All to play for in Euro finale

Several Irish golfers, including Rory McIlroy, Pádraig Harrington, Shane Lowry and Peter Lawrie, have a great deal to play for in the three season-ending tournaments on the European Tour — this week’s Barclays Singapore Open followed by the Hong Kong Open and the Dubai World Championship.

McIlroy got away with missing out on the WGC-HSBC Champions tournament at the weekend and, if anything, now looks a better bet than ever to complete the order of merit double on both sides of the Atlantic.

He stands 765,776 points ahead of second-placed Peter Hanson on the European Tour’s Race to Dubai order of merit with the Swede and the third and fourth-placed Justin Rose and Ian Poulter all missing both Singapore and Hong Kong.