With the season-ending DP World Tour Championship just a week away, those around the top 50 on the Race to Dubai Rankings have one more chance to cement their place in the field at Jumeirah Golf Estates.
The top 70 players in the standings have assembled at Yas Links this week for the Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship as the DP World Tour Play-Offs get under way.
But not all of those will make it through to the season finale, with the top 50 the cut-off.
Here, we take a closer look at the men either side of the top 50 mark and how they've fared so far this season.
Inside the top 50
46th - Nacho Elvira
The two-time DP World Tour winner extended his season with a stunning performance at the Genesis Championship last time out, finishing in a tie for second to climb comfortably into the top 70 on the Rankings and punch his ticket to the Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship.
Having found form at the right time to sit 46th ahead of the penultimate event of the season, he has a great chance to qualify for Dubai and will be hoping to add to his seven top-20 finishes this season at Yas Links.
47th - Connor Syme
The Scot will forever remember the 2025 season as the one in which he claimed his maiden DP World Tour title. But as well as his KLM Open triumph in June, Syme finished in the top ten at the Joburg Open and impressed at the first Rolex Series event of the campaign - the Hero Dubai Desert Classic - to give his Ranking an early-season boost.
Syme has been a regular at the season finale in recent years and finished joint-12th there in 2022. After a quiet few weeks, he will be hoping to recapture his very best form in Abu Dhabi with a view to returning to Jumeirah Golf Estates once again.
48th - Marcel Schneider
German Schneider has found himself in the top 50 ever since his runner-up finish at the Austrian Alpine Open presented by SalzburgerLand in early June and has ten top-20 finishes to his name this season.
Recent impressive finishes at the FedEx Open de France and DP World India Championship, where he was joint-17th, have left Schneider in a strong position to get over the line.
49th - Jacob Skov Olesen
Having been just outside the top 50 for much of the season, the Dane recorded a top-five finish at the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship last month to get above the line, and he has managed to stay there.
Buoyed by further top tens at the Amgen Irish Open, Nexo Championship, Volvo China Open, Joburg Open and AfrAsia Bank Mauritius Open so far this season, Olesen knows he has what it takes to get another good result this week.
50th - Brandon Robinson Thompson
The Englishman gave himself a great platform for success in 2025 as he finished in the top 20 on five occasions in February and March, with his best result during that period a third-place finish at the Commercial Bank Qatar Masters.
Coming fourth at the Turkish Airlines Open in May was a further boost to his confidence, while his performance in last month's star-studded DP World India Championship will give Robinson Thompson belief that he can stay inside the top 50 and extend his season further.
Outside the top 50
51st - Todd Clements
After following up a ninth-placed finish at March's Joburg Open by coming third at the Barracuda Championship and then seventh in his next start at the Nexo Championship over the summer, Clements broke back into the top 50 for the first time since late 2024 last month.
Having finished in a tie for tenth at the FedEx Open de France in late September, he moved to 47th in the standings with a top-15 at the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship before moving further up the list by coming 16th in the Open de España presented by Madrid. But after missing the cut at the Genesis Championship, he sits just outside the magic number and has work to do this week to reach Dubai.
52nd - Matthew Jordan
Having kicked off his season with a runner-up finish at the Nedbank Golf Challenge, Jordan had been well within the top 50 for much of 2025 before recently slipping beneath the line.
But if he is looking for evidence that he is more than capable of posting low scores, he does not have to go back very far as he fired a nine-under-par 63 on the Old Course at St Andrews last month.
53rd - Dylan Naidoo
Like Jordan just above him, Naidoo has not spent much of the season outside of the top 50 after getting off to a lightning-quick start. After a runner-up finish at the AfrAsia Bank Mauritius Open - his second event of the campaign - the South African secured his first DP World Tour title at the Investec South African Open Championship in March to sit sixth in the fledgling standings.
But a series of missed cuts since then have seen Naidoo dip beneath the line in recent weeks and he needs to rediscover his best form to earn his spot at next week's finale.
54th - Francesco Laporta
The Italian started the season brightly as he shared sixth place at the Nedbank Golf Challenge but he had to wait until June's KLM Open for his next top-ten finish.
That triggered an upturn in fortunes, however, as Laporta finished in the top ten in each of his next two starts, on home soil at the
Italian Open and in the BMW International Open. And although he struggled a bit for results after that, a tied-14th finish at the Genesis Championship in his last outing provides hope that he can sneak back into the top 50.
55th - Aaron Rai
Having split his time between the PGA TOUR and DP World Tour this season, Rai was outside the top 50 until finishing in a tie for third at the BMW PGA Championship in September.
But he has not teed it up since then and finds himself outside the top 50 with just one event left to change that before the finale.
