2024 European Tour

The 2024 European Tour, titled as the 2024 DP World Tour for sponsorship reasons, is the 53rd season of the European Tour, the main professional golf tour in Europe since its inaugural season in 1972.

It is the third season of the tour under a title sponsorship agreement with DP World that was announced in November 2021.^[1]

Changes for 2024

When the 2024 schedule was announced in August 2023, there were many changes from previous seasons, including:^[2]^[3]^[4]

The calendar was split into three phases: the "Global Swings", the "Back 9" and the "DP World Tour Play-Offs".
- There are five global swings: the "Opening Swing", the "International Swing", the "Asian Swing", the "European Swing" and the "Closing Swing". Each swing has its own mini Order of Merit, with the champion of each winning US$200,000. The swings also serve as a qualification route for the Rolex Series and Back 9 events.
- The Back 9 consists of nine events in Europe, including several national opens and beginning with the Betfred British Masters.
- The season-ending "DP World Tour Playoffs" consists of two events: the Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship and the DP World Tour Championship. The top 70 in the Race to Dubai Rankings qualify for the playoffs, with the top 50 in the rankings after the first event qualifying for the Tour Championship.
Two new tournaments were added to the calendar for 2024: the Dubai Invitational and the Bahrain Championship. The Volvo China Open also returned to the schedule, having not been played on the European Tour since 2019 due to restrictions in place during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Several tournaments held in 2023 were not included in the initial announcement: the WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play, the Thailand Classic, the Hero Indian Open, the ISPS Handa World Invitational,^[5] the Qatar Masters and the Barbasol Championship, for which a replacement event was to be announced at a later date. Additionally, a change of dates for the Nedbank Golf Challenge meant it would not be part of the 2024 season, but was scheduled to return as one of the opening events of the 2025 season.^[6] The Hero Indian Open^[7] and the Commercial Bank Qatar Masters were later added to the schedule.^[8]
In April 2024, the tour announced that Genesis Motor had become a title partner of the tour. As part of this deal, the Korea Championship, which had been played in 2023 and was due to be played in April 2024, was merged into the Genesis Championship, a long-standing Korean Tour event, which became a "Back 9" event played in October.^[9]
Race to Dubai points were simplified, with regular tournaments during the swings all awarding 3,000 points and Back 9 events awarding 5,000 points. Points available in Rolex Series events, major championships and the tour championship all remained the same, at 8,000, 10,000 and 12,000 respectively.

Schedule

The following table lists official events during the 2024 season.^[10]

Unofficial events

The following events were sanctioned by the European Tour, but did not carry official money, nor were wins official.

Race to Dubai

Top 8 players on the Race to Dubai as of 15 September 2024 (Amgen Irish Open):^[13]

Win

Top 10

Made cut

Missed cut

• Did not play

Notes

^ One further tournament was removed from the schedule.
^ The number in brackets after each winner's name is the number of European Tour events they had won up to and including that tournament. This information is only shown for European Tour members.
^ AFR − Sunshine Tour; ANZ − PGA Tour of Australasia; CHN − China Tour; JPN − Japan Golf Tour; KOR − Korean Tour; LET − Ladies European Tour; PGAT − PGA Tour; PGTI − Professional Golf Tour of India.
^ In April 2024, the Korea Championship was merged with the Genesis Championship, which was added to the tour schedule.^[9]
^ OWGR points at the Volvo Car Scandinavian Mixed were awarded based on men's scores only. Calum Hill and Sebastian Söderberg tied for the lowest men's score and split the assigned points for first and second places, each earning 11.41 points.^[11]^[12]
^ Field of 78 men and 78 women playing from different sets of tees. Tour ranking and world ranking points based on finish among men's field only.
^ a b Also a Rolex Series tournament.

References

^ Murray, Ewan (9 November 2021). "'A new era in global golf': European Tour to be renamed DP World Tour". The Guardian. Retrieved 11 October 2023.
^ "New look 2024 DP World Tour schedule unveiled". European Tour. 14 August 2023. Retrieved 14 August 2023.
^ "DP World Tour 2024 schedule: Tournament dates and venues, plus when golf majors are taking place". Sky Sports. 14 August 2023. Retrieved 14 August 2023.
^ Coles, Matt (14 August 2023). "DP World Tour announces new-look 2024 schedule". National Club Golfer. Retrieved 15 August 2023.
^ Haughey, John (15 August 2023). "World Invitational not on 2024 schedule but Galgorm say 'exciting new event' planned". BBC Sport. Retrieved 15 August 2023.
^ "Nedbank Golf Challenge to return as part of 2025 Race to Dubai". European Tour. 11 September 2023. Retrieved 20 December 2023.
^ "Indian Open to complete the 2024 Asian Swing". The Times of India. 14 December 2023. Retrieved 20 December 2023.
^ "Commercial Bank Qatar Masters added to International Swing". European Tour. 19 December 2023. Retrieved 20 December 2023.
^ a b "Genesis signs new tournament Title Partner agreement in Korea with the DP World Tour". European Tour. 3 April 2024. Retrieved 3 April 2024.
^ "2024 Tournament schedule". European Tour. Retrieved 14 August 2023.
^ "Volvo Car Scandinavian Mixed". Official World Golf Ranking. Retrieved 19 September 2024.
^ "Scottie Scheffler claims his fifth victory on the PGA Tour this season after winning the Memorial Tournament presented by Workday". Official World Golf Ranking. 10 June 2024. Retrieved 19 June 2024. Due to Linn Grant playing off shorter tees then the men the Official World Golf Ranking points are shared amongst Callum Hill and Söderberg as they both finished T2nd on 16 under.
^ "2024 Race to Dubai". European Tour. Retrieved 16 September 2024.

External links

Official website