Dubai World Championship Golf Betting 2009
The Dubai World Championship is to golf what the ATP World Tour Finals are to tennis. Conceptually speaking that is. It's basically an end of season jolly, sorry, high profile tournament where select golf playing guests are invited to duke it out with fellow professional golfers for the chance to win some serious wonga. The entry requirement is pretty straight forward to, as providing you're one of the top 60 money winners on the PGA European Tour this year at the cut-off point, your name will be on the list and your entry wont be revoked. Just like the 'best of the best' mantra applied to tennis' ATP World Tour Finals like we implied.
Of course, a brand spanking new major sports tournament like the Dubai World Championship ensures that internet bookmakers will keep the wolves from the door in the run-up to Christmas and the lean Sports Betting times that are only interspersed by the odd chinks of light afforded by Barclays Premier League football betting 2009-2010 and the occasional horse racing betting opportunity that arises such as the Hennessy Gold Cup horse racing betting 2009 and the King George VI Chase horse racing betting 2009 online betting provisions. Tough times indeed.
Large Selection Of Online Betting Win Markets For Dubai World Championship Golf Betting 2009
With the four golfing majors now firmly out of sight and mind, and only the UBS Hong Kong Open to keep interest in Golf Betting alive, Dubai World Championship golf betting 2009 is set to explode as the sport's elite gather in the glamorous setting of Dubai – and the stunning Greg Norman-designed Earth Course – to challenge for the newest golf tournament. In terms of the Dubai World Championship golf betting 2009 markets, and as usual the internet punter can take their pick of bets, focusing on outright wins and winning nationality through to top European player and top Englishman coming out on top.
Man of the moment – the sensational Rory McIlroy who needs no introduction – is the golfer to beat for Dubai World Championship golf betting 2009 reckoning according to the leading virtual bookies who expect brisk golf betting business as the tournament fast approaches later this month, and along with Lee Westwood, Ian Poulter and Simon Dyson makes-up an exciting Brit-based golfing contingent set to be in the mix from the start of the Dubai World Championship.
Essentially the event replaces the pinnacle event in what was hitherto known as the Order of Merit up until 2009, and takes into account the leading tour money earners during the course of the year, right up until the last qualifying tournament as such, the UBS Hong Kong Open. The Dubai World Championship marks the climax to the all-new European Tour Race to Dubai, and as such will command massive broadcast viewing figures as well as tempting the legions of golf betting fans out there looking for another fix.
World's Best Golfers Contest New .5 Million Dubai World Championship
Billed as golf's ultimate prize, there's no denying that the stage is set for a battle royal between the globe's most talented and naturally gifted golfers; and those that have somehow managed to worm their way into the European PGA Order of Merit reckoning with some uncharacteristically good displays. Which will put them in the melting pot for a share of a small fortune should they emerge high up the final leader-board as the fourth day's play draws to a close. Interesting to learn that the otherwise lucrative world of professional golf hasn't escaped the misery imposed by the global economic slowdown either, as news reaches us that the inaugural tournament has seen its prize fund slashed by some 25%, offering a still useful overall purse of ,500,000, yet not quite as impressive as the original figure being touted, totalling ,000,000. incidentally the eventual Dubai World Championship winner would have loaded up ,666,660 into the back of a Securicor transit before speeding off into the Middle Eastern sunset.
Greg Norman-Designed Course Stages Inaugural Dubai World Championship 2009
The premise is this. Four days golf, no halfway cut. Which effectively means all the starters will be in with a shout of making the grade regardless of whether they've fluffed their golfing lines over the first two days of competition. Talked up as the 'world's newest signature sporting event', the Dubai World Championship will nevertheless be hosted by the stunning – yet slightly pretentiously named – Earth Course, that forms the centrepiece of the Jumeirah Golf Estates in oil rich, golf crazy Dubai. The Earth Course's architect is none other than Australia's Great White Shark himself, Greg Norman, and with his vast experience and wealth of golf knowledge will doubtless serve as a stern test for today's golfers who regularly fight for top honours on the European Tour.
As we hinted above, the Dubai World Championship is the recognized culmination of an entire year's golfing success for those participants fortunate to be included in the field having earned the right to compete with their previous 12 months' endeavours. The whole Race to Dubai shebang tee'd off on the 6th November 2008 in Shanghai, with the HSBC Champions tournament acting as the ribbon-cutting event. 48 golf tournaments later – and having taken in 26 different destinations across the globe – this new, commercially more appealing interpretation of the European Tour Order of Merit still decorates its sole victor with the iconic Harry Vardon Trophy once the last putt is sunk in the Dubai World Championship.
Rory McIlroy And Lee Westwood Favourites With Bookies Ahead Of Dubai World Championship
Gaining their ranking ahead of the conclusive Dubai World Championship season finale, the world's top golfers collect relevant points based entirely on their accumulative tour earnings from one years end to another, courtesy of the recognised events that comprise the Race to Dubai criteria. The PGA European Tour, the World Golf Championships and the four golf majors are all instrumental in adding to an individual player's tally ahead of the newly-created Dubai tournament to end all tournaments, and ensures that the world's best golfers have yet further incentive to perform at their optimum during the year so as to represent the cream of the sport between November 19th and 22nd 2009.
As it currently stands, English golfer Lee Westwood leads the way in the Race to Dubai Top 60, having amassed a personal golfing fortune of £2,404,579 thus far, closely followed at the top of the earnings chart by Northern Ireland's wonder-kid, Rory McIlroy who himself has trousered £2,352,259 during the past 12 months of golf competition. Germany's Martin Kaymer and English duo, Ross Fisher and Paul Casey make up the remainder of the top five places having accumulated in excess of £2 million each for their efforts around individual courses, whilst fellow Brits Oliver Wilson, Simon Dyson and Ian Poulter also figure in the present top ten, alongside South Africa's Ernie Els and Australian, Geoff Ogilvy.
Further down the list the likes of experienced Spaniard, Sergio Garcia (12th), twice British Open Championship winner, Padraig Harrington (17th), Retief Goosen (25th), Camilo Villegas (30th), exciting young prospects Anthony Kim (35th), Anthony Wall (40th) and Chris Wood (41st) and established Englishmen Justin Rose (47th) and Luke Donald (52nd).