Jon Rahm joined by European Ryder Cup star in skipping Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship

Jon Rahm and his European Ryder Cup teammate Ludvig Aberg have decided to skip the penultimate event of the 2023-2024 DP World Tour season. 

Only the top 70 players in the Race to Dubai Rankings were eligible to compete at the Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship at Yas Links.

It is the first of two playoff events and Rahm was expected to be in the field for the tournament, which will take place over 7-10 November. 

But the Spaniard, who claimed LIV Golf's individual title in his maiden season with the breakaway tour, has decided to give the event a miss. 

The 2023 Masters champion has had a stressful end to the year. 

Complications with his wife Kelley's third pregnancy meant he faced a race against time to compete at the Spanish Open in Madrid. 

He needed to play in his home open to keep alive his prospects of representing Europe at the 2025 Ryder Cup.

Rahm also competed at the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship, finishing in a tie for seventh. He also posted a top-10 at the Andalucia Masters.

He has since confirmed his daughter Alaia is doing well. 

Sweden's Aberg has also decided against playing next week. 

He has been struggling with a knee injury and confirmed on 10 September that he had surgery to repair a torn meniscus. 

He recently posted a picture on Instagram that showed him wearing a sleeve but insisted that the surgery 'went well'.

But it appears he is not yet ready to return to action. 

Billy Horschel, Matthieu Pavon, Zander Lombard, Aaron Rai are also not listed at the Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship. 

GolfMagic has listed the full field below. 

Who else is in the field?

Rory McIlroy headlines the Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship. 

He has finished runner-up four times and third on four occasions as well. 

McIlroy, 35, is chasing a record sixth Harry Vardon trophy. 

Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship field

*R2D ranking

• Rory McIlroy (1)
• Thriston Lawrence (2)
• Rasmus Hojgaard (3)
• Tommy Fleetwood (5)
• Matteo Manassero (6)
• Niklas Norgaard (7)
• Jesper Svensson (8)
• Robert MacIntyre (9)
• Rikuya Hoshino (10)
• Adam Scott (11)
• Sebastian Soderberg (12)
• Jordan Smith (13)
• Guido Migliozzi (14)
• Romain Langasque (15)
• Tom McKibbin (17)
• Thorbjorn Olesen (18)
• Julien Guerrier (19)
• Matt Wallace (20)
• Angel Hidalgo (21)
• Tyrrell Hatton (22)
• Dan Bradbury (23)
• Frederic Lacroix (24)
• Jorge Campillo (25)
• Laurie Canter (26)
• Justin Rose (27)
• Shane Lowry (28)
• Joe Dean (29)
• Nacho Elvira (30)
• Antoine Rozner (31)
• Ewen Ferguson (32)
• Joaquin Niemann (33)
• Adrian Otaegui (35)
• Daniel Brown (36)
• Sam Bairstow (37)
• Darius Van Driel (38)
• Adrian Meronk (39)
• Johannes Veerman (40)
• Alex Fitzpatrick (41)
• Ugo Coussaud (42)
• Yannik Paul (43)
• Matthew Jordan (44)
• Min Woo Lee (45)
• David Ravetto (46)
• Aaron Cockerill (47)
• Paul Waring (48)
• Connor Syme (49)
• Andy Sullivan (50)
• Keita Nakajima (51)
• Bernd Wiesberger (52)
• Calum Hill (53)
• Grant Forrest (54)
• Jeff Winther (58)
• Casey Jarvis (59)
• Francesco Laporta (60)
• Dylan Frittelli (61)
• Alejandro Del Rey (62)
• Marcel Siem (63)
• Brandon Stone (64)
• Jayden Schaper (65)
• Thomas Detry (66)
• Nicolai Hojgaard (67)
• Shubhankar Sharma (68)
• Gavin Green (70)
• Matthew Baldwin (71)
• Alfredo Garcia-Heredia (72)
• David Micheluzzi (73)
• Joost Luiten (74)
• Adrien Saddier (75)
• Sean Crocker (76)

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