This Week in Golf - November 12th through November 15th

By reaching the 20-win plateau, Sports Network | The Sports Network • Published November 09, 2009

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But it's a bigger week for many of the other players in the field.

The Children's Miracle Network Classic is the final event of the season for players to secure their tour cards for next year. The top 125 players on the money list after the final round will earn exempt status for 2010. Players between 126 and 150 on the list will get conditional status.

Former world No. 1 David Duval currently sits in the 125th position, just $10,797 in front of Chris Riley.

Among the other players struggling to hang on to their full-time playing status are 1993 champion Jeff Maggert (127th) and Chris DiMarco (138th), who are both in the field this week.

Tiger Woods claimed his second career win at this tournament in 1996, but he hasn't played in it since missing the cut in 2005. Woods will be in Australia this week for the JBWere Masters.

Golf Channel will have coverage of the Children's Miracle Network Classic for all four rounds starting at 1 p.m. (et) each day.

The Omega Mission Hills World Cup, an unofficial event, starts in two weeks. The PGA Tour Qualifying Tournament begins a week later.

EUROPEAN TOUR

UBS HONG KONG OPEN, Hong Kong Golf Club, Fanling, Hong Kong, China - This event is appearing for the second time on the 2009 European Tour schedule.

Last November, when it marked the second event on the 2009 docket, Taiwan's Wen-Tang Lin defeated Rory McIlroy and Francesco Molinari in a playoff for his first tour win.

It is the second time in as many weeks that an event is making its second appearance on this season's schedule. Last week's HSBC Champions, won by Phil Mickelson, kicked off the 2009 season. This week's JBWere Masters was also part of the 2009 schedule.

This is also the final event for players to qualify for the inaugural Dubai World Championship next week.

Only the top 60 players on the European money list -- formerly the Order of Merit, now called the Race to Dubai -- will make that field. Of those 60, only the top 15 players at the end of the tournament will split the whopping $7.5 million purse (it began as a $10 million purse, but was reduced by 25 percent).

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