The DP World Tour returns to Spain where, from 17 to 20 October, the tenth edition of the Andalucia Masters will be held. At the Real Club de Golf Sotogrande, in San Roque, Andalusia, the Basque Jon Rahm, former world number 1 on the green and ace of the Arab Super League, will be the man to beat. The Italians are also playing a lot in the penultimate event not only of the so-called “back nine”, but also towards the Genesis Championship (scheduled from 24 to 27 October in Incheon, South Korea), at the end of which the best 115 classified in the “Race to Dubai”, the order of merit of the circuit, will keep the “card” for the DP World Tour, while the top 70 will qualify for the Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship (7-10 November), the first event of the play-offs that will then open the door, for the “best” 50, for the final act of the season, the DP World Tour Championship (14-17 November in Dubai). In Spain there will be 7 Italians competing. With Matteo Manassero (who is eighth in the Race to Dubai and is close to earning the pass to go, next year, to play on the PGA Tour) there will also be Francesco Laporta (fresh from the sixth place at the Open de France and from three weeks in a row best Italian in a DP World Tour event), Edoardo Molinari, Andrea Pavan, Renato Paratore, Filippo Celli and Lorenzo Scalise. Rest day, instead, for Guido Migliozzi (who is 16th in the order of merit and he too can aspire to a place on the top American circuit). If for Pavan and Laporta, respectively 70th and 84th in the Race to Dubai, this is the opportunity to secure the pass for 2025, Paratore (126th), Celli (135th), Edo Molinari (142nd and vice-captain of the Europe team at the Ryder Cup 2025) and Lorenzo Scalise (158th) are instead called to a great test to try to recover ground and positions.
Manassero, schedule
Along with Rahm, also seeking glory at home, among others, are Angel Hidalgo (recently at the Spanish Open he beat the Basque in the play-off), Nacho Elvira, Adrian Otaegui (winner in 2022), Jorge Campillo, Pablo Larrazabal, Adri Arnaus, Rafa Cabrera Bello and two other interpreters of the LIV Golf, the Arab Super League, David Puig and Eugenio Lopez-Chacarra.
The spotlight will also be on the English Dan Bradbury (who won the Open de France last Sunday), Matt Wallace and Matthew Baldwin, on the Frenchman Victor Perez, on the Danish twins Rasmus and Nicolai Hojgaard, on the Austrian Bernd Wiesberger and on the German Marcel Siem (who won the Italian Open in Cervia this year). A prize pool of 3,250,000 dollars is up for grabs.