The 2025 DP World Tour Championship has reached its halfway point and the leaderboard is beginning to take shape with a number of big names duking it out near the top.
While first-round leader Michael Kim suffered a frustrating second outing to fall way down the standings, Rory McIlroy built on his opening 66 with a Friday 69 (-3) to climb into a share of second alongside a couple of his Ryder Cup teammates.
Shane Lowry and Justin Rose are also a part of the immediate chasing pack on nine-under thanks to scores of 67 (-5), but they each remain three strokes behind 36-hole leader Nicolai Hojgaard on 12-under.
Hojgaard, who won this event in 2023 while his twin brother Rasmus finished second last year, has fellow Dane Rasmus Neergaard-Petersen for company on Saturday after lighting up the Earth Course's front nine in just 30 shots before completing his day via a much more modest one-under second half.
Meanwhile, New Zealand's Daniel Hiller - who has enjoyed a very good past 10 days in the Middle East so far - carded a second-round 68 to complete the group in T2nd at this stage.
Nicolai Højgaard goes bogey-free on Friday to lead by three! #DPWTC | #RolexSeries pic.twitter.com/Kqz6ncM4sfNovember 14, 2025
Tommy Fleetwood, Robert MacIntyre, Alex Noren and Laurie Canter complete the top-10 while Tyrrell Hatton and Angel Ayora are in good positions to challenge in T11th on seven-under.
Marco Penge, McIlroy's only realistic challenger for the Race To Dubai title, improved on his poor opening day (74 +2) but still remains outside the top-40 in the 52-man no-cut tournament on level par.
Another player who responded well to a frustrating Thursday was Jordan Smith. The Englishman fired a first-round 75 to lose his place as the final pro in position to win one of the 10 PGA Tour cards on offer, but he fared better on Friday via a two-under round of 70.
Nevertheless, Smith will need better still as Hillier is set to usurp him if the standings remain in a similar position through 72 holes.
Moving into Saturday's round three, tee times once again begin at 8:15am local time and continue until the final group starts at 12:40pm local time.
Below is the full list of round-three tee times for the 2025 DP World Tour Championship. Local time is four hours ahead of GMT and nine hours in front of ET.
DP WORLD TOUR CHAMPIONSHIP ROUND THREE TEE TIMES
Local Time (ET)
- 8:15am (11:15pm) - Nacho Elvira, Richard Mansell
- 8:25am (11:25pm) - Joakim Lagergren, Shaun Norris
- 8:35am (11:35pm) - Kristoffer Reitan, Jordan Smith
- 8:45am (11:45pm) - Joost Luiten, Aaron Rai
- 8:55am (11:55pm) - Marco Penge, Conor Syme
- 9:05am (12:05am) - Marcus Armitage, Johannes Veerman
- 9:15am (12:15am) - Oliver Lindell, Martin Couvra
- 9:30am (12:30am) - Jorge Campillo, Calum Hill
- 9:40am (12:40am) - Eugenio Chacarra, Elvis Smylie
- 9:50am (12:50am) - Brandon Robinson Thompson, Daniel Brown
- 10:00am (1:00am) - Jayden Schaper, Jacques Kruyswijk
- 10:10am (1:10am) - Adrien Saddier, Michael Kim
- 10:20am (1:20am) - Andy Sullivan, Matthew Jordan
- 10:30am (1:30am) - Jacob Skov Olesen, Tom McKibbin
- 10:45am (1:45am) - Kazuma Kobori, Nicolai Von Dellingshausen
- 10:55am (1:55am) - Patrick Reed, Haotong Li
- 11:05am (2:05am) - Grant Forrest, Ewen Ferguson
- 11:15am (2:15am) - Rasmus Hojgaard, Keita Nakajima
- 11:25am (2:25am) - Thriston Lawrence, Matt Fitzpatrick
- 11:35am (2:35am) - John Parry, Ludvig Aberg
- 11:50am (2:50am) - Angel Ayora, Tyrrell Hatton
- 12:00pm (3:00am) - Tommy Fleetwood, Laurie Canter
- 12:10pm (3:10am) - Alex Noren, Robert MacIntyre
- 12:20pm (3:20am) - Rory McIlroy, Daniel Hillier
- 12:30pm (3:30am) - Shane Lowry, Justin Rose
- 12:40pm (3:40am) - Rasmus Neergaard-Petersen, Nicolai Hojgaard
