One week after the PGA Tour launched its 2024 schedule, the DP World Tour unveiled theirs Monday.
Previously generally known as the European Tour, the DP World Tour will stage 44 occasions in 24 international locations throughout 5 continents in 2024.
5 totally different ‘swings’ additionally embody the schedule, all of which happen earlier than August 2024.
The ultimate stretch of the season, dubbed the ‘Again 9’ by the DP World Tour, begins in September 2024, after the conclusion of the FedEx Cup Playoffs on the PGA Tour.
The ‘Again 9’ function larger purses and elevated Race to Dubai rating factors.
The primary six DP World Tour occasions, together with the Australian Open, comprise the ‘Opening Swing.’ These occasions start Nov. 23 and run by way of Dec. 17, with the Afrasia Financial institution Mauritius Open concluding the primary swing.
Occasions in South Africa and Australia will run concurrently over the primary two weeks.
After the calendar flips to 2024, the DP World Tour heads to the Center East.
The Hero Dubai Desert Traditional, the primary of 5 Rolex Collection occasions, highlights the ‘Worldwide Swing’ in mid-January.
The Rolex Collection occasions in 2024 are the Hero Dubai Desert Traditional, the Genesis Scottish Open in July, the BMW PGA Championship at Wentworth in September, and the ultimate occasions of the DP World Tour schedule in November: the Abu Dhabi Championship and the season-ending DP World Tour Championship in Dubai.
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The ‘Worldwide Swing’ features a journey to Bahrain for the Bahrain Championship, the primary time the DP World Tour will stage an occasion there since 2011.
As soon as The Masters kicks off in April, the DP World Tour might be in the course of its ‘Asian Swing,’ which options occasions in Singapore, Japan, South Korea, and China for the primary time since 2019.
After the 2024 PGA Championship at Valhalla Golf Membership in Louisville, Kentucky, the tour begins its ‘European Swing,’ which is able to begin in Belgium for the Soudal Open.
The European Open in Hamburg and the Volvo Automobile Scandanavian Blended hosted by Annika Sorenstam in Sweden—one of the crucial distinctive occasions in skilled golf—observe the Soudal Open.
These two occasions might be contested subsequent June, within the weeks main as much as the U.S. Open at Pinehurst No. 2 in North Carolina.
Stops within the Netherlands, Italy, and Germany for the BMW Worldwide Open then observe the third main of the 12 months.
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The Genesis Scottish Open, held the week earlier than The Open Championship in July, begins the ‘Closing Swing.’
The DP World Tour then takes two weeks off following the season’s last main for the 2024 Summer season Olympics, which might be held in Paris.
Le Golf Nationwide, host of the 2018 Ryder Cup, will stage the Olympic competitors.
The tour begins again up with the Czech Masters and the Danish Golf Championship, thus concluding the ‘Closing Swing’ on the finish of August.
Then, the ‘Again 9’ begins.
The DP World Tour saved its most notable—and maybe most recognizable—tournaments for the ‘Again 9.’
The tour did this by design: they need the perfect European gamers on this planet to fly throughout the Atlantic following the Tour Championship, which concludes on Sept. 1, 2024.
But, the Betfred British Masters hosted by Sir Nick Faldo will run the identical weekend because the Tour Championship. The Belfry in England hosts this prestigious occasion yearly.
Regardless of the scheduling battle, solely 30 gamers will tee it up on the Tour Championship. So it is extremely doubtless that Faldo’s British Masters will function a top-notch, world-class subject.
The ‘Again 9’ then heads to Switzerland for the Omega European Masters in Switzerland Sept. 5-8.
The next week, the Irish Open might be held at probably the greatest golf programs on this planet, Royal County Down Golf Membership in Northern Eire.
The main target of {the golfing} world will proceed to be within the British Isles because the tour shifts to Wentworth for the BMW PGA Championship, scheduled for Sept. 19-22, 2024.
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5 extra occasions observe the DP World Tour’s flagship match at Wentworth: the Acciona Open de España offered by Madrid; the Alfred Dunhill Hyperlinks Championship at St. Andrews—a fan favourite; the French Open; and the Andalucia Masters.
One other to-be-announced occasion might be held Oct. 24-27.
The DP World Tour season concludes with two playoff occasions, with solely the highest 70 gamers within the Race to Dubai standings advancing to the Abu Dhabi Championship Nov. 7-10.
From there, the highest 50 finishers head to Dubai for the DP World Championship on Nov. 14-17, 2024.
Subsequent 12 months’s schedule for the DP World Tour is a superb one. Among the greatest gamers on this planet will play everywhere in the globe, genuinely encompassing the which means of a world tour.
How the DP World Tour appears past 2024 stays to be seen, particularly with its pending settlement with the PGA Tour and the Saudi Arabian Public Funding Fund (PIF).
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