I guess a number of you shall be wondering who shall be pegging it up in next week's European Tour 2012 CommercialBank Qatar Masters Golf Tournament at Doha Golf Club, Qatar.

Pictured: 2010 and 2011 Qatar Masters Champion Martin Kaymer

The number one attraction shall be world golf number 1 Tiger Woods of the USA, who shall be joined in the field by major golf winners - Darren Clarke, Padraig Harrington, Todd Hamilton, Ben Curtis, Martin Kaymer, Charl Schwartzel, Rory McIlroy, Graeme McDowell and Michael Campbell.

The defending champion is former USPGA Champion, Martin Kaymer of Germany, who won this event last year with -24, consiting of 67, 65, 66 and 66, to collect a cheque for € 334,398. Such was the quality of Kaymer's scoring (level -6,66s), the German golfer won this event by the commanding margin of eight strokes from US Open Champion Rory McIlroy of Northern Ireland.

Kaymer, has won this event in 2010 and 2012 and shall be going for an unprecedented three wins in a row on the Desert Swing.

Two-time former winner Paul Casey of England is unable to play after injuring himself and shall be out for approximately two months.

The English challenge is expected to come from world golf ranking number one and two, Luke Donald and Lee Westwood.

Another fancied player is big-hitting Alvaro Quiros of Spain, who tends to play very well in the Desert Swing of the Race to Dubai.

A full list of entrants is detailed below. Please note that these are the players who have entered for the event - not all of them will automatically get a playing place in the tournament field. Players in categories 98 and 99 are automatically in the starting field.

The field cut-off point, taken at close of entries, is indicated below by a red line.

This list is for informational purposes only and the field is subject to change. Tee Times shall be published in due course and can be found here, alongside all other major tour tee-off times.

Live Golf Scoring can be found here. We shall be providing full coverage on a round-by-round bais, to include past results from this event, blogs, tv times, betting odds, tee times, draws, pairings, scores, purse, results, prizemoney &c. To access this wealth of information, click here.

A full breakdown of prizemoney for this event, can be found here.

Category 1 -- Winners of Majors/European Tour Order of Merit (Race To Dubai)

Darren CLARKE 1

Padraig HARRINGTON 4

Todd HAMILTON 5

Ben CURTIS 6

Luke DONALD Conway Farms GC 7

Martin KAYMER 8

Lee WESTWOOD Close House GC 9

Robert KARLSSON 10

Colin MONTGOMERIE The Elizabeth Montgomerie Foundation 12

Charl SCHWARTZEL Maccauvlei CC 14

Rory MCILROY Lough Erne Golf Resort 20

Graeme MCDOWELL 21

Michael CAMPBELL 25

Category 2 -- Winners PGA C'ship from 1997/TPC of Europe/Volvo Masters/Dubai World Championship

Simon KHAN Georgia Golf 1

Miguel Angel JIMÉNEZ 3

Anders HANSEN Royal Mougins GC 4

Ross FISHER 6

Alvaro QUIROS 7

Søren KJELDSEN 8

Category 2b -- Winners of World Golf Championships/European Open/French Open and Scottish Open (from 2009 onwards)

Thomas LEVET 3

Francesco MOLINARI Circolo Golf Torino 4

Edoardo MOLINARI Circolo Golf Torino 7

Christian CÉVAËR Golf Court Academy 8

Category 3 -- European Tour Order of Merit Tournament Winners 2009-2011 inclusive

Branden GRACE George GC 1

Gonzalo FDEZ-CASTAÑO GFC Golf & Business 2

Sergio GARCIA Club de Golf Del Mediterraneo 3

Tom LEWIS Welwyn Garden City GC 4

Michael HOEY 5

Simon DYSON Alanda Group 6

Thomas BJÖRN Golf in Dubai 7

Oliver FISHER 8

Alexander NOREN Haninge GK 9

Pablo LARRAZÁBAL El Prat GC 10

Robert ROCK The Belfry 11

Thomas AIKEN Fancourt CC 12

Nicolas COLSAERTS 13

Matteo MANASSERO Royal Park I Roveri 14

David HORSEY Styal GC 15

S.S.P CHOWRASIA Royal Calcutta GC 16

Richard GREEN 17

Peter HANSON Los Naranjos GC 18

Richard S JOHNSON 19

Marcus FRASER Kingswood GC 20

Andrew DODT 21

Category 3a -- Medical Extension

Peter HEDBLOM 1

Category 3b -- Winners of dual ranking European/Challenge Tour events and from 2009 onwards, winners of R2D events with a prizefund below 1.5 million Euro

Hennie OTTO Maggersfontein Memorial Golf Estate 2

Joost LUITEN 4

Lee SLATTERY Formby Hall G&CC 5

Kenneth FERRIE Marie Curie Cancer Care 6

Matthew ZIONS Castle Pines GC 7

Paul LAWRIE 8

Raphaël JACQUELIN Terre Blanche GC 9

Pablo MARTIN 10

Category 4 -- Tournament Invitations

Stuart FEE 0

Tommy FLEETWOOD Formby Hall 0

Jason DAY 0

Wen-chong LIANG ChinaDragon 0

Henrik STENSON 0

K J CHOI 0

Tiger WOODS 0

Category 8 -- Players finishing within positions 1-118 from 2011 Race To Dubai

George COETZEE Pretoria CC 26

Grégory HAVRET Golf du Médoc Hotel & Spa 27

Richie RAMSAY 28

Rafael CABRERA-BELLO LOPESAN Hotel Group 30

Mark FOSTER Club SBM 32

David LYNN 35

Jamie DONALDSON Macclesfield GC 38

Fredrik ANDERSSON HED Laholm GK 39

Johan EDFORS Black Mountain GC, Hua Hin 40

Shane LOWRY 41

Grégory BOURDY Golf Bordelais 47

Thorbjørn OLESEN Vaerloese Golf Klub 48

Lorenzo GAGLI GC Ugolino 49

Jaco VAN ZYL Dainfern GC 50

Rhys DAVIES 56

James MORRISON 57

Peter LAWRIE 58

Scott JAMIESON 59

Christian NILSSON Karlstad GK 60

Stephen GALLACHER Kingsfield Golf Centre 61

Steve WEBSTER 62

Peter WHITEFORD Wellsgreen 63

Bernd WIESBERGER Reiters Golf Resorts & Hotels 64

Anthony WALL 70

Robert COLES Aspect 71

Richard FINCH Brian Yeardley Continental Ltd. 74

James KINGSTON Rustenburg GC 75

José Manuel LARA 77

Gary BOYD Woburn GC 78

Robert-Jan DERKSEN Het Ryk Golf Banen 79

George MURRAY 81

Martin WIEGELE GC Erzherzog Johann 83

Thongchai JAIDEE 85

Marcel SIEM Country Sports Siem 87

Alejandro CAÑIZARES Valderrama GC 88

Chris WOOD Long Ashton GC 89

Romain WATTEL Bussy St Georges 90

Danny WILLETT 91

Jbe KRUGER Schoeman Park GC 92

Jean-Baptiste GONNET G&CC Cannes Mougins 93

Jeev Milkha SINGH Jumeirah Golf Estates 94

Bradley DREDGE 96

Tano GOYA El Potrerillo de Larreta Resort & CC 98

Ricardo GONZALEZ Handicap Cero Golf Academy 99

Fabrizio ZANOTTI Tulsa Sport Management 100

Graeme STORM Rockliffe Hall 101

David HOWELL Queenwood, Surrey 103

David DRYSDALE Renaissance GC 104

Michael JONZON 105

Victor DUBUISSON Terme di Saturnia GSR 106

Joel SJÖHOLM 107

Richard MCEVOY Thorpe Hall GC 108

Søren HANSEN 109

Brett RUMFORD Royal Perth 110

Oscar FLOREN Ojared GK 111

Carlos DEL MORAL Escorpion GC 112

Keith HORNE Eye of Africa 113

Marc WARREN Champions UK plc 114

Damien MCGRANE 115

Markus BRIER Diamond CC 116

Gareth MAYBIN Ballyclare GC 117

Phillip PRICE 118

Category 8a

Mikko ILONEN Black Mountain GC, Hua Hin 1

Alex CEJKA 4

Category 9 -- Top 40 2011 Career Money List

José María OLAZÁBAL 2

Niclas FASTH 5

This cut off point is inserted at close of entries and may move down subject to withdrawals

Category 10 -- Winners of three Challenge Tour events during 2011 season

Sam LITTLE M25 Audi 2

Category 10b -- Challenge Tour Graduates - Positions 1 to 10 on final 2011 CT Rankings

Andrea PAVAN San Domenico Golf 2

Ricardo SANTOS Oceanico Victoria GC 4

Daniel DENISON Howley Hall GC 6

Federico COLOMBO Golf Brianza CC 7

Jamie MOUL Stoke by Nayland 8

Jorge CAMPILLO Norba Club de Golf 9

Matthew BALDWIN Royal Birkdale GC 10

Category 11 -- Players finishing within positions 11-15 on the final 2011 Challenge Tour Rankings

Edouard DUBOIS Bordeaux-Lac 11

Simon THORNTON Team Ireland Golf 12

Julien QUESNE Fourqueux 13

Craig LEE 14

Andrew JOHNSTON North Middlesex GC 15

Category 11b -- Players finishing within positions 1-37 from the 2011 European Tour Qualifying School

David DIXON Enmore Park GC 1

Sam HUTSBY Liphook GC 2

Andy SULLIVAN Nuneaton GC 3

Richard BLAND Stoneham GC 4

Steven O'HARA Bothwell Castle GC 5

Jordi GARCIA 6

Emiliano GRILLO Chaco GC 9

Thomas NØRRET ECCO 13

Matthew NIXON Ashton under Lyne 14

Bernd RITTHAMMER 15

Warren ABERY Simbithi CC 16

Darren FICHARDT Centurion Golf Estate 18

Adrien BERNADET Racing Club de France 19

Julien GUERRIER Golf du Vaudreuil 22

Adrian OTAEGUI Goiburu GC 23

Scott PINCKNEY The Karsten Golf Course at ASU 24

Alex HAINDL Schoeman Park GC 25

Wil BESSELING 26

Matthew SOUTHGATE Thorpe Hall GC 27

Peter GUSTAFSSON San Roque Club 28

Reinier SAXTON GC Houtrak 29

HP BACHER Radstadt GC 31

Tjaart VAN DER WALT Mt Edgecombe CC 33

Tim SLUITER Golf Team Holland 34

Maarten LAFEBER 36

Category 11c -- Players finishing within positions 16-20 on the final 2011 Challenge Tour Rankings

Sam WALKER T