DP World Tour : Dubai Invitational Leaderboard
The Dubai Invitational marks the first event on the DP World Tour in 2024. Here is everything you need to know about the brand new event.
The first event on the International Swing on the DP World Tour's 2024 Race to Dubai consists of 60 professionals and 60 amateur golfers.
The Dubai Invitational is a 72-hole individual strokeplay tournament played concurrently with a three-day Pro-Am team event, with Sunday featuring professionals only.
There is no cut in the individual strokeplay event.
The team competition will see one amateur and one professional play together. The team score will be the aggregate of the lower of the two team members score on each hole over three rounds.
International Swing?
The Dubai Invitational is the first of eight tournaments which will comprise the second of our Global Swings, namely the International Swing, on the 2024 Race to Dubai.
Beginning with the Dubai Invitational, the swing concludes with the Jonsson Workwear Open in South Africa from March 7-10.
Each swing will have its own identity and its own champion who will each earn $200,000 from an overall $1million bonus pool. Swing champions will also qualify for each of the ‘Back 9’ events, which form the second phase of the schedule.
The leading member (not otherwise exempt) from the International Swing will qualify for the Genesis Scottish Open, the second Rolex Series event of the season.
Players in action?
World Number Two Rory McIlroy leads the professional field as he looks to kickstart his year in fine fashion in Dubai, scene of many great moments in his career.
Joining the four-time Major Champion are his Ryder Cup teammates Nicolai Højgaard and Tommy Fleetwood, who finished first and second respectively at the 2023 DP World Tour Championship.
Adrian Meronk, Ryan Fox and Rasmus Højgaard, all four-time winners on the DP World Tour, are also teeing it up as well as 2018 Open Champion Francesco Molinari and Team Europe Ryder Cup Captain Luke Donald.
A host of other DP World Tour winners, including Thorbjorn Olesen, Pablo Larrazábal and Marcel Siem are also in the field
Venue
Dubai Creek Resort, a European Tour Destinations venue, is staging the inaugural Dubai Invitational, which will be played bi-annually in 2026 and 2028 as well.
The tee box at the par four sixth is one of the most eye-catching internationally, towering from stilts out in the creek.
The venue previously hosted the Dubai Desert Classic in 1999 and 2000.
It recently placed 43rd in Golf World's Top 100 World Resorts - the highest of any resort in the United Arab Emirates.
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