The best 70 players (in descending order) of the DP World Tour 2024 will compete in the United Arab Emirates, in the Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship. The first event of the play-offs will be held from 7 to 10 November on the Yas Links course in Abu Dhabi. Up for grabs is not only a total prize pool of 9,000,000 dollars (first prize of 1,530,000), but also the pass to play the DP World Tour Championship (14-17 November in Dubai), the final seasonal event that will crown the best player on the circuit. In the Middle East, Italy will field Matteo Manassero, Guido Migliozzi and Francesco Laporta. Manassero, currently in 6th place in the “Race to Dubai”, is now close to earning a “card” for the PGA Tour 2025 that will be reserved for the top ten players (not otherwise exempt) of the DP World Tour. To date, among the elected, there is also another Venetian, Migliozzi, 14th. While Laporta, after a good end of the season (two sixth places and a twentieth in the last three races) that saw him climb up to 60th place, will have to recover another ten positions to earn a place for the DP World Tour Championship.
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The Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship, a Rolex Series event, will also see some world-class players competing, such as Northern Irishman Rory McIlroy, number 1 in the order of merit and third in the world ranking, and Englishman Tommy Fleetwood, who won this tournament, now in its 19th edition, in both 2017 and 2018. Frenchman Victor Perez, champion in 2023, but only 142nd in the Race to Dubai this year, will not be there, given the few events (eight) played on the circuit (he has instead participated in 22 competitions on the PGA Tour, making the cut 15 times with three placements in the Top 10). Also to watch in Abu Dhabi are South African Thriston Lawrence, Danes Rasmus Hojgaard and Niklas Norgaard, Swede Jesper Svensson, Scotsman Robert MacIntyre and Japanese Rikuya Hoshino, all in the top 10, along with McIlroy, Fleetwood (fifth) and Manassero, in the “Race to Dubai”. The spotlight will also be on Irishman Shane Lowry, Englishman Justin Rose, Australians Adam Scott and Min Woo Lee. And again: on some players in the LIV Golf, the Arab Super League, such as British Tyrrell Hatton, Chilean Joaquin Niemann and Polish Adrian Meronk. (ANSA).
