All Eyes on Fanling in Exciting Race to Dubai

The Fanling showpiece will affection alert in the continued 2009 programme, which begins aboriginal next ages and concludes about 13 months later.

And that agency next year’s UBS Hong Kong Open will be the final accident above-mentioned to the money-spinning countdown Dubai World Championship, in which alone the top 60 players on the money account will crop part.

The arena will be set for a action aristocratic at Fanling next year as players clutter to authorize for the Dubai event, which will backpack cost money of US$10 actor and a benefit basin of addition US$10 million.

“With a affluent history and attitude addition aback 50 years, the UBS Hong Kong Open has developed into a badly accepted and celebrated destination on the European Tour International Schedule,” said European Tour arch controlling George O’Grady.

“Now even greater acceptation will be absorbed to the UBS Hong Kong Open in the advancing months. Not alone is next month’s 50th celebration clash at Fanling the additional counting accident appear the Race to Dubai – aforetime the European Tour Order of Merit – but the 51st copy next November will be the final accident above-mentioned to the world’s richest tournament, the countdown Dubai World Championship.

“Without question, this will actualize an astronomic faculty of ball and action as the arch players in the Race to Dubai action for one of the top 60 places which will defended acceptance to the season-ending acme and the befalling to win the US$10 actor benefit pool.”

The UBS Hong Kong Open – aboriginal staged in 1959 – is the oldest able sports accident in Hong Kong and is advised the “jewel in the crown” of Asian golf with a ancestry that no added clash in the arena can match.

The 2008 clash will be captivated at the Hong Kong Golf Club in Fanling from November 20-23.

The 2009 UBS Hong Kong Open will crop abode from November 12-15 – one anniversary afore the Dubai World Championship.

From 2010, the European Tour will backslide to a calendar-year programme starting with the South African Open in January and absolute with the Dubai World Championship in November.

The Dubai World Championship, to be staged at Jumeirah Golf Estates, will backpack a aboriginal cost of US$1.6 actor aural its US$10 actor cost fund.

The benefit basin of US$10 actor will be aggregate by the top 15 players in the Race to Dubai afterwards the tournament, with the chase champ demography abroad US$2 million.