Two Ryder Cup superstars decide to bypass DP World Tour Championship
LIV Golf's Jon Rahm and PGA Tour's Ludvig Aberg decline the chance to play in the DP World Tour's season finale in Dubai.
European Ryder Cup heroes Jon Rahm and Ludvig Aberg have both declined the chance to participate in the season-ending DP World Tour Championship at Jumeirah Golf Estates in Dubai from 14-17 November.
Both players missed out on the first leg of the DP World Tour Playoffs at the Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship at Yas Links from 7-10 November.
Rahm, 29, was recently let back onto the DP World Tour after having appealed his fines for joining the Saudi-bankrolled LIV Golf League this season.
Aberg, 25, has been forced out of competitive action of late as a result of a knee injury.
A DP World Tour spokesperson confirmed to GolfMagic on the eve of the DP World Tour Championship that both Rahm and Aberg have not entered the 50-man season finale on the Earth Course.
On the eve of the DP World Tour Championship, Rahm was positioned 38th on the DP World Tour Rankings, while Aberg was n 21st.
The omissions of both Rahm and Aberg mean Scotland's Connor Syme and Francesco Laporta make it into the field.
Syme ranks 51st in the DP World Tour standings.
Laporta is in 52nd position.
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The decision to bypass the event is something of a surprise where Rahm is concerned, especially since he is a record three-time winner of the tournament and there are golden European Ryder Cup points up for grabs in the $10 DP World Tour Championship.
Not that Rahm will need to worry too much of a pick in the team.
After recently being let back onto the former European Tour circuit, Rahm had to play in at least four regular season events on the DP World Tour in order to maintain his membership for next season and keep his European Ryder Cup hopes alive.
The Spaniard has now done that having competed in the Olympics, the Open de Espana, Dunhill Links and Andalucia Masters.
But he has declined the chance to compete in either of the two DP World Tour Playoffs events in Abu Dhabi and Dubai.
Rahm, did however, recently welcome his second child into the world with wife Kelley Cahill so you have to believe that played some part in his decision to stay at home.
The 2025 LIV Golf League season does not get underway until February though.
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Rahm also cannot win the Race to Dubai since Rory McIlroy is running away with things as the World No.3 goes in pursuit of a sixth Harry Vardon trophy.
McIlroy is attempting to match the feat of late great Seve Ballesteros.
Only South Africa's Thriston Lawrence can mathematically catch McIlroy in the Race to Dubai next weekend, but it's an unlikely task given the Northern Irishman is some 1,800 points clear at the top of the rankings.
Rahm's LIV Golf teammate Tyrrell Hatton has decided to play in the DP World Tour Championship though.
Hatton recently captured his career hat-trick at the Dunhill Links and he finished solo second behind Paul Waring at Yas Links on Sunday.
The Englishman has made it clear he intends to play in as many DP World Tour events as a possible outside of his commitments to LIV Golf in a bid to make Luke Donald's European Ryder Cup team next September.
For Aberg, it would appear his knee is still not quite fully recovered.
The Swede is entered into Tiger Woods' Hero World Challenge at Albany from 5-8 December, so it will be interesting to see whether he is able to tee it up in the Bahamas in three weeks' time
America's Billy Horschel has pleasingly decided to come over to compete in the DP World Tour Championship.
Horschel captured his second career BMW PGA in September when defeating McIlroy in a playoff.
He lies fourth in the DP World Tour Rankings.
The winner of the Race to Dubai wins a bonus of $2m.
Race To Dubai Prize Money Payout
| Position | Prize Money |
|---|---|
| 1st | $2,000,000 |
| 2nd | $1,000,000 |
| 3rd | $750,000 |
| 4th | $550,000 |
| 5th | $450,000 |
| 6th | $350,000 |
| 7th | $300,000 |
| 8th | $250,000 |
| 9th | $200,000 |
| 10th | $150,000 |
DP World Tour Championship Field
| Rory McIlroy | 1 |
| Thriston Lawrence | 2 |
| Rasmus Hojgaard | 3 |
| Billy Horschel | 4 |
| Paul Waring | 5 |
| Tyrrell Hatton | 6 |
| Tommy Fleetwood | 7 |
| Niklas Norgaard | 8 |
| Robert MacIntyre | 9 |
| Matteo Manassero | 10 |
| Jesper Svensson | 11 |
| Thorbjorn Olesen | 12 |
| Rikuya Hoshino | 13 |
| Matt Wallace | 14 |
| Sebastian Soderberg | 15 |
| Adam Scott | 16 |
| Jordan Smith | 17 |
| Tom McKibbin | 18 |
| Guido Migliozzi | 19 |
| Romain Langasque | 20 |
| Julien Guerrier | 22 |
| Antoine Rozner | 23 |
| Angel Hidalgo | 24 |
| Laurie Canter | 25 |
| Jorge Campillo | 26 |
| Dan Bradbury | 27 |
| Frederic Lacroix | 28 |
| Shane Lowry | 29 |
| Justin Rose | 30 |
| Ugo Coussaud | 31 |
| Ewen Ferguson | 32 |
| Joaquin Niemann | 33 |
| Joe Dean | 34 |
| Nacho Elvira | 35 |
| Adrian Otaegui | 36 |
| Matthew Jordan | 37 |
| Alex Fitzpatrick | 39 |
| Sam Bairstow | 40 |
| Daniel Brown | 41 |
| Johannes Veerman | 42 |
| Adrian Meronk | 43 |
| Min Woo Lee | 44 |
| Darius van Driel | 45 |
| Yannik Paul | 46 |
| Keita Nakajima | 47 |
| Andy Sullivan | 48 |
| Aaron Cockerill | 49 |
| David Ravetto | 50 |
| Connor Syme | 51 |
| Francesco Laporta | 52 |
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