Rolex Grand Final... TIMES, Tournament details..

 DP World Tour, Road to Mallorca : Rolex Grand Final Tee Times History

The Rolex Grand Final supported by The R&A takes place this week from October 30-November 2 at Club de Golf Alcanada in Mallorca, and marks the 30th anniversary of the season-ending showpiece.

Here is everything you need to know as the 2025 Road to Mallorca reaches its conclusion…

It all comes down to this

After 28 events spanning 18 countries and three continents, the final event on the 2025 Road to Mallorca is here. With 20 DP World Tour cards on the line and one Road to Mallorca Rankings winner to be crowned, there is all to play for this week.

Every single person in the 45-man field can earn promotion. Spaniard Victor Pastor (pictured), who is the last man in the field, and Englishman Jamie Rutherford, who currently occupies 20th in the Rankings and the final promotion place, are separated by just 161 points. The winner at Alcanada will be awarded 640 points, meaning no-one is out of the running to earn a life-changing card on Golf’s Global Tour. It really does all come down to this.

Club de Golf Alcanada

Club de Golf Alcanada hosts the HotelPlanner Tour’s season finale for a fifth time this week, and for the fourth time in successive years. In 2019 the Alcúdia venue made its debut, with Italian Francesco Laporta coming out on top. Three years later it returned to the schedule and it has remained the home of the final event on the Road to Mallorca ever since.

The course at Alcanada provides the perfect test. Designed by legendary golf course architect Robert Trent Jones Jr., the layout includes incredible views of the sea, mountains and the iconic lighthouse situated on a nearby island. First opened in 2003 after three years of construction, it now houses outstanding practice facilities alongside the coastal course.

The man to catch

JC Ritchie became the sixth different player to hit the Road to Mallorca summit when he won for a third time this season in the Italian Challenge Open at the end of September. With that win, the South African secured automatic promotion to the DP World Tour and is now looking to conclude an outstanding campaign by ending the year as the Number One. With a 101-point lead over Austrian Maximilian Steinlechner, Ritchie is in pole position to do just that, however Steinlechner is one of seven other players that could mathematically catch him.

A shot at history

Adri Arnaus has an opportunity to write his name into the record books when he tees it up at Club de Golf Alcanada this week. With victory the Spaniard would not only secure his return to the DP World Tour, but he would become the first player to win the season finale on two separate occasions. Arnaus birdied the final hole of the 2018 edition of the event, held in the UAE, to win by one-stroke and secure his promotion to the DP World Tour. 

He would go on to become a winner on Golf’s Global Tour in 2022 at the Catalunya Championship on home soil, and despite narrowly missing out on retaining his playing privileges, has shown consistency throughout 2025 to give himself a chance of a quick return.

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Mike Weir, Stephen Ames miss Charles Schwab Cup Championship...Results..

 PGA Tour Champions : Simmons Bank Championship Leaderboard

Charles Schwab Championship 36 players Points

With 54 year old Kiwi, Steven Alker winning the Simmons Bank Championship with a record 61 66 69 -20 over the weekend, the final 36 players have qualified the the season finale the Charles Schwab Cup Championship on November 10th - 16th at the Phoenix CC, in Arizona.

Alker is ranked #1, both Stephen Ames #41 and Mike Weir #63 seasons are over.

Ames who joined the Champions 2014 didn't have a win in 2025, with 3 top 10's. In 244 events he has won 9 times, with 30 top 5 finishes and 69 top 10's with earnings $11,373,308.

Weir who captained the Presidents Cup team in 2024 in Montreal,  joined the Champions in 2020 had 1 top 10 in 2025. 

In 101 events he has won once, the Insperity Invitational in 2020,  7 runners up, 13 top 5's and 22 top 10's earning $4,294,675.

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Korean Junghwan Lee with a massive move, wins Genesis Championship.

 Junghwan Lee delighted jubilant home fans as he surged to his first DP World Tour title at the 2025 Genesis Championship.

The 34-year-old South Korean started the final round four shots behind joint leaders Mikael Lindberg and Nacho Elvira and his challenge looked over before it began with a bogey at the second.

Lee reeled off five straight birdies from the third to catapult up the leaderboard and was one behind Elvira, who was in the solo lead at -10, after another gain at the tenth.

He carded the lowest round of the tournament with his stunning -7 64 at Woo Jeong Hills Country Club after birdies at the 14th and last set the clubhouse target of -11.

Elvira could not keep pace and bogeys at the last two holes saw him hand a three-shot victory to Lee.

As a result, Lee will take up membership on the DP World Tour moving up 224 places, and he will travel to the first event of the DP World Tour Play-Offs  #63 at the Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship next month.

"I feel like I'm in a dream, I still can't believe I won so it's really hard to describe how I'm feeling right now," Lee said.

"I think overall I played very well, but on 12 I had a tee-shot miss and I thought I was done there but I was able to save that ball, and that's when I thought the tables are turning and the gods are looking down on me.

"I really feeling like I'm dreaming. I really, really wanted to go to DP World Tour and I was actually working really hard towards that goal, but somehow I was coming up short a little bit - I was really making the effort - and now I have this really great opportunity. I'm just really grateful."

England's Laurie Canter eagled the last with a putt of 100 feet to sit alongside Elvira in a share of second at -8.

Pavan was joined by Englishman Andy Sullivan and Japan's Yuto Katsuragawa at -7.

Lindberg, home pair Song and Seungbin Choi, Spain's Angel Ayora, Japan's Hideki Matsuyama, Belgian Thomas Detry and American Jordan Gumberg, who eagled the last to keep his card for next season, were one shot further back -6.

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Aaron Cockerill loses DP World Tour card, will go to Q School..Genesis Championship Final Results..

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With rounds of 69 72 72 72 +1 T54, Aaron Cockerill will finish his 2025 DP World Tour season #120, missing out on the top 115, and as such for the first time in 4 years the 33 year old veteran has lost his playing privileges' on the DP World Tour for 2026, for the time being...

For those who follow me here, you'll know I have covered Aaron since he began the season in South Africa at the Nedbank Challenge in December where he T52 he finished 2024 in 49th place, but that slowly slipped away.

He MC before Christmas at the Alfred Dunhill, then came back and MC in 2 of the 4 Desert swing events, then MC at Kenya Open as well as 4 of his next 7 including the US Open qualifying.

He had his best spell early in June with T13 in Austria and his only T10 in Italy with 8 rounds in the 60's, then a T38 at the BMW in Germany. A T29 in Denmark, and T30 in Spain early in October was enough to get him to #117 coming to this week.

" I played pretty good, better than my 72 score, had a lot of 25 footers, didn't get much out of that. However I played better today (Saturday), we're heading in the right direction. At #116 it's right there for me to grasp, it will be lovely to keep my card, I'm just trying to compete the scores are so bunched.

I'm going to try and go out and have some fun tomorrow"

He went out on Sunday in 35 with 2 birdies and a bogey, however he couldn't make any headway coming in, with the rain falling, a 2 bogey 37 for the 72 +1 total, wasn't enough....

When we count them all up, 12 MC in 30 events, T10 his best result of the year, 120th Race to Dubai, #403 in the world, obviously a down year for Aaron.

What next ?  He is exempt to Final Stage Q School, November 7-12  in Spain at Infinitum GC, Tarragona.

The top 20 and ties will win their 2026 cards.

Genesis Championship winner was Korean Junghwan Lee 71 65 73 64 -11 by 3 shots, who moves up an incredible 244 places in the Race To Dubai to #63 to qualify for the top 70 in next week's playoff in Abu Dhabi.

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A Spaniard and a Swede hold a slim lead, Genesis Championship...Saturday results, Sunday TEE TIMES

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Mikael Lindberg and Nacho Elvira jumped out of the chasing pack to earn a share of the third round lead at the Genesis Championship.

Eight players were in a logjam at the top after Friday's play, but Lindberg recorded the joint lowest round of Moving Day with a -4 67 to surge ahead and set the clubhouse target of -8.

The Swede briefly led by two but Elvira carded three birdies in four holes on the back nine, 67 to join him on that mark at Woo Jeong Hills Country Club.

They hold a two-shot advantage over English pair Andy Sullivan 70 and Alex Fitzpatrick 71 both at -6, China's Haotong Li 71, and Japan's Yuto Katsuragawa 70, with a further five players lying in wait at -5

"It was a good day, a good day for sure," Lindberg said. "The weather has been very nice since we got here and I like the course.

"I'm not going to try to think too much about it. I've been playing well lately and have been playing well this week, and hopefully I can continue to play good golf tomorrow and we will see."

Elvira said " I tried to stay patient because I know it's a tough course, the birdies are not guaranteed here so I think I did a good job with that."

Sullivan finished his round with four straight birdies to climb up to six under, while Katsuragawa carded four birdies and three bogeys in his 70.

Li mixed four birdies with four dropped shots in his 71 and Fitzpatrick offset two bogeys on the front nine with two gains on the back nine 71 to sit two behind the leaders.

Home hopefuls Seungbin Choi 69 and Garam Jeon 67 are among those at -5 alongside Aphibarnrat 71, Belgian Thomas Detry 69 and Japan's Hideki Matsuyama 67

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Cockerill stays positive on the bubble at Genesis Championship in Korea..Full Saturday results..

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Aaron Cockerill hopes to seize the chance to keep his DP World Tour card as he remains on the bubble heading into the final round of the regular season.

Cockerill needed to reach the weekend at the Genesis Championship to improve his chances of retaining his playing privileges for the 2026 campaign, and he held his nerve with three birdies in four holes on the back nine during his second round to sneak above the cut line.

The top 115 on the Race to Dubai rankings after the final event of the Back 9 at Woo Jeong Hills Country Club can schedule their plans for next year but following a one-over 72 on Moving Day to sit on level par, the 33-year-old is currently the first man out in the dreaded 116th position.

However, Cockerill remains positive despite his predicament and wants to have fun on Sunday.

"I played pretty good," the Canadian said. "I probably played better, the pin positions were difficult again and hard to get close to.

"I hit a lot of good shots to 25 feet but didn’t make much. I felt good, much better than yesterday, so we’re on the right track.

"I’ve tried not to change anything, trying to compete in this golf tournament, the scores are so bunched up. A good day tomorrow moves me up and that’s all I’m focusing on.

"It’ll be lovely (to keep my card). It’s right there for me, I need to seize it and have fun out there tomorrow."

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Genesis Championship..Cockerill makes cut, 8 tied for lead..Friday results

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Sungjae Im, Haotong Li, Alex Fitzpatrick, Daniel Hillier, Nacho Elvira, Tom Vaillant, Minhyuk Song and Junghwan Lee could not be separated at the top of a logjammed leaderboard at the Genesis Championship.

Im leads the South Korean charge on home soil and he held the outright lead until a bogey at the ninth - his final hole - saw him slip back to -6 to join compatriot Song, Englishman Fitzpatrick and France's Vaillant in a four-way tie at the summit.

Spain's Elvira posted a second successive -3 68 to increase the leading group to five, New Zealand's Hillier joined soon after thanks to a birdie at the last and another home hopeful Lee produced the round of the day with a brilliant -6 65.

Li, who started in the afternoon, burst ahead of the pack with two birdies in his opening five holes, but he mixed a total of four gains with four bogeys -2 69 to become the eighth player in the clubhouse at -6.

Im, a two-time PGA TOUR winner and Presidents Cup star said "I think I was playing much better overall today. I feel that today I was very consistent," Im said. "Looking back at my game, I think I was aggressive when I needed to be and I played safe when I needed to.

"When we come to Korea we have all these fans who come out and cheer and support us. That really gives you the boost you need. When I come here, I really have a good time."

MK Kim 72, who shared the lead with Li after round one, is among six players at -5 alongside fellow South Korean Yongjun Bae 69, Englishman Andy Sullivan 69, Japan's Yuto Katsuragawa 66, Italian Andrea Pavan 68, and Thailand's Kiradech Aphibarnrat 67.

edit >>> At the other end of the field, the cut fell at +1. Canada's Aaron Cockerill and his family will be relieved to make it with 69 72 -1 T44 which is step one with 36 to play, moving to a projected #113, dangerously close to the #115 cut off. 

The news was not so good for Germany's Yannick Paul.

 Paul could not hide his disappointment after missing the cut, which meant he will not keep his DP World Tour card for the 2026 season.

He began the week in the ominous position of 116th place, however, a +8 79 in his first round in Cheonan derailed any hope of a fifth straight year on the DP World Tour despite shooting level par on Friday, he will now head for Q-School next month in his bid to stay on tour.

"Yesterday wasn't the main issue. I mean, I had all season to you know, play good enough," Paul said. "I don't really know really what to say? It is what it is. Obviously disappointed because I knew like with... I obviously have Q-School coming up.

"So like as a Q-school category, you don't really get into many starts so I knew that there's a big difference if you finish inside the top 115 here. "I guess you know, the universe had a different plan. It's hard to understand or see that plan at the moment but yeah, it's been... I don't know. It's a weird feeling.

"At the moment obviously I’m quite disappointed. Really disappointed actually. "You know, for three and a half years I felt like I played pretty decent and then a couple of things happen and all of a sudden you don't really have a place to play next year.

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Solid start for Cockerill, Genesis Championship.. Round 1 results, Friday TEE TIMES

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Haotong Li and MK Kim rose to the top to share the first-round lead after opening 65s at the Genesis Championship at Woo Jeong Hills Country Club.

Chinese star Li has enjoyed a stunning 2025 campaign which saw him claim his fourth DP World Tour title at the Commercial Bank Qatar Masters in February alongside top-five finishes at the Volvo China Open, Turkish Airlines Open, Soudal Open and the 153rd Open at Royal Portrush.

He rolled in six birdies in a flawless 65 to set the benchmark in Cheonan, but the home crowd had something to cheer about as Kim birdied the last to become joint leader at -6 after eight gains and two dropped shots.

Spain's Alejandro Del Rey 66, is one shot behind after also birdieing the last to climb to -5  after six birdies and a bogey.

"Very pleased to finish like this, especially with a couple of up and downs on the last four holes," Li said. "Those were very important to keep momentum going.

"The greens are very tricky and fast. You have to put yourself in the right positions, also off the tee as well. Off the tee, I did well until the last couple of holes. That’s the key for the week.

"I definitely just need to focus on my game. I know the points list (for PGA TOUR cards) is getting tighter and tighter. I just need to play my game and hopefully there are some good results coming up.

Kim also made a fast start with an opening birdie from close range and doubled his score with a brilliant hole-out from the third bunker.

The South Korean picked up his third shot at the fifth from ten feet before adding another birdie at the eighth. 

"I’m really happy with today," Kim said. "I putted really well. My shots weren’t great, but I saved a lot and made a good score.

"I holed a bunker shot and made a lot of putts, that’s what went well today.

"The course is great. I’ve played here a lot of times, so I’m used to it. The greens are in really good condition, so I can putt well on them.

"They (the fans) are supporting me a lot and it really cheers me up. Three days left. I’ll try my best on each of those days."

Antipodean trio Daniel Hillier 67, Elvis Smylie 67 and David Micheluzzi 67 are one shot further back alongside Frenchman Tom Vaillant 67, English pair Laurie Canter 67 and Joe Dean 67 and Scot Ewen Ferguson 67.

Defending champion Byeong Hun An carded an opening 76 after a triple bogey, four dropped shots and two birdies.

EDIT>>> Bubble boy Canadian Aaron Cockerill made a solid start with some excellent driving and iron play, playing a clean back nine first with 2 birdies, -2 33, then came in with 2 more birdies, 2 bogey's E 36  for T21 -2 69. His projected finish jumps from #117 to #109, every shot is vital this week, making the cut a first priority.

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PGA Tour: Three Canadians in this weeks Bank of Utah Championship.

 PGA Tour : Bank of Utah Championship Tee Times Leaderboard

The PGA Tour Fall Season continues this week at the Black Desert Resort in Utah, there are 3 Canadians looking for that big week to retain their cards for 2026 in the top 100.

Adam Hadwin #143, Adam Svensson #164, Ben Silverman #165 chances are slim, however that's why they are in the field.

They are not alone, several players are all around the 100 mark, making it a tense week, while most of the top guys are already on holiday.

Ryder Cupper Sam Burns #106, Max McGreevy #104, Isaiah Salinda #101, Andrew Putnam #107, Victor Perez #105, are just some of the guys grinding out the 2025 season.

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Adam Scott joins Aaron Cockerill with the "bubble boys" this week Genesis Championship

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I've been writing about "it" for a few weeks, this is the final week with it all on the line for DP World Tour players to retain their cards for 2026, and to make it into the top 70 for the Race to Dubai playoffs net week in Abu Dhabi.

The top 115 will secure or retain their category 10 playing privileges for almost every event on the 2026 calendar. 

The options can be soul destroying for guys who have fought to maintain their status, their income,  their family security, their confidence, and now are starting all over at Q School, or a minor tour elsewhere.

Such is the case with one of the world's premier players, Masters champion Adam Scott, and he is not alone.

Here are their stories. 

(note *The players ranked 119-126 are either otherwise exempt for 2026 or not in the field for the Genesis Championship.)

115 - Adam Scott

A name you may not have expected to see on this list but a man whose fate is entirely in his own hands, the Australian is the player they are all trying to catch.

He needs little introduction as a Masters champion, former World Number One and 11-time DP World Tour winner but it is potentially being under-raced that has hindered his efforts this season.

He has missed just two cuts in his seven starts but they were at the Masters and Open where big points were on offer and a man who finished in the top ten on the Race to Dubai last season is now looking over his shoulder.

116 - Yannik Paul

A winner in his maiden DP World Tour season at the Mallorca Golf Open, Paul took to Tour life quickly and made it look easy, comfortably qualifying for the season-ending DP World Tour Championship in 2022, 23 and 24.

It is against that backdrop that 2025 appears so stark, with the German missing six of his first seven cuts before a third-place finish at the Volvo China Open catapulted him up the Rankings.

He enjoyed a reasonably consistent summer but another run of six missed cuts in seven halted his progress, although he arrives in Cheonan having made back-to-back weekends for the first time since July.

117 - Aaron Cockerill

A 2019 Qualifying School graduate, the Canadian has had to work hard to truly establish himself on Tour and he will not want to give up his status without a fight.

After struggling in his Covid-affected maiden season and the following year, he has improved his finish on the Race to Dubai Rankings every season since, cracking the top 50 for a first DP World Tour Championship appearance in 2024.

This campaign has been a struggle, however, with Cockerill riding the bubble all year with a single top ten and he will need at least a made cut to have a chance of maintaining his status.

118 - Fabrizio Zanotti

Since graduating from the HotelPlanner Tour in 2007, the Paraguayan has lost his status on just two occasions, going on to regain it at the Qualifying School at the first time of asking both times.

With 18 consecutive seasons on Tour, 415 appearances and two wins under his belt, the 42-year-old will certainly not be overawed by the occasion and his performances so far this term suggest he can give himself a chance over the weekend.

He made his first 12 cuts of the season and has missed just five all in all but has failed to deliver that big performance - could it arrive just in time in Korea?

By coincidence he is paired with #117 Aaron Cockerill Thursday and Friday.

127 - Jordan Gumberg

If Gumberg fails in his quest to retain his card this season, it most certainly won't be for a lack of trying.

Since the season started in Australia back in November, the American has missed just one event where he could have played, teeing it up every week possible in the calendar year of 2025.

This year's DP World Tour iron man makes a 34th start of the season this week and while he made the cut in India, he had made just one other weekend in his previous 12 and will be looking for a big upturn in form.

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Thursday TEE TIMES including Aaron Cockerill, Genesis Championship, South Korea.

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Please click on my links above for course information, tee times and the weather forecast in South Korea.

I count 36 home players in the 126 man field, a clear indication of the golf explosion in that country, their women have been dominating the LPGA Tour for 25 years now.

Hideki Matsuyama is the top ranked player, Adam Scott has also made the trip to the Far East as has Keita Nakajima last week's runner up to Tommy Fleetwood in India.

Byeong "Ben" An is the defending champion.

It's a big week for Canada's Aaron Cockerill ranked at #117 he needs to get to #110 to retain the card he has held for the last 4 seasons on the DP World Tour, or face Q School. There are also 5 players from other International Tours listed as "in addition" where that cut off is at #115 held by Adam Scott.

• The Genesis Championship is the final counting event on the 2025 DP World Tour Global Schedule, with the top 110 players on the Race to Dubai Rankings after this event retaining their membership for the 2026 season. With five players currently counted as ‘in addition’ to the 110, the cut-off is currently 115^th position - occupied by Adam Scott.

Group 30 12.35 1st  Aaron Cockerill, Fabrizio Zanotti, Jorge Campillo

Canadian Richard T.Lee lives in Asia and plays that tour, is in this field as well.

The weather for the week has no issues, much cooler at 18*c than last week in New Delhi, India where it reached 34*c.

This week marks the first time the DP World Tour has held an event at Woo Jeong Hills, with the venue having previously hosted 21 editions of the Kolon Korea Open on the Asian Tour from 2003 to 2024. 

The course was designed by Perry O. Dye, son of renowned architect Pete Dye, and opened in 1993. It was renovated earlier this year with completely new greens by Pete Dye Designs and the signature holes is the 13th, a par-three with an island green.

This is the last regular season event of the 2025 season, all the big names will be in Abu Dhabi for the top 70 playoff Yas Links November 6-9 followed by the Tour Championship November 16-19 in Dubai.

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Genesis Championship 2025, Cockerill's last event, Entry List, Course details,,,

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I believe this is the DP World Tour's 42th event, in their 26th country, it is their last before the 2025 playoff, then the Tour Championship for the Race to Dubai where Rory McIlroy off his career defining season will vie to win his 7th Order of Merit title.

70 players will playoff in Abu Dhabi, then the top 50 make it to the Tour Championship.

Last year Canada's Aaron Cockerill qualified for both, ranked anywhere between 47 & 49.

This year hasn't been so good as he checks into the Woo Jeong Hill CC, in Cheonan, South Korea, 90k from Seoul on the Yellow Sea. Now that is about as far away from Teulon, Manitoba, 60k north of Winnipeg as he can get.

Yet in all that travel, some of it with wife Chelsea and daughter Addison, this is where he has ended up with his 2026 card on the line. The top 110 will get that card.

His rank in the Race to Dubai #117, his owgr #409 He is 33 years old, with 0 DP World Tour wins and two 2nd place finishes.  He has won a career $3,746,417.

Turned pro in 2015 and he played his first 3 DP World Tour events in 2019, 20 more in 2020, and his first full season in 2021 where he finished #152.

He has kept his card since 2022, #107, 2023 #76, 2024 #49 and has category 10 status.

First this week he will need to make the cut, then probably a top 25ish finish to move from 117 to #110.

I have described his options in prior missives, Q School likely top of list where top 20 and ties get their card. 

more to follow...

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Brilliant Tommy Fleetwood caps his best season with DP World India Championship..

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Tommy Fleetwood added another chapter to his fairy-tale year as he fought off a world-class field to win the 2025 DP World India Championship by two shots and celebrate victory on the green with his son Frankie for the first time.

Having ended his long wait for a his first PGA TOUR title at the Tour Championship to capture the FedExCup in August, the Englishman then played a key role in Europe's historic away Ryder Cup victory at Bethpage Black in September.

Fleetwood then moved into the top five on the Official World Golf Ranking for the first time in his career and is now an eight-time DP World Tour winner after producing a brilliant burst of scoring around the turn at Delhi Golf Club on his way to a closing 65.

With third-round leader Keita Nakajima and a charging Daniel Hillier dominating the top of the leaderboard in the early stages, something special was required to catch them.

And Fleetwood was up to the task, reeling off four birdies in a row from the seventh to grab a share of the lead on -20.

After producing a strong par save to remain up at the top, Fleetwood made further birdies from long range on the 14th and 17th to press home his advantage before a closing par saw him enter the winner's circle again at -22.

Fleetwood's playing partner Nakajima was alone in second on -20 under following his closing 69, two ahead of Shane Lowry 69, Alex Fitzpatrick 69 and Thriston Lawrence 65 in T3 -18

India has been a happy hunting ground for Japanese star Nakajima, who now has a victory and two runner-up finishes to his name in the country on the DP World Tour since 2024.

Fleetwood was joined on the green for the celebrations by his son Frankie, which was a goal the pair had set last week.

He said: "We were at home last week and we were driving the buggy. I think we were playing golf together, and he just said randomly, 'Do you know what you've never done?'. He said 'You've never won a tournament and I've been able to run on to the 18th green'. I was like, 'I'm writing that down'.

"I had that written down all week. Like I say, it was just another opportunity really.

"There's going to be many more times where I hopefully get the chance to do that. But all day today, I had in my mind could I put myself in a position where I can actually make that moment happen?

"It's just one of those little things, it means a lot to me. It means so much to me. That was really cool. That's what I wanted to do all day."

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Sunday morning: Tommy Fleetwood wins India Championship... Final results.

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EDIT >>>> Tommy Fleetwood has held off a valiant challenge from Japan's Keita Nakajima 69 -20 with a brilliant closing round -7 65 for -22 total. 

T3 -18 were Shane Lowry (68) Alex Fitzpatrick (67), and Thirston Lawrence (65) 

Earlier.... They are on the back nine in New Delhi, on another hot 34*c hazy day, but nothing hazy about Tommy Fleetwood so far, 5 birdies out in 32, he just added 2 more at the 10th, the 14, -6 through 15 holes and he is -21 two ahead of playing partner Keita Nakajima at -19 with 3 holes to play.

Shane Lowry is T4 at -17 in the same group.

Rory McIlroy 69 69 68 71 -11 T25, Viktor Hovland 71 67 66 67 -17 T4, Luke Donald T46 68 71 71 72 -6 are all the Ryder Cup scores.

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Nakajima leads Fleetwood/Lowry into Sunday at Indian Open.. 54 hole results

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Keita Nakajima continued his love affair with India as he opened up a two-shot lead ahead of the final round of the 2025 DP World India Championship.

India has been a happy hunting ground for the Japanese star, who won the 2024 Hero Indian Open at DLF Golf and Country Club before finishing second at the same event this year.

And he looked right at home once again at Delhi Golf Club on Saturday as he made seven birdies in a bogey-free 65 to reach -17  and rise to the top of the leaderboard.

But he has a world-class chasing pack just behind him, with reigning FedEx Cup Champion Tommy Fleetwood -15 69 his nearest challenger and Major Champion Shane Lowry 69, another shot further back -14. 

Jens Dantorp 65, Alex Fitzpatrick 67, Daniel Hillier 67 and Brian Harman 70, share fourth place on -13.

Nakajima started the day two shots behind halfway leader Fleetwood but closed the gap with a ten-foot birdie at the first. The highlight of Nakajima's round came on the par-three 12th as he drained his 40-foot birdie effort to grab a share of the lead. 

Another long-range birdie putt dropped on the 13th to hand Nakajima the solo lead, and he made it three in a row at the 14th from nearly 20 feet to move two shots in front.

He safely parred his way home to head into the final round with a two-shot cushion.

Nakajima said: "It was a great day.

"I played with Shane Lowry and I love his swing tempo and his golf style. So I learned from Shane a lot.

"I copied his swing tempo on every shot, that's why I did great.

"I had two good tournaments in India already so I had confidence playing here. One more day, just keep going."

Fleetwood struggled for momentum on the back nine as he parred the first seven holes before dropping his first shot of the day on the 17th.

He got the shot back on the 18th after a lucky bounce off a tree helped him get up and down for a closing birdie.

Fleetwood said: "Final group is always great. You've got to enjoy those moments. You don't know when they're going to come again. Looking forward to that.

"It's been a great tournament. Just hopefully go out and enjoy it and play well."

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Bryan Angus (edit)