLINARI Graeme STORM
10 12:55 Mark FOSTER Seve BENSON John PARRY
10 13:05 Robert DINWIDDIE Emiliano GRILLO Matthew BALDWIN
10 13:15 Alexander LEVY Zane SCOTLAND Jaco VAN ZYL

 

 



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