Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship 2024 LIVE: Dates, tee times, players, leaderboard and how to follow as Rory McIlroy suffers late bogey blues
The Grand Finale of the 2024 DP World Tour season is underway at the Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship this weekend. Rory McIlroy won the first Rolex Series event of the campaign at the Dubai Desert Classic back in January and he is headlining the field for the penultimate tournament of the year at Yas Links. McIlroy will be eyeing glory at the 2024 Abu Dhabi HSBC ChampionshipGetty McIlroy has a healthy lead in the Race to Dubai standings and is closing in on his sixth title. That would draw him level with Seve Ballesteros’ tally and two behind Colin Montgomerie, who has the most titles ever with eight. However, McIlroy was seven-under for the day for the second day running in Abu Dhabi and is tied for 13th on 13-under. He is now five shots behind leader Paul Waring, while Sebastian Soderberg remains in the hunt for the $9million prize fund after being beaten to glory by France’s Victor Perez last season. England’s Tommy Fleetwood made the perfect start to the prestigious tournament. The Olympic silver medalist shot a 10-under-par 62 to equal the course record in the opening round but is three shots adrift of the summit after the second day. Abu Dhabi Championship 2024: Date and how to follow This tournament is being held from Thursday, November 7 to Sunday, November 10. It is being held at Yas Links in Abu Dhabi, UAE. The course will play to a par 72 and a maximum yardage of 7,425. Play will begin at 3:17am for UK fans each day with Abu Dhabi four hours ahead. talkSPORT will provide updates from the UAE throughout the week. To tune in to talkSPORT or talkSPORT 2 through the website, click HERE for the live stream. Sky Sports Golf will also have full coverage of the action and you can find out more here. McIlroy loves playing in the Middle East and is eyeing another Race to Dubai titleGetty Abu Dhabi Championship 2024: Field and leaderboard This tournament has a reduced field of just 70 players. McIlroy headlines the action but will face tough competition from the likes of Shane Lowry, Min Woo Lee, Robert MacIntyre, Justin Rose and Adam Scott. Fleetwood has won this event twice and will be eyeing his third victory. A number of LIV Golf stars are expected to tee it up too with Tyrrell Hatton, Adrian Meronk and Joaquin Niemann among those set to feature. The full field, tee times and groupings can be found here while the latest leaderboard from Abu Dhabi can be found here. Fleetwood is eyeing another big title in the UAEGetty Abu Dhabi Championship 2024: What has been said? Following his impressive first round, Fleetwood revealed he had received putting tips from former players Ken Brown and David Howell during a practice round in Abu Dhabi. “I got off to a great start (but) I didn’t feel like I swung it perfectly early on and I actually felt like I started playing better as the round got to the back nine,” Fleetwood said. “Putted amazing. Felt like I read the greens so well. Beautiful pace control and hit a lot of good putts and started holing them. “When you shoot a 62, obviously everything is going to have gone very, very well. Just happy to have got off to a great start. “I always feel like I’m a good putter. It doesn’t always show. But definitely sort of the second half of this year, I haven’t putted as well or converted as many putts as we’d have liked. “We’ve been working on that and I happened to bump into Ken and Howler on the course and we were talking about a couple of things. “They are two of the best putters I’ve ever met and any time you’re talking to those guys, you’re always going to pick something up.”
The Grand Finale of the 2024 DP World Tour season is underway at the Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship this weekend.
Rory McIlroy won the first Rolex Series event of the campaign at the Dubai Desert Classic back in January and he is headlining the field for the penultimate tournament of the year at Yas Links.
McIlroy has a healthy lead in the Race to Dubai standings and is closing in on his sixth title.
That would draw him level with Seve Ballesteros’ tally and two behind Colin Montgomerie, who has the most titles ever with eight.
However, McIlroy was seven-under for the day for the second day running in Abu Dhabi and is tied for 13th on 13-under.
He is now five shots behind leader Paul Waring, while Sebastian Soderberg remains in the hunt for the $9million prize fund after being beaten to glory by France’s Victor Perez last season.
England’s Tommy Fleetwood made the perfect start to the prestigious tournament.
The Olympic silver medalist shot a 10-under-par 62 to equal the course record in the opening round but is three shots adrift of the summit after the second day.
Abu Dhabi Championship 2024: Date and how to follow
This tournament is being held from Thursday, November 7 to Sunday, November 10.
It is being held at Yas Links in Abu Dhabi, UAE. The course will play to a par 72 and a maximum yardage of 7,425.
Play will begin at 3:17am for UK fans each day with Abu Dhabi four hours ahead.
talkSPORT will provide updates from the UAE throughout the week.
To tune in to talkSPORT or talkSPORT 2 through the website, click HERE for the live stream.
Sky Sports Golf will also have full coverage of the action and you can find out more here.
Abu Dhabi Championship 2024: Field and leaderboard
This tournament has a reduced field of just 70 players.
McIlroy headlines the action but will face tough competition from the likes of Shane Lowry, Min Woo Lee, Robert MacIntyre, Justin Rose and Adam Scott.
Fleetwood has won this event twice and will be eyeing his third victory.
A number of LIV Golf stars are expected to tee it up too with Tyrrell Hatton, Adrian Meronk and Joaquin Niemann among those set to feature.
The full field, tee times and groupings can be found here while the latest leaderboard from Abu Dhabi can be found here.
Abu Dhabi Championship 2024: What has been said?
Following his impressive first round, Fleetwood revealed he had received putting tips from former players Ken Brown and David Howell during a practice round in Abu Dhabi.
“I got off to a great start (but) I didn’t feel like I swung it perfectly early on and I actually felt like I started playing better as the round got to the back nine,” Fleetwood said.
“Putted amazing. Felt like I read the greens so well. Beautiful pace control and hit a lot of good putts and started holing them.
“When you shoot a 62, obviously everything is going to have gone very, very well. Just happy to have got off to a great start.
“I always feel like I’m a good putter. It doesn’t always show. But definitely sort of the second half of this year, I haven’t putted as well or converted as many putts as we’d have liked.
“We’ve been working on that and I happened to bump into Ken and Howler on the course and we were talking about a couple of things.
“They are two of the best putters I’ve ever met and any time you’re talking to those guys, you’re always going to pick something up.”
