Rory McIlroy has 4 official events coming up in the next 5 weeks as he tries to emulate his Ryder Cup colleague Luke Donald and win the money title on both sides of the Atlantic..
The Race to Dubai is in the stretch run starting with 2 big events in China...
First the strongest field assembled in Asia this year will be out to get its hands on a prestigious new title when the BMW Masters makes its debut from October 25-28.
Four of the top five players in the Official World Golf Ranking will be in action at Lake Malaren Golf Club, along with all but one of the victorious European Ryder Cup team, including Captain José María Olazábal. Among this world-class field are four players who are not only vying for the winner’s cheque of US$1.16 million (from a total prize purse of US$7 million, but are trying for a BMW double..
All the 2012 BMW title-holders will tee off in Shanghai: Rory McIlroy (BMW Championship, US PGA Tour), Luke Donald (BMW PGA Championship, The European Tour), Danny Willett (BMW International Open, The European Tour) and Gonzalo Fernandez-Castaño (BMW Italian Open, The European Tour).
For tee times click http://www.europeantour.com/europeantour/season=2012/tournamentid=2012082/teetimes/index.html
Next week the field moves to the WGC HSBC Champions where England’s Justin Rose heads the list of in-form 2012 Ryder Cup stars from October 29-November 4 at Mission Hills Guangdong, China, on the Olazábal Course where he will be joined by 9 of his Ryder Cup colleagues.
Phil Mickelson heads the charge of US Ryder Cup players with a point to prove and is joined by 2012 FedExCup Champion, Brandt Snedeker, Zurich Classic of New Orleans Champion, Jason Dufner, WGC Bridgestone Invitational winner, Keegan Bradley, Masters Champion, Bubba Watson and World Number 13, Dustin Johnson.
No Rory or Tiger though..
McIlroy and Woods, Nos. 1 and 3 in the world ranking, respectively, are set to play in a one-day Duel at Jinsha Lake exhibition in China on Oct. 29 The Duel will be held in Zhengzhou, the capital of the central province of Henan.
Not surprisingly, the timing of the event worked out with each of their schedules. The Duel will be held the Monday after both the CIMB Classic in Malaysia (an event Woods already has committed to play) and the BMW Masters in Shanghai for Rory then he misses the WGC but will play in Singapore, Hong Kong before wrapping his year in Dubai,,
I can only assume Tiger is getting a ton of appearance money to play in this unofficial CIMB Classic and of course there is the matter of the $6.1 million purse (divided among only 48 players) and the $1.3 million that goes to the winner.
The no-cut event in Kuala Lumpur is a third-year tournament. Woods and Jason Dufner are the only top-10 players in the world entered. Just eight of the top 50 in the world are participating, including defending champion Bo Van Pelt, who is coming off a victory in Australia.
The field is derived mostly from the final 2012 FedEx Cup points list, with 10 spots reserved for the top finishers on the Asian Tour's order of merit.
After the exhibition on Monday 29th in China with Rory, Woods will not play again until his World Challenge event that starts Nov. 29
After the two tournaments in China, the European schedule has four events remaining, the Barclays Singapore Open, the UBS Hong Kong Open, the SA Open Championship (in South Africa) and the season-ending DP World Tour Championship in Dubai where the Race to Dubai culminates for the top 60 players on the money list.
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