★ DP World Tour Championship, Dubai

01لماذا يهم

This is the end of the European golf year and the week the tour's own hierarchy is settled, which gives it a competitive weight the field size does not suggest. In our reading it is the most accessible significant golf tournament in the world, in the literal sense that the organizer gives away a day of it, and that access is a deliberate part of how the tour presents itself in the region.

02الأسبوع المحيط به

November is when Dubai reopens.

Corporate hospitality is concentrated on the course, in the tour's own structures and the sponsor pavilions, and reflects the Gulf's finance, logistics and property sectors rather than an international golf audience.

03موعد الوصول

Thursday is free with pre-registration and is the best value in professional golf, so arrive Wednesday and take all four days if you can.

04أماكن الإقامة

Jumeirah Golf Estates sits inland on the Sheikh Zayed Road corridor, so nothing near it is where you would otherwise stay.

05الوصول والضيافة

The tour sells and publishes access on its own tournament page. Thursday admission is free but requires advance registration for a ticket; Friday, Saturday and Sunday are paid; and children aged 17 and under are admitted free, though they must also hold a registered ticket.

06مواضع النشاط الاجتماعي

The Championship Village is the tournament's public social space and is designed as one, with bars, food stalls and live music running through the afternoon and into the evening.

07كيفية الوصول

08الجوانب العملية

09التاريخ

Until 2008 the European tour's season ended with the Volvo Masters at Valderrama, a field of the leading sixty money winners.

10من يتواجد هناك

Dubai's large expatriate golf community, Gulf-based corporate hospitality from finance, logistics and property, the DP World Tour's sponsors and partners, visiting European golf followers combining the week with a winter-sun trip, and a substantial local family audience drawn by the free Thursday and free under-18 admission.