2014 Volvo Golf Champions

Durban Country Club, South Africa 9 - 12 January 2014

Thomas Aiken Thomas Björn Kiradech Aphibarnrat Grégory Bourdy Paul Casey Darren Clarke Jamie Donaldson Victor Dubuisson Ernie Els Darren Fichardt Tommy Fleetwood Stephen Gallacher Branden Grace Pádraig Harrington Michael Hoey David Howell Mikko Ilonen Raphaël Jacquelin Jin Jeong

Robert Karlsson Joost Luiten David Lynn Julien Quesne Brett Rumford Marcel Siem Chris Wood Louis Oosthuizen Simon Thornton Charl Schwartzel Richard Sterne Simon Thornton Gonzalo Fdez-Castaño Dawie Van Der Walt Miguel Ángel Jiménez Colin Montgomerie José Maria Olazábal Matteo Manassero Morton Ørum Madsen volvoingolf.com

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Contents WELCOME MESSAGES 5.

Håkan Samuelsson, Volvo Car Group

Olof Persson, The Volvo Group

Per Ericsson, Volvo Event Management

11.

Michael Mabuyakhulu, province of KwaZulu-Natal

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Guy Kinnings, IMG

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George O’Grady, European Tour

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Richard Pemberton, Durban Country Club

FEATURE ARTICLES 23.

Oosthuizen Unearths a Gem of a Performance

28.

Volvo in Golf – A Rewarding Worldwide Relationship Volvo World Golf Challenge – The World’s Most

32.

Exciting Golfing Experience

35.

Playing with the Pros – The Greatest Prize in Amateur Golf

36.

KwaZulu-Natal – an Exceptional Touch of Paradise

38.

The Game is on for Volvo’s Big Five

42.

IMG – Leading the way in Golf Management

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Star For Life and Volvo – A Winning Partnership

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INFORMATION 20.

Sponsors’ Acknowledgements

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Order of Play and Prize Money Breakdown

48.

How the Players Qualified

51.

Player Profiles

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Louis Oosthuizen’s Hole-by-Hole Guide

83.

Acknowledgements and Officials

84.

Map of the Course & Tented Village

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Welcome from Håkan Samuelsson, President and CEO Volvo Car Group

n behalf of the Volvo Car Group and Volvo Car South Africa, I am delighted to welcome you here to Durban Country Club for the fourth staging of the Volvo Golf Champions. Volvo’s long-lasting but always innovative golf sponsorship led to the introduction of this tournament in 2011, and it is now firmly established as the European Tour’s tournament of champions. This ground-breaking strategy of customising events fits well with our corporate and brand strategy ”Designed Around You” which puts people at the heart of everything that we do. With more than 80 events on The European Tour alone, our enthusiasm for and involvement in golf continues. Volvo’s portfolio also includes our global corporate tournament, the Volvo World Golf Challenge, and I congratulate all those who have made it to this week’s World Final, particularly those who qualify for Playing With The Pros here at Durban Country Club on Friday. Spending quality time with our customers is as important to us as showcasing our brand and products both to the golf fans attending here this week and those watching on TV all over the world. The Volvo Car South Africa team, led by Managing Director Bram van der Reep, share my welcome and will be doing all they can to ensure that everyone here this week enjoys a truly world-class experience that will live long in the memory. We are delighted to be back here at Durban Country Club, at the heart of a golfing nation which really enjoyed this tournament when it was staged here last year. This week we are also very excited over our models that are the rewards for a Hole-in-One during the Championship. I am sure that the star golfers from The European Tour will enjoy a wonderful and thrilling Volvo Golf Champions, and I hope that they, as well as everyone, will have a wonderful week. Good luck everyone, and please enjoy yourself!

Håkan Samuelsson President and CEO Volvo Car Group

Welcome from Olof Persson, President and CEO of the Volvo Group

am delighted to welcome everyone – players and officials, business partners, journalists and, of course, all of the golf-loving spectators – to the beautiful Durban Country Club. This challenging course will once again be a perfect home for what is sure to be a week of the finest golf featuring many of the greatest players on The European Tour. A championship such as this is the perfect opportunity not only for us to showcase our values, our products and our brand, but also to engage with key customers and clients. It is our customers and their passion for golf who really make these events. With the help of the star golfers who support our tournaments and the spectators, creating such a lively and exciting atmosphere, the Volvo Golf Champions is now one of golf’s biggest and best events. On Friday, the Pros will be joined by Volvo customers from all over the world who have qualified for the World Final of the Volvo World Golf Challenge. The top finishers will be Playing With The Pros, a unique experience in amateur golf, and I congratulate them all. Last year’s champion, Louis Oosthuizen, went home with one of our compact excavators to use on his farm as a result of his success in Playing With The Pros. This year he will get the chance to add to his Volvo collection as there will be a number of very exciting prizes on offer for a Hole-in-One, including a Volvo Backhoe Loader and a new Volvo FH truck. I know that Torbjörn Christensson, President of the Volvo Group Southern Africa, and his team, joins me in welcoming you to this week’s events. I wish each of the golfers the very best of luck, and hope that everyone will have an excellent time.

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Welcome from Per Ericsson, President, Volvo Event Management

s the Volvo Golf Champions continues to confirm its position as The European Tour’s tournament of champions, I am delighted to welcome you all to our season-opening event at one of golf’s most established professional tournament venues, Durban Country Club. This will be our 81st championship in partnership with The European Tour, and with a substantially increased prize-fund, I am confident that we are in for an even greater exhibition of golfing expertise than ever before. In addition to the prize fund we are also offering a record-breaking five Hole in One prizes. Our exclusive field is packed with winners – those who have won on Tour since the last Volvo Golf Champions or who have at least ten career victories to their name. With such an elite entry, the finest quality is guaranteed. As a company, we continue our commitment to golf as a core ingredient in how we engage with our customers. This vital tool in our sales and marketing mix is not just via professional events such as this, but also through our global series for customers and prospective clients who take part in the Volvo World Golf Challenge. The best-placed amateurs from this week’s biggest-ever World Final will be here at Durban Country Club on Friday to take part in Volvo’s innovative and ground-breaking concept, Playing with the Pros. This sees Volvo customers who have qualified through local, regional and national events in 50 different Volvo markets, teaming up with some of the greatest golfers in the world, live on TV – a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for club golfers. If they perform well, they might even help the Pros they are playing with to win a brand new car…! I am sure that each and every one of the star golfers here this week will put on a great show, and I hope that everyone visiting enjoys watching their amazing skills.

Per Ericsson President Volvo Event Management

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he province of KwaZulu-Natal is renowned the world over as the premier events and sporting destination. The beauty of our province, inspired by an abundant natural bounty of landscapes makes us Africa’s tourist and events mecca. Our golden beaches, that are warm throughout the year, and a combination of African, European and Asian cultures add an additional fascination that makes visitors from other continents feel at home as they are easily assimilated to the real salad bowl of multiple cultures that constitute our rainbow nation. It is for this reason that as a province we have been able to attract some of the crème de la crème of national and international sporting events to our shores. In 2013 we, for the second year running, we played host to the much-coveted Top Gear motoring showpiece – an event which ensured that the eyes of the world were once again fixed upon our country and the province. This was followed by the South African Indian Film and Traditional Awards, another international showpiece which again provided us a pedestal from which to further raise the profile of our province at an international level. To this end, we are buoyed to be again playing host to the Volvo Golf Champions, a tournament which continues to enrich our corporate identity as a preferred tourism, sporting and investment destination. For us, as the Province of KwaZulu-Natal and the people of South Africa, we believe that all those who are taking part in this Championship share in the success of the tournament, hence the most important single winner would be the spirit of comradeship exhibited by golfers throughout the contest. The high calibre of world class players who participate in this tournament make it one of the most prestigious golfing events in the world and we are proud to be again associated with Volvo and IMG to bring this event to KwaZulu-Natal. We look forward to hosting this event again and welcome all the local and international visitors to enjoy the various attractions in our warm province.

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e are delighted to welcome you to the 2014 Volvo Golf Champions. Last year saw a very successful third edition of the Volvo Golf Champions here at Durban Country Club. For the second consecutive year, fans were treated to a South African winner with Louis Oosthuizen claiming the ‘Champion of Champions’ title in 2013, following on from his compatriot, Branden Grace, winner of the 2012 event. We are delighted to return to the outstanding Durban CC where we will again host last season’s winners, together with the elite group of stars who have won ten or more career European Tour titles at this unique yearopening tournament. The course provided a magnificent stage for The European Tour’s best in 2013 and we look forward to seeing how this year’s field of champions tackle this world-famous course, the only course on the African continent to be rated in the Top 100 Golf Courses of the World by Golf Magazine (USA). The Volvo Golf Champions is an extension of our partnership with Volvo, one of the most prolific and longest-serving sponsors in golf. Volvo, with whom we also partner on the Volvo World Match Play Championship, demonstrated its values of innovation in creating this original concept in collaboration with IMG and The European Tour and we are very grateful to the players who have embraced this event with its unique qualification criteria. It is thanks to the players’ support that it already stands out on The European Tour schedule as the perfect event to launch the new year. IMG has been a long term supporter of The European Tour having staged over 250 European Tour events and over 750 events globally over the past 50 years. Coupled with Volvo’s experience and dedication to golf over the past 20 plus years, IMG is very proud to collaborate on this tournament and, with the entry of so many of The European Tour’s best players, we look forward to another week of top-class golf. We are particularly grateful to the KwaZulu-Natal Provincial Government and the Central Government Department for Sport and Recreation and the Department for Tourism for their commitment to hosting the Volvo Golf Champions and also to Durban CC for their enthusiasm and assistance in the build up to the event and to the Sunshine Tour for their support, which underpins the success of South African golf and their golfers worldwide. We feel sure that the Volvo Golf Champions will once again provide the perfect platform to showcase all the wonderful facilities that the area has to offer to the global golfing audience. It will again shine a spotlight on South African golf and its stars who have played such a key role in the development of The European Tour and who have enjoyed such a successful time in terms of global victories in recent years. I sincerely thank my team at IMG, headed up by Ross Hallett, for all their hard work and, of course, many thanks to you, our valued spectators. I hope you enjoy your experience here at the Volvo Golf Champions watching Europe’s best golfers and I am sure you will join me in wishing all the professional and amateur golfers competing here this week the very best of luck.

Guy Kinnings Global Head of Golf IMG

Welcome from George O’Grady CBE, Chief Executive, The European Tour

elcome to the fourth edition of the Volvo Golf Champions, a tournament that celebrates the players who have enjoyed success on The European Tour International Schedule over the past 12 months, as well as those players with ten or more career wins. After ending 2013 in the KwaZula-Natal Province of South Africa four weeks ago, it gives us great pleasure to return to this magnificent region to begin this new calendar year. Since its inception three years ago, the Volvo Golf Champions has acquired an impressive roll call of champions, with Englishman Paul Casey victorious at the inaugural event, followed by South Africans Branden Grace in 2012, and Louis Oosthuizen last year. With an increased prize fund of $4,000,000, this prestigious title promises to be even more sought-after this year as many of our leading players hope to start 2014 with a victory. Volvo have been a loyal and generous sponsor of The European Tour for more than 25 years, and this substantial prize fund rise of more than 50 per cent is yet another example of their commitment to both this event and golf in general. We are therefore extremely grateful to Volvo for their long-term support and vision, and we thank Per Ericsson and his team from Volvo Event Management for their continued professionalism and commitment to our Tour. Our thanks go to the KwaZula-Natal Provincial Government for helping to bring some of golf’s leading players back to this part of South Africa, while we must also recognise the vital role played by IMG in staging this event. In addition, it is as always a pleasure for The European Tour to renew our partnership with the Sunshine Tour, with whom we co-sanction seven events on our 2014 International Schedule. Finally, we are indebted to the officials and members of Durban Country Club for allowing us to use their superb course for a second consecutive year. To everyone involved, enjoy the golf.

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Welcome from Richard Pemberton, Chairman of Durban Country Club

e are delighted to be asked by Volvo for the second year in a row to host its prestigious Volvo Golf Champions at Durban Country Club. Our experience last year with Volvo and IMG, was a successful and happy one. It thus gives us great pleasure to again share our golf course with our friends from 2013 and the finest golfers from Europe and elsewhere who have won on The European Tour. We believe that our course, which still remains the only African golf course rated in the top 100 in the world, will be even better in terms of its condition and presentation than in 2013. We sincerely hope that the weather will be kinder to the players than last year. I therefore again happily welcome everyone attending this prestigious event and wish you all an enjoyable visit to the tournament and to Durban.

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Sponsor Acknowledgements We would like to thank the following companies for their support of the Volvo Golf Champions

VOLVO GOLF CHAMPIONS SCHEDULE OF EVENTS Monday: Tuesday:

Practice Day Practice Day

Wednesday: Thursday: Friday:

Pro Am: Gates Open: 07:00 – 16:00 First tee time: 08:00 (two-tee start) Approx. end of play: 18:00

Round 1 of the Volvo Golf Champions Gates Open: 08:00 -18:00 Approx. first tee time: 09:40 Approx. end of play: 17:00 Round 2 of the Volvo Golf Champions including the Volvo Golf Champions Amateur-Pro Team Competition Gates Open: 07:00 – 18:00 Approx. first tee time 08:40 Approx end of play 17:00

Saturday:

Round 3 of the Volvo Golf Champions Gates Open: 08:00 -18:00 Approx. first tee time 09:10 Approx. end of play 16:30 Sunday: Final Round of the Volvo Golf Champions Gates Open: 08:00 -18:00 Approx. first tee time 09:10 (one tee only) Approx. end of play 16:30 Prize-giving Ceremony

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PRIZE MONEY BREAKDOWN Pos

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700,000

81,400

58,000

450,000

78,200

56,600

260,000

75,400

55,200

220,000

72,800

53,800

186,000

70,200

52,400

160,000

67,800

51,000

140,000

66,400

49,600

120,000

65,000

48,200

106,000

63,600

46,800

98,000

62,200

45,400

90,200

60,800

44,000

85,600

59,400

Total prize fund $4,000,000

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Oosthuizen unearths a gem of a performance Buoyed by winning a shiny new Volvo Compact Excavator EC55B in the Amateur-Pro Team Competition on the Friday, Louis Oosthuizen wrapped up a memorable victory at last yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Volvo Golf Champions thanks to a stunning final round 66.

ABOVE: Louis Oosthuizen acknowledges the cheers of the crowd after winning last year’s Volvo Golf Champions. BELOW: Oosthuizen poses with his new Excavator after winning the Pro-Am alongside Thongchai Jaidee and amateur Colin Ledwith.

OME favourite Louis Oosthuizen clinched his sixth European Tour title by overhauling Scott Jamieson’s overnight lead with seven birdies and a solitary bogey in his six under par closing round. “It was a great day,” he said. “Starting out behind, you don’t have that much pressure, so I went out with the intention of making loads of birdies. When I got to the ninth I was one behind and then the crowd really got into it. By the time I got to the 12th, I was leading by one and it was great to see them so pumped up.” Oosthuizen dropped a shot on the difficult 16th – a hole he hadn’t birdied all week – and then closed with two pars to post the clubhouse target at 16 under. Earlier in the day

“Obviously, winning is a great start to the year, and I’m going to enjoy that Excavator on my farm, I can tell you that!” – Louis Oosthuizen Jamieson had began strongly with birdies on holes 3 and 4 but he then gave them back with a double bogey on the par 4 fifth. He couldn’t raise his game over the following holes and then dropped another stroke on the 16th to fall two back of Oosthuizen, who was safely in the clubhouse. The Scot launched an aggressive drive down the short, closing hole leaving himself with a chip for eagle to force a play-off. But as the ball rolled towards the hole it came to rest on line but agonizingly short. “Louis’ a Major Champion - there’s no shame in losing to him,” conceded Jamieson, who had won just a few weeks earlier at the Nelson Mandela Championship. “The double bogey was a kick in the teeth, but I had tons of chances and couldn’t take

them. I gave it my all, but it wasn’t to be.” For Oosthuizen the win took him to a career-high of fourth on the Official World Rankings but a series of niggling injuries throughout the 2013 campaign curtailed his ambitions of moving further up the table and winning more tournaments. “On the whole, last year was a bit of a struggle,” said Oosthuizen, who finished 47th on The 2013 Race to Dubai. “It started well with the victory here at the Volvo Golf Champions but I wasn’t really swinging it the way I wanted to and that was because of an old neck problem from 2005 – a whiplash injury. “At the start of the year it came back and it made me swing quite differently. At the US Open I injured a muscle in my leg while hitting out of

the rough and then at The Open at Muirfield I had to withdraw after eight holes because I couldn’t walk on it. “I took a few months off and returned to play the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship in Scotland and then The Presidents Cup – which was a lot of fun – and now I can’t wait to start the 2014 season.” If Oosthuizen is to successfully defend his title this week he’s going to have to overcome the cream of The European Tour, with the likes of past champion Branden Grace teeing it up alongside Padraig Harrington, Matteo Manassero, Miguel Angel Jiménez, David Howell, Thomas Björn and 2013 Rookie of the Year Peter Uihlein to name just a few candidates. Twenty year old Italian Manassero collected the biggest title of his

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fledgling career to date at the BMW PGA Championship at Wentworth last year with a play-off victory over Simon Khan and Marc Warren. Manassero has been a regular record breaker in his career, having become the youngest ever winner on The European Tour in 2010 at the Castello Masters. His win at Wentworth made him the youngest winner of the tournament. At the other end of the scale, evergreen Spaniard Jiménez broke his own record as The European Tour’s oldest winner when he won his 20th Tour title at the Hong Kong Open in December last year. Björn remains a fierce competitor with 15 wins on The European Tour, including last year’s NedBank Golf Challange and the Omega European Masters, while Harrington will be hoping a good performance can kickstart his 2014 campaign and move himself into contention for a Ryder Cup spot at Gleneagles. The Irishman admitted he got his scheduling wrong in 2013 and is fully prepared for the new season, having worked hard with his coach Pete Cowen over the last few months. Young American Uihlein won his first title as a professional at the Madeira Islands Open while

Thomas Björn tees off during last year’s Volvo Golf Champions.

Englishman Chris Wood also made his breakthrough on The European Tour as a sublime eagle on the last hole gave him victory at the Commercial Bank Qatar Masters. Two-time Ryder Cup player David Howell found himself back in the winner’s circle for the first time since 2006 with a superb victory over

Clockwise from above: David Howell poses on the famous Swilken Bridge after winning the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship at St Andrews last year. Brett Rumford seals his fifth European Tour title at last year’s Volvo China Open and Paul Casey clinches the 2013 Irish Open.

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Volvo in Golf

A Rewarding Worldwide Relationship

olvo runs three prestigious professional tournaments – the Volvo Golf Champions, the Volvo China Open and the Volvo World Match Play Championship – as well as a hugely popular event for club and corporate golfers, the Volvo World Golf Challenge. As golf and The European Tour has gone global, so too has exposure to Volvo’s brand and products via its long-term support of golf. This week’s Volvo Golf Champions is the curtain-raiser for The European Tour in 2014 and is just the fourth staging of the company’s innovative and cutting edge new event for proven winners. It is a true tournament of champions and features only the best of the best. Last year it was won by South African

former Open champion Louis Oosthuizen and he joined compatriot Branden Grace and Paul Casey as winners of this prestigious event. Whilst this may be a relatively new championship, Volvo’s involvement with professional golf goes back a quarter of a century, to May 1988. Since the inaugural Volvo PGA Championship at Wentworth, Volvo has enjoyed an unbroken and ever-stronger tie with The European Tour.

Flagship Tournaments The company’s most recent Tour event, the Volvo World Match Play Championship last May, was its 130th title sponsorship and 80th European Tour event. Over the years this has included flagship tournaments such as the Volvo

PGA Championship and the Volvo Masters, as well as title sponsorship of the Volvo Order of Merit. When the company first joined forces with The European Tour, there was a seven-month season which was almost exclusively in Europe. The total prize fund for the whole year was less than €10million. Now, the yearlong season spans the globe with prize money of over €125million. Volvo has played a major role in this and raised the bar significantly in event production and presentation, introducing services such as courtesy cars, players’ lounges and professional practice facilities which are today taken as standard. Having established its reputation as the clear leader in golf sponsorship in Europe, Volvo then became the first western brand to actively engage with golf in China. The 1995 launch of the Volvo China Open, the country’s national open championship, saw the start of an important

relationship which continues to flourish. Indeed, along with the Volvo China Junior Match Play Championship, Volvo has celebrated more than 50 title sponsorships in this hugely important and fast-growing market alone. According to Per Ericsson, President of Volvo Event Management: “Golf is growing in countries such as China, where Volvo is already the leading golf sponsor and in places such as India, Russia and Brazil. “At Volvo, we can make business through people’s passion for golf – a sport played by a great many of our customers of today and tomorrow.”

Innovation The company’s third professional event is the Volvo World Match Play Championship. 2013 saw the 48th staging of this iconic tournament and its star-studded field produced a most worthy champion in Graeme McDowell – a true match play specialist with a superlative

Ryder Cup record. In keeping with Volvo’s positive approach to innovation and taking golf into new territories, this great championship was played at a very exciting new destination, Thracian Cliffs in Bulgaria. Whilst it is the professional tournaments that give Volvo the greatest media exposure, there is an extremely important second string to its golfing bow. Since 1988 Volvo has organised a worldwide corporate golf series. Originally the Volvo Masters Amateur and now the Volvo World Golf Challenge, more than a million customers and prospective clients from almost 40 different nations have taken part, giving the opportunity for

genuine, one-to-one relationships. Indeed, the main reason for Volvo’s widespread and enduring support of golf is that there is a very strong link between the sport and the company’s core customers – past, present and future – a demographic that is unmistakably involved with golf both in terms of participation and as keen spectators. All these events work on many different levels. There is the obvious impact via television, newspapers and the internet. They also offer the chance for the company to spend indepth quality time with key customers and decision makers. According to Per Ericsson: “Volvo is extremely

proud to be the only ever-present title sponsor on The European Tour. Obviously, we monitor our return on investment and it is clear that after 25 hugely successful years, golf more than delivers the results we look for. Our amateur golf programme is truly unique and Volvo is the only major brand that ties its amateur and professional events together.” Golf is continuing to expand around the world, and as the game returns to the Olympics in Brazil in 2016, the sport continues to open new doors for Volvo in different locations as well as reinforce relationships with its existing, highlyvalued customers and partners. n

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HE Volvo World Golf Challenge captures all the drama and unpredictability of a great golf event. Every year this global tournament involves club golfers from almost 40 countries. What begins at a local golf club can be the start of the golfing experience of

a lifetime, a journey that will take players from all around the world to a World Final, where they will have the chance to play in the Volvo Golf Champions – The European Tour’s tournament of champions – in the actual tournament, live on worldwide TV. This must-play tournament for club

and amateur golfers works at so many different levels – locally, regionally, nationally and globally. It is now widely recognised as the leading tournament of its kind and is one which attracts golfers of all abilities to a wide variety of events in an ever-increasing number of markets.

FOR VOLVO CUSTOMERS EVERYWHERE LAUNCHED as the Volvo Masters Amateur in 1988, the Volvo World Golf Challenge has evolved in so many different ways in around 50 Volvo markets into the must -play event for club and amateur golfers all over the world. What makes it so very special is that whilst it is a truly international tournament with the opportunity of a place in the World Final and even the chance of Playing with the Pros, it begins in a way that is tailored for each market and is played close to home. Tens of thousands of golfers take part every year, and this gives

Volvo and our customers a fantastic opportunity to really get to know one another. Since its early days more than 25 years ago, well over a million golfers from around the world have enjoyed playing in this exciting and prestigious event. The early stages are played at a local level on the most beautiful courses, and each is a pleasing mix of competition and social golf, run professionally in true Volvo-style. Each market is allocated a number of places in the World Final, and then runs its own competitions in the way that best suits Volvo’s local customers and partners.

THE WORLD FINAL – A PERFECT PRIZE THE size and scale of each market and the local golfing climate can result in anything from just one or two local competitions to decide who will qualify for the World Final to a full series of tournaments throughout the year with regional and national finals. Those who then qualify are flown the following January to the location of the Volvo Golf Champions tournament which is played concurrently. Here, the ultimate golfing dream really does come true as they enjoy the golfing experience of a lifetime: l The 36-hole World Final played over a beautiful and challenging golf course; l The incredible opportunity of Playing with the Pros during the Volvo Golf Champions; l Off-site activities and experiences; l The chance to watch the Volvo Golf Champions and get behind the scenes and rub shoulders with the stars.

In 2013 alone, nationalities that have been represented at the World Final have been from as far afield and as different cultural backgrounds as China, France, India, Ireland, Japan, Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, South Korea, Sweden and Turkey.

Fanny Sunesson, Tournament Director and Golf Performance Coach, commented after last years tournament: “Everyone’s loved the event. They loved everything about it. They all said that Playing with the Pros was the best experience they had ever had in golf. All of the World Finalists would come back tomorrow and do it again if they could!” Alan Harper, Regional Sales Manager, Volvo Car South Africa, added: “Once again it’s been a fantastic piece of organisation. I don’t think any stone had been left unturned. The chance for amateur golfers to come here and experience this is beyond belief. South African golfers are businessmen and the majority of our business is done on the course, so it all fits in well with Volvo’s brand values.” Peter Jones, World Champion, from the United Kingdom said: “To be frank, I’m stunned. This is a fantastic trip just to come out to – it’s the ultimate, just to be here. Not in my wildest dreams did I think I would win! The way we have been looked after by Volvo is first-class. If you asked anyone else they would say the same. It’s absolutely phenomenal, the trip of a lifetime without any doubt.” n

PLAYING WITH THE PROS

The Greatest Prize in Amateur Golf

N what is a genuine money-can’tbuy thrill, the leading finishers from the two-day World Final receive an even greater prize, one that is truly unique. They get to play alongside the stars of The European Tour during the Volvo Golf Champions, live on television, in front of a worldwide audience of millions. Each joins a pair of the professionals to make up a team of three and play on day two of the Volvo Golf Champions; an opportunity that exists nowhere else in golf. Playing as a real team, the best two scores from the three golfers at each hole are added up. This is an important competition in its own right with the two

professionals in the best team each winning a brand new Volvo for their efforts. For the World Finalist playing alongside them, the chance to play with two stars from The European Tour is an even greater prize. The innovative, exclusive and once-in-a lifetime opportunity of Playing with the Pros has only been in existence for three years, but in this time World Finalists from the Volvo World Golf Challenge have already had the thrill of playing with Major champions, Ryder Cup heroes and many of the leading players in the world. Best of all, some have got to play with their own, personal sporting hero. Every single golfer who has

taken part has memories that will link them with Volvo forever, and their stories have been reported all over the world. The winner of the 2013 Playing With The Pros was Colin Ledwith, pictured below with winner Louis Oosthuizen who he partnered with alongside Thongchai Jaidee. “It’s been one of the best days of my life – you just can’t beat it,” said Ledwith after collecting the trophy. “Nobody else offers you the chance to play in a regular European Tour event – the Champions event! It’s a one-off. It’s completely unique to Volvo. It’s probably the most memorable thing I will ever do. Volvo have looked after us so well!” n

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KwaZulu-Natal… an Exceptional Touch of Paradise

KwaZulu-Natal, on the east coast of South Africa, is home to the country’s only kingdom – the Zulu Kingdom, a royal heritage dating back to the great Zulu King, Shaka, and beyond.

days, making this an idyllic year-round tourist destination.

KwaZulu-Natal’s

600km

coastline

features a host of sun-drenched beaches ideal for swimming, surfing, fishing and scuba-diving or for enjoying the indigenous coastal forests. Central to the coastal strip is the province’s major city, Durban,

A sub-tropical paradise. KwaZulu-Natal’s leisure

renowned for its beaches – the Golden Mile – a 6km

options abound with glorious year-round sunshine,

walk recognised worldwide for the popularity and

golden beaches, soaring mountains – snow-capped

uniqueness – together with an exciting theme park,

in winter – abundant wildlife, inclusive of the Big-

uShaka Marine World.

5, historic battlefields, water sports, two World Heritage Sites, a rich history and deep-seated Zulu

KwaZulu-Natal is a shopper’s haven, from narrow

culture, and a host of ‘must-see-must-do’ action

and winding city arcades, offering irresistible

attractions, all set against a backdrop of stunning

bargains, to open-air markets teeming with curios

natural beauty.

and keepsakes, to sophisticated shopping malls filled with major chain stores and international boutiques.

KwaZulu-Natal’s coastal belt enjoys a sub-tropical

When it comes to cuisine, the options are endless…

climate, while winters are mild, with clear sunny

the Zulu Kingdom is a melting pot of cultures,

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reflected in its culinary offerings. East meets west in

Visitors are spoiled for choice, selecting to simply

a uniquely African setting. On KwaZulu-Natal’s north

relax or embrace a range of adrenalin-pulsing

coast, two hours from Durban, lies the eco-sensitive

mountain adventures.

iSimangaliso Wetland Park at St Lucia, South Africa’s first World Heritage Site. This area is also home

KwaZulu-Natal is a destination where it is possible

to numerous game reserves, including the oldest

to escape to the wilds on safari in the morning, visit

in Africa, the Hluhluwe-Mfolozi Game Reserve,

urban high-end malls in the afternoon and experience

making this an excellent safari destination for great

the sophistication of fine Afro-fusion dining in the

game-viewing.

evening. With a maximum two-hour commute from Durban and the King Shaka International Airport,

The uKhahlamba-Drakensberg Park – the province’s

to surrounding coastal and inland areas, KwaZulu-

second World Heritage Site – forms part of a

Natal’s experiences are all the more accessible

majestic

and welcoming.

200

kilometre-long

mountain

range

in the interior. The Drakensberg features aweinspiring basalt cliffs and cascading waterfalls,

KwaZulu-Natal… exceptional experiences on the

depicting the true beauty of nature, where the

doorstep.

San people once roamed, leaving behind them a rich tapestry of rock art depicting their daily lives.

The Game is on for Volvo’s own

BIG FIVE V

olvo has a superb reputation all over the world for quality and for innovation, and the company is once again demonstrating this by breaking new ground with its unique approach to the Hole-in-One prizes during the 2014 Volvo Golf Champions. This star-studded international field is used to quality. Both the golfers and everyone at Durban Country Club will therefore be fascinated by Volvo’s extraordinary and generous prizes for that elusive but thrilling achievement, a hole-in-one. Many tournaments offer one such prize, but last year Volvo stepped this up to three. Now, they are

ONE:

Hole 2

going even further by including a prize not just for each of the four par 3s, but also the driveable closing hole. All in all, this means an incredible five hole-in-one prizes! With the exclusive field there is no need for a halfway cut, and this means that each of the golfers taking part will get not just the usual two or four attempts, but an incredible 20 chances to claim one of the amazing prizes on offer! During the Friday of the Volvo Golf Champions, the amateurs teaming up with the Champions in ‘Playing with the Pros’ will also have the chance to win a Hole-in-One prize, to make the competition that little bit extra special.

The second hole is a par 3 played from an elevated tee to a green protected by four large bunkers. Here, the first player to hole his tee shot will be rewarded with a 2014 Volvo S60, a beautiful saloon worth US$47,000. This is just one of the models that are ‘Designed Around You’, Volvo’s customer-focussed initiative whereby they create vehicles according to the driver’s behaviour, driving enjoyment and the maximum possible wellbeing. With thousands of improved parts both inside and out, the new dynamic design, with its purposeful, dynamic appearance, accentuates the car’s sporting nature. The sporty feel is emphasised by new, comfortable sport seats.

two:

The players change direction for the first time at the fourth hole, and the prize on offer here is a superb Volvo V40 Cross Country valued at US$40,000. Back in 1997, Volvo Car Corporation paved the way for a totally new segment with the V70 Cross Country. Now, the 2014 V40 Cross Country brings the unique blend of capable ruggedness and expressive elegance up to a new altitude. Its rugged design includes protective body panels, bigger wheels and tyres and an increased ride height in a very contemporary Scandinavian design, but with added attitude! As part of Volvoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Sensus philosophy, the driver can adjust the brightness of the interior LED lights and choose from seven different theatre light modes to create the desired ambience. V40 Cross Country is your perfect companion for a spontaneous adventure.

Hole 4

This hole is named after the Prince of Wales who recorded a 17 here when he played the course 90 years ago. For the first player who manages to beat his score by 16 shots, there will be a Volvo XC60 worth US$55,000. This stylish car is Volvoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s best-selling model, and the 2014 model gets a more urban twist with a redesigned front which features a new hood shape that emphasises the wide, confident look. The sporty feel is emphasised by new, comfortable sport seats and it is at home in all terrains due to its high ground clearance and the optional all-wheel drive. The driver can personalise the Adaptive Digital Display to suit his mood whilst choosing the voice-activated Sensus ConnectedTouch to navigate more easily and enjoy a whole world of internet-based entertainment.

three: Hole 12

four:

Hole 15

More unusual is the prize at the final par 3 on the course. Any budding golf course builder would be delighted to win the Volvo Backhoe Loader that is on offer here and is valued at US$75,000. Designed on feedback from backhoe customers around the world, this is a loader with the strength and simplicity of a wheel loader, a backhoe with the power and performance of an excavator, and has an operatorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s station with comfort and serviceability features that ensure a long and productive machine life. It has dig depths, breakout forces and operating capacities that are rated higher than virtually every competitive model in its price class.

five:

Undoubtedly the most unusual and indeed the biggest prize of the five is the one on offer at the closing hole. This short par 4 is driveable for most of the players competing and will therefore make for a very dramatic finish. The first player to hole his tee shot will win the allnew Volvo FH16 Truck which has a value of US$200,000. Volvo’s superb range of trucks has been the subject of some massively popular YouTube video hits featuring the Ballerina Stunt and, more recently, one starring Jean-Claude Van Damme which has been watched an incredible 60 million times. Never before has Volvo conducted so many tests among drivers and haulage firms, the result being that not only does it meet today’s needs, but it offers new properties never before experienced in a truck. According to Claes Nilsson, President of Volvo Trucks: “It really is our customers who have influenced the end-product and I’m convinced that we’re setting a new benchmark for the entire truck industry.”

Hole 18

IMG – leading the way in golf management

O other company within the sports business is revered quite like IMG. Founded over 50 years ago by the late Mark McCormack the sports, entertainment and media business has a history like no other. Formerly known as the International Management Group, (IMG) the company was famously founded by McCormack on a handshake with golfing legend Arnold Palmer in 1960. A lawyer by profession, McCormack quickly added Jack Nicklaus and South Africa’s most famous golfer, Gary Player to his stable. In recognising the commercial potential of sport, McCormack truly became the father of the sports marketing industry. Through promoting Palmer, Nicklaus and Player as the ‘Big Three’ of golf, he substantially increased their off-course earnings while growing the IMG business with special ‘made

for television’ events, built around this dynamic trio. After a few years McCormack expanded into tennis using the same successful formula to hasten the growth of tennis and its marketing appeal as it entered the so called ‘open-era’ in the 70s. IMG’s client list over the years has been enriched with some of the biggest names in sport and later many from the world of celebrity. The list includes the likes of Tiger Woods, Björn Borg, Chris Evert, Pete Sampras, Michael Schumacher, Greg Norman, Charles Barkley and model Kate Moss. IMG has also handled special projects for Margaret Thatcher, Mikhail Gorbachev and Pope John Paul II. When McCormack died in 2003, the business was soon acquired by Ted Forstmann’s private equity firm

IMG Founder Mark McCormack.

Forstmann Little. Forstmann, who took over the day-to-day running of IMG, brought new energy to the company, diversifying into all facets of the sports media business. Under his leadership, the company experienced a period of unprecedented growth internationally and acquisitively he transformed IMG from a sports talent agency into a rapidly growing business at the epicenter of sports, fashion and media.

Industry leader Golf was the foundation stone of IMG and remains at the heart of the industry leader’s portfolio and, in more than 50 years of business, has amassed some staggering statistics. I IMG Golf has managed more than 300 clients who have, between them, won 130 Major Championships and more than 1,520 events in 43 countries. Their clients have made more than

300 Ryder Cup, Presidents Cup and Solheim Cup appearances and held the World Number 1 position on the World Rankings for a combined total of more than 20 years, and the US PGA Tour, The European Tour, LPGA and LET money lists have been topped by a total of 78 clients over the years. IMG Golf events have become an integral part of the IMG offering and have staged and promoted more than 750 events in 42 countries and more than 1,000 corporate golf days. These events include the likes of the Volvo Golf Champions, WGC-HSBC Champions, Ricoh Women’s British Open, Kraft Nabisco Championship, HSBC Women’s Champions and, of course, the Volvo World Match Play Championship that was founded by IMG and which celebrated its 50th year in 2013. The IMG course design business has gone from strength to strength in recent years working all over the world

and to date, has 95 courses in 41 countries with 52 more courses under design or construction. The IMG Golf Course Management team now manages 59 golf development projects in 16 countries with 22 more projects on-going. IMG Academies have produced 30 tour professionals with 4 Major wins; 85% of all students gain college scholarships.

Strength to strength IMG consults to the world’s premier golf organisations including the R&A and has consulted to numerous international clients on golf strategy, sharing their collective experience gained in the industry. As the Media arm of IMG continues to go from strength to strength, European Tour Productions, jointly owned with The European Tour, distributes footage to as many as 500,000,000 households per event and IMG’s bespoke golf magazine

The 2013 Ricoh Women’s British Open was held on the Old Course at St Andrews, the Home of Golf.

THE RACE IS ON The 2014 Race To Dubai is off and running and we’ve already been treated to some stunning golf in the last few weeks. europeantour.com is the only place to follow all the action. Watch exclusive highlights straight after every day’s play, follow your favourite players’ progress with Live Scoring and see who’s making the early moves in the Race To Dubai rankings. The Race is underway – keep up-to-speed at

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CELEBRATING GOLF. WORLDWIDE.

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“IMG has a global network of offices, loads of experienced and dedicated golf staff operating in every aspect of the game, so it really is best equipped to help me achieve everything I want to do on and off the course.” – Ernie Els programme, Golfing World, now reaches approximately 50 countries and more than 300 million homes IMG’s South African offices are a key part of the company and, again, Golf plays an important part in their business. As well as staging elite events such as this week’s Volvo Golf Champions, managing course design projects such as the Euphoria Golf Estate and The Legend Golf and Safari Resort, they also continue to work with Gary Player, manage 2012 Open Champion and four times Major Champion, Ernie Els, two-times Major winner, Retief Goosen, 2012 Volvo Golf Champion, Branden Grace, Richard Sterne and rising stars including Brandon Stone and Dylan

Frittelli, servicing global contracts and liaising with the IMG’s offices in 30 countries worldwide. Els explained his decision to join IMG saying: “IMG has a global network of offices, loads of experienced and dedicated golf staff operating in every aspect of the game, so it really is best equipped to help me achieve everything I want to do on and off the course.”

Growing Junior Golf IMG also works closely with the SAGA in growing competitive platforms in junior golf and are currently partners of the Retief Goosen High School Championship. This week sees a number of IMG’s

clients looking to lift the ‘Champion of Champions’ title from this elite gathering of Europe’s leading golfers, including 2011 champion Paul Casey, eight-times Order of Merit winner Colin Montgomerie; 15-times winner on The European Tour Thomas Björn; four-times Major champion Ernie Els; former Volvo Golf Champion Branden Grace; six-times European Tour winner Richard Sterne, three-times Major winner Padraig Harrington; 2013 Turkish Open Champion, Victor Dubuisson; winner of the 2013 Volvo China Open, Brett Rumford; 2013 Open de España winner Raphael Jacquelin and record-breaking four time winner on The European Tour, 20 year old Matteo Manassero. n

STAR FOR LIFE AND VOLVO A Winning Partnership Screened all over the world and featuring the most successful golfers on The European Tour, the Volvo Golf Champions raises awareness not just of Volvo but of Star For Life, a hugely important charitable organisation whose aim is to make sure that those who are less fortunate are not forgotten.

OUNDED in 2005, Star For Life is the official charity of the Volvo Golf Champions and is a South African registered not-for-profit organisation. Originally launched as a schoolbased HIV and AIDS prevention programme, it provides young people with both the information and the motivation to make the right choices that keeps them healthy. Now about to enter its tenth year, it has taken this mission further by instilling attitude and behaviour that enable young people to fulfil their dreams of a better future. Based in Hluhluwe, about 150 miles north of Durban, the charity has been successful across its home region of KwaZulu-Natal, as well as further afield. The organisation is now involved in four main programmes: Health and

Education; Star For Life Skills; Star For Life Sports; and Star For Life Arts and Culture. At the heart of their work is the schools programme. It focuses not just on health issues but also on increasing personal empowerment and selfesteem.

Volvo’s Involvement There is a commitment to education and to reducing the numbers of early school-leavers by offering a comprehensive knowledge to everything connected with HIV and AIDS, as well as a physically and morally sound approach to relationships. Volvo has been involved since 2007, and there is now an even stronger link with Star For Life through the charity’s Chairman, Anders Lindblad, who

used to be President of Volvo Group, South Africa. After introducing the two organisations to one another and now, having switched roles, he spends more than half the year working for the charity. He came into his position hoping to attract more sponsors, improve the internal structure and make sure that funding was used in the most correct and efficient manner. This he has achieved, while at the same time seeing Star For Life grow a great deal in a relatively short time. Depending entirely on their supporting companies for the annual funding, which amounts to around R25 million, Lindblad says: “Through Volvo’s sponsorship and their active engagement in Star For Life, we can give our learners the knowledge to protect their health and give them hope for the future.”

The focus on the charity’s school work has also shifted from quantity to quality. By concentrating on its existing school set-ups, where the schools have an intake of an average of 20% new pupils each year, then in a 10-year cycle it will benefit half a million students! Star For Life is a significant corporate social investment project. One of the great attractions in the model is that it is also beneficial to Volvo, who run an apprentice scheme for students moving from education into employment. It offers a bridge to working life for learners for whom university is less attractive and the policy is certainly paying dividends.

Good role models The Star For Life Area Manager for Durban schools, Simingaye Zulu, confirms that the apprentices are good role models for youngsters still in school. “The success of these graduates shows that you can achieve your dreams no matter where you’re coming from,” he says. Not only are these apprentices now graduating with some becoming regular, full-time Volvo employees, but one of the Star For Life entrants under the scheme has even won the

Apprentice Of The Year award. This excellent, win-win situation shows that the relationship between Volvo and Star For Life is extremely healthy. One of the charity’s better-known activities is its very popular Star For Life Choir, largely consisting of students taking a gap year between school and university. As in 2013, they will be making appearances during the week of the Volvo Golf Champions. The choir has been visiting Europe since 2006 and has performed in front of the Swedish Royal Family and high profile events such as a United Nations awards ceremony. Volvo will be donating R10 from the sale of each ticket to Star for Life, and as Per Ericsson, President of Volvo Event Management explains: “Volvo had already been a partner of Star For Life long before we brought the Volvo Golf Champions to South Africa. It was therefore a perfect opportunity for us to help by making it our official charity.” Anders Lindblad believes that to be associated with an event such as the Volvo Golf Champions is extremely beneficial for an organisation such as Star For Life for two good reasons: One is the connection with a global company

such as Volvo and its values of quality, safety and environmental care; the other is that the event itself is prestigious and is followed closely all over the world. The feedback received by Lindblad after the 2013 event at Durban CC was universally positive with everyone enjoying not only the tournament itself but all the surrounding activities such as the Pro-Am, Playing With The Pros and other events both on and off the course. He believes that no-one in South Africa does anything like this and adds, “Star For Life is empowering youth with knowledge to protect their health, and with inspiration to make a better life for themselves. Through its sponsorship, Volvo is allowing Star For Life not only to deliver our programmes in schools but also via Star For Life Skills, enabling our learners to fulfil their dreams.” n

How the players qualified The following players qualified for the Volvo Golf Champions as winners of fully sanctioned and co-sanctioned Tournaments on The European Tour International Schedule in 2013: Thomas Aiken – winner of the Avantha Masters

Darren Fichardt - winner of the Africa Open

Kiradech Aphibarnrat – winner of the Maybank Malaysian Open

Tommy Fleetwood – winner of the Johnnie Walker Championship at Gleneagles

Thomas Björn – winner of the Omega European Masters and the NedBank Golf Challenge

Stephen Gallacher – winner of the Omega Dubai Desert Classic

Grégory Bourdy – winner of the ISPS Handa Wales Open

Michael Hoey – winner of the M2M Russian Open

Paul Casey – winner of the Irish Open and past winner of the Volvo Golf Champions (2011)

David Howell – winner of the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship

Jamie Donaldson – winner of the Abu Dhabi HSBC Golf Championship

Mikko Ilonen – winner of the Nordea Masters

Victor Dubuisson - winner of the Turkish Airlines Open

Raphaël Jacquelin – winner of the Open de Espana

Ernie Els – winner of the BMW International Open

Jin Jeong – winner of the ISPS Handa Perth International

Gonzalo Fernández-Castaño – winner of the BMW Masters

Joost Luiten – winner of the Lyoness Open and the KLM Open

David Lynn – winner of the Portugal Masters

Marcel Siem – winner of the Trophee Hassan II

Morten Ørum Madsen – winner of the South African Open

Richard Sterne – winner of the Joburg Open

Matteo Manassero – winner of the BMW PGA Championship

Simon Thornton – winner of the Open Najeti Hotels and Golf, St Omer

Louis Oosthuizen – winner of the Volvo Golf Champions

Peter Uihlein – winner of the Madeira Islands Open

Julien Quesne – winner of the Lindt Italian Open

Dawie Van Der Walt – winner of the Tshwane Open and the Nelson Mandela Championship

Brett Rumford – winner of the Ballantine’s Championship and the Volvo China Open

Chris Wood – winner of the Commercial Bank Qatar Masters

Charl Schwartzel – winner of the Alfred Dunhill Championship

Branden Grace - Past winner of the Volvo Golf Champions (2012)

The Following players qualified as players with more than 10 or more official victories on the European Tour: Darren Clarke – winner of 14 European Tour titles

Robert Karlsson – winner of 11 European Tour titles

Colin Montgomerie – winner of 31 European Tour titles

Pádraig Harrington – winner of 14 European Tour titles

José Maria Olazábal – winner of 22 European Tour titles

Miguel Ángel Jiménez – winner of 20 European Tour titles and the 2013 Hong Kong Open

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Date of Birth: July 16, 1983 n

Height: 5’ 10” n

Born: Johannesburg, South Africa

Thomas Aiken Turned professional: 2002 European Tour Wins: 3 Career Victories: 9 2013 Race to Dubai Ranking: 44 Official World Golf Ranking: 154

THOMAS Aiken secured his second victory on The European Tour last season with a three-stroke win over home favourite Gaganjeet Bhullar at the Avantha Masters. Aiken made his breakthrough on The European Tour in 2011 with a two-stroke victory over Anders Hansen at the Open de España. He went on to post eight additional top tens – including a third Date of Birth: July 23, 1989 n

Height: 5’ 8” n

place finish on home soil at the South African Open Championship – to finish the campaign in 22nd place on The Race to Dubai. Prior to joining The European Tour Aiken was a regular winner on his native Sunshine Tour in South Africa, winning three times in 2004, twice in 2005 and once each in 2006 and 2008.

Born: Bangkok, Thailand

Kiradech Aphibarnrat Turned professional: 2008 European Tour Wins: 1 Career Victories: 1 2013 Race to Dubai Ranking: 39 Official World Golf Ranking: 61

KIRADECH Aphibarnrat picked up his first European Tour title with a one-stroke victory over Italy’s Edoardo Molinari at last year’s Maybank Malaysian Open. Aphibarnrat broke through on the Asian Tour in 2011 when he won the SAIL Open in India by one stroke from Bangladesh’s Siddikur. The then 21 year old fell to his knees

and wept tears of joy after sinking the winning putt. Last year he came close to adding a second Asian Tour title at the Zaykabar Myanmar Open but lost in a play-off to Kieran Pratt. In addition to his victory on The European Tour this year he finished in a share of fourth place at the Avantha Masters.

Date of Birth: February 18, 1971 n

Height: 6’ 2” n

Born: Silkeborg, Denmark

Thomas BjÖrn Turned professional: 1993 European Tour Wins: 15 Career Victories: 17 2013 Race to Dubai Ranking: 10 Official World Golf Ranking: 25

THOMAS Björn collected his 15th European Tour title last month with a superb victory at the NedBank Golf Challenge – the first time the event became a fully fledged European Tour event. Björn won the first of his European Tour titles in 1996 at the Loch Lomond World Invitational and the following year went on to become the first Dane to play in Date of Birth: April 25, 1982 n

Height: 5’ 11” n

The Ryder Cup, at Valderrama. During his involvement in The Ryder Cup Björn has never tasted defeat. He was victorious as a player in 1997 and 2002 and as a Vice Captain in 2004, 2010 and 2012. Between 1998 and 2006 he was a regular winner on The European Tour but underwent a four year title drought until he won the Estoril Open de Portugal in 2010. Born: Bordeaux, France

GrÉgory Bourdy Turned professional: 2003 European Tour Wins: 4 Career Victories: 5 2013 Race to Dubai Ranking: 25 Official World Golf Ranking: 104

GRÉGORY Bourdy clinched his fourth European Tour title last season with a composed two-stroke victory over Peter Uihlein at the ISPS Handa Wales Open at Celtic Manor. The Frenchman continued his fine form during his Seve Trophy debut in September as he became the first person in the event’s history to record five points out of five.

Bourdy won his first European Tour title in 2007 at the Mallorca Classic and won one title on the following two seasons at the 2008 Estoril Open de Portugal and the 2009 UBS Hong Kong Open. In addition to his win last year Bourdy posted three top tens and finished the season 25th on The Race to Dubai.

Date of Birth: July 21, 1977 n

Height: 5’ 10” n

Born: Cheltenham, England

paul casey Turned professional: 2000 European Tour Wins: 12 Career Victories: 14 2013 Race to Dubai Ranking: 30 Official World Golf Ranking: 93

PAUL Casey won his first title since 2011 with a superb victory at last year’s Irish Open. Casey holed a magnificent 40-foot eagle putt on the final green to win by three shots from Joost Luiten and Robert Rock. Casey won the inaugural Volvo Golf Champions in 2011 but was unable to defend his title after he suffered a broken collarbone in a snowboarding accident in Date of Birth: August 14, 1968 n

Height: 6’ 3” n

the off season. The Englishman won the biggest title of his career in 2009 at the PGA Championship at Wentworth and an additional victory at the Abu Dhabi HSBC Golf Championship saw him finish fifth on The Race to Dubai. A winner of 12 European Tour titles, Casey has played in three Ryder Cups tasting victory twice in 2004 and 2006.

Born: Dungannon, Northern Ireland

Darren Clarke Turned professional: 1990 European Tour Wins: 14 Career Victories: 18 2013 Race to Dubai Ranking: 121 Official World Golf Ranking: 301

DARREN Clarke realised his golfing dream in 2011 with a gutsy victory at The 140th Open Championship at a wet and windy Royal St George’s. Clarke produced some of the finest golf of his career, carding rounds of 68-68-69-70 to hold off the challenge of Phil Mickelson and Dustin Johnson and win by three strokes for his first Major.

Clarke, who also won the 2011 Iberdrola Open, is a two-time World Golf Championships winner, having won the Accenture Match Play Championship in 2000 and the Bridgestone Invitational in 2003. He has 14 victories to his name on The European Tour and has played in five Ryder Cups, tasting victory on four occasions.

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Date of Birth: October 19, 1975 n

Height: 6’ n

Born: Pontypridd, Wales

jamie donaldson Turned professional: 2000 European Tour Wins: 2 Career Victories: 2 2013 Race to Dubai Ranking: 5 Official World Golf Ranking: 28

JAMIE Donaldson wrapped up his second title on The European Tour with a superb victory at last year’s Abu Dhabi HSBC Golf Championship. He ended the season in great form with a runner-up finish at the Turkish Airlines Open and a share of eighth place at the DP World Tour Championship and finished the campaign in a career-best fifth on The Race to Date of Birth: April 22, 1990 n

Height: 6’

Dubai. Donaldson won his first European Tour title at the 255th attempt with victory at the 2012 Irish Open at Royal Portrush where a final round 66 saw him win by four strokes from Rafa Cabrera-Bello, Anthony Wall and Fabrizio Zanotti. Donaldson won three times on the Challenge Tour before cementing himself as a European Tour regular.

Born: Cannes, France

Victor Dubuisson Turned professional: 2010 European Tour Wins: 1 Career Victories: 1 2013 Race to Dubai Ranking: 6 Official World Golf Ranking: 32

VICTOR Dubuisson made his breakthrough on The European Tour in stunning fashion last year with a twostroke victory over Jamie Donaldson at the Turkish Airlines Open with Tiger Woods and Justin Rose in a share of third place and Henrik Stenson and Ian Poulter also in contention. Prior to turning professional in 2010

Dubuisson won the European Individual Amatuer Championship in 2009 and during that year was ranked as the top amateur in the world. In addition to his victory last year Dubuisson posted six top tens including a share of third place at the Volvo China Open and went on to end the season sixth on The Race to Dubai.

Date of Birth: October 17, 1969 n

Height: 6’ 3” n

Born: Johannesburg, South Africa

Ernie Els Turned professional: 1989 European Tour Wins: 26 Career Victories: 67 2013 Race to Dubai Ranking: 20 Official World Golf Ranking: 27

ERNIE Els became a four-time Major winner at The Open Championship at Royal Lytham in 2012 courtesy of a gutsy one-stroke victory over Adam Scott. Els shot into the limelight in 1994 with the first of two US Open Championship triumphs. He defeated Colin Montgomerie and Loren Roberts in a play-off at Oakmont before he won the Date of Birth: October 13, 1980 n

Height: 6’ 1” n

US Open again in 1997 by one stroke from Montgomerie. The South African won his third Major at the 2002 Open Championship with a play-off win over Thomas Levet, Steve Elkington and Stuart Appleby. A truly global golfer, Els wrapped up his 26th European Tour title in Germany at last year’s International Open. Born: Madrid, Spain

Gonzalo Fdez-Castaño Turned professional: 2004 European Tour Wins: 6 Career Victories: 7 2013 Race to Dubai Ranking: 7 Official World Golf Ranking: 35

GONZALO Fernández-Castaño wrapped up his seventh European Tour title with a onestroke victory over Thongchai Jaidee and Francesco Molinari at last season’s BMW Masters. The Spaniard has been a regular winner on The European Tour since he joined in 2005. He won the KLM Open in 2005 and followed it in 2006 and ’07 with victories at

the Asian Open and Telecom Italian Open respectively. In 2008 he won the British Masters at the Belfry but then underwent a three year drought before he won again at the 2011 Barclays Singapore Open. He had another consistent season in 2012, winning again at the Italian Open and he narrowly missed out on a berth in the Ryder Cup at Medinah.

Date of Birth: May 13, 1975 n

Height: 5’ 8” n

Born: Pretoria, South Africa

Darren Fichardt Turned professional: 1994 European Tour Wins: 4 Career Victories: 16 2013 Race to Dubai Ranking: 48 Official World Golf Ranking: 124

DARREN Fichardt wrapped up his fourth European Tour title at last year’s Africa Open with a two-stroke victory over Gregory Bourdy and in his next event at the Tshwane Open he finished runner-up to compatriot Dawie Van Der Walt. In 2012 Fichardt ended an eight year wait for a victory on The European Tour when he won the Saint-Omer Open. Date of Birth: January 19, 1991 n

Height: 5’ 10” n

Fichardt won his first European Tour title in 2001 at the Sao Paulo Brazil Open and followed it two years later with a play-off victory over compatriot James Kingston in the Commercial Bank Qatar Masters. Fichardt is a 12-time winner on The Sunshine Tour including a double haul of titles in 2011. Born: Southport, England

Tommy Fleetwood Turned professional: 2010 European Tour Wins: 1 Career Victories: 1 2013 Race to Dubai Ranking: 26 Official World Golf Ranking: 117

TOMMY Fleetwood made his breakthrough on The European Tour last season with a superb play-off victory over Stephen Gallacher and Ricardo Gonzalez at the Johnnie Walker Championship at Gleneagles. In 2012 Fleetwood proved he could deal with pressure after he fired a final round 69 in his final event of the season

(the SA Open Championship) to retain his European Tour card. The youngster first earned his European Tour card after a superb campaign on the Challenge Tour in 2011. He won the Kazakhstan Open and two additional second place finishes confirmed his position at the top of the Challenge Tour rankings at the end of the season.

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Height: 6’ 2” n

Born: Dechmont, Scotland

Stephen Gallacher Turned professional: 1995 European Tour Wins: 2 Career Victories: 2 2013 Race to Dubai Ranking: 19 Official World Golf Ranking: 64

STEPHEN Gallacher ended an eight year wait for a European Tour title with a stunning victory at last season’s Omega Dubai Desert Classic. The Scot made five eagles during the week including two hole-outs from the fairway on par-4s as he sealed a three-stroke win over Richard Sterne for his first win since the 2004 Alfred Date of Birth: May 20, 1988 n

Height: 6’ 10” n

Dunhill Links Championship. Gallacher was a member of the victorious Walker Cup team at Royal Porthcawl in 1995 and won his card for The European Tour shortly after. His breakthrough at St Andrews in 2004 came exactly 35 years after his uncle, Ryder Cup legend Bernard Gallacher, won his first title.

Born: Pretoria, South Africa

BRANDEN Grace Turned professional: 1998 European Tour Wins: 6 Career Victories: 6 2013 Race to Dubai Ranking: 18 Official World Golf Ranking: 49

BRANDEN Grace confirmed his status as one of the rising stars in the game with four superb victories on The European Tour in 2012 including the Volvo Golf Champions. Grace won his first title at the Joburg Open before triumphing the following week at the Volvo Golf Champions at Fancourt, defeating Ernie Els and Retief

Goosen in a play-off. He beat Nicolas Colsaerts by three strokes in the Volvo China Open before he won the Vodacom Origins of Golf Final on the Sunshine Tour and then followed that with victory at St Andrews at the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship. He went on to finish an incredible season sixth on The Race to Dubai with earnings of €2,502,501.

Date of Birth: August 31, 1971 n

Height: 6’ 1” n

Born: Dublin, Ireland

PÁdraig Harrington Turned professional: 1995 European Tour Wins: 14 Career Victories: 18 2013 Race to Dubai Ranking: 68 Official World Golf Ranking: 123

PÁDRAIG Harrington won three out of six Majors in a two-year spell of superb golf which has cemented his place as a modern day European great. The Irishman won his first Major at The 2007 Open Championship at Carnoustie, defeating Sergio García in a four-hole playoff. A year later he defended his crown with a four-stroke victory over Ian Poulter at Date of Birth: February 13, 1979 n

Height: 6’0” n

Royal Birkdale and then made it back-toback Majors with a sensational two-stroke victory at the US PGA Championship at Oakland Hills. Harrington won the first of his 14 European Tour titles in 1996 at the Open de Espana with his most recent victory coming in 2010 at the Iskandar Johor Open in Malaysia.

Born: Ballymoney, Northern Ireland

Michael Hoey Turned professional: 2002 European Tour Wins: 5 Career Victories: 5 2013 Race to Dubai Ranking: 92 Official World Golf Ranking: 240

MICHAEL Hoey clinched his fifth European Tour title last season with a four shot victory over Alexandre Kaleka and Matthew Nixon at the M2M Russian Open. Hoey won his first professional title in 2009 at the Estoril Open de Portugal with a play-off win over Gonzalo FernandezCastano and in 2011 completed a double haul thanks to wins at the Madeira

Islands Open and the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship. In 2012 he won again at the Trophee Hassan II in Morocco. Before turning professional in 2002 Hoey won The Amateur Championship at Prestwick Golf Club in 2001 and later that year was a Walker Cup winner alongside the likes of Luke Donald and Graeme McDowell

Date of Birth: June 23, 1975 n

Height: 6’ 1” n

Born: Swindon, England

David Howell Turned professional: 1995 European Tour Wins: 5 Career Victories: 6 2013 Race to Dubai Ranking: 22 Official World Golf Ranking: 95

DAVID Howell wrapped up his first European Tour title since 2006 with a play-off win over American rookie Peter Uihlein at last season’s Alfred Dunhill Links Championship. Two-time Ryder Cup player Howell shot into the limelight with his four stroke victory over Lee Westwood in the 1999 Dubai Desert Classic. He won Date of Birth: December 18, 1979 n

Height: 6’ 1” n

the BMW International Open in 2005 and then enjoyed the finest season of his career in 2006 when he won titles at the HSBC Champions and the BMW PGA Championship, finished third on the Order of Merit, and helped Europe to a record 18½ - 9 ½ victory over the USA at The K Club in Ireland - his second successive Ryder Cup appearance. Born: Lahti, Finland

Mikko Ilonen Turned professional: 2001 European Tour Wins: 3 Career Victories: 3 2013 Race to Dubai Ranking: 23 Official World Golf Ranking: 84

MIKKO Ilonen collected his third European Tour title earlier this season with a threestroke victory over home favourite Jonas Blixt at the Nordea Masters in Sweden which ended a six year title drought. Ilonen won twice on The European Tour in 2007 to finish a career-high 34th on the Order of Merit. He became the first

Finn to win on The European Tour at the Enjoy Jakarta Astro Indonesia Open and followed it later that year with victory at the Scandinavian Masters. Prior to turning professional he became the first Finn to win the Amateur Championship in 2000 when he triumphed at Royal Liverpool.

Date of Birth: May 8, 1974 n

Height: 5’ 11” n

Born: Lyon, France

Raphaël Jacquelin Turned professional: 1995 European Tour Wins: 4 Career Victories: 4 2013 Race to Dubai Ranking: 37 Official World Golf Ranking: 121

RAPHAËL Jacquelin won his fourth European Tour title last year as he finally downed Max Kieffer on the ninth hole of a sudden-death play-off at the Open de España. Jacquelin picked up his third European Tour title in 2011 with a one-stroke victory over Englishman Anthony Wall at the Sicilian Open and he went on to end the Date of Birth: February 2, 1990 n

Height: 5’ 10” n

campaign in 36th place on The Race to Dubai. Jacquelin has been a Member of The European Tour since 1997 but didn’t win his first title until the 2005 Open de Madrid. Two years later he added his second title at the BMW Asian Open and was given the now-customary Champagne dousing from his French colleagues on Tour. Born: Busan, South Korea

Jin Jeong Turned professional: 2011 European Tour Wins: 1 Career Victories: 2 2013 Race to Dubai Ranking: 93 Official World Golf Ranking: 258

JIN Jeong realised his potential last year with a superb maiden European Tour title at the ISPHA Handa Perth International. The South Korean made a par on the first play-off hole to defeat Englishman Ross Fisher and clinch the title and earn a spot in this week’s Volvo Golf Champions. Jeong shot to acclaim in 2010 when

he won the Amateur Championship at Muirfield and he turned professional the following year. He finished 16th at the 2011 PGA Tour of Australasia Qualifying School to earn his place on Tour for 2012. His win in Australia – where he currently resides – earned him a two year exemption on The European Tour.

Date of Birth: January 5, 1964 n

Height: 5’ 10” n

Born: Malaga, Spain

MIGUEL Ángel Jiménez Turned professional: 1982 European Tour Wins: 20 Career Victories: 22 2013 Race to Dubai Ranking: 22 Official World Golf Ranking: 38

MIGUEL Ángel Jiménez broke his own record as the oldest winner on The European Tour last month when he won his fourth career title at the Hong Kong Open at the age of 49 years and 337 days. In last year’s winter break he suffered a skiing accident and missed the first third of the 2013 season but returned to action Date of Birth: September 3, 1969 n

Height: 5’6” n

in front of home support at the Open de Espana. Jiménez has won 13 of his 20 European Tour titles since turning 40 in 2004 and that year he was The European Tour’s most prolific winner as he lifted four trophies on his way to finishing in fourth place on the Order of Merit – equalling his highest position which he also achieved in 1998 and 1999.

Born: Katrineholm, Sweden

Robert Karlsson Turned professional: 1989 European Tour Wins: 11 Career Victories: 11 2013 Race to Dubai Ranking: N/A Official World Golf Ranking: 276

ROBERT Karlsson won the biggest title of his career at The European Tour’s season-ending Dubai World Championship in 2010 in a play-off over Ian Poulter. The victory was his second of the campaign – following the Commercial Bank Qatar Masters – and they led him to finish sixth on The Race to Dubai. In

2008 Karlsson topped the Volvo Order of Merit after winning twice and he capped his career-best year by winning the Omega Mission Hills World Cup in China alongside Henrik Stenson. An 11-time European Tour winner, Karlsson won his first title in 1995 at the Turespana Open Mediterrania and is a two-time Ryder Cup player.

Date of Birth: January 7, 1986 n

Height: 5’10” n

Born: Bleiswijk, The Netherlands

Joost Luiten Turned professional: 2006 European Tour Wins: 3 Career Victories: 3 2013 Race to Dubai Ranking: 12 Official World Golf Ranking: 51

JOOST LUITEN won twice on The European Tour last season including a memorable win on home soil at the KLM Open in September. Luiten downed Spain’s Miguel Ángel Jiménez in a play-off to become just the second Dutchman to win the event in its history. Luiten won his first event of the campaign in Austria at the Lyoness Open Date of Birth: October 20, 1973 n

Height: 6’ 3” n

powered by Greenfinity and in addition he made a winning start to his Seve Trophy career as Continental Europe downed Great Britain & Ireland 15-13. Luiten won his first European Tour title in 2011 at the Iskandar Johor Open on his way to finishing a career best 24th on The Race to Dubai.

Born: Billinge, England

david lynn Turned professional: 1995 European Tour Wins: 2 Career Victories: 2 2013 Race to Dubai Ranking: 52 Official World Golf Ranking: 45

DAVID Lynn clinched his first European Tour title since 2004 after a superb final round 63 gave him a one-stroke win over Justin Walters at last year’s Portugal Masters. In 2012 Lynn posted the best finish of his career in a Major as he finished runner-up to runaway winner Rory McIlroy at the US PGA Championship and that

result saw him finish a career-high 18th on The Race to Dubai. Lynn turned professional in 1995 and won once on the Challenge Tour in 1997 before joining The European Tour in 2000. He won the KLM Open in 2004 and ironically it came the week after he lost his ‘lucky’ ball marker which he had used for ten years.

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Date of Birth: April 9, 1988 n

Height: 6’ 3” n

Born: Silkeborg, Denmark

Morten Ørum Madsen Turned professional: 2011 European Tour Wins: 1 Career Victories: 1 2013 Race to Dubai Ranking: 81 Official World Golf Ranking: 118

MORTEN Ørum Madsen clinched his maiden European Tour title in superb fashion earlier this season with a two stroke victory over home favourites Jbe Kruger and Hennie Otto at the South African Open Championship in Ekurhuleni. Madsen learned the game at Silkeborg GK – the same club which produced Denmark’s greatest player, Thomas Bjorn. Date of Birth: April 19, 1993 n

Height: 6’ n

He played on the Challenge Tour in 2011 and earned his European Tour card at the end of 2012 at Qualifying School. Last year he played a full season on The European Tour and carded seven top 20 finishes including a share of second place at the Madeira Islands Open and fourth at the Nelson Mandela Championship.

Born: Verona, Italy

Matteo Manassero Turned professional: 2010 European Tour Wins: 4 Career Victories: 4 2013 Race to Dubai Ranking: 11 Official World Golf Ranking: 42

MATTEO Manassero won the BMW PGA Championship at Wentworth last year with a play-off victory over Simon Khan and Scotland’s Marc Warren to collect his fourth victory in four seasons on The European Tour. The Italian became the youngest European Tour winner in history in 2010 when he clinched the Castello Masters

in Spain at the age of 17 years and 188 days. The following year he won the Maybank Malaysian Open with a one-stroke win over Frenchman Grégory Bourdy and in 2012 he won the Barclays Singapore Open, defeating Louis Oosthuizen in a play-off to become the first teenager to win three European Tour titles.

Date of Birth: June 23, 1963 n

Height: 6’ 1” n

Born: Glasgow, Scotland

COLIN Montgomerie Turned professional: 1987 European Tour Wins: 31 Career Victories: 37 2013 Race to Dubai Ranking: N/A Official World Golf Ranking: 835

EUROPEAN legend Colin Montgomerie holds the record for the highest number of European Tour titles by a British player after he eclipsed Nick Faldo’s haul of 30 with victory at The European Open at The K Club in 2007. The Scotsman’s playing schedule took a back seat in 2010 as he captained the European Ryder Cup team to a narrow Date of Birth: February 5, 1966 n

Height: 5’ 10” n

14 ½ -13 ½ victory at The Celtic Manor Resort in Wales. As a player, Montgomerie has represented Europe in eight Ryder Cups with a record of being unbeaten in all eight of his singles matches. Montgomerie won a record seven consecutive Volvo Order of Merit titles between 1993 and 1999 and won it again for the eighth time in 2005. Born: Hondarribia, Spain

JOSÉ Maria Olazábal Turned professional: 1985 European Tour Wins: 22 Career Victories: 23 2013 Race to Dubai Ranking: 126 Official World Golf Ranking: 444

JOSÉ Maria Olazábal fulfilled a life-long dream as he led the European Ryder Cup team to an astonishing come-from-behind victory at Medinah CC in 2012. The Spaniard played in seven editions of The Ryder Cup and forged the most successful partnership in the event’s history with his compatriot, the late Seve Ballesteros, as they won 11, halved two and

lost only two of their matches together. Olazábal won two Major titles – the 1994 and 1999 Masters Tournament at Augusta – and has triumphed 23 times in total on The European Tour. In 2009 Olazábal was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame and after his first Masters win in 1994 he was awarded Honorary Membership of The European Tour.

Date of Birth: October 19, 1982 n

Height: 5’ 10” n

Born: Mossel Bay, South Africa

Louis Oosthuizen Turned professional: 2002 European Tour Wins: 6 Career Victories: 11 2013 Race to Dubai Ranking: 47 Official World Golf Ranking: 34

DEFENDING champion Louis Oosthuizen collected his sixth European Tour title at last year’s Volvo Golf Champions after coming from behind to win by one ahead of Scott Jamieson. Since strolling to a seven-stroke victory at the 2010 Open Championship at St Andrews Oosthuizen has blossomed into one of the most consistent players Date of Birth: August 16, 1980 n

Height: 6’ 1” n

in the world. The South African picked up his first Major at the Home of Golf in just his ninth start in a Major and it came just a few months after he won his first European Tour title at the Open de Andalucia. In 2011 and 2012 he won back-toback Africa Opens and also won the 2012 Maybank Malaysian Open.

Born: Bordeaux, France

Julien Quesne Turned professional: 2003 European Tour Wins: 2 Career Victories: 2 2013 Race to Dubai Ranking: 42 Official World Golf Ranking: 128

JULIEN Quesne won his second European Tour title at last year’s 70° OPEN D’ITALIA LINDT and in addition posted six top ten finishes including a share of fifth place at the Volvo Golf Champions to finish 42nd on The Race to Dubai. Quesne made his breakthrough on The European Tour in 2012 at the Open

de Andalucía thanks to a two-shot victory over Matteo Manassero and he went on to end the season in 63rd place on The Race to Dubai. In 2009 he won his first professional title on the Challenge Tour at the Trophée du Golf de Genève which helped him earn his European Tour card for 2010.

Date of Birth: July 27, 1977 n

Height: 5’ 11” n

Born: Perth, Australia

Brett Rumford Turned professional: 2000 European Tour Wins: 5 Career Victories: 6 2013 Race to Dubai Ranking: 17 Official World Golf Ranking: 79

AUSTRALIAN Brett Rumford hit a red-hot vein of form when he won back-to-back titles in the Far East last year including the Volvo China Open. The 36-year-old defeated fellow countryman Marcus Fraser in a play-off for the Ballantine’s Championship before putting in a stunning performance at the Volvo China Open where he shot Date of Birth: August 31, 1984 n

Height: 5’ 11” n

four rounds in the 60s to win the fifth European Tour title of his career by four strokes from Finland’s Mikko Ilonen. Rumford, who won the 1999 ANZ Players Championship while still an amateur, won his first European Tour title at the 2003 Aa St Omer Open and added the Irish Open the following year and the Omega European Masters in 2007.

Born: Johannesburg, South Africa

Charl Schwartzel Turned professional: 2002 European Tour Wins: 9 Career Victories: 11 2013 Race to Dubai Ranking: 27 Official World Golf Ranking: 17

CHARL Schwartzel won his ninth European Tour title last month with the successful defence of the Alfred Dunhill Championship at Leopard Creek. Schwartzel won the event by 12 strokes in 2012 (2013 season) and this season he completed a four stroke win over England’s Richard Finch. In 2011 Schwartzel won his first Major at the Masters Tournament when he birdied

the final four holes to produce a stunning two-stroke victory and join compatriots Gary Player and Trevor Immelman as winners at Augusta National. Schwartzel won his first European Tour title at Leopard Creek in 2005 and won twice in Spain at the Open de España in 2007 and the Madrid Masters the following year.

Date of Birth: July 15, 1980 n

Height: 6’3” n

Born: Mettmann, Germany

MARCEL Siem Turned professional: 2000 European Tour Wins: 3 Career Victories: 3 2013 Race to Dubai Ranking: 53 Official World Golf Ranking: 85

MARCEL Siem won for the second successive season on The European Tour in 2013 with a composed three-stroke victory over David Horsey and Mikko Ilonen at the Trophee Hassan II in Morocco. In 2012 Siem clinched the biggest title of his career at the Open de France after he downed Ryder Cup star Francesco Molinari by one stroke in Paris. Date of Birth: August 27, 1981 n

Height: 5’7” n

The German turned professional in 2000 and earned his European Tour card for the 2003 campaign after making steady progress through the German EPD Tour and the Challenge Tour. He won his first European Tour title in 2004 and the Dunhill Championship in South Africa and ended the season in 39th place on the Order of Merit.

Born: Pretoria, South Africa

Richard Sterne Turned professional: 2001 European Tour Wins: 6 Career Victories: 8 2013 Race to Dubai Ranking: 8 Official World Golf Ranking: 50

RICHARD Sterne collected his sixth European Tour title last year with a magnificent seven-stroke victory over compatriot Charl Schwartzel at the Joburg Open. Sterne carded rounds of 63, 65, 68, 64 for a remarkable 27 under par total to win one week after he finished second behind Scotland’s Stephen Gallacher at the Omega Dubai Desert Classic.

Sterne won his first European Tour title in 2004 at the Open de España and three years later triumphed at the Celtic Manor Wales Open by one stroke. Sterne missed most of 2010 and 2011 because of a back injury, but returned to take sixth place in the 2012 Africa Open despite not playing a competitive round for ten months.

Date of Birth: March 18, 1977 n

Height: 6’ 3” n

Born: Bradford, England

Simon Thornton Turned professional: 2005 European Tour Wins: 1 Career Victories: 1 2013 Race to Dubai Ranking: 128 Official World Golf Ranking: 297

SIMON Thornton wrapped up a memorable first victory on The European Tour last year with a play-off win over Tjaart Van der Walt at the Najeti Hotels et Golfs Open in France. Thornton, who just over a decade ago was playing off a handicap of seven, has made remarkable progress through the Irish PGA Circuit, the EuroPro Tour and the Date of Birth: August 29, 1989 n

Height: 6’ 2” n

Challenge Tour before making his mark on The European Tour. His victory earned him a spot in this week’s Volvo Golf Champions and an exemption on The European Tour through until the end of this season. Thornton ended last season in decent form with a share of 16th place at the 70° OPEN D’ITALIA LINDT and a share of eighth at the Portugal Masters.

Born: New Bedford, MA, USA

Peter Uihlein Turned professional: 2011 European Tour Wins: 1 Career Victories: 1 2013 Race to Dubai Ranking: 14 Official World Golf Ranking: 65

FORMER European Challenge Tour player Peter Uihlein secured his spot in the 2014 Volvo Golf Champions by winning last year’s Madeira Island Open – BPI – Portugal by two shots from Denmark’s Morten Orum Madsen. The American, who is the son of Wally Uihlein, CEO of Acushnet, who own Titleist, has since gone from strength to

strength. He posted top tens at the BMW International Open and the Aberdeen Asset Management Scottish Open and was runner-up at both the ISPS Handa Wales Open and the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship. He was beaten by two shots by Frenchman Gregory Bourdy in Wales while at St Andrews, Englishman David Howell defeated him in a play-off.

Date of Birth: February 11, 1983 n

Height: 6’ 5” n

Born: Paarl, South Africa

Dawie Van Der Walt Turned professional: 2007 European Tour Wins: 2 Career Victories: 2 2013 Race to Dubai Ranking: 107 Official World Golf Ranking: 194

DAWIE Van Der Walt clinched his second European Tour title last month thanks to a confident three-stroke win over Matthew Baldwin and Jorge Campillo at the Nelson Mandela Championship presented by ISPS. Last season Van Der Walt wrapped up his maiden European Tour title in superb fashion as rounds of 68, 65, 67, 67 gave him a two stroke win over compatriot Date of Birth: November 26, 1987 n

Height: 6’5” n

Darren Fichardt at the Tshwane Open. It was Van Der Walt’s 22nd event on The European Tour and it saw him move inside the top 220 on the Official World Ranking. Prior to turning professional Van Der Walt played golf at Lamar University in the United States and twice represented South Africa in the Eisenhower Trophy in 2004 and 2006. Born: Bristol, England

Chris Wood Turned professional: 2008 European Tour Wins: 1 Career Victories: 1 2013 Race to Dubai Ranking: 29 Official World Golf Ranking: 74

CHRIS Wood finally won his first European Tour title in impressive fashion after a one-stroke victory over George Coetzee and Sergio García at last year’s Commercial Bank Qatar Masters – the 116th time he’d teed it up on Tour. Englishman Wood finished 46th on The Race to Dubai in 2012 thanks to

four top tens, including runner-up at the Sicilian Open. He was runner-up twice in 2011 on his way to finishing 89th on The Race to Dubai. In 2009 Wood was named the Sir Henry Cotton Rookie of the Year after a superb debut season, the highlight of which was a third place finish at The Open Championship at Turnberry.

Hole by Hole Guide

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by Defending Champion Louis Oosthuizen 354 330 289

289

Par: 4

Metres: 354

This is a relatively straightforward opening hole. Taking a driver brings the bunker into play as the fairway begins to narrow so I’d Par 3 take a 3-iron off the tee and then play a short iron into the slightly raised green.

2 3

Yards: 387

Par 5

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462 413

Par: 3

Yards: 188

Metres: 172

Avoiding the bunkers is important on this par-3 but because it’s relatively short you should find the green every time with nothing more than a 7-iron in your hands.

Par: 5

Yards: 511

Metres: 468

This is a relatively long par-5 but it shouldn’t need anything bigger than a 3-wood off the tee. Once you’re in the fairway it’ll take a long iron or even a hybrid to reach the green.

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Par 4

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Yards: 180

This hole becomes very difficult when the wind starts to blow. Bunkers guard the right and left while coming up short and going long also 322 leaves 295 Para 4tough up-and-down. It’s nothing more than a 7-iron to the green but it’s a tough hole when it’s windy.

Metres: 165

315 271

Par: 4

Yards: 459

Metres: 420

A par-4 with trees on the right and a row of bushes to the left. Keeping it straight is the best way to play this hole. It’s risky to take the driver as you have to keep it straight, but you will be rewarded with a wedge shot into the green.

Par: 4

Metres: 322

There is danger to the left and right of this relatively dog-leg short par-4. Taking a long iron off the tee should leave you in great shape to then hit the green with a short iron or wedge.

Yards: 352

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Par: 4

Yards: 372

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This is another relatively short par-4 hole and again needs nothing longer than a 3-iron off the tee. Bushes flank the left and right so hitting the fairway Par 5 is imperative.

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Par: 5

Yards: 481

Metres: 440

This is a long par-5 and if you want to go for the green in two and make an eagle or birdie you will need to take the driver which will leave a medium length approach. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a good eagle opportunity if you hit the right spot in the fairway with plenty of distance.

Par: 4

Yards: 434

Metres: 397

This dog-leg right plays slightly downhill before it levels out at the green. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a narrow target off the tee so with the driver in hand you need to be both brave and accurate. A good drive will leave a short approach.

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12 Par 3

Par: 5

Yards: 560

Metres: 512

This a lovely par-5. Take a driver to get into a good position and avoid the fairway bunker. From a good position in the fairway it will take a long iron to hit the green which is guarded by two front to the left and Parbunkers 4 right at the entrance.

143 120

131 126

This par 3 is a real classic. Not a long hole, but it will get your attention. The green has steep banks on both sides so anything left or right will leave a very difficult chip shot. Club selection is paramount and very high scores are not unusual.

11 Par: 4

Yards: 480

Metres: 439

The tee shot here is key if you are to make birdie. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a tough par-4 and to try and tame it you need to hit the driver into the narrow part of the fairway. If you achieve this then youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re in with a chance of birdie with a short approach shot into the green. 27

Par: 3

Yards: 156

Metres: 143

This hole, called The Prince of Wales, is a difficult little par-3. Depending on the pin placement it can often be only a little nudge with a 9-iron to find the green.

Volvo XC60

Hole in one prize Volvo Cars

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13 Par 4

by Defending Champion Louis Oosthuizen 310 304 300

275

15 Par 3

177 128

Par: 4

Yards: 339

Metres: 310

This is a driveable par-4 but over-eagerness can land you in trouble. Holding off a driver and leaving yourself short of the green is the best way to play482 this hole. If you’re or Par on 5 the fairway then it’s a simple chip421 pitch to attack the pin.

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Volvo Backhoe Loader

Hole in one prize Volvo CE

461 418

Par: 5

Yards: 527

Metres: 482

This long par-5 is reachable with two big blows. It needs a driver off the tee and then at leas a long iron from the fairway, possibly even a hybrid or fairway metal, depending on the wind and how soft the ground is.

Par: 3

Yards: 170

Metres: 156

This is a lovely little par-3 but looks can be deceiving. If the wind picks up it becomes very difficult. A 6 or 7-iron is usually the club of choice depending on the wind. © Alan Hoffman, www.plus4.co.za

16 Par 4

381 341

374 338 Par: 4

18 Par 4

Metres: 381

A par-4 with a dog-leg to the right. There are bushes down the right and all along the left so positioning the driver correctly is key. Take this danger out of play with a 3-wood or long iron to keep it in the fairway and leave a mid-iron into the green.

17 Par 4

16 250 233

Yards: 416

241 231

ÂŠ Alan Hoffman, www.plus4.co.za

Volvo FH16

Hole in one prize Volvo Trucks

Par: 4

Yards: 401

Metres: 367

This is a lovely hole with undulating fairways. It looks spectacular from the tee box down to the green. Keeping the ball on the right hand side of the fairway is key. Hitting a driver is risky but you will be rewarded if you keep it on the short grass with a short approach shot.

Par: 4

Yards: 273

Metres: 250

This is a really great finishing hole. The key is to keep it straight. There is danger right and left but it is reachable often with something as short as a 5-wood if it pitches nicely on a downslope and kicks on up to the green.

367 345

351 287

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS VOLVO

Championship Executive Director Project Director Communications Director Hospitality Manager & Project Assistant Online Manager Transportation Manager Product Display Manager

IMG

Championship Director Assistant Championship Director Championship Managers Championship Administrators Championship Accountant Championship IT Manager MD, IMG SA IMG SA

VOLUNTEERS & SCORING Chief Marshal Chief Scorer Durban Country Club Liaison Sunshine Tour Scoring

IMG Media /PR Assistant Volvo Media SA Media Officers Event Marketing Event PR

Per Ericsson Tobias Winsnes Anna Hafström Kováts Anna Carlsson Bart Browaeys Barry Niemand Bosse Nielsen

VOLVO WORLD GOLF CHALLENGE – WORLD FINAL

Project Director Julia Ryding Tournament Director Fanny Sunesson Conference & Host Managers Jan Sidemo & Rasmus Cornér Function Manager Kristien Van Oudendycke Project co-ordinator Hanna Claesson Operations Nils Magnusson Playing with the Pros co-ordinator Staffan Jonson

Ross Hallett Lauren Fyfe Ben Freeman Alex Bensusan Chris Fry Rob O’Siochain Lauren Johnstone Cian Branagan Claire Brown Rachel Sudweeks Margie Dukes Ayhan Oven Robyn Cox Ross Chouler

Volvo & IMG would like to thank our Partners, the Official Sponsors and Official Suppliers of the 2014 Volvo Golf Champions

OFFICIAL PARTNERS

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Mikael Eriksson John Paramor Gaia Zonchello Mats Lanner, Niccolo Nesti Jennie Janes Richard Stillwell Ivor Robson

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Gary Todd, Theo Manyama Evert Scholtz

ET Media Officer IMG Media/PR Manager

Rolex Hilton Hotel L’Oreal

OFFICIAL SUPPLIERS

Chairman of the Trust Howard Buttery Chairman of the Club Richard Pemberton Chief Executive Officer Gerhard Patzer PA to the CEO and Communications Tracy Tomlinson Membership & Sales Manager Alan Lukan Golf Operations Manager Francois de Lange Finance Manager Sandi Canning Executive Chef Xanthos Giannakopoulos Operations Manager Pascale Van Maris Senior Sales & Banqueting Coordinator Janice Bekker Functions Co-ordinator Dominique West IT & Security Manager Anelle Janse van Rensburg HR Manager Sue Pillay

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The Organisers would like to thank the following people and organisations without whose help and dedication the Championship could not take place: Special thanks must go to the following for their continual support of the Championship: Michael Mabuyakhulu, MEC for Economic Development and Tourism, KwaZulu-Natal Provincial Government; Minister Fikile Mbalula, Minister for Sport and Recreation; Deputy Minister of Tourism, South African Government, Tokozile Xasa The entire team at Durban Country Club of whom there are many, thank you for your help, support and dedication all, of which has been greatly appreciated The Chief Marshal, Mark Cousens and Alan Lukan for recruiting and organising the marshals, together with the scoring teams and everyone else who have volunteered their services. Nomads for providing volunteers and managing the scoring operation for the Championship The Sunshine Tour for providing operational and logistical support for the Championship

Steve Todd Michele Mair

Media, TV and radio representatives for their coverage of the Championship

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