The DP World Tour Championship takes place in Dubai this week and Europe's golfing glitterati will be on display - but that won't be the case at every tournament next year.
Buoyant
It's great to pick up form at any time of the year but with the monstrous amount of money up for grabs at the season-ending DP World Tour Championship, now is probably a better time than any!
Stenson will head to the UAE booming with confidence and so will Luke Donald, who won the Dunlop Phoenix tournament in Japan last week, while Miguel Angel Jimenez will be in a buoyant mood, too.
The 48-year-old Spaniard won the Hong Kong Open for the third time, became the oldest winner in European Tour history - taking a record previously held by Des Smyth - and played as well as he ever has.
Confidence is a wonderful thing in sport and the three men I've just mentioned could easily scoop first place- but Rory McIlroy, who missed the cut in Hong Kong last week, has unfinished business in Dubai.
The Ulsterman was winning the Race to Dubai in 2009 before the final event of the year at the Jumeirah Golf Estates, but after finishing third in that tournament, he saw winner Lee Westwood leapfrog him to the top of the standings.
McIlroy has already sealed the Race to Dubai this year, but I think he will be desperate to win this week and I find it very hard to back against him
at odds of 6/1.
