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Last updated: 17th November 2009

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This week sees the climax of the European Tour season and the inaugural Race to Dubai with the lucrative Dubai World Championship. The new event will be played over the Greg Norman-designed Earth Course at the Jumeirah Golf Estates in Dubai and features the top 60 players on the European Tour money-list.

The winner of the Dubai World Championship pockets $1.25million, while the winner of the overall Race to Dubai - the player at the top of the money-list at the tournament's completion - will claim an additional prize fund of $1.5million. He will also receive the Harry Vardon Trophy (first awarded in 1937) for finishing the season as European number one, as well as a seven-year European Tour card exemption.

This week's venue - which stages a European Tour event for the first time - is almost 7,700 yards in length, while there are more than 20 lakes on the estate, along with 102 bunkers.

Gulf stroke averages

Gulf average positions

European Tour form guide