Did You Know - Commercial Bank Qatar Masters
• Sergio Garcia will try and create history by becoming the first player to hold onto the Mother of Pearl Trophy. The 34 year old has yet to make a successful defence of a European Tour title.
• Should the 1999 and 2012 champion, Paul Lawrie win again, the Scot would be the first player to win the title on three occasions.
• There are 14 players in the field who have won European Tour events in the Middle East. Two of them are Ernie Els and Henrik Stenson.The South African won in Qatar in 2005 and the Swede in 2006. Both hold the record for most European Tour titles in the region, with four.
• The Commerical Bank Qatar Masters holds the European Tour record for the fewest number of shots between the halfway leaders and the cut mark – just five in 2004. The 36 leaders were on 138 (-6), whilst the cut fell at 143 (-1). This was matched in 2012 at the Sicilian Open.
• Steve Webster became the first player in European Tour history to make an albatross at his opening hole of a tournament .He started from the tenth hole in this event in 2014.
• Jakub Hrinda will make history by becoming the youngest player to compete in the tournament, aged 14 years and 305 days. This beats the previous record of Dominic Foos, who was 15 years and 142 days in 2013.
