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Here's the prize money payout for each golfer at the 2023 DP World Tour Championship

Rory McIlroy and Nicolai Hojgaard walked away the big winners from this week's DP World Tour Championship. McIlroy won the overall points title for the fifth time while Hojgaard was the winner of the Tour Championship with a 21-under total.

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An already memorable 2023 season on the DP World Tour for Nicolai Hojgaard—in which he played in his first Ryder Cup—got even more so on Sunday at the DP World Tour Championship. The 22-year-old Dane closed out the final round at the Jumeirah Golf Estates in Dubai with a eight-under 64 to charge past overnight leader Matt Wallace and claim victory with a 21-under 267 performance, two shots better than Wallace, Tommy Fleetwood and Viktor Hovland.

Hojgaard’s victory is the third of his career on the DP World Tour but his most lucrative. The first-place prize money payout was worth $3 million from an overall purse of $10.5 million. The payday from Sunday (€2,764,461 in Euros) amounts to more than 40 percent his entire career earnings to date on the DP World Tour (€6,380,134.75).

Here's the prize money payout for each golfer who competed in the DP World Tour’s season finale.

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Win: Nicolai HØJGAARD, -21, $3,000,000

T-2: Viktor HOVLAND, -19, $910,000

T-2: Tommy FLEETWOOD, -19, $910,000

T-2: Matt WALLACE, -19, $910,000

T-5: Thriston LAWRENCE, -17, $340,000

T-5: Jon RAHM, -17, $340,000

T-5: Matthieu PAVON, -17, $340,000

8: Victor PEREZ, -16, $240,000

T-9: Ewen FERGUSON, -15, $200,000

T-9: Jeff WINTHER, -15, $200,000

T-11: Tyrrell HATTON, -14, $153,000

T-11: Romain LANGASQUE, -14, $153,000

T-11: Antoine ROZNER, -14, $153,000

T-11: Rasmus HØJGAARD, -14, $153,000

T-15: Tom KIM, -13, $117,750

T-15: Min Woo LEE, -13, $117,750

17: Dan BRADBURY, -12, $110,000

T-18: Adrian OTAEGUI, -11, $99,000

T-18: Shane LOWRY, -11, $ 99,000

T-18: Ryo HISATSUNE, -11, $99,000

T-18: Robert MACINTYRE, -11, $99,000

T-22: Sepp STRAKA, -10, $86,625

T-22: Zander LOMBARD, -10, $86,625

T-22: Rory MCILROY, -10, $86,625

T-22: Julien GUERRIER, -10, $86,625

26: Thorbjørn OLESEN, -9, $80,000

T-27: Grant FORREST, -8, $72,600

T-27: Vincent NORRMAN, -8, $72,600

T-27: Yannik PAUL, -8, $72,600

T-27: Matt FITZPATRICK, -8, $72,600

T-27: Jens DANTORP, -8, $72,600

T-32: Adrian MERONK, -7, $65,000

T-32: Tom MCKIBBIN, -7, $65,000

T-34: Pablo LARRAZÁBAL, -6, $61,000

T-34: Ryan FOX, -6, $61,000

T-36: Nathan KIMSEY, -5, $57,000

T-36: Alexander BJÖRK, -5, $57,000

T-38: Daniel HILLIER, -4, $52,000

T-38: Lucas HERBERT, -4, $52,000

T-38: Sami VÄLIMÄKI, -4, $52,000

T-41: Sebastian SÖDERBERG, -3, $48,500

T-41: Connor SYME, -3, $48,500

T-43: Jorge CAMPILLO, -2, $46,500

T-43: Julien BRUN, -2, $46,500

T-45: Daniel BROWN, -1, $44,500

T-45: Marcel SIEM, -1, $44,500

47: Jordan SMITH, E, $43,000

48: Joost LUITEN, +3, $42,000

49: Matthew SOUTHGATE, +4, $41,000

50: Nacho ELVIRA, +6, $40,000

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The 15th edition of the DP World Tour Championship once again concludes the season-long Race to Dubai at the Earth Course of Jumeirah Golf Estates .

Unlike 2022, the winner of the Race to Dubai has already been confirmed – Rory McIlroy claimed the Harry Vardon trophy a week early after another successful season on the Tour for the 34-year-old that included victories in the Dubai Desert Classic and Genesis Scottish Open.

While the prize money the four-time Major winner will receive for topping the standings for the fifth time has yet to be confirmed, the victor for the last four years has picked up $2m from the Race to Dubai bonus pool of $5m.

Last year, Jon Rahm beat Tyrrell Hatton and Alex Noren by two shots to claim the DP World Tour Championship title for the third time. That handed him a $3m windfall from the $10m purse, and it has increased to $10.5m this year, albeit with the same amount on offer to the winner.

Perhaps unsurprisingly considering its status, the event has the largest prize fund of any DP World Tour event and $1.5m more than the other four Rolex Series events over the season. 

The purse is also $2.1m more than that being offered by the PGA Tour’s RSM Classic this week, highlighting its position as one of the biggest tournaments in the calendar, even though that’s not reflected in the number of Official World Golf Ranking points available in it, which is fewer than the tournament at Sea Island .

While the winner will see a sizeable boost to his bank account, the payday for the runner-up will be considerable, too, at $1.275m.

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As well as the defending champion the biggest name in the field is Rory McIlroy , and many more of the world's best players are in the 50-man field, too, including 2022 US Open champion Matt Fitzpatrick , who is going in search of his third DP World Tour Championship title. and the PGA Tour's FedEx Cup winner Viktor Hovland .

Rory McIlroy has already claimed the Race to Dubai title

Other big names include six-time DP World Tour winner Tommy Fleetwood and Tom Kim, whose most recent start saw him claim victory at the Shriners Children’s Open. Major winner Shane Lowry and his Ryder Cup teammates Sepp Straka, Nicolai Hojgaard, Tyrrell Hatton and Robert MacIntyre also play.

Some players also have their sights set on a PGA Tour card as those who finish in the top 10 of the Race to Dubai standings, not otherwise exempt, will claim 2024 PGA Tour exemptions.

In prime position to earn their PGA Tour cards are Adrian Meronk, Ryan Fox, Victor Perez, Thorbjorn Olesen, Alexander Bjork, Sami Valimaki, MacIntyre, Jorge Campillo, Ryo Hisatsune and Rasmus Hojgaard.

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The DP World Tour Championship is held at the Greg Norman-designed Earth Course. The course, which has held the tournament since it opened in 2009, takes inspiration from the parkland courses of Europe and the USA. 

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The top 50 players in the DP World Tour's Race to Dubai rankings are eligible for the season-closing DP World Tour Championship, and every one of those players is competing in the 2023 edition. Like most other DP World Tour events, the action takes place over four rounds of stroke play. 

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2023 DP World Tour Championship final results: Prize money payout, leaderboard and how much each golfer won

The 2023 DP World Tour Championship final leaderboard is headed by winner Nicolai Højgaard, who earned the DP World Tour win at Jumeirah Golf Estates' Earth Course in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

Højgaard won for the first time on the DP World Tour, shooting an 8-under 64 on Sunday to earn the win on 21-under 267 and collect the biggest first-place check in a DP World Tour event.

Tommy Fleetwood , Matt Wallace and Viktor Hovland finished tied for second on the week, with Rory McIlroy finishing T-22 as he coasted to the Race to Dubai title.

Højgaard won the $3,000,000 winner's share of the $10,000,000 purse.

DP World Tour Championship recap notes

Højgaard earned 19.4 Official World Golf Ranking points with the win, with the minimum point schedule removed from the Official World Golf Ranking.

There was not a 36-hole cut, with 50 of 50 starting players finishing the event in the final completed event of the season.

Højgaard earned 2,000 Race to Dubai points as a DP World Tour member, with its season-long Race to Dubai points race coming closer to a conclusion.

As a result of this week, Rory McIlroy has secured his fifth Race to Dubai win ahead of the season-ending tournament.

The 2024 European Tour schedule starts next week with the Joburg Open in South Africa and Fortinet Australian PGA Championship in Australia.

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Rory McIlroy picked up a nice pay cheque after finishing the year as European number one for the fourth time in his career – and first since 2015 – despite Jon Rahm winning the DP World Tour Championship in Dubai.

The Spaniard’s two-shot victory over England’s Tyrrell Hatton and Sweden’s Alex Noren was his third in six years at Jumeirah Golf Estates and worth 3million US dollars (€2.9million).

But McIlroy finished the season top of the DP World rankings after Matt Fitzpatrick, his only rival for the Harry Vardon Trophy, blew up around the turn.

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The Hollywood native finished fourth behind Rahm, but still picked up a cheque for €454,000 for doing so. He also pocketed an additional €1.9million bonus for winning the overall rankings race.

US Open champion Fitzpatrick needed to win and McIlroy, already world number one, to not finish runner-up, or to finish second and the Irishman to be outside the top seven.

But neither of those scenarios transpired as the Sheffield golfer, three off the lead playing the eighth, double-bogeyed and then dropped another shot at the 10th to end his chances.

McIlroy did not need any of the fireworks of the previous day, when he powered himself into contention with a 65, and while he could have tied Rahm on 20 under had he eagled the last he could only manage par for a 68 which included six birdies and four bogeys to finish fourth.

“It means a lot. It’s been seven years since I’ve last done it. I’ve won three FedEx Cups since I last won,” McIlroy, who lifted his third PGA Tour FedEx Cup in August, told Sky Sports.

“I was a model of consistency throughout the year and I think my worst finish in European (DP World) Tour events was 12th at the start of the year in Abu Dhabi.

“It would have been nice to get one win in there at the end of the year but Jon played an incredible tournament and fully deserved it.”

Having achieved such consistency McIlroy will again turn his attention to ending an eight-year major drought.

“I’m really proud of my year and I am looking forward to 2023,” he added.

“I just feel when you get to this level it is how you can make those incremental improvements to get better and my goal has been to become a more complete golfer.

“I am as complete a golfer as I’ve ever been and I hope to continue on that path.

“It has taken me seven years to get my hands back on this trophy again; it’s been eight years since I won a major.

“If I can keep playing the way I’m playing and keep these consistent levels up I will do that.”

Rahm, who became the first player to win the tournament three times, began the final day with a one-shot lead and opened with two successive birdies to double his advantage.

Fitzpatrick’s 28-foot birdie at the third got him to 15 under and within two but things started to unravel with a bogey at the short sixth and even though he immediately clawed back that dropped shot the calamitous eighth ultimately did for his hopes.

His drive landed in a deep rut in a waste area, his blast out failed to clear the rough and having flown the green and duffed his chip he two-putted from the fringe for a six.

That put him five behind and after missing the fairway at the 10th he dropped another shot and his challenge was over as he finished 13 under, seven adrift.

The only trouble McIlroy, who had three birdies and a bogey in his first four holes, had at the eighth came from the flagstick which kept out his 56ft birdie effort.

He three-putted the ninth green but was not the only one as Hatton did the same for his only bogey in a round of 66, while the Englishman could not believe he missed an 11ft eagle putt to tie the lead at the 14th.

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How much prize money does the winner get at the DP World Tour Championship in Dubai?

The winner’s purse is at the standard 16 percent of the total prize money, which this year is at $10.5 million, a 5% increase compared to last year..

The DP World Tour Championship’s 15th edition is taking place at the Earth Course of Jumeirah Golf Estates , marking the end of the season-long Race to Dubai. The championship culminates a year-long battle among the best golfers in the world, with the winner crowned the season’s champion. This year, the winner of the Race to Dubai has already been confirmed - Rory McIlroy secured the Harry Vardon trophy a week before the championship.

McIlroy had a highly successful season on the Tour, including victories in the Dubai Desert Classic and Genesis Scottish Open. He has been a dominant force on the Tour for years, and his latest win is his fifth overall, making him one of the most successful players in the Tour’s history. He also holds the record for the highest career earnings in the DP World Tour, with €50,582,631.19 in prize money.

Despite only playing 4 regular DP World Tour events in 2023 and having not played the DP World Tour Championship yet, Rory McIlroy is officially the winner of the Race to Dubai. It’ll be back to back European Order of Merit wins for Rory, who also won the title in 2022! @Tengolf pic.twitter.com/tUuMBuYSUV — Flushing It (@flushingitgolf) November 12, 2023

The DP World Tour Championship is one of the richest golf tournaments in the world, with a prize purse of $10.5 million . The championship winner will receive $3 million , while the runner-up will receive $1.5 million. Additionally, the winner of the Race to Dubai will receive a bonus of $2 million from the Race to Dubai bonus pool of $5 million.

Although the prize money for McIlroy’s fifth win is yet to be confirmed, the previous four winners received approximately $2m from the Race to Dubai bonus pool.

Prize money at the DP World Tour Championship

The 2023 DP World Tour Championship features several big names like Rory McIlroy , Jon Rahm , and Matt Fitzpatrick . The players will go up against each other for that winner’s paycheck of $3,000,000. This is the standard 16 percent of the total prize money, at $10.5 million, a 5% increase compared to last year.

Apart from the prize money, the champion golfer will also get 22 OWGR points and 2000 Race to Dubai points from the 12,000 on offer . This will help decide the winner of the season-long Race to Dubai. The golfer winning the Dubai event will also get a two-plus season exemption on the European Tour .

After the event, the top five players in the Race to Dubai standings will get paid from the circuit’s bonus pool.

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There is little which encapsulates the frustration of golf more than the difference between Viktor Hovland's end to the 2023 PGA Tour season and his start to 2024.

The Norwegian seemed to have the world at his feet as he capped the Tour year with a maiden FedExCup triumph, having also won the Memorial Tournament and the BMW Championship, and went on to help Europe reclaim the Ryder Cup by winning a joint-second-highest 3.5 points from his matches in Rome - with only Rory McIlroy earning more.

Yet the now-world No 6 has failed to carry those performances over to 2024, with his showing at last month's Players Championship, where he eventually finished tied for 62nd on one under for the tournament after a closing round of 74, underlining the struggles he has faced prior to teeing up at Augusta National for The Masters this week.

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Nevertheless, he is adamant those early-season woes after embarking on making major changes to his game during the winter have only served to fire him up for The Masters, where he held the co-lead after the first round in 2023.

"If I play badly, that almost motivates you more than when I'm playing good," Hovland said. "When I'm playing good it's like 'okay, I know what I'm doing, I can take tomorrow off' or 'I know that I'm playing good, I can just chill for a little bit' or whatever.

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"You become more complacent, but I would say the moment I play bad or make a couple of mistakes, that motivates me more to come back better and that's definitely how I've felt in the last couple of months.

"The frustrating part is when you're trying to figure things out and you don't see the progress, and you don't know if this is the right road ahead, and that's when you have to think more about the process rather than just shutting that off and committing to it."

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A cursory look at the 26-year-old's results for the year so far tells its own story. After scoring nine top-10 finishes last year, including tying for seventh at The Masters, and tying for second at the PGA Championship, Hovland has yet to finish higher than 19th in 2024.

His performance at TPC Sawgrass during The Players was way below his showing at the corresponding event in 2023 when he tied for third, and that 19th place at the Genesis Invitational is the only tournament so far where he has bettered his finish in it last year.

Sky Sports Golf analyst Tim Barter, who coached former major winners Seve Ballesteros and Darren Clarke, cited the ongoing process of Hovland rebuilding his swing under the tutelage of former PGA Tour player Grant Waite, having split with previous coach Joe Mayo, as a big reason behind his dip.

"He gave a lot of credit to his coach, Joe Mayo, through the season for getting him to those new heights, particularly improving his short game which used to be a weakness and became a strength," Barter told Sky Sports .

"Somewhat surprisingly, in between the two seasons, we heard he'd fired Joe Mayo and gone to work with Grant Waite...and he's now in a transition between the swing Mayo built and the swing Grant Waite is trying to help him achieve.

"The stats reflect he's really struggling at the moment."

Beyond the headline results, a deeper dive into the numbers reveals just how alarming Hovland's drop-off has been in several areas of his game.

Prior to last week's Valero Texas Open, his strokes gained total had dipped from the eighth-best on the PGA Tour of 1.648 to 119th on -0.177 following The Players, while his scoring average slumped from a fourth highest of 69.123 per round to 72.098 and ranked 160th.

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In terms of specific parts of his game, Hovland's performances off the tee saw him drop from fifth to 37th in total driving and 40th to 86th in driving accuracy since The Players.

His iron play has suffered too, dropping from 10th to 105th in terms of strokes gained approach, and tied 10th to tied 69th for proximity to the hole. On the green, his one-putt percentage has gone down from 42.11 (22nd) to 40.94 (56th). Most damningly, he entered April 181st out of 181 qualifying PGA Tour players in strokes gained around the green.

Given Hovland's struggles, it begs the question: why make such a significant change after a year which saw him crowned as PGA Tour champion, earn around $38m in prize money and be in contention for glory in majors, not to mention have a realistic shot of cracking the hegemony of Scottie Scheffler, Rory McIlroy and LIV Golf defector Jon Rahm in the Official World Golf Ranking top three?

"In Viktor's case, you have to imagine 'Okay, I'm world No 4 [ahead of The Players] and I want to be world No 1'," Barter said. "Also, he wants to win major championships which he hasn't done yet and maybe he felt he didn't have the tools to do so, so he was prepared to take the risk and reinvent his golf swing.

"It was an unorthodox swing, but, boy, was it effective last year. He's working away to try to make it more orthodox to become an even better player and go on to become the multiple major champion he wants to be.

"It's a risk and whether he achieves it in the long run we'll have to wait to see. Let's hope so, because right now he's in a bad place as far as his golf swing is concerned."

Hovland has not been seen on a golf course in competitive action since The Players, skipping the following three tournaments on the PGA Tour, and spent part of Monday's practice session ahead of his fifth Masters appearance working with California-based swing guru Dana Dahlquist.

He remains stoic about his struggles in 2024 and is determined to keep open-minded about the best way ahead for him as he seeks a solution which will allow him to become the player he wants to be.

"I'm still looking for some opinions out there, but I feel like I'm on a good track right now and we'll see where that takes us," Hovland said. "Sometimes, the game of golf, you try to do the same every day but things aren't the same every day when you go to the golf course.

"I took a huge break last year and when I came back everything was different. I had to find my way back to where I think I'm going to play my best golf.

"Even at the end of last year, I was playing great but I got a lot out of my game and it didn't necessarily feel sustainable - but it's not like consciously I went in and said 'hey, we're going to change everything up'.

"I'm always trying to learn, but I felt like I'd got to what the pinnacle of my golf swing was able to do last year. Just when I keep looking back, my swings from 2020 and 2021, I had more control of the golf ball, in my opinion."

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International Darts Open 2024 prize money breakdown: £175,000 on offer

From Friday, April 12 to Sunday, April 14, the ninth edition of the International Darts Open will be played in the German city of Riesa. The third Euro Tour tournament of the season will see £175,000 in prize money distributed.

A number of players will receive the prize money only in their bank accounts and not added to the world rankings. Indeed, this year 32 players will be automatically invited to the Euro Tours.

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First, the top-16 of the Pro Tour Order of Merit will receive an invitation. They have a bye in the first round and enter from the second round. New since this year is that then also the top-16 of the overall world ranking list receives an invitation. They do have to start from the first round. For both groups, however, they must win their opening match at the International Darts Open for the prize money to count toward the world ranking.

The remaining sixteen participants in Riesa are winners from the various qualifying tournaments. Regardless of the result these players achieve, they will get the prize money added to the ranking anyway. In any case, they will receive 1250 pounds of starting money.

Upon reaching the second round, the prize money rises to 2,500 pounds. So the top-16 on the seedings list will get this amount anyway, but they still have to win a match to get it added to the world rankings as well.

Making it to the third round is good for £4,000, while quarter-finalists go home with £6,000 anyway. Semi-finalists will get at least £8500 before the rewards go into the five numbers for reaching the final.

For the runner-up at the International Darts Open, a sum of 12,000 pounds awaits. The winner of this Euro Tour tournament goes home with £30,000.

Provisional field confirmed for International Darts Open 2024 including four-time winner Gerwyn Price

Distribution of prize money during international darts open 2024.

Winner: £30,000

Runner-up: £12,000

Semi-finalists: £8500

Quarter-finalists: £6000

Losers third round: £4000

Losers second round: £2500

Losers first round: £1250

Total: £175,000

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DP World Tour Championship Prize Money Payout 2023

The 15th edition of the DP World Tour Championship once again concludes the season-long Race to Dubai at the Earth Course of Jumeirah Golf Estates .

Unlike 2022, the winner of the Race to Dubai has already been confirmed – Rory McIlroy claimed the Harry Vardon trophy a week early after another successful season on the Tour for the 34-year-old that included victories in the Dubai Desert Classic and Genesis Scottish Open.

While the prize money the four-time Major winner will receive for topping the standings for the fifth time has yet to be confirmed, the victor for the last four years has picked up $2m from the Race to Dubai bonus pool of $5m.

Last year, Jon Rahm beat Tyrrell Hatton and Alex Noren by two shots to claim the DP World Tour Championship title for the third time. That handed him a $3m windfall from the $10m purse, and it has increased to $10.5m this year, albeit with the same amount on offer to the winner.

Perhaps unsurprisingly considering its status, the event has the largest prize fund of any DP World Tour event and $1.5m more than the other four Rolex Series events over the season. 

The purse is also $2.1m more than that being offered by the PGA Tour’s RSM Classic this week, highlighting its position as one of the biggest tournaments in the calendar, even though that’s not reflected in the number of Official World Golf Ranking points available in it, which is fewer than the tournament at Sea Island .

While the winner will see a sizeable boost to his bank account, the payday for the runner-up will be considerable, too, at $1.275m.

Below is the full prize money payout for the DP World Tour Championship.

DP World Tour Championship Prize Money Payout

Who are the star names in the dp world tour championship.

As well as the defending champion the biggest name in the field is Rory McIlroy , and many more of the world's best players are in the 50-man field, too, including 2022 US Open champion Matt Fitzpatrick , who is going in search of his third DP World Tour Championship title. and the PGA Tour's FedEx Cup winner Viktor Hovland .

Other big names include six-time DP World Tour winner Tommy Fleetwood and Tom Kim, whose most recent start saw him claim victory at the Shriners Children’s Open. Major winner Shane Lowry and his Ryder Cup teammates Sepp Straka, Nicolai Hojgaard, Tyrrell Hatton and Robert MacIntyre also play.

Some players also have their sights set on a PGA Tour card as those who finish in the top 10 of the Race to Dubai standings, not otherwise exempt, will claim 2024 PGA Tour exemptions.

In prime position to earn their PGA Tour cards are Adrian Meronk, Ryan Fox, Victor Perez, Thorbjorn Olesen, Alexander Bjork, Sami Valimaki, MacIntyre, Jorge Campillo, Ryo Hisatsune and Rasmus Hojgaard.

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Where Is The DP World Tour Championship Held?

The DP World Tour Championship is held at the Greg Norman-designed Earth Course. The course, which has held the tournament since it opened in 2009, takes inspiration from the parkland courses of Europe and the USA. 

How Does The DP World Tour Championship Work?

The top 50 players in the DP World Tour's Race to Dubai rankings are eligible for the season-closing DP World Tour Championship, and every one of those players is competing in the 2023 edition. Like most other DP World Tour events, the action takes place over four rounds of stroke play. 

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Akshay Bhatia earned his second PGA Tour victory at the Valero Texas Open and, financially, it was worth far more than win No. 1.

Bhatia's maiden Tour title came last year at the Barracuda Championship, played opposite The Open. It paid out $684K to Bhatia. The Texas Open triumph was worth nearly $1 million more.

Here's a look at what Bhatia and those who made the cut earned at TPC San Antonio.

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Premier Tour proposals signify Saudi influence and a tipping point for tennis

Proposal has powerful backers and would revolutionise a sport attracting attention from the Saudi Public Investment Fund

D uring her glory days as a professional tennis player, Gabriela Sabatini evolved from a child prodigy to an icon. By her 26th birthday, though, the 1990 US Open champion was burnt out . Among her frustrations was a refrain that has echoed from too many players across the decades: the season was too long. “The only free month was December but because matches start again in January you have only 10 days off then you have to train,” Sabatini said in an interview with the Guardian in 2003.

For decades, the length of the season has put a strain on players and it is one of numerous complaints that have gone unresolved. Players outside the top 100 also still struggle to break even, with inflation devouring the modest prize money on the ITF World Tennis Tour. The calendar is fractured and illogical, failing to minimise travel distances between tournaments along with the sport’s carbon footprint.

Meanwhile the sport’s governing bodies – the four grand slam tournaments, the Association of Tennis Professionals, the Women’s Tennis Association and International Tennis Federation – have often been in competition rather than working together to improve the sport. Since the dawn of the Open era more than 50 years ago, one of the few points of agreement is that the sport has been too fractured to live up to its potential.

Enter the Premier Tour, a new format now being pushed by the four grand slam tournaments. If they succeed, it would overhaul the current system and change the face of the sport.

While the proposals are not fully developed, the proponents of this tour want to create a streamlined product to replace the current inefficient, sprawling 48-week affair. The tour would be reduced to 10 large events with 96-player draws for both men and women alongside the four majors, a year‑end final and a team event. Around 100 players would qualify each year, with lesser players competing on a separate developmental tour and being eligible to reach the Premier Tour come the end of the year.

Tennis often seeks inspiration from other sports and the Premier Tour is plainly an attempt to copy Formula One’s grand prix format. There are merits to these ideas, such as a shorter season and the alignment of men’s and women’s tours with equal prize money, but it also feels like the tennis version of the European Super League proposed in football. It has the makings of a tour focused on elite players, and may make a lot of money, but threatens to erase many of the sport’s current virtues.

One of the key reasons tennis is so popular is its global reach. Despite this, some of the sport’s leaders seem interested only in Anglo countries, parts of western Europe, and piles of money provided by oil‑rich Middle Eastern countries and China.

This was evident in Sports Illustrated’s interview with Lew Sherr , the US Tennis Association’s chief executive, who tried to explain the merits of the Premier Tour. “You might have six events in a given week,” he said. “Fans struggle to know where they should be watching. Why is [Jannik] Sinner playing in Rotterdam and [Carlos] Alcaraz is somewhere in South America?”

The unmentioned locations in South America that had the opportunity to glimpse Alcaraz’s greatness: Buenos Aires and Rio de Janeiro, two major, global cities.

The fluidity of the rankings is also part of the magic of the tour, with lower-ranked players able to rise swiftly at any point in the year. One day a player can be competing on the ATP Challenger tour, the next day they are toppling Alcaraz in a major tournament. The 500- and 250-level tournaments would be crushed, and players outside the top 30 would largely become cannon fodder for the elite, with opportunities for them to win tournaments significantly reduced.

As officials ponder the possibility of the Premier Tour, these ideas are in some ways a response to the emerging presence of Saudi Arabia in the sport. The initiative has particularly been orchestrated by Craig Tiley, chief executive of Tennis Australia, whose organisation would take a significant blow if Saudi Arabia hosts a Masters 1000 event at the beginning of the year.

After signalling their interest with a number of exhibitions in recent years, including a match between Novak Djokovic and Alcaraz in Riyadh in 2023, and Rafael Nadal’s appointment as an ambassador of the Saudi Tennis Federation, the Saudis have finally arrived in tennis.

In February the ATP and the Public Investment Fund, the Saudi sovereign wealth fund, struck a lucrative strategic deal, incorporating PIF in a number of its initiatives, including as title sponsor of its rankings. At the Miami Open its presence was conspicuous, from its logo on the back board to the incessant sponsored social media posts.

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Saudi Arabia’s growing profile in professional tennis could take the sport in a completely different direction to the proposed Premier Tour. PIF is keen to host a significant event on the calendar and to have a strong presence in the tennis ecosystem. Meetings conducted with Andrea Gaudenzi, the ATP chief executive, in Saudi Arabia culminated in PIF offering more than $1bn (£790m) combined to the ATP and WTA.

The ATP confirmed to the Telegraph that it has opened the bidding process for a 10th Masters 1000 event, and it is clear that relevant parties include Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates and Tennis Australia. While discussions surrounding the Premier Tour are still at an early stage and it is uncertain how far they will go, Saudi Arabia’s growing presence and influence in tennis is undeniable.

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T he 2024 Valero Texas Open prize money payout is from the $9.2 million purse, with 82 professional players who complete four rounds at TPC San Antonio's Oaks Course in San Antonio, Texas, earning PGA Tour prize money this week.

The winner's share of Valero Texas Open prize pool is at $1,656,000, with the second-place finisher taking home $1,002,800 in PGA Tour prize money today. The Valero Texas Open prize-money payout breakdown shows a payout of 18 percent of the purse to the winner, and how much each PGA Tour player earns is guaranteed down to the last-place professional player, which is $16,652.

The Valero Texas Open field is headed by Rory McIlroy, Akshay Bhatia, Denny McCarthy, Russell Henley and more. The PGA Tour leaderboard is topped by Bhatia, who is looking for the final spot in the Masters field.

This tournament started with 156 players, and a cut was made this week after two rounds. Every professional player in the field is paid for completing the event, but how much each player is paid at the 2024 Valero Texas Open from the correct 2024 Valero Texas Open full-field payout is based on their finish.

The 36-hole cut is typically made to the top 65 players and ties, with every player able to move up in the final round.

The 2024 Valero Texas Open prize money payout is set ahead of the event, with the PGA Tour adding money to the purse if more than 65 professionals make the cut to ensure all players are paid, as is the case this week.

What else is on the line

Beyond money, there are important points, perks and benefits on the line for the field -- in particular, the tournament winner.

The winner of this event will get 500 FedEx Cup points, as will be the practice for all standard events in 2024.

Additionally, there are 55.6 Official World Golf Ranking points on the line for the winner.

While this event offers a significant payday, the win comes with enhanced PGA Tour status. The winner gets berths into all four 2024 majors for three years, and it goes a long way into getting that player into the 2025 Signature events.

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Saudi Arabia will host the women’s tennis WTA Finals for the next three years

FILE - WTA CEO Steve Simon sits for an interview during the WTA Finals tennis tournament in Fort Worth, Texas, Tuesday, Nov. 1, 2022. Saudi Arabia will host the WTA Finals as part of a three-year deal announced Thursday, April 4, 2024, by the women’s professional tennis tour that will increase the prize money for this November’s season-ending championship to a record $15.25 million, a 70% increase from 2023. (AP Photo/Tim Heitman, File)

FILE - Former tennis players Martina Navratilova, left, and Chris Evert are introduced before the start of the women’s championship match at the U.S. Open tennis tournament in New York, Saturday, Sept. 11, 2010. Saudi Arabia will host the WTA Finals as part of a three-year deal announced Thursday, April 4, 2024, by the women’s professional tennis tour that will increase the prize money for this November’s season-ending championship to a record $15.25 million, a 70% increase from 2023. The event for the top eight singles players and top eight doubles teams will be held in Riyadh from 2024-26, part of a recent wave of investment by the kingdom in tennis and various sports, despite questions about LGBTQ+ and women’s rights there raised by Hall of Famers Chris Evert and Martina Navratilova and others. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File)

FILE - Iga Swiatek poses with her trophy after her victory over Jessica Pegula in the singles final of the WTA Finals tennis championships, in Cancun, Mexico, Monday, Nov. 6, 2023. Saudi Arabia will host the WTA Finals as part of a three-year deal announced Thursday, April 4, 2024, by the women’s professional tennis tour that will increase the prize money for this November’s season-ending championship to a record $15.25 million, a 70% increase from 2023. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano, File)

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Saudi Arabia will host the WTA Finals as part of a three-year deal announced Thursday by the women’s professional tennis tour that will increase the prize money for this November’s season-ending championship to a record $15.25 million, a 70% increase from 2023.

The event for the top eight singles players and top eight doubles teams will be held in Riyadh from 2024-26, part of a recent wave of investment by the kingdom in tennis and various sports, despite questions about LGBTQ+ and women’s rights there raised by Hall of Famers Chris Evert and Martina Navratilova and others.

“We’re going into this eyes wide open that the investment in sport by Saudi certainly provokes strong views from people,” WTA Tour Chairman and CEO Steve Simon told The Associated Press. “We’ve met with Chris and Martina and listened to their concerns and we have shared their concerns through our stakeholders as well, without prejudice. We’ve also shared the concerns around women’s rights and LGBTQ+ rights within the Kingdom of Saudi. Our focus is on how we develop women’s tennis for the benefit of everybody involved in the game. The reality of it is ... we are truly a global tour, a global business. We have players from over 90 nations now. We have over 90 events. ... We participate in many countries that have different cultures and values systems across the board.”

As for any concerns about Saudi Arabia that current players might have, Simon said: “We don’t plan to do any persuading. The players need to make their own choices, and we do believe that everyone who qualifies is going to want to play.”

Locations in Europe, North America and Asia also were considered as possible new sites for the WTA Finals, which have moved around to five cities over the past five editions after a deal to put the tournament in Shenzhen, China, through 2030 was disrupted by the coronavirus pandemic and concerns over the safety of retired Grand Slam doubles champion Peng Shuai , who accused a Chinese government official of rape.

The cities that hosted in 2022 (Fort Worth, Texas) and 2023 (Cancun, Mexico) were not revealed until September each year, and last November’s event was strongly criticized by players . Four-time Grand Slam champion Iga Swiatek beat Jessica Pegula in last year’s title match ; U.S. Open champ Coco Gauff and Australian Open winner Aryna Sabalenka were among the other participants.

Simon said Riyadh was selected by the WTA in late December, but the details of the agreement were just completed.

“This partnership will build on our exposure to a market and a region whose impact on the sports industry is certainly growing rapidly,” Simon said. “We certainly expect that you’ll see more events coming there in the future. So at the end, we believe that the WTA should be a part of this development, versus being on the outside.”

Saudi Arabia’s Private Investment Fund (PIF) formed the LIV Golf tour and put money into soccer, for example, and the kingdom’s role in tennis has been rising. The ATP Tour moved its Next Gen Finals for leading 21-and-under players to Jedda in November; the PIF is the title sponsor for the men’s rankings; 22-time Grand Slam champion Rafael Nadal recently became an ambassador for the Saudi Tennis Federation; he will join 24-time major champ Novak Djokovic and rising stars Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner at an exhibition event in Riyadh in October. There have been discussions about placing a top-tier Masters 1000 tournament in Saudi Arabia, too, part of a possible larger restructuring involving the WTA, ATP and the country.

Rights groups say women continue to face discrimination in most aspects of family life and homosexuality is a major taboo, as it is in much of the rest of the Middle East.

In recent years, Saudi Arabia has enacted wide-ranging social reforms, including granting women the right to drive and largely dismantling male guardianship laws that had allowed husbands and male relatives to control many aspects of women’s lives. Men and women are still required to dress modestly, but the rules have been loosened and the once-feared religious police have been sidelined. Still, same-sex relations are punishable by death or flogging, though prosecutions are rare.

In an opinion piece published in The Washington Post in January, Evert and Navratilova urged the WTA to stay out of Saudi Arabia because, they wrote, staging the Finals there “would represent not progress, but significant regression” and asked whether “staging a Saudi crown-jewel tournament would involve players in an act of sportswashing merely for the sake of a cash influx.”

In response, Saudi Arabia’s ambassador to the United States , Princess Reema bint Bandar Al Saud, said the two former athletes relied on “outdated stereotypes and western-centric views of our culture” and “turned their back on the very same women they have inspired and it is beyond disappointing.”

The ambassador joined the head of the Saudi Tennis Federation and other women in a video conference with current WTA athletes to “speak to the changes that are happening and to what still needs to be done within the region,” Simon said.

The WTA said the Finals prize money will help work to meet the tour’s pledge, made last year, to increase pay and put it in line with what men earn in tennis. The $15.25 million on offer from Nov. 2-9, 2024 — an amount set to increase in 2025 and 2026 — is up from last year’s $9 million and eclipses the event-high $14 million at Shenzhen in 2019.

Howard Fendrich has been the AP’s tennis writer since 2002. Find his stories here: https://apnews.com/author/howard-fendrich .

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