The European Tour and Asian Tour will have one fewer tournament this year following the removal of the co-sanctioned Singapore Masters from their 2008 schedules.

Lee Westwood has accused the European Tour of “mismanagement” of their 2007 schedule after missing this week’s Volvo Masters.

For the second time in a month the European Tour have angered their Asian counterparts by announcing a new event without co-sanctioning it with them.

The threatened boycott by Asian Tour players of next month’s Indonesian Open has been avoided following further talks with the European tour.

Asian Tour golfers will not play in the Indonesian Open as a result of scheduling deadlock between the Asian and European Tours.

Stephen Dodd paid a heavy price for one shot in his third round of the Volvo China Open in Shanghai today – but at the end of it the 38-year-old Welshman was still on course for his first European Tour victory.