With four rounds left in the season, Ireland’s Gary Murphy is headed for Australia in a bid to save his Tour card, while Rory McIlroy will be in Hong Kong fighting for the number one spot in the Race To Dubai.
Westwood and McIlroy are the headline acts at Fanling golf course, separated by less than €47,000 coming to the end of a campaign in which both have earned more than €2million.
Last November, McIlroy was in a play-off with Taiwan's Lin Wen-tang and Italian Francesco Molinari that Lin won at the second extra hole.
McIlroy was 63rd in the world going into that week. Now the 20-year-old is 17th.
Darren Clarke, meanwhile, is also in Hong Kong trying to move up three places into the leading 60 and so grab a place in the season-ending Dubai World Championship.
The JBWere Masters – formerly the Australia Masters, and set to feature Tiger Woods – was only put on the European Tour schedule last month but its inclusion gives players such as Murphy and former Ryder Cup player Andrew Coltart of Scotland a lifeline as they bid to save their cards.
The top 115 on the money list earn cards for next season's circuit and, with this the final even in the schedule that matters for those close to the bottom of the table, Coltart lies 122nd and Murphy is in 127th.
In Hong Kong, meanwhile, the same pressure is on a group of players including 2004 PGA champion Scott Drummond, Spaniard Pablo Martin - the first amateur ever to take a Tour title - and 21-year-old Oliver Fisher.
