The Turkish Airlines World Golf Final was a
golf
Golf is a club-and-ball sport in which players use various clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a course in as few strokes as possible.
Golf, unlike most ball games, cannot and does not use a standardized playing area, and coping wi ...
tournament that was played on the 9–12 October 2012 in
Turkey
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. This tournament took place at the Antalya Golf Club, Sultan course, in
Belek
Belek is a township in the Serik district in Turkey's Antalya Province. The local population in 2022 is 73,260.
Belek is one of the centers of Turkey's tourism industry and is home to more than thirty four-star and five-star hotels and many ...
, on the
Turkish Riviera
The Turkish Riviera ( tr, Türk Rivierası), also known popularly as the Turquoise Coast, is an area of southwest Turkey encompassing the provinces of Antalya and Muğla, and to a lesser extent Aydın, southern İzmir and western Mersin. The ...
. It featured four of the five
top ranked players:
Rory McIlroy
Rory Daniel McIlroy (born 4 May 1989) is a professional golfer from Northern Ireland who is a member of both the European and PGA Tours. He is the current world number one in the Official World Golf Ranking, and has spent over 100 weeks in tha ...
,
Tiger Woods
Eldrick Tont "Tiger" Woods (born December 30, 1975) is an American professional golfer. He is tied for first in PGA Tour wins, ranks second in men's major championships, and holds numerous golf records.
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,
Lee Westwood
Lee John Westwood (born 24 April 1973) is an English professional golfer. Noted for his consistency, Westwood is one of the few golfers who has won tournaments on five continents – Europe, North America, Asia, Africa and Oceania – including ...
and
Justin Rose
Justin Peter Rose, (born 30 July 1980) is an English professional golfer who plays most of his golf on the PGA Tour, while keeping his membership on the European Tour. He won his first major championship at the 2013 U.S. Open (golf), 2013 U.S. O ...
in an eight-player field. They competed for a first prize of $1.5 million from a total purse of $5.2 million.
The tournament was an unofficial money event as it was not sanctioned by any tour. It was only staged once in 2012. It was replaced by the
Turkish Airlines Open
The Turkish Airlines Open is a European Tour golf tournament played annually in Turkey since 2013. In both 2013 and 2014 the tournament was the penultimate event of the European Tour Final Series.
The first three tournaments were held at the Mont ...
in 2013 which was part of the
European Tour
The European Tour (currently known as the DP World Tour for sponsorship reasons), legally the PGA European Tour is the leading men's professional golf tour in Europe. The organisation also operates the European Senior Tour (for players aged fift ...
.
Because the event conflicted with the
PGA Tour
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's
Frys.com Open, all eight players had to be granted releases by the PGA Tour, in exchange for which they agreed to play the Frys.com Open at least once in the next three years.
Format
The format of the competition was
medal match play
Match play is a scoring system for golf in which a player, or team, earns a point for each hole in which they have bested their opponents; as opposed to stroke play, in which the total number of strokes is counted over one or more rounds of 18 h ...
, with the eight players divided into two pools of four. After
round-robin play in each pool, the top two players in each pool advanced to the semi-finals, with the winners meeting in the final.
Participants
Pool play
Round 1
Round 2
Round 3
Standings
Pool A
Pool B
Source
Finals
Source
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Prize money
References
External links
*{{official, http://www.turkishairlinesworldgolffinal.org/
Golf tournaments in Turkey
Sport in Antalya