Euro Tour to stage richest event

The European Tour will present the richest golf game tourney in the human race when Dubai hosts a £4.88m ($10m) season-ending event from 2009.

The world's top 60 will vie at the end-of-season finale, named the Dubai World Championship, with the victor set to pocket $1,666,660 (£813,800).

The European Tour will split a additional $10m among its top 15, and rename its Order of Merit the Race to Dubai.

The victor of the race, to include the new event, will have a $2m bonus.

Players will be ranked according to their net income from all events on the European Tour International Schedule, including all European Tour tournaments, the major league and the World Golf Championships.

"The sums of money involved are lurching and add to the already rampant rising prices that orders golf game game award money," said BBC Radio 5 Live golf letter writer Iain Carter.

European Tour head executive director Saint George O'Grady added: "It will convey a new dimension to the Tour.

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"(It will create) great play and theatre throughout the twelvemonth as all the best participants in the human race are given the chance to vie in the world's richest tournament.

"Moreover, as the European Tour have got go ever-more planetary in its mentality it have go increasingly of import to us to have an international alkali in a strategically-placed location."

The European Tour's new international central office will be established at Jumeirah Golf Estates, which will host the inaugural Dubai World Championship between 19-22 November, 2009.

The alterations come up on the dorsum of an increasing figure of European participants opting to take portion in the PGA Tour in America.

Its season-ending event, the FedEx Cup, offers £4.8m to the winner.

England's Justin Rose claimed last season's Order of Merit statute title at the Tour finale, the Volvo Masters.

That event was marred by the absence of Ernie Els who was leading the money race but was contracted to play at the Capital Of Singapore Open instead.

"We take our share of the incrimination for the programming struggle between the Capital Of Singapore Open and the Volvo Masters," O'Grady told BBC Radio 5 Live.

He added: "We can't be finishing the European Tour agenda in late October now.

"The PGA Tour have got raised the barroom in footing of tourney publicity and I'm a great supporter of everything they do, and they've just made us sharpen our act."