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DP World Tour Championship: This is how much prize money Rory McIlroy gets for his double victory

The DP World Tour Championship is the grand finale of the DP World Tour season and therefore also the last Rolex Series tournament of the year. While the other four Rolex Series events each offer nine million dollars, the season finale will see a full ten million dollars divided among the 50 participants. Three million dollars will go to the winner, who this week was Rory McIlroy. With a final score of 15 strokes under par, he won the season finale ahead of Rasmus Hojgaard.

Prize Money at the DP World Tour Championship

Rank Player Score Prize Money
1 Rory MCILROY -15 $3,000,000
2 Rasmus HØJGAARD -13 $1,270,000
T-3 Shane LOWRY -11 $554,333.33
T-3 Adam SCOTT -11 $554,333.33
T-3 Antoine ROZNER -11 $554,333.33
6 Tyrrell HATTON -10 $316,000
T-7 Robert MACINTYRE -9 $209,625
T-7 Keita NAKAJIMA -9 $209,625
T-7 Joaquin NIEMANN -9 $209,625
T-7 Jesper SVENSSON -9 $209,625
T-11 Matt WALLACE -8 $143,000
T-11 Tom MCKIBBIN -8 $143,000
13 Adrian OTAEGUI -7 $128,000
T-14 Sam BAIRSTOW -6 $117,000
T-14 Laurie CANTER -6 $117,000
T-16 Tommy FLEETWOOD -5 $105,250
T-16 Johannes VEERMAN -5 $105,250
T-16 Paul WARING -5 $105,250
T-19 Romain LANGASQUE -4 $89,900
T-19 Jorge CAMPILLO -4 $89,900
T-19 Jordan SMITH -4 $89,900
T-19 Ewen FERGUSON -4 $89,900
T-19 Guido MIGLIOZZI -4 $89,900
T-24 Andy SULLIVAN -3 $78,875
T-24 Alex FITZPATRICK -3 $78,875
T-24 Min Woo LEE -3 $78,875
T-24 Thorbjørn OLESEN -3 $78,875
T-28 Darius VAN DRIEL -2 $72,125
T-28 Rikuya HOSHINO -2 $72,125
T-30 Adrian MERONK -1 $65,375
T-30 Matteo MANASSERO -1 $65,375
T-30 Thriston LAWRENCE -1 $65,375
T-30 Ugo COUSSAUD -1 $65,375
T-34 Matthew JORDAN PAR $54,500
T-34 Justin ROSE PAR $54,500
T-34 Julien GUERRIER PAR $54,500
T-34 Nacho ELVIRA PAR $54,500
T-34 Yannik PAUL PAR $54,500
T-34 Frederic LACROIX PAR $54,500
T-40 Joe DEAN 1 $47,750
T-40 Niklas NORGAARD 1 $47,750
42 Sebastian SÖDERBERG 2 $45,500
43 Daniel BROWN 3 $44,000
44 David RAVETTO 4 $42,500
45 Francesco LAPORTA 7 $41,000
46 Dan BRADBURY 8 $39,500
47 Billy HORSCHEL 9 $38,000
48 Angel HIDALGO 10 $36,500
T-49 Connor SYME 11 $34,250
T-49 Aaron COCKERILL 11 $34,250

A total bonus pool of six million dollars was offered for the final standings in the Race to Dubai. Rory McIlroy will receive a share of two million dollars, bringing his total earnings for the weekend to five million dollars. In second place, Rasmus Hojgaard receives one million dollars after a strong final round of the season.

Race to Dubaie bonus pool

A total bonus pool of six million dollars was offered for the final standings in the Race to Dubai. Rory McIlroy will receive a share of two million dollars, bringing his total earnings for the weekend to five million dollars. In second place, Rasmus Hojgaard receives one million dollars after a strong final round of the season.

Rank Player Bonus
1st Rory McIlroy $2,000,000
2nd Rasmus Hojgaard $1,000,000
3rd Thriston Lawrence $750,000
4th Tyrrell Hatton $550,000
5th Paul Waring $450,000
6th Billy Horschel $350,000
7th Tommy Fleetwood $300,000
8th Adam Scott $250,000
9th Robert MacIntyre $200,000
10th Jesper Svensson $150,000
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World Golf Ranking: Rory McIlroy Leads British Players

Rory McIlroy has maintained his position as the best British player in the current world golf rankings. He is still in third place, unchanged from the previous week. His average score is 8.35. Directly behind him is Tommy Fleetwood in 9th place, also unchanged from the previous week, with a score of 4.20

MacIntyre and Hatton climb upwards in the world golf rankings

Robert MacIntyre has moved up one place and is currently ranked 15th. He has an average score of 3.58. Tyrrell Hatton moved up two places and is now in 16th place with a score of 3.57. Aaron Rai remains in 21st position, with no change from last week, his score is 3.08.

Stable top 10 in the World Golf Ranking

There are no changes in the top 10 of the World Golf Ranking. Scottie Scheffler remains unchanged at No. 1, while Xander Schauffele maintains his position at No. 2. Collin Morikawa remains at No. 4, while Ludvig Aberg and Wyndham Clark retain their positions at No. 5 and 6. Positions 7 to 10 are also stable, with Hideki Matsuyama in 7th, Viktor Hovland in 8th, Tommy Fleetwood in 9th and Bryson DeChambeau in 10th.

Rank Name Nationality Points Change
3 Rory McIlroy NIR 8,35 0
9 Tommy Fleetwood ENG 4,20 0
15 Robert MacIntyre SCO 3,58 +1
16 Tyrrell Hatton ENG 3,57 +2
21 Aaron Rai ENG 3,08 0

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European Tour

DP World Tour Season Finale: Matt Wallace Loses his Nerve

Matt Wallace did not show his best side at the DP World Tour Championship at the weekend, where he finished tied 11th. Anyone who has ever swung a club has probably experienced for themselves that golf can sometimes drive you mad. Nevertheless, there are rules of conduct on the golf course and, especially among professionals who are considered role models, freak-outs are not welcome. Tyrrell Hatton, who is known for his emotions on the course, also allowed himself to overreact.

Matt Wallace takes his anger out on the fairway

Matt Wallace’s round was apparently satisfactory. Although he started with two bogeys on holes 1 and 3, he then improved significantly. With a series of birdies on holes 8 to 11, he made up a few places on the leaderboard, on which he was already among the leaders.

His emotional outburst then followed on the par-5 14th. His tee shot landed in the thick rough, leaving him a few meters behind with his second shot. He then sank his third shot in the greenside bunker, which was the last straw. Wallace rammed his club into the fairway, leaving clearly visible damage. Neither he nor his caddie bothered to repair the damage. In the end, he recorded a bogey on 14.

After the tournament, Wallace summed up his tournament on Twitter. There was no comment on his slip-up.

Tyrrell Hatton divides clubs

Tyrrell Hatton, who finished sixth in Dubai, also allowed himself a slip-up. It was not the course that fell victim to this, but his club, which he unceremoniously broke after a failed shot. The commentator described such behavior as a “terrible influence on the next generation”.

 

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Bryson DeChambeau: Of Eggs and Holes-in-One

Bryson DeChambeau lives up to his new reputation as a model social media personality and is always coming up with new games and jokes. For example, he has eggs thrown at him – what you don’t do to generate attention.

 

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Or he takes on the self-imposed challenge of making a hole-in-one – by hitting a blind shot over his own house in Dallas onto a green in his garden. The additional difficulty: the two-time US Open champion only allows himself as many attempts as the number of days he spends on the bet – so one shot on the first day, two on the second and so on. Of course, DeChambeau updates his fan community each time via TikTok to keep his followers happy:

@brysondechambeau This might take a while… #golf ♬ original sound – Bryson DeChambeau

@brysondechambeau After all this, I better be the best in the world from 100 yards #golf #fyp ♬ original sound – Bryson DeChambeau


Written by Michael Basche

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Live

Ryder Cup 2025: Bethpage Black Sold Out Within Hours

Hot Stuff: What a fuss there was about tickets for next year’s Ryder Cup at Bethpage Black. ‘Scandal, profiteering, we’re being ripped off’, was the cry in view of the 750 dollars excluding fees etc. for a day ticket to the continental competition on a public golf course, for which the green fee is 75 dollars. But what can we say: the event was sold out within a few hours.

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According to the organising PGA of America, the tickets were sent to 47 countries, including 2,500 tickets to Europe. In addition to the 750 dollars per day, there were also 200 dollars in fees and 60 dollars for a parking ticket. Those who arrived too late can at best hope to be successful with SeatGeek, the PGA of America’s partner for the resale of tickets.


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Rory McIlroy WITB with TaylorMade at the DP World Tour Championship

Victory in the Race to Dubai was safe for Rory McIlroy, but the outcome of the DP World Tour Championship remained exciting right down to the last few holes. With two late birdies, McIlroy prevailed over Rasmus Hojgaard and his Callaway bag to win the DP World Tour season finale and the season ranking for the third time in his career. A look inside the Northern Irishman’s golf bag reveals that he remains loyal to his sponsor TaylorMade.

DP World Tour Championship 2024: WITB Rory McIlroy

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Driver: TaylorMade Qi10 (9°)
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Wood: TaylorMade Qi10 (15°, 18°)
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Irons: TaylorMade P 760 (4) Irons: TaylorMade Rors Proto (5-9)
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Wedges: TaylorMade MG4 (46, 50, 54, 60)
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Putter: TaylorMade Spider Tour X
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Ball: TaylorMade TP5X
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WITB: Nelly Korda Wins Seventh Tournament on LPGA Tour

Nelly Korda has once again prevailed and claimed her seventh victory shortly before the end of the season. her sixth win of the season. At the beginning of the year, she won six titles in seven starts on the LPGA Tour, including a major victory at the 2024 Chevron Championship. A look inside the American’s golf bag shows a set of TaylorMade clubs.

WITB: Nelly Korda 2024

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Driver: TaylorMade Qi10 Max (10.5°)

Nelly Korda on why she plays the Qi10 Max Driver: “The reason why I picked the Qi10 Max driver is the look of it compared to the other models. When I put it down and look at it I feel like I can hit any shot I want with the subtle blue face and silver topline. When I look down at it I feel like I can aim it really well and I know where the center of the clubface too. For a golfer, if you don’t like the look of the club, you’re never going to be able to it hit. Once I put the Qi10 Max down and teed it up, I feel like I could hit any shot I wanted to.”

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Woods: TaylorMade Stealth 2 (15°, 21°)

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Irons: TaylorMade P770 (5)

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Irons: TaylorMade P7MC (6-PW)

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Wedges: TaylorMade Milled Grind 4 (50°,54°,60°)

Putter: TaylorMade Spider Tour X L-Neck

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Ball: TaylorMade TP5x

“Nelly was looking to bring the spin down, especially on her driver, so we did some testing in September,” said TaylorMade Senior Tour Manager Ressa. “We saw the benefits of TP5x in her driver and irons bringing the spin down a couple hundred RPMs. Then, around the greens, her launch on chips was a little bit lower and she generated more spin around the greens with TP5x than TP5. She produced a lot more check in a preferred trajectory coming off of the TP5x versus the TP5. She’s been happy with the ball ever since.” 

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Professionals

Rory McIlroy “would pay for the privilege to play on the Ryder Cup”

While the US players are to receive 400,000 US dollars for their participation in the Ryder Cup from next year, Rory McIlroy and his teammates Shane Lowry and Tyrrell Hatton firmly reject any financial reward. For them, the Ryder Cup is not just a tournament, but a symbol of pride, passion and team spirit. The biennial tournament, which has so far been held without payment for the players, is now to receive a financial component on the American side for the first time from 2025.

Rory McIlroy: Ryder Cup “a privilege”

Rory McIlroy made it unmistakably clear that the competition and the honor are his priority, not the money. “I personally would pay for the privilege to play on the Ryder Cup,” said McIlroy in an interview with the BBC at the DP World Tour Championship in Dubai. For him, the Ryder Cup represents one of the purest forms of golf. “The two purest forms of competition in our game right now are the Ryder Cup and the Olympics, and it’s partly because of that, the purity of no money being involved.” McIlroy sees the Ryder Cup as more than just a golf competition: “But the Ryder Cup is so much more than that, especially to the Europeans and to this tour.”

McIlroy also argues: “The common consensus among us is that $5m would be better off spent elsewhere on the DP World Tour to support other events or even to support The Challenge Tour.” This illustrates that the DP World Tour is much more reliant on the money raised from the Ryder Cup.

Rory McIlroy showed understanding for the Americans’ decision, but warned of the potential impact of payment on the competition. “I can see the other side of the argument because the Ryder Cup does create a lot of revenue.“ said McIlroy. Nevertheless, he emphasized that money would significantly change the dynamics of the event. “ “I think we would all welcome money if it didn’t change the dynamic but the money really would change the dynamic,” explained the Northern Irishman.

Ryder Cup a privilege for European players

Other European players such as Shane Lowry and Tyrrell Hatton echoed this sentiment. Tyrrell Hatton emphasized: “I’ve never thought about being paid to play in the Ryder Cup. It’s such an honour to be a part of that 12 that play.”

Lowry made it clear that the DP World Tour has no plans to pay its players and he doesn’t believe it makes a difference if one side is remunerated. For the former Open champion, the Ryder Cup is motivation enough anyway. Lowry already feels rewarded by the experience and the opportunities it brings. The prospect of being on the team again spurs him on: “Like I’d give anything to know I’m on the team next year. I’m going to spend the next ten months stressing my head off trying to make the team.”

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TGL: Complex Set of Rules Including a Hammer as a Penalty for the Indoor Spectacle

Be warned, this is a bold theory: golf needs to be rethought here and there – at least in terms of competition formats. Even the game, which is ageless in its magnificence and unshakeable in its foundations, needs the fresh cell treatment of innovation from time to time. It’s not really that bold an idea, is it?

It needs spectacle

Of course, there is plenty of room for argument about how. But one thing is certain: the leisure society 4.0 can hardly be won over by tedious counting game competitions over four days, unless they have the aura of a major’s speciality or other significance. The fun-focussed modern man flutters from experience to experience: a little thrill here, a little amusement there, a little action there.

Applied to sport, this means: it takes sweat, tears, toil, duels eye for eye, ruckus, lots of smoke and thunder – even for nothing. In short: it needs spectacle. This doesn’t have to be detrimental to the seriousness of the competition, see American football or the new biathlon season starting at the end of November.

New era in Golf

A few weeks later, on 7 January, a new era begins in golf too, so to speak. The starting signal will be given for the competition of tomorrow, which its creators have appropriately christened Tomorrow’s Golf League. With the competition offshoot of their joint venture TMRW Sports, Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy are taking the future of the game into their own hands.

The two superstars and their team-mate Mike McCarley are following the trend towards gamification of golf, which is enjoying success up and down the country, manifested by the opening of more and more indoor facilities and the constant upgrading of driving ranges with analysis systems, and are also raising the game in the elite sector to the level of modern entertainment. They call the spectacle under the roof of the hall ‘golf remixed’. You could also say: golf goes south curve. That fits the spirit of the times more than ever.

 

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‘Bringing the game into the 21st century’

The TGL match days between ScreenZone and GreenZone will be high-tech events with coliseum character, target shooting, light and show effects like in the NBA, the National Basketball Association. With hype and a grandstand atmosphere like at the Phoenix Open in Scottsdale on 16, the party hole. With tailgating like in American football around the NFL stadiums. A circus, and in the middle of it all, the Triple-A PGA Tour staff wired up as gladiators.

‘We’re trying to break with tradition and bring the game into the 21st century,’ says Rory McIlroy, who points out that more golf was played in simulators than on real courses in 2023. ‘It’s a completely different type of golf; not the traditional sport you see week in, week out.’

‘Everything is even bigger than expected’

The key spatial data has already been presented here, and it is impressive enough: the oversized simulator screen, the specially designed golf courses, the short game area with the green, whose slopes and breaks can be adjusted under the surface using electric motors, the technology surrounding it with huge monitors for the 1,600 spectators in the stands, with treadmills for results, stroke analysis data and scores, etc. ‘Everything is even bigger than I expected. That makes it even better,’ enthused Justin Thomas, for example.

 

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Overloaded regulations?

So far, so exciting and promising. However, there seems to be one catch: the rules. To put it mildly, it is complex. It could, if you like, be too complicated. Sport as a spectacle thrives not least on the transparency of the result, finish or goal lines, clocks that run with the game or the constantly updated score. Winners and losers must be very easy to identify; no one wants an outcome that is only determined after painstaking arithmetic. In the case of the TGL with its ‘Modern Matchplay’ format, this seems overloaded at first glance; the following is an attempt to sort things out:

 

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Every hole is worth a point – most of the time

Three of the four players from the two teams in question compete in each match of the 15 match days of the season. The format is based on awarding points per hole played. The team with the fewest strokes on a hole wins a point. A draw is awarded zero points.

Within a match, two sessions are played in two different formats:

Triples: Nine holes of three against three in alternate shot format. Everyone plays their own ball and the best score per hole is scored for the team.

Singles: Six holes man against man; each player in the team plays two holes.

In the event of a tie, ‘Nearest to the Pin’ as overtime

In the event of a tie at the end of the regular playing time, ‘Nearest to the Pin’ is played in overtime until one team has been closer to the pin twice than the competition.

For each match won, regardless of whether in regular time or in overtime, the team in question receives two points for the overall ranking. If a team only loses in overtime, it still receives one point. The four best teams qualify for the play-offs with semi-finals (17 and 18 March 2025) and final (24 and 25 March).

40 seconds for each stroke

There are also a few special features. For example, there is a shot clock: each player must take their upcoming shot within 40 seconds, the time is monitored by a referee who imposes a penalty if the time is exceeded. On the other hand, each team has four timeouts per match, two for each session, to stop the shot clock.

And then there’s the hammer. Whoever swings it doubles the value of a hole won. It doesn’t take much imagination to visualise the bang that will be created at the SoFi Centre on the campus of Palm Beach State College. The question remains as to what happens if a team doesn’t live up to the hammer it has brought into play. The first match day at the latest will shed light on this and show whether this set of rules does not turn out to be a malus for the spectacle.

 

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Written by Michael Basche

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Shock in Pebble Beach: Greenkeeper Survives Fall with Lawnmower on 23-meter Cliff

Pebble Beach Golf Links is one of the most legendary golf courses in the world and an absolute dream for golfers. Located on the Californian coast, the course impresses with breathtaking views of the Pacific and challenging fairways. Holes 6 to 8 in particular along the cliffs of Stillwater Cove provide excitement and lasting impressions. Since its opening in 1919, Pebble Beach has been the backdrop for numerous major tournaments, including the U.S. Open major tournament. Golfers from all over the world appreciate the course not only for its sporting challenges, but also for the unique natural backdrop that makes every game an experience.

Horrific fall at the flagship of Pebble Beach

The cliffs at holes 6 to 8 usually make for unforgettable memories, sporting challenges and unique shots. On Monday morning this week, however, Pebble Beach caused a stir for a different reason. On the par-5 6th, a greenkeeper was driving his lawnmower right along the cliffs to do his daily course maintenance when the experienced greenkeeper’s daily routine turned into a horror scenario. From an elevated tee, the hole leads down to a sloping fairway, then over a steep rise and is bordered on the right by some 75-foot cliffs overlooking Stillwater Cove.

Rain as the trigger?

The greenkeeper’s lawn mower skidded on the steep hill, causing it to plunge down the approximately 23-foot cliff. The greenkeeper was thrown from the lawnmower, but it remains unclear how far he fell. He was taken to a nearby hospital. “We are in close contact with our employee and his family,” the statement said. “We are thankful that they report he is doing very well.” It had been raining in the area throughout the day, but it is unclear if the wetness played a role in the accident, the cause of which has yet to be determined, the spokesperson said.