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Volvo-event specialist Nicolas Colsaerts has been crowned the 2012 Volvo World Match Play Champion, after defeating Northern Ireland’s Graeme McDowell in the final at the 18th hole.

Europe’s most prestigious golf tournament, the Volvo World Match Play Championship, will take place this week as 24 of the world’s best golfers come together in Spain.

Excitement and fierce competition guaranteed with Volvo World Match Play draw.

The 2006 Champion and 2011 Volvo Golf Champions winner, Paul Casey, has received the sponsors invite completing the field for the 2012 Volvo World Match Play Championship at Finca Cortesín, Spain, from May 17-20. For the first time in the Championship’s history half of the field will be US PGA Tour members and the draw will contain three Spanish players.

With a sense of eager anticipation and the crowds turning up in excellent numbers to get a view of the action, it was rising young South African Branden Grace who held off all challengers to secure his second successive Volvo win. This follows his impressive victory at the Volvo Golf Champions in January.

The Volvo China Open tees off here in northern China tomorrow with the first major tournament to be staged at the stunning new North Dye Course at Tianjin Binhai Lake Golf Club. And as happens on the day preceding nearly every important championship, Wednesday is Pro-Am day, a chance for the golfing stars to finalise their preparations at the same time as playing with the special guests and valued customers of the sponsors.

The Volvo China Open has grown steadily in importance and stature to the stage where it is now the most important tournament in the country and probably the region. This national open championship attracts world-class golfers and therefore creates an excellent platform for business from many perspectives.

Sweden’s Peter Hanson and Scotland’s Colin Montgomerie are the latest stars to confirm their presence in the impressive starting line-up for the 2012 Volvo China Open at Binhai Lake Golf Club in Tianjin, from 19th – 22nd April. As the most important tournament in the region draws closer, the field is already the strongest by far in the history of the event, with many of golf’s brightest stars from all over the world.

Last year, more than 25 countries, a number that is growing each year, hosted qualifying events. We are now very pleased to announce that the Volvo World Golf Challenge is coming to India in 2012.

A truly international field is assembling in China’s Hainan Province to compete for the coveted three places that are on offer for next month’s Volvo China Open. Such is the global appeal of this event that players from no fewer than a dozen countries have lodged their entry into International Qualifying.