The 2025 Race to Dubai concludes this week at the DP World Tour Championship, and nine 2024 HotelPlanner Tour graduates will be teeing it up in the season finale at Jumeirah Golf Estates.
Among those is Englishman Brandon Robinson Thompson, who tasted victory at last year’s Farmfoods Scottish Challenge supported by The R&A, before going on to finish 18th in the season-long Road to Mallorca Rankings. Robinson Thompson will tee it up at the Earth Course for the first time following a spirited performance at last week’s Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship. Having opened at Yas Links with a two over par round of 74, the 33-year-old scrambled to a finishing total of ten under par following a closing six under par round of 66 to seal his spot at the season finale by the narrowest of margins.
Norwegian Kristoffer Reitan and Englishman John Parry, both 2024 graduates, enjoyed far more stress-free weeks in Abu Dhabi with both currently ranked inside the top ten on the Race to Dubai and on course to earn PGA TOUR cards for the 2026 season. Reitan is set to tee it up alongside European Ryder Cup hero Tyrrell Hatton in the second-to-last group for the first two rounds at the Earth Course. Spaniard Angel Ayora was the best performing graduate at last week’s Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship, finishing in a tie for ninth on 20 under par. The 21-year-old, who won the Rosa Challenge Tour on his way to promotion last year, has impressed on Golf’s Global Tour this season, with nine top ten finishes to date.
Frenchman Martin Couvra, Dane Rasmus Neergaard-Petersen and Swede Joakim Lagergren will all start the DP World Tour Championship eyeing big weeks as they look to secure PGA TOUR status for the 2026 season. Best placed is Couvra, who sits 16th on the Race to Dubai following a season which included a breakthrough DP World Tour victory at the Turkish Airlines Open. Last year’s Number One Neergaard-Petersen sits 19th whilst Lagergren is 22nd ahead of the final event on the 2025 schedule.
Oliver Lindell is coming off a 41st place finish in Abu Dhabi and currently sits 42nd on the Race to Dubai. The Fin will tee it up at the DP World Tour Championship for the first time after securing promotion following an impressive campaign on the HotelPlanner Tour 12 months ago. Nicolai von Dellingshausen rounds off the 2024 graduates competing this week. The German sealed a maiden DP World Tour title at the Austrian Alpine Open presented by SalzburgerLand and will make his first appearance at the season-ending event.
The first round of the DP World Tour Championship will take place from November 13 – 16, with play getting under way from 8:15am local time on Thursday.
