Finch's focus on place in Dubai

Hull's Richard Finch requires a top-25 finish at this week's Barclays Singapore Open to have any chance of forcing his way into the Dubai World Championship.
By The Newsroom
Published 11th Nov 2010, 10:13 BST
Updated 11th Nov 2010, 10:13 BST

The Race to Dubai's lucrative season finale for the year's top 60 golfers tees off in two weeks with the opportunities for Finch, currently 63rd in the rankings, to seal his place fast running out.

Finch trails 60th-place Thomas Aiken of South Africa by just 40,000 euros with 25th in the Far East this week offering a reward of 44,500.

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The players around him are also seeking similar returns in Singapore and next week in the final event in the Race to Dubai, the UBS Hong Kong Open.

But with his destiny out of his hands, Finch needs two strong performances to have any chance of joining fellow Yorkshire golfers Danny Willett, Simon Dyson and John Parry in the Middle East.

Dyson and Parry, 44th and 47th respectively, are also in action this week.

Eleven major champions will be in the field for this week's Children's Miracle Network Classic on the PGA Tour.

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But most attention will be focused on the names at the wrong end of the money list. Only the top 125 after this, the final official tournament of 2010, regain fully exempt status for 2011.

The man in 126th place on the money list is American Briny Baird, but the 38-year-old said: "I'm approaching it like a three-foot putt.

"There are only two things that can happen, either it goes in or it misses."