DP World Tour Championship: Five Players to Watch

The DP World Tour Championship, which begins the day of Thors at Golf Jumeirah farms in the United Arab Emirates, does not lack family names. The contestants include the main Rory Mcilroy champions, Justin Rose, Adam Scott and Shane Lowry.

A winner will also be crowned in the career of the whole season to Dubai. It will be Mcilroy, who enjoys a substantial advantage or Thriston Lawrence. Others pointed out the additional payment that goes to the Top 10 in the final classification (the first place will receive $ 2 million, includes Billy Horschel, Tommy Fleetwood and Robert MacIntyre.

Here are five to monitor:

Matteo Manassero

Manassero, 31, was supposed to be the next big thing in professional golf.

Consider what he achieved as a 16 -year -old fan in 2009:

• Young winner of the British fan.

• The low amateur at the British Open in Turnberry in Scotland, ending only four blows behind Stewart Cink and Tom Watson.

• The fan No. 1 in the world.

In a nutshell: the future for the star of northern Italy was unlimited.

Correction: definitely unlimited.

He became a professional in 2010 and collected his first victory on the tour in October, followed by a triumph each in 2011, 2012 and 2013. But after that, he did not win in the world of DP over the next 11 years.

“The good thing was that it was young enough to have time to change things,” he said. “If everything had happened when I was 35 or so, I could have a different leg.”

Manassero has changed things, that’s fine. This year he captured Jonsson’s work clothes in South Africa and is in the tenth place in the race to Dubai.

Joe Dean

How can golf fans? No Pay attention to Dean after the trip on the leg this season?

Consider this: due to financial problems, Dean, 30, who is from England, did not compete on the DP World tour until February. In fact, the previous week in the second in the magical Open of Kenya in Nairobi, he led a delivery of a supermarket in Great Britain.

“It has to be [life changing]”Dean later the BBC.” It is what people dream. “

In Kenya, the two blows ending behind Darius van Driel.

“Even so, some Gremlins to get attacks to reach my maximum potential,” he told the BBC, “but like anyone you must overcome, crush them and move on.”

He moved on, it’s fine. In May, Dean tied in fifth place at the Soudal Open in Belgium, and a month later, he tied secondly at the KLM Open in Amsterdam.

Dean is in 34th position in the race to Dubai.

Rasmus Hojgaard

Hojgaard, whose twin, Nicolai, plays on the PGA tour, is a young gun that we are likely to listen a lot in the future.

Hojgaard, 23, who is from Denmark, has won five times in the DP World Tour, including the Amgen Irish Open this year, where he advanced the last three holes to beat Mcilroy for a stroke. One of those Birdies reached 17 when he scanned a bunker. With the victory, Hojgaard became the youngest player with five tour victories from José Maria Olazábbal de España in 1989.

“The tendency game for a while, and getting this is huge,” he said later.

In 2025, Hojgaard, who is in third place, will join his brother on the PGA tour. Nicolai Hojgaard will also be in the field in Dubai.

Thriston Lawrence

Lawrence in South Africa has not won a tour event in 2024, although it has approached, the broadest in the BMW PGA championship, where he lost to Horschel in a playoff.

He was also in the hunt in the British Open, where he finished fourth, three behind Xander Schauffele. Lawrence was leading for one in the last nine, but did not make a Birdie the rest of the way.

“Being at that time, I felt very quiet,” said Lawrence, who takes second place in the classification. “He felt like a normal Sunday, trying to win a golf tournament, trying to be creative and I managed to achieve it. Very proud of myself.”

Lawrence, 27, who has won four times on the tour since Turning Pro in 2014, was second in the Dubai Invitational in January, Jonsson’s work clothes opens in March and in the Betfred British Masters in September.

It is sure to say that it is due.

Ángel Hidalgo

Hidalgo, 26, captured the Spanish Open in September, surpassing Jon Rahm, his Spanish partner, at the Villa de Madrid Club, with a Birdie in the second Playoffs hole.

It was nonely that he defeated a Rahm caliber player. He did it with Rahm, the old world was not. 1 And the twice older champion, like his playmate and in a tournament, Rahm tried to win for the fourth time.

Hidalgo, who had finished among the top three in his first 79 tour events, almost blew it, losing a four -foot foot in the final hole to win the tournament in regulation.

“Loce, absolutely crazy,” said Hidalgo later. “It was strange because I was quite relaxed all day, even when I missed this short putt in hole 72”.

Hidalgo, who entered the 24th place a week, fought in his next two openings, but recovered in October with a draw for 20 in the Damm star after the teachers of Andalusia in Spain.