Club: Abu Dhabi Golf Club

Location: Abu Dhabi, UAE

Date: Jan 26-29, 2012

European Tour Golf Betting Odds: Martin Kaymer not only defended the title he had won the year before, but he made it three Abu Dhabi HSBC Golf Championship victories in four starts in 2011. It was an impressive week for the German who led wire-to-wire and eventually won by eight shots from Rory McIlroy. In previous years Paul Casey has also had a lot of success at the Abu Dhabi GC winning twice in 2007 and 2009, either side of Kaymer’s first win here. This all came after America’s Chris DiMarco got the ball rolling at this event, winning by a single shot from Henrik Stenson in 2006.

The 2012 Abu Dhabi HSBC Golf Championship will feature the strongest field in the tournament’s history, after organicers Abu Dhabi Tourism Authority (ADTA) and title sponsor HSBC unveiled an eye-catching roster of Major winners and past and present world number ones for the event from January 26-29.

Three reigning Major Champions head the 2012 line-up, with Masters Champion Charl Schwartzel, US Open Champion Rory McIlroy and Open Champion Darren Clarke all competing for the lion’s share of the US$2.7 million prize fund at Abu Dhabi Golf Club.

The trio will be joined by World Number One Luke Donald and three other players that have reached the summit of the sport’s rankings: Martin Kaymer, the defending champion and three-time Falcon trophy winner, Englishman Lee Westwood, and Abu Dhabi debutant, Tiger Woods of America, the 14-time Major Champion.

With more household names set to be confirmed in coming weeks, half of the world’s top 10 players - including Australia’s Jason Day, the current world number eight - will compete on the National Course for the championship’s seventh edition. The field also includes Korean, KJ Choi – the current world number 15.

Faisal Al Sheikh, Events Manager for ADTA, said: “The giants of golf are coming to Abu Dhabi. Traditionally, we have prioritized depth of field at the Abu Dhabi HSBC Golf Championship and that has not changed for our seventh year. It is safe to say we are amassing the finest field to ever contest a Middle East tournament.

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2012 Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship Winner - Robert Rock wins Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship

UNHERALDED Englishman Robert Rock won the Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship to deny Tiger Woods the win he was seeking to end a two-year winless drought in full tournaments.

The world's 117th ranked player fired a closing two-under par 70 for a total of 13-under par 275.

That gave him a one stroke win over Northern Irishman Rory McIlroy who fired a final 69.

Woods, with a par 72, finished tied for third a further stroke back level with Thomas Bjorn of Denmark (68), and Graeme McDowell of Northern Ireland (68).

It was a stunning, against-the-odds win for the Englishman who had admitted to feeling starry-eyed after learning on Saturday that he would be playing with the American in the final grouping.

The pair shared the lead on 11 under at the start of the day and battled it out over the final 18 holes, with Rock edging ahead at the fourth hole and standing firm after that in the line of fire from Woods and late on from McIlroy.

It was just his second tournament win in 228 attempts following his win in the Italian Open last year but more than that it will be the scalp of the 14-times major winner that will count most for Rock.

For Woods it was a bitter blow as he had looked set to win a full tournament for the first time since November 2009.

It was at last year's Masters that Woods sustained the leg injury that sidelined him for most of the year before he finally returned to the winners' circle at the Chevron World Challenge in California in early December.

2011 Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship Winner - Record-breaking Kaymer claims Abu Dhabi hat-trick

Records tumbled as defending champion Martin Kaymer wrote a new chapter in Abu Dhabi HSBC Golf Championship history with his third win in four years on Abu Dhabi Golf Club's National Course.

The German carded a bogey-free round of 66 to finish 24-under par - a score which beat his own four-day National Course record, set last year, by three shots - to finish eight shots clear of nearest challenger, Ulster's Rory McIlroy.

Kaymer's historic hat-trick saw him leapfrog America's Tiger Woods into second place in the World Rankings and means the 26-year old will keep the event's coveted Falcon Trophy - presented to him by His Highness Sheikh Hazza Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, National Security Advisor, Vice Chairman of Executive Council and Chairman of Abu Dhabi Sports Council, and in the presence of His Highness Sheikh Sultan bin Tahnoon Al Nahyan, Chairman, Abu Dhabi Tourism Authority (ADTA), the tournament organizer.