List of DP World Tour players in line to earn a 2025 PGA Tour card

With just one tournament left in the DP World Tour season, the list of players who will earn their PGA Tour card is almost complete. The group will be made up of the top 10 players in the Race to Dubai who are not yet members of the America-based tour.

The list will not be officially finalized until the conclusion of the DP World Tour Championship next week in Dubai. However, the 10 players currently in the group have a good chance of maintaining that status and playing the 2025 season on the PGA Tour.

This is the group of 10 players currently in line to earn their PGA Tour cards:

1. Thriston Lawrence
2. Rasmus Hojgaard
3. Paul Waring
4. Niklas Norgaard
5. Matteo Manassero
6. Jesper Svensson
7. Rikuya Hoshino
8. Sebastian Soderberg
9. Jordan Smith
10. Tom McKibbin

The top seven in the group are all but guaranteed a PGA Tour card with only one tournament left to play. Soderberg, Smith and McKibbin have good chances, but they need to finish well at the Tour Championship.

The reason is that there is a group of eight players who are less than 400 points behind the above three. It is a small advantage, so everything will be decided in the last tournament of the season.

The program of awarding PGA Tour cards to the top-ranked players of each season on the DP World Tour began in 2023 as part of the so-called "strategic alliance" between the two tours. Among the first beneficiaries were Robert MacIntyre and Matthieu Pavon, who won tournaments in their first season on the DP World Tour.

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Other players who still have a chance to win their PGA Tour cards

There is only one tournament left on the DP World Tour, the Tour Championship, so the opportunities for players who still want to win their PGA Tour cards have diminished. However, the final event of the year is the one that awards the most points of the entire calendar, improving the chances of those who manage to finish well.

After the Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship, the penultimate event of the season, eight players are within 400 points of Sebastian Soderberg, who is eighth in the group of 10 currently earning their American Tour cards. These five players still have a chance to sneak into the group at the last minute.

They are Guido Migliozzi, Romain Langasque, Julien Guerrier, Antoine Rozner, Angel Hidalgo, Laurie Canter, Jorge Campillo, and Dan Bradbury. Five of them (Migliozzi, Guerrier, Hidalgo, Canter, and Bradbury) have won tournaments in 2024.

At the 2023 edition of the Tour Championship, the top seven players earned 400 points or more for the Race to Dubai. Using this as a benchmark, the above players should aim for a similar result in Dubai next week.