DP WORLD TOUR UNVEILS NEXT SEASON’S SCHEDULE – Golf News

The DP World Tour has announced its tournament schedule for next season, which will see a minimum of 42 tournaments played in 26 different countries, with players competing for a record total prize fund of $153 million outside the Major Championships.

For the second consecutive season, the schedule will comprise three distinct phases, beginning with five global swings followed by the ‘Back 9’, with the season then culminating with the DP World Tour Play-Offs in November 2025.

TURKEY & AUSTRIA BACK IN THE SCHEDULE

The Turkish Open, which will be played at Regnum Carya Golf & Spa Resort from May 8-11, marks the DP World Tour’s return to Turkey for the first time in six years, following seven previous editions of the tournament played consecutively from 2013 to 2019.

The Austrian Alpine Open presented by SalzburgerLand, at Gut Altentann Golf Club from May 29 – June 1, also sees the Tour return to Austria for the first time since 2021. It will be the 23rd edition overall of Austria’s national Open, which first featured on the schedule when Bernhard Langer won the title 1990.

Both tournaments will feature in the ‘European Swing’ – one of five Global Swings which form Phase One of the DP World Tour’s global schedule again in 2025.

Meanwhile, as previously announced, the Nedbank Golf Challenge, in South Africa, also returns to the schedule and will be the middle event of the ‘Opening Swing’ at the end of the current 2024 calendar year. The Opening Swing begins with the season-launching BMW Australian PGA Championship at Royal Queensland Golf Club in Brisbane from November 21-24, 2024.

Each Global Swing has its own identity and its own champion, with exemptions into Rolex Series events and the second phase of the season – ‘the Back 9’ – also available.

The ‘Back 9’ events across the autumn then give players the opportunity to secure their places in the season-ending DP World Tour Play-Offs comprising back-to-back Rolex Series events in the Middle East, the Abu Dhabi Championship (November 6-9) and the DP World Tour Championship, Dubai (November 13-16).

Three Rolex Series events take place earlier in the season: the Hero Dubai Desert Classic (January 16-19), the Genesis Scottish Open (July 10-13) – which is co-sanctioned with the PGA TOUR – and the BMW PGA Championship (September 11-14).

TWO TEAM EVENTS

Also on the calendar in 2025 are two team match play contests – the Team Cup, which takes place at Abu Dhabi Golf Club from January 10-12 – and the 2025 Ryder Cup, when Luke Donald’s European team will attempt to retain the trophy against Keegan Bradley’s United States team at Bethpage Black in New York, from September 26-28.

Some new venues also feature on the 2025 schedule. In the ‘Back 9’, the FedEx Open de France, continental Europe’s oldest national Open, moves to Golf de Saint-Nom-La-Bretèche for its 107th edition due to work taking place at Le Golf National. It is the first time the tournament has been played there since 1982 when Seve Ballesteros was triumphant.

Also in the ‘Back 9’, the Amgen Irish Open returns to The K Club, the venue that hosted the tournament in 2023 and will do so again in 2027.

Meanwhile, in the Global Swings, the Italian Open moves to Argentario Golf Club in Tuscany, the ISCO Championship will be played at Hurstbourne Country Club in Louisville, and the Danish Golf Championship switches to Furesø Golf Klub in Birkerød, near Copenhagen, for the first time.