Race to Dubai 2010 schedule announced
- Tuesday, 8 December 2009
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Lee Westwood, winner of the 2009 Race to Dubai and Dubai World Championship
The Race to Dubai 2010 schedule has been announced by the European Tour, with the season-long competition set to feature a minimum of 47 tournaments, which will include six new events.
Once again, the European Tour's season will culminate in the Dubai World Championship at Jumeirah Golf Estates in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, where England's Lee Westwood triumphed just over a fortnight ago.
The six new tournaments include: the Africa Open, at East London Golf Club, Eastern Cape, South Africa, from January 7-10; the Avantha Masters at the DLF G&CC, New Delhi, India, from February 11-14; the Hassan II Golf Trophy at Royal Golf Dar Es Salam, Rabat, Morocco, from March 18-21; the Open Cala Millor Mallorca at Pula GC, Son Servera, Mallorca, Spain from May 13-16; The Vivendi from September 23-26 and the Andalucia Masters, at Club de Golf Valderrama, Sotogrande, Spain, from October 28-31.
Meanwhile, the Dubai World Championship will once again carry a prize fund of $7,500,000 while The Race to Dubai Bonus Pool remains at $7,500,000 to be divided between the leading 15 players at the conclusion of the season.
The Race to Dubai gets underway on Thursday at the Alfred Dunhill Championship in South Africa where the Tour will stay into January, before travelling through four continents and finishing in Dubai from November 25-28, 2010.
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Reader comments
Add your commentsDecember 08 16:45
peter macdonald
That's a lot of tour dates!!!
Just goes to show how hard the tour players have to work and how long they are away from home in any given year. Every single one of us would give anything to be good enough to play even one of those competitions, but i don't think we realise just how hard the pros need to work to be at it every weekend throughout the long hard season. Yeah, the prize money is good, but i bet a lot of them would give some of it back to be able to spend more time at home and with family... it's the sacrifice they are lucky enough to be able to make.
On another note, i think any one of a number of UK golfers are in with a chance of being in contention to win the race to dubai next season: Westwood, McIlroy, Fisher, McDowell... There's a lot of talent emerging from these shores at the moment, and who's to say that we won't see a certain Golf Monthly golfer appear near the top of the winners list in at least a few of these dates?