Race to Dubai leader Rory McIlroy will play alongside Team Europe Ryder Cup team-mates Shane Lowry and Jon Rahm in a headline three-ball at the BMW PGA Championship.
The World Number Two, who claimed his fourth worldwide win of the year at the Amgen Irish Open last week, is the top-ranked player in a high-calibre international field for the fourth Rolex Series event of the DP World Tour season.
Lowry, who won this event in 2022, has been an ever-present at Wentworth Club since his debut in 2010 and along with fellow Major champions Rahm and McIlroy is among the standout pre-tournament favourites, with the trio beginning their challenge at 12:45 local time on Thursday.
With 11 members of Luke Donald’s European Ryder Cup team in action this week, it is no surprise to see many grouped together, with English pair Tommy Fleetwood and Justin Rose – both recent winners on the PGA TOUR – joined by defending champion Billy Horschel.
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The American, who is making his return after a five-month spell on the sidelines following hip surgery, will get his title defence under way at 08:35 as he bids to become the first three-time winner of the tournament since Colin Montgomerie in 2000.
2013 Masters champion Adam Scott is joined by American Brooks Koepka – with the pair among 11 Major winners in the field – and England’s Laurie Canter, starting at 08:25.
Among the morning wave too in the one-tee start on the opening day are Japan’s Hideki Matsuyama, with the 11-time PGA TOUR winner teeing it up at 08:45 with Ludvig Åberg and Matt Fitzpatrick.
Viktor Hovland – one of seven players in the world’s top 20 contesting this week – is alongside Denmark’s soon-to-be Ryder Cup rookie Rasmus Højgaard and England’s Marco Penge, a breakout performer on the DP World Tour with two titles so far this season, at 12:25.
In the next group out ten minutes later, 2020 BMW PGA Championship winner Tyrrell Hatton will tee it up alongside Scotland’s Robert MacIntyre and 2023 champion New Zealand’s Ryan Fox.
Donald will play alongside one of his Vice Captains Alex Noren and Italy’s Matteo Manassero, who remains the youngest ever winner of the BMW PGA Championship from his triumph in 2013 at 20, and they are off at 13:10.
To view the tee times for rounds one and two, click here.
