Craig Lee has ticked all the boxes this season and can play "relaxed" golf in this week's DP World Tour Championship Race to Dubai decider.
The Stirling man is making his debut in the season-ending event after breaking into the top 60 with last week's mid-field finish in the Turkish Airlines Open.
He is already assured some €25,000 if he were to finish 56th because four players will be missing. The South African pair, Ernie Els and Charl Schwartzel, along with Spain's Sergio Garcia, did not play the mandatory number of Final Series events while Sweden's Alex Noren is out because of a back injury.
"It's brilliant being back in Dubai; it's a great reward for my hard work this year," said Lee. "Now that I am here, there won't be any targets now for me; I can just go out there and play relaxed golf as opposed to the last handful of weeks where I have been fighting so hard to get myself here.
"I've achieved all my targets, although it would be nice if I could end the year with a win as that's always the goal teeing up every Thursday."
Lee revealed he passed up the congratulatory drop of sherry on Sunday night's Turkish Airlines charter flight to Dubai that he had promised himself in qualifying for this week's DP World Tour Championship. "I was just too tired after those four rounds in Turkey but there will be plenty of time for a celebratory drink," he said. "I came out here [to the course] when we were in Dubai in January just for a practice round, thinking it might be good just in case I did qualify for this week's event."
There will be little rest for the Scot, though, as no sooner does the curtain fall on the 2013 Race to Dubai than the 2014 season starts next week with the first of three events in South Africa. "I am playing the first two in South Africa: next week's South African Open and the following week's Alfred Dunhill Championship," he said. "The goal will be to get some early pennies on the board before a four to five-week break over Christmas and the New Year, then back out here for the Dubai Desert Classic."
Lee welcomed the European Tour's revelation that it is considering taking the 2015 and future Scottish Opens to East Lothian for the first time in the event's history.
"The Scottish Open being played anywhere on a links course is fantastic but to take it to East Lothian, and possibly Gullane No.1, would be an excellent move," he said. "The area is blessed with some great courses and it would not be a problem for anyone living in the Glasgow/Edinburgh area to get to that part of Scotland."
Lee is one of just four Scots in the field for this week's event, the others being Marc Warren, Scott Jamieson and Stephen Gallacher.
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