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2/15/2025
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The Challenge Tour is the primary pathway to the DP World Tour.
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The top 20 players on the Challenge Tour rankings at the end of our season, the end of this
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event, will graduate to the DP World Tour.
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Essentially they earn a full card or full status on the DP World Tour.
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Our job really is to prepare the players to then, when they do progress onto the DP World
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Tour, that they're ready.
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And we do that through quality of the golf courses that we play on, through the organisation
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of the events.
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We're really just trying to help them when they make that step.
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And I think we can feel happy and proud of the fact that five of last year's class are
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in the top 50 on the DP World Tour rankings, so we'll be playing in the DP World Tour
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Championship and 14 of the 20 graduates have kept their status on the DP World Tour for
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next year.
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So I think we feel that that is a proven record of the fact that the players are ready to
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compete on the DP World Tour once they leave the Challenge Tour.
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We started in South Africa in February.
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This is our 28th event, played in 16 different countries.
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We've had a deal with the Mallorca government for the last four years.
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This is our fourth year.
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We've had four very happy years here.
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This is the culmination of our season, so the players have been battling out since February
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to finish in the top 45.
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Top 45 players here are all trying to not only win this event, but also try and earn
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one of those top 20 spots.
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And that is possible for every one of the 45 players.
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We've had a long history of playing in the Middle East.
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We've had regular events in Ras Al Khaimah and Oman that both went on to become the Challenge
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Tour Grand Final, our premier event of the season.
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And we also had the Grand Final in Dubai as well.
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So it's a region that obviously offers first-class golf courses, beautiful weather, particularly
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at the time of year where our final takes place.
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It's been a happy host for us for many years and it's somewhere we're very much looking
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forward to going back to.
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First of all, it's really exciting for our members to go back to a region that, as I
01:52
say, we know well.
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And I think what the partnership with the Emirates Golf Federation gives the Emirati
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players is ultimately is now opportunity.
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So there's a clear pathway for how they can progress.
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Those players will also have the opportunity to play in Europe against some of the finest
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players in Europe.
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They now have a clear pathway as to how they can progress from where they are currently
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right up all the way through to the DP World Tour and the DP World Tour Championship.
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