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Dubai on Brink of Sovereign Default; Deep Implications for European Tour
A few months ago, I wrote a piece here at Waggle Room declaring the imminent death of the Race to Dubai. It was seen as controversial by commenters that expected Dubai to recover from the global real estate bubble burst. In preview of the Dubai World Championship, we came back with a piece about...
The Race to Dubai is Now in Doubt
We haven't talked much about the Race to Dubai in recent months, but it is the European Tour's version of the FedEx Cup. The Race to Dubai basically is using the money list to determine who gets entry into a $10 million season-ending event in Dubai. The top 60 players enter the field. The player...
Turnberry May Not Be Ready for the Open Championship
Looking at Twitter this morning, I saw a link posted with a message wondering if Turnberry would be ready to host the Open Championship in July. Last I had paid attention to Peter Dawson was when he had the press conference to announced the 250 yards or so of added length at Turnberry for the...
Dubai's Slump Impacting the European Tour
Remember when oil was heading to $147 per barrel and gas was outrageously priced and we were all going to go buy hybrids tomorrow? That was right around the time when the European Tour announced its Race to Dubai. The oil revenue from that kind of precipitous growth in prices was fueling the...
Ryder Cup...in Dubai?
Golf Channel's Brian Hewitt floats the rumor that Dubai could host a future Ryder Cup in his weekly piece for the .com. Venues for the Euro side are locked up through 2014, with Gleneagles hosting then. 2018 could be the earliest that Dubai could host the competition, but competing bids from...
Calling the Euro Tour's Bluff
Watching a lot of left-leaning political coverage lately, you would hear the phrase "kitchen sink" a lot. Whether you believe the McCain campaign is doing that or not, a litany of British golf journalists are of the mind that the European Tour is on the verge of crushing the PGA Tour and America. ...
European Tour Mirroring LPGA Tour Woes
In about 60 days, the European Tour will begin its 2008-09 season and kick off the first year of the concept known as Race to Dubai. It is the European Tour's answer to the FedEx Cup and is basically a renaming of the pretigious Order of Merit. At the end of the season in November, the European...
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