Field in Focus: Turkish Airlines Open by the Ministry of Youth and Sports

<em><strong>By Roddy Williams, europeantour.com<br />
at the Montgomerie Maxx Royal, Antalya, Turkey</strong></em>

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As the build-up to this week’s Turkish Airlines Open by the Ministry of Youth and Sports – the third event in The 2014 Race to Dubai Final Series – continues, europeantour.com breaks down the world-class field assembled at the Montgomerie Maxx Royal</em>

<strong>78 players from 23 different countries</strong>

<strong>30 of the World’s Top-100 players</strong>

<strong>43 of the Top-50 in the Race to Dubai</strong>

<strong>59 European Tour Winners with 282 European Tour Wins</strong>

<strong>8 members of the winning 2014 European Ryder Cup Team </strong><br />(Garcia, Kaymer, Stenson, Dubuisson, Donaldson, Gallacher, Westwood and Poulter, plus vice captain Miguel Angel Jimenez)

<strong>19 Past and present Ryder Cup players</strong><br />(the aforementioned nine plus Montgomerie, Clarke, Howell, Francesco Molinari, Edoardo Molinari, Fisher, Wilson, Donald, Colsaerts, Karlsson)

<strong>3 Major Champions </strong><br />(Kaymer, Daly, Clarke)

<strong>6  European Number Ones</strong><br />(Westwood, Karlsson, Montgomerie, Kaymer, Stenson, Donald)

<strong>The course designer </strong><br />(Colin Montgomerie)

<strong>The defending champion</strong><br />(Victor Dubuisson)