DP World Tour : Italian Open Entry List
The European Swing takes us to Tuscany this week for the Italian Open as players battle for DP World Tour victory and spots at The Open Championship.
Siem defends
Marcel Siem enjoyed one of his career highlights as he made a final-hole birdie in regulation play and then overcame Tom McKibbin in a play-off to win last year’s Italian Open. In one of ten events last season to go to extra holes, the German had to dig deep and use all his experience to win his sixth DP World Tour title at Adriatic Golf Club Cervia. After victory at the Hero Indian Open a year earlier, it was his second triumph on Golf’s Global Tour in as many seasons.
"I love this sport and these moments, I work really hard for them,” he said. “When you get rewarded like this, it’s a very special moment.”
A new setting
The 82nd edition of the Italian Open takes place in Tuscany for just the second time, 42 years on from German Bernhard Langer’s victory at the Golf Club Ugolino in Florence in 1983. This week, the historic national Open takes place at Argentario Golf Club.
The 6,857-yard par-71 course is set amid the Mediterranean vegetation in a protected natural area and has holes that overlook the sea and the Orbetello Lagoon. It is the second European Tour group event to be staged at the course in back-to-back years, after the venue hosted the Italian Challenge Open on the HotelPlanner Tour last season.
Inside the field
Of the 23 events to be staged so far this season, 13 of the winners are teeing it up this week - nine of whom are first-time winners. In Connor Syme, Nicolai von Dellingshausen, Kristoffer Reitan, Martin Couvra and Marco Penge, each of the last five winners – outside the Major Championships – are in action. Four-time DP World Tour winner Guido Migliozzi is the top-ranked Italian in the world in the field, and he is joined by a host of countrymen including Edoardo Molinari, Andrea Pavan – who both also competed at the U.S. Open earlier this month - and Renato Paratore. The latter is the current Road to Mallorca Number One on the HotelPlanner Tour after two victories so far this season.
edit **** The lone Canadian, Aaron Cockerill from Winnipeg, Manitoba, returns to play from his Tour home in Dubai.
Back in the Swing of things
After an off-week on the DP World Tour – the last until after next month’s Open Championship – the European Swing picks back up in Italy. Through the opening four counting events of the penultimate Global Swing on the 2025 Race to Dubai schedule, four first-time winners have emerged, One of those, Norwegian, Kristoffer Reitan, leads the standings after winning at the Soudal Open and then finishing second at the Austrian Alpine Open.
The winner of the Swing will earn entry into every event in Phase Two of the Race to Dubai - the Back 9 - along with a US$200,000 bonus, while there is also an exemption into the Genesis Scottish Open at play.
Spots at The Open up for grabs
For the second season in a row, the Italian Open, features as part of the Qualifying Series for The Open at Royal Portrush this summer. As with last year, there are two places available to the top two players not already exempt who make the cut.
Ryggs Johnston, Dylan Naidoo, Penge and Darren Fichardt have all secured their spots in Northern Ireland through the Qualifying Series. Jordan Smith, Migliozzi, Elvis Smylie, John Catlin and South African amateur Bryan Newman are also already exempt.
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