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European Tour Golf Betting Odds: All season long, golfers on the Euro PGA Tour are competing to win the Race to Dubai. The Race to Dubai is more or less considered the chase for the championship of golf, the culmination of which is the DP World Tour Championship. It's an aptly named award, knowing that the last event of the season is held in Dubai and is limited to just 60 golfers from the Euro PGA Tour.

The Race to Dubai is a season-long event, ending with the DP World Tour Championship, which will be held from Thursday, November 16, 2017 through Sunday, November 19, 2017.

Race to Dubai Format

Before the Race to Dubai existed, the Order of Merit was handed out to the top money-earner on the Euro PGA Tour every year. In 2009, the Euro PGA Tour more or less went the route of the FedEx Cup on the PGA Tour, switching to a bit of a "playoff" of sort. Though the Race to Dubai isn't formally any grouping of events, it is a way to award achievement over the course of the entire season.

Essentially, little has changed between the Order of Merit and the Race to Dubai. Golfers on the Euro PGA Tour are awarded points based on Euros earned over the course of the year. The big difference is that the last four tournaments of the year are all worth 10 million points, more than any other tournament over the course of the year. It doesn't effectively make the October and November schedule a "postseason," per se, but with the added value to the events there is no doubt that most of the top golfers in the world will still have a chance to win a championship with a good month of golf no matter how badly things went earlier in the season.

List of Race to Dubai Winners

With a cumulative points-based system in place, you'd figure that the golfers who play the most events over the course of a season on the Euro PGA Tour would be best-positioned to win the Race to Dubai. Alas, that really isn't the case. With the exception of the initial winner of the Race to Dubai, Martin Kaymer, none of the winners of this season-long feat have played in even 20 events over the course of the year. Kaymer only played in 22 in 2010.

In fact, all of the winners of the Race to Dubai in the past have been somewhat regulars on the PGA Tour as well. Henrik Stenson made history in 2013 by winning the Race to Dubai and the FedEx Cup Series. Rory McIlroy has now also won both honors, capturing the Race to Dubai three times and the FedEx Cup in 2016, though he never held both awards at the same time.

Most Career Wins at Race to Dubai

The names that have won the Race to Dubai have been awfully impressive. Not only of the golfers was a no-name, on the PGA Tour, let alone on the Euro PGA Tour. It's a bit surprising that, given the relatively unpredictable nature of golf, five consecutive Races to Dubai have been won by just two run, Rory McIlroy and Henrik Stenson. Certainly, these two are going to be remembered as amongst the best golfers Europe has to offer in the 2010s. It could be a while before anyone runs down these two at the top. The Euro PGA Tour is considered to be tremendously competitive, and the idea of anyone beating out both Stenson and McIlroy while also fending off the rest of the field multiple times is shaky at best.

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