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Qatar Masters

Qatar Masters

European Tour golf tournament

For the chess tournament, see Qatar Masters Open.

The Qatar Masters is a European Tour golf tournament held at Doha Golf Club in Doha, Qatar. When founded in 1998, it was one of two European Tour events to be staged in the Arabian Peninsula, but was at one point, one of six.[1] From 2005 to 2007 the tournament was co-sanctioned by the Asian Tour.

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Branden Grace, winner in 2015 and 2016, here posing with the trophy after his second victory.

The tournament had modest fields in its early years, but with the aid of "promotional" money paid to top golfers to appear, and being scheduled within a three-week period that included events in Dubai and Abu Dhabi, it developed to have one of the European Tour's strongest fields.

In 2018, due to travel restrictions between the United Arab Emirates and Qatar as a result of the ongoing diplomatic dispute in the Arab World, it was moved to later in the year, and is no longer held at the same time as the Abu Dhabi and Dubai events. The date change coincided with a reduction in prize money, and resulted in a lower field strength than previous editions.[2]

Winners

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Notes

  1. ASA − Asian Tour; EUR − European Tour.
  2. Shortened to 54 holes due to strong winds.

References

  1. [1]
    "European Tour - Qatar Masters - History". PGA European Tour. Retrieved 1 January 2019.
  2. [2]
    "European Tour changes Desert Swing schedule to have Abu Dhabi and Dubai back-to-back". The National. 7 September 2017.

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