Can it really be a year since I was last out in Dubai? Well yes it can and it is truly scary just how fast time seems to fly by as you get older. Sometimes you feel as if it is just you that suffers this malaise but I find some comfort in the knowledge that friends and family of a similar age feel exactly the same. Actually, if I think about that again, it offers scant consolation!
For anybody that wasn't party to my blog last year, you must be thinking why is he going out to Dubai? Easy answer. It's to work on one of the European Golf Tour's premier golf championships known by many with a knowledge and love of the game as "The Race to Dubai". It is actually the culmination of a season which has taken in 47 tournaments in no less than 26 countries. And I thought that I travelled a lot!
There is a phenomenal amount of money up for grabs next week, not only for the person who wins the actual tournament but for the top 15 finishers in the "The Race To Dubai" who compete for an additional and very substantial bonus pool. In 2009 when I attended this event for the first time, Lee Westwood whom you can see in my blog title photo, actually won the tournament and the overall "Race" and took home North of £1.25m! It wasn't long after this that he was acclaimed World Number 1.
It was a speculative e-mail that I sent to the Chief Marshall, Buddy Morin, shortly before the Championship in 2009 asking if they needed any more volunteers? They had actually secured the required quota that year but I received a lovely e-mail back saying "come on over, we can find a job for you". The rest as they say is history and with the exception of one year when I went to work on the Dubai Desert Classic instead, I have been going back every year and now find it to be a bit of a drug and something that I very much look forward to.
I intend to write a daily blog of my experiences from now right through to the end of the tournament on 23rd November and hope that it might be of interest to people who know me and indeed even some who don't? Clearly it will centre around golf but who knows what else might be included?
There will be lots of photos to accompany my musings both of which I hope you enjoy.
Please feel free to make any comments - there is an opportunity in every post - but please, no vitriol regarding my grammar! I did struggle through GCE English back in 1969 and have been trying ever since to attain the literary status of that well known playwright, Ernie Wise!
Some photos attached from last year as a little appetizer. Click on the photo to enlarge.
For anybody that wasn't party to my blog last year, you must be thinking why is he going out to Dubai? Easy answer. It's to work on one of the European Golf Tour's premier golf championships known by many with a knowledge and love of the game as "The Race to Dubai". It is actually the culmination of a season which has taken in 47 tournaments in no less than 26 countries. And I thought that I travelled a lot!
There is a phenomenal amount of money up for grabs next week, not only for the person who wins the actual tournament but for the top 15 finishers in the "The Race To Dubai" who compete for an additional and very substantial bonus pool. In 2009 when I attended this event for the first time, Lee Westwood whom you can see in my blog title photo, actually won the tournament and the overall "Race" and took home North of £1.25m! It wasn't long after this that he was acclaimed World Number 1.
It was a speculative e-mail that I sent to the Chief Marshall, Buddy Morin, shortly before the Championship in 2009 asking if they needed any more volunteers? They had actually secured the required quota that year but I received a lovely e-mail back saying "come on over, we can find a job for you". The rest as they say is history and with the exception of one year when I went to work on the Dubai Desert Classic instead, I have been going back every year and now find it to be a bit of a drug and something that I very much look forward to.
I intend to write a daily blog of my experiences from now right through to the end of the tournament on 23rd November and hope that it might be of interest to people who know me and indeed even some who don't? Clearly it will centre around golf but who knows what else might be included?
There will be lots of photos to accompany my musings both of which I hope you enjoy.
Please feel free to make any comments - there is an opportunity in every post - but please, no vitriol regarding my grammar! I did struggle through GCE English back in 1969 and have been trying ever since to attain the literary status of that well known playwright, Ernie Wise!
Some photos attached from last year as a little appetizer. Click on the photo to enlarge.
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