Posts Tagged Race to Dubai


Year-End Awards Highlight Stars On All Tours.

The Hollywood Foreign Press announced their nominations for the Golden Globe Awards this week and the Academy of Arts and Sciences will be doing the same in a month or so. And while December is a hot month for movies, it is a decidedly slow one for golf. That being said it’s a great opportunity […]

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Woods hails one of his best seasons ever

His best may have come too late for the season’s majors but there is always next year. Tiger Woods declared boldly that he his back to his best after a storming victory at the BMW Championship that returned him to the top of the FedEx Cup standings. Woods, who left the PGA Tour last year […]

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Dubai finale prize money down 25 per cent, say media reports

The Race to Dubai is still on but without the bellows of record prize money that accompanied its launch last year. The European Tour, in its efforts to match the rival US PGA Tour in prize money and prestige, last year devised a revamped circuit, running through a calendar year and replacing the Order of […]

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Casey leads Race to Dubai

It is well past the half-way stage of the inaugural Race to Dubai of the European Tour that eventually ends in a US$20 million grand finale called the Dubai World Championship. There was a lot of hype leading up to its launch last year as European Tour organisers looked to lift a flagging product with […]

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Teenager McIlroy comes of age in Dubai

The coming of Rory McIlroy is complete. The teenager has been talked about as the next big thing in European golf and the 19-year-old has duly delivered. The Northern Irish star won his first professional title when he lifted the Dubai Desert Classic crown, beating England’s Justin Rose by one stroke. His victory brings the […]

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European Tour players ready to work on Gulf Swing

The so-called “Gulf Swing” of the European Tour tees off this week with the Abu Dhabi Championship, the first leg of three tournaments being held in the Middle East. The region has taken on crucial importance as far as the European Tour goes, mainly because it is where the season-ending, money-spinning Dubai World Championship takes […]

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Five things to look forward to in 2009

A new year brings a new dawn for golf with plenty to look forward to in 2009. An epic 12 months has just passed us with Tiger Woods’ incredible victory at the US Open, his subsequent injury-enforced withdrawal from the Tour, the emergence of Padraig Harrington as a genuine star and the United States’ Ryder […]

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