The Race to Dubai looks to be more between Tommy Fleetwood and Justin Rose but Sergio Garcia still has a chance as well, and in golf anything can happen.

Just a few weeks ago we saw World No. 1 Dustin Johnson couldn’t hold on to a six shot lead in China allowing Justin to come back from eight shots behind.

So, if Sergio wins this week, I think he’s got a good chance, but it’s out of his hands, all he can do is focus on his own game. As a fellow Spaniard and a good friend of mine though, I’d love for him to do well here.

Beyond that Race to Dubai title-fight, this weekend is just as important for the rest of us in the field of 60, however.

I’ve always done well here, and come in with confidence having played well over the last few weeks. I also live here in Dubai now and am incredibly familiar with this course. So, it will be nice to sleep in my own bed before an event and get some good support locally from my friends and family.

Obviously this is a world class field and a tough one to win because of that, but I fancy my chances during any given week of the season, so why not this one?

Hopefully I can finish the year well, and with there being a title up for grabs as well as the overall season’s prize, there is the all-important opportunity to sneak into the Race to Dubai’s top-10 to benefit from the bonus pool, and the chance to pick up some extra world rankings points along the way.

The top 45 in the field can still make that top-10 bar Rory McIlroy and Henrik Stenson, who are unfortunately injured. So, that just shows you how much is still up for grabs for the rest of us.

One of my goals in particular this week is to finish higher in the Race to Dubai than I did last year. I finished eighth last year and I’m seventh at the moment. If I have a good week here I should be able to do that.

I also want to raise my world ranking. I’m currently happy with where I am at World No. 20, but it will be an achievement, of course, to finish the year even higher.

This season was my first across both the US PGA Tour and the European Tour, and I’m proud of what I’ve achieved. One of my goals was to stay inside the Top-30 in the world rankings and be able to stay in both tours and ideally get a win.

I managed to achieve that and even exceed my expectations, I won the Scottish Open and kept my card comfortably in America. I played some of the best golf in my life and finished top-5 in some of the world’s biggest events like the Players, the Open, and the WGC in China. So, I’ve done well, but it maybe hasn’t been as consistent as previous seasons in terms of cuts made.

Looking forward, it’s still early but we are all aiming to make the Ryder Cup squad. I’m not going to obsess about it but I would love to play again. Last time I made the squad without a win, which is remarkable given the way the points system boosts winners. I’m just going to do what I did then and focus on just fighting every week, and it worked. Hopefully I can get a win in-between to make it easier on myself. I’m a better player than I was two years ago so I think my chances are good if not better.

The writer is a Spanish golfer on the European Tour who lives in Dubai and is a former winner of the Omega Dubai Desert Classic