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On October 9, 2012 Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy headlined an 8 man field in what was the Turkish Airlines World Golf Final, an event encouraged by the European and PGA Tours to help spread the ever expanding world game to Turkey who apparently have several beautiful course but nobody to play on them.
The government of Turkey paid not only all 8 to attend, but also media from around the world. In return they were promised a spot in the European Tour rotation and today round 1 of the Turkish Airlines Open on the Montgomerie Course at the Maxx Royal Belek Golf Resort has just wrapped up, the last event of the Race to Dubai "Final Series" prior to next weeks finale in Dubai..
The Maxx Royal is a beautiful 5 star hotel right on the Mediterranean Sea, you can see Cyprus on a clear day and this Belek region is trying hard to establish itself to grab a share of all the European winter golf tourist industry that floods into the Algarve in Portugal and Spain every year.
Evergreen Miguel Jimenez has just gone out in perfect conditions, opening with an eagle and finishing with -9 63. Ian Poulter is right behind him with -8 64 and they lead a no cut field of 80 playing for $7m with the top 60 getting into the finale where the top 15 will share the $10m Race to Dubai bonus fund..
Colin Montgomerie who designed the course is playing his 600th European Tour event, shot +5 77.
Meanwhile the PGA Tour is at the Mexican Riviera playing the OHL Classic at Mayakoba http://espn.go.com/golf/leaderboard?tour=pga
Nick Taylor, David Hearn, Mike Weir, Adam Hadwin and Roger Sloan are the 5 Canadians in the field.
Bryan Angus
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