After Rory McIlroy and Jon Rahm, four other major players have definitively confirmed their presence from January 16 to 19 at the Hero Dubai Desert Classic, the first Rolex Series of the 2024-25 season on the DP World Tour. Scotsman Robert MacIntyre, Englishman Tyrrell Hatton, Australian Adam Scott and American Akshay Bhatia will indeed be at the start of this tournament with a prize pool of $9 million.
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The start of the year promises to be intense on the DP World Tour. A whole host of world stars are indeed expected at the Emirates Golf Club between January 16 and 19, 2025. After Rory McIlroy, the defending champion and winner of the Race for the sixth time in a row last November, after Jon Rahm, whose first participation this will be, after Tommy Fleetwood, silver medalist at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, the organization of the Hero Dubai Desert Classic officially unveils four new prestigious names.
Victorious twice on the PGA Tour 2024 (RBC Canadian Open and Scottish Open), Robert MacIntyre has finished twice in the top 10 during his four participations in the Hero Dubai Desert Classic.
Winner last October at the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship, Tyrrell Hatton has already finished four times in the top 10 of the tournament (4th in 2022) and won a Rolex Series event four times (Italian Open 2017, Turkish Airlines Open 2019, BMW PGA Championship 2020, Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship 2021).
Winner of the 2013 Masters, Adam Scott has just taken 3rd place (tied with Shane Lowry and Antoine Rozner) in the DP World Tour Championship on November 17 at Jumeirah Golf Estates, and in the process took 10th place in the 2024 Race. .
29th in the world ranking on December 22, Akshay Bhatia, 22, will like Jon Rahm discover the Majlis Course of the Emirates GC. A member of the PGA Tour, he won the Valero Texas Open on April 6 after opening his account at the Barracuda Championship in July 2023, a tournament co-sanctioned by the two circuits.
The rules of golf are relatively complicated compared to other sports because they are played outdoors, close to nature and animals. Respecting the rules is a basic element in the game of golf, which, almost always based on self-control and the free conscience of the players, often sees distorted results, sometimes consciously, but often unconsciously or through carelessness, due to the non-observance by many players of the rules of the game. In addition to the rules, golf adheres to a code of conduct, known as etiquette, which generally means playing the game with due respect for the golf course and other players. Etiquette is an essential component of this sport.
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