The cut has been made and the field of 69 players will enter the weekend rounds of the Dubai Desert Classic with the $2.5 million purse on the line. The top of the leaderboard is tight entering the third round as Rory McIlroy leads the pack at 11-under. He’ll tee off at 3:45 a.m. EST with his round three playing partners, Sergio Garcia and Thomas Aiken, who both sit at 10-under. All together, there are eight players within four strokes of McIlroy and the lead, including Tiger Woods, who will tee off at 3:27 a.m. EST.
Dubai Desert Classic Tee Times, Pairings For Third Round
Golf fans hoping to follow this event live will have to pull an all nighter Friday, as the first group doesn’t tee off until 10:15 p.m. EST, and the final pairing will likely go well into Saturday morning before the third round is finished.
Full pairings:
| Tee | Time EST | Player 1 | Player 2 |
| 1 | 10:15 pm | CAÑIZARES Alejandro | |
| 1 | 10:24 pm | KARLBERG Rikard | DYSON Simon |
| 1 | 10:33 pm | KINGSTON James | BAIN Ross |
| 1 | 10:42 pm | HAASTRUP Mark F | VELASCO Alvaro |
| 1 | 10:51 pm | KHAN Simon | COLSAERTS Nicolas |
| 1 | 11:00 pm | ROCK Robert | FINCH Richard |
| 1 | 11:09 pm | DRYSDALE David | LAWRIE Peter |
| 1 | 11:18 pm | STRANGE Scott | KRUGER Jbe |
| 1 | 11:27 pm | LEWIS (AM) Tom | GOYA Tano |
| 1 | 11:41 pm | DAVIES Rhys | HAVRET Grégory |
| 1 | 11:50 pm | LAFEBER Maarten | WOOD Chris |
| 1 | 11:59 pm | BOURDY Grégory | DERKSEN Robert-Jan |
| 1 | 12:08 AM | MCGRANE Damien | LYNN David |
| 1 | 12:17 AM | LEE Danny | HORSEY David |
| 1 | 12:26 AM | GONZALEZ Ricardo | OTTO Hennie |
| 1 | 12:35 AM | FOSTER Mark | CLARKE Darren |
| 1 | 12:44 AM | JACQUELIN Raphaël | JIMÉNEZ Miguel Angel |
| 1 | 12:53 AM | HAMILTON Todd | BENSON Seve |
| 1 | 1:07 AM | CURTIS Ben | DREDGE Bradley |
| 1 | 1:16 AM | OLAZÁBAL José Maria | FISHER Ross |
| 1 | 1:25 AM | DE VRIES Floris | DONALDSON Jamie |
| 1 | 1:34 AM | WARING Paul | SIEM Marcel |
| 1 | 1:43 AM | JONZON Michael | QUIROS Alvaro |
| 1 | 1:52 AM | MARTIN Pablo | SINGH Jeev Milkha |
| 1 | 2:01 AM | ANDERSSON HED Fredrik | KAYMER Martin |
| 1 | 2:10 AM | STERNE Richard | RAMSAY Richie |
| 1 | 2:19 AM | EDFORS Johan | LEVET Thomas |
| 1 | 2:33 AM | GALLACHER Stephen | WILLETT Danny |
| 1 | 2:42 AM | WARREN Marc | CABRERA-BELLO Rafael |
| 1 | 2:51 AM | DUBUISSON Victor | WESTWOOD Lee |
| 1 | 3:00 AM | WALL Anthony | BROWN Mark |
| 1 | 3:09 AM | HANSON Peter | RUMFORD Brett |
| 1 | 3:18 AM | HOEY Michael | GONNET Jean-Baptiste |
| 1 | 3:27 AM | WOODS Tiger | HANSEN Anders |
| 1 | 3:36 AM | GARCIA Sergio | WEBSTER Steve |
| 1 | 3:45 AM | AIKEN Thomas | MCILROY Rory |
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