On September 19th, Beijing time reported that as the last European tour before the Ryder Cup, the Portugal Masters with a total prize money of 2 million euros will be played on Thursday at Dom Pedro Victoria Golf Course. The 2018 Ryder Cup European team members Garcia and Tobijo Olison will all practice on behalf of the team, preparing to compete in the Ryder Cup. Wu Asun, who just won the Dutch Open last week, will also join forces with Li Haotong again.

No less than 6 Grand Slam champions will participate in this week's Portugal Masters, including 2017 US Masters champion Garcia, Ryder Cup European team vice captain Harrington, 2016 US Masters champion Danny Willett, former US Masters champion Shaw Schwarzer, two time Grand Slam champion Cabrera, and two time US Masters champion Ola Chapel.
Defending champion Lucas Bjerregaard is striving for a consecutive victory, after all, his recent form is very brave. In the past three European tournaments he has participated in, Biyager has tied for 9th place in the Czech Masters, 6th place in the Danish Manufacturing Tournament, and runner up in the European Masters. This 27 year old Dane will be in the same group as Spanish star Garcia and English player Matt Wallace, who has won the European Tour three times this year but missed the Ryder Cup, in the first two rounds of matches.

Ryder Cup European team newcomer Olison will play in the same group as last week's Dutch Open runner up Chris Wood and Englishman Paul Warling.

For the Chinese duo, Wu Ashun, who has just made history by winning his third European Tour championship, competed against two Grand Slam champions, Willett and Harrington, in the first two rounds of the competition. This year is the second consecutive year that Wu Ashun has participated in the Portugal Masters. Last year, he also performed well here and tied for 7th place. This week, the 33 year old Fujian veteran is striving to achieve good results again, reaching the top ten for the third consecutive week.

Chinese player Li Haotong, who ranks 58th in the world, will compete with English giants Ross Fischer and Richard McVaughey in the same group. Li Haotong, who tied for 24th place at the Dutch Open last week, also participated in the Portuguese Masters for the second consecutive year and achieved a tied 25th place result last year.