★ DP World Tour Championship, Dubai

01重要な理由

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.

02前後の週

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.

03到着時期

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.

04宿泊先

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

05アクセスとホスピタリティ

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.

06社交活動の場

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.

07アクセス方法

08実用情報

09沿革

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

10参加者

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.