Rolex Challenge Tour Grand Final: 46 players set to compete for DP World Tour spots explored

The Rolex Challenge Tour Grand Final is set to tee off on Thursday, October 31 at the Club de Golf Alcanada in Mallorca. The competition, ending on November 3, will have 46 players competing to secure DP World Tour cards. It is pertinent to note that a total of 20 players will earn the life-changing Tour cards from the event.

The Rolex Challenge Tour Grand Final has a stacked field filled with a host of European Tour and PGA Tour regulars. This weekend’s edition of the competition is being headlined by John Parry, who currently sits atop the Road to Mallorca ranking.

It is pertinent to note that Parry missed out on retaining his DP World Tour card last season. The Englishman is currently on track to regain it, becoming the second player this year to record three Challenge Tour wins. He also managed an impressive eight top-10 finishes.

Parry is closely followed by Rasmus Neergaard-Petersen. The Danish golfer sits second in the rankings with three wins and seven top-10 finishes. He’d earlier led the Road to Mallorca Rankings with two wins in three weeks across March and April. However, he eventually gave way to the Englishman.

Hamish Brown (2 wins), Conor Purcell (2 wins), Angel Ayora (1 win), Joakim Lagergren (2 wins) and Joel Moscatel (2 wins) are some other names to watch this weekend.

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Rolex Challenge Tour Grand Final field explored

Listed below are the 46 players set to tee it up in Spain this weekend:

• John Parry (England)
• Rasmus Neergaard-Petersen (Denmark)
• Hamish Brown (Denmark)
• Conor Purcell (Republic of Ireland)
• Oliver Lindell (Finland)
• Angel Ayora (Spain)
• Joakim Lagergren (Sweden)
• Jack Senior (England)
• Joel Moscatel (Spain)
• Robin Williams (South Africa)
• Mikael Lindberg (Sweden)
• Alexander Levy (France)
• Benjamin Hébert (France)
• Deon Germishuys (South Africa)
• Brandon Robinson Thompson (England)
• Björn Åkesson (Sweden)
• Tapio Pulkkanen (Finland)
• Pierre Pineau (France)
• Martin Couvra (France)
• Lucas Bjerregaard (Denmark)
• Sam Hutsby (England)
• Nicolai von Dellingshausen (Germany)
• Jamie Rutherford (England)
• Euan Walker (Scotland)
• Wilco Nienaber (South Africa)
• Félix Mory (France)
• Daniel Young (Scotland)
• Christofer Blomstrand (Sweden)
• Benjamin Follett-Smith (Zimbabwe)
• Robin Sciot-Siegrist (France)
• Andreas Halvorsen (Norway)
• Jonathan Gøth-Rasmussen (Denmark)
• Gregorio de Leo (Italy)
• David Horsey (England)
• Niklas Lemke (Sweden)
• Kristoffer Reitan (Norway)
• Dermot McElroy (Northern Ireland)
• Ben Schmidt (England)
• Nicolai Kristensen (Denmark)
• Frank Kennedy (England)
• Lars van Meijel (Netherlands)
• Rhys Enoch (Wales)
• Gary Hurley (Ireland)
• Wil Besseling (Netherlands)
• Hayden Hopewell (Australia)
• John Axelsen (Denmark)
• Justin Walters (South Africa)

Apart from the DP World Tour cards, the Challenge Tour Grand Final also has around $540,000 prize purse, which will be awarded to golfers finishing 1st to 45th. The event champion will bag around $92,000, the same payout as the Challenge Tour season finale winner. The runner-up will bag around $58,000 and the last man on the podium will earn over $36,000.

It is pertinent to note that the Challenge Tour has offered some big names to top-tier European golf in the past, including the likes of Tommy Fleetwood, Henrick Stenson and Richard Bland.