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Dubai World Championship presented by DP World Jumeirah Golf Estates, Dubai, United Arab Emirates 25 Nov 2010 - 28 Nov 2010 The 2010 season has already been truly memorable for Martin Kaymer and Graeme McDowell a first Major Championship for each and the thrill of sharing in Europe's exciting Ryder Cup victory in Wales. This week, for one of them, the year will end on an unforgettable high note.
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WATCH LIVE HERE What began as a 48-tournament marathon covering 27 destinations since last December has been reduced to a 72-hole sprint finish for the line in Dubai, with Kaymer and McDowell the only players in the 60-strong field still living the dream of being crowned European Number One on Sunday.
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Dubai
UAE
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Going into this week's season-ending Dubai World Championship presented by DP World at Jumeirah Golf Estates, 25 year old Kaymer leads 31 year old McDowell by 290,910 at the head of The Race to Dubai Rankings. With a first prize of 910,348 on offer to the winner over the Greg Norman-designed Earth course, the permutation is simple if either Kaymer or McDowell triumphs on Sunday, they will be crowned The Race to Dubai champion for 2010.
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Kaymer, from Germany, captured the US PGA Championship, the KLM Open and the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship as he reaped a rich autumn harvest which propelled him into the lead in The Race to Dubai to add to his win in Abu Dhabi earlier in the campaign.
Northern Ireland's McDowell endured a fallow spell after claiming The Celtic Manor Wales Open and the US Open Championship in consecutive appearances in June, and for a long time it appeared that Kaymer would not be overhauled in his unrelenting surge towards The Race to Dubai title.
However, the thrill of claiming the winning point in The Ryder Cup reignited McDowell's challenge and a victory in the Andalucia Valderrama Masters, allied to a series of outstanding performances recently, has made the seemingly impossible possible.
Now one question remains..who will breast the tape first and succeed World Number One Lee Westwood, who secured the Dubai World Championship and scooped the lion's share of the $7,5000,000 bonus pool 12 months ago?
Westwood, currently in third place in The Race to Dubai after an injury curtailed season, cannot catch Kaymer but will be relishing the opportunity to remind the leading pair what he can do when fully fit and fresh.
The same can be applied to the third Major Champion of 2010 in the field, Louis Oosthuizen, whose autumn campaign has been interrupted by injury. The South African, whose moment of glory came at St Andrews in July, is now back in action and ready to improve on his current ranking of tenth in The Race to Dubai.
With the leading 15 players sharing the bonus pool the new Number One will receive 1,092,418 there is plenty to play for in the season's finale, and Kaymer, who had just recovered from injury to compete in Dubai last year, is looking forward to leading from the front this time.
He said: "It's been a fantastic season for me. To win my first Major and to be part of the winning Ryder Cup Team is way above my expectations, to be honest. But obviously when you win a Major, you know that you can win any tournament in the world.
"I've played very well the last few months and going into this week, I feel confident about my game. Hopefully I can play well, and make sure that I win The Race to Dubai somehow."
McDowell has squeezed a first, tied third and fifth place from his last four starts in a last-ditch endeavour to catch and overtake Kaymer and he commented: "I am very happy with my form and my energy levels going into Dubai.
PRIZE MONEYS
Position Euro
1 910,348
2 606,896
3 355,036
4 273,104
5 218,483
6 177,641
7 158,400
8 147,476
9 136,552
10 125,628
11 114,703
12 109,241
13 103,779
14 98,317
15 92,855
16 87,393
17 81,931
18 76,469
19 71,007
20 65,545
21 63,360
22 61,721
23 60,083
24 58,444
25 56,805
26 55,167
27 53,528
28 51,889
29 50,251
30 48,612
31 46,974
32 45,335
33 43,696
34 42,058
35 40,965
36 39,873
37 38,780
38 37,688
39 36,596
40 35,503
41 34,411
42 33,318
43 32,226
44 31,133
45 30,041
46 28,949
47 27,856
48 26,764
49 25,671
50 24,579
51 23,487
52 22,394
53 21,302
54 20,209
55 19,117
56 18,024
57 16,932
58 16,386
59 15,840
60 15,293
"Of course I am within touching distance now and I've got to play well, simple as that" added McDowell, who knows that outright victory in the Dubai World Championship would relegate Kaymer to the runner-up position in The Race to Dubai.
"I can't control Martin's golf ball only mine" continued McDowell. "I'm going to go and play my own game and see what happens. I have a few things to brush up on but, all in all, I'm feeling really good about my game. I'm playing well enough to win and that's all I can ask."
Westwood, who finished second behind Italian Francesco Molinari in the WGC-HSBC Champions in Shanghai after an injury time-out, returns to the scene of his triumph following another short break in order to give his leg injury more time to heal.
Both Westwood and Molinari can still theoretically finish second in The Race to Dubai while England's Ian Poulter, after a sequence of tied 13th, tied sixth and first in the UBS Hong Kong Open last weekend, is the form horse going into the final furlong of the Race.
Poulter has climbed to fifth place and is in line for a nice bonus cheque while there is no disguising the talent of the Italian teenager Matteo Manassero, whose joint runner-up finish in Hong Kong has lifted him to 29th place in The Race to Dubai Rankings with rookie season earnings of 846,705 to date.
The leading 60 players now knuckle down to business, each with the aim of capturing the Dubai World Championship, even if they are not in the privileged position of Kaymer and McDowell going for the big prize.
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Colin Smith
Dubai World Championship Director
European Tour International Office - Dubai
Jumeirah Golf Estates
Emirates Road
Dubai
United Arab Emirates
PO Box 476318
Mob: +971 50 9001217
Nick Tarratt
Director - European Tour International Office in Dubai
