2023 European Tour
The 2023 European Tour, titled as the 2023 DP World Tour for sponsorship reasons, is the 52nd season of golf tournaments since the European Tour officially began in 1972.
| Duration | 24 November 2022 – 19 November 2023 |
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| Number of official events | 43 |
← 2022 2024 → | |
It is the second season of the tour under a title sponsorship agreement with DP World, that was announced in November 2021.[1]
In September 2022, the opening six events of the 2023 season were announced; they were all co-sanctioned events, four with the South Africa-based Sunshine Tour and two with the PGA Tour of Australasia, and were scheduled for late 2022.[2]
Changes for 2023
Player Earnings Assurance Programme
In November 2022, alongside the schedule release, the tour announced that they would introduce a "Player Earnings Assurance Programme", which would guarantee minimum earnings of US$150,000 for all exempt players from categories 1–17 if they competed in at least 15 tournaments.[3][4]
Rankings name change
In November 2022, the tour announced that the DP World Tour Rankings would be reverted back to the Race to Dubai, the name which had been in place between 2009 and 2021.[5]
PGA Tour promotions
As part of the PGA Tour strategic alliance expansion which had been signed in June 2022,[6] the 2023 season saw the beginning of PGA Tour status being awarded to the top 10 players (not otherwise exempt) on the Race to Dubai.[7]
Additions to the schedule
The Singapore Classic,[8] SDC Championship, Jonsson Workwear Open (previously a Challenge Tour event) and the Korea Championship were added to the schedule. The ISPS Handa Australian Open was also added to the schedule as co-sanctioned event with the PGA Tour of Australasia, the first time Australia's national open had gained European Tour status.[9]
The ISPS Handa Championship in Japan returned to the schedule, having been removed in 2022.[10] The Thailand Classic and the Hero Indian Open also returned to the schedule, having not been played since 2016 and 2019 respectively.[11][12]
Schedule
The following table lists official events during the 2023 season.[13][14][15]
| Date | Tournament | Host country | Purse (US$) |
R2D points |
Winner[lower-alpha 1] | OWGR points[lower-alpha 2] |
Other tours[lower-alpha 3] |
Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27 Nov | Fortinet Australian PGA Championship | Australia | A$2,000,000 | 2,000 | .svg.png.webp){kind=small} Cameron Smith (n/a) |
10.06 | ANZ | |
| 27 Nov | Joburg Open | South Africa | R17,500,000 | 2,000 |  Dan Bradbury (1) |
9.24 | AFR | |
| 4 Dec | ISPS Handa Australian Open | Australia | A$1,700,000 | 2,000 |  Adrian Meronk (2) |
10.26 | ANZ | New to European Tour |
| 4 Dec | Investec South African Open Championship | South Africa | 1,500,000 | 2,000 |  Thriston Lawrence (3) |
12.12 | AFR | |
| 11 Dec | Alfred Dunhill Championship | South Africa | €1,500,000 | 2,000 | Ockie Strydom (1) |
14.59 | AFR | |
| 18 Dec | AfrAsia Bank Mauritius Open | Mauritius | €1,000,000 | 2,000 |  Antoine Rozner (3) |
8.60 | AFR | |
| 22 Jan | Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship | UAE | 9,000,000 | 8,000 | Victor Perez (3) |
25.94 | Rolex Series | |
| 30 Jan | Hero Dubai Desert Classic | UAE | 9,000,000 | 8,000 | .svg.png.webp){kind=small} Rory McIlroy (15) |
29.49 | Rolex Series | |
| 5 Feb | Ras Al Khaimah Championship | UAE | 2,000,000 | 2,750 | Daniel Gavins (2) |
17.53 | ||
| 12 Feb | Singapore Classic | Singapore | 2,000,000 | 2,750 | Ockie Strydom (2) |
16.49 | New tournament | |
| 19 Feb | Thailand Classic | Thailand | 2,000,000 | 2,750 |  Thorbjørn Olesen (7) |
15.97 | ||
| 26 Feb | Hero Indian Open | India | 2,000,000 | 2,750 |  Marcel Siem (5) |
9.29 | PGTI | |
| 12 Mar | Magical Kenya Open | Kenya | 2,000,000 | 2,750 |  Jorge Campillo (3) |
14.34 | ||
| 19 Mar | SDC Championship | South Africa | 1,500,000 | 2,000 | Matthew Baldwin (1) |
14.81 | AFR | New tournament |
| 26 Mar | Jonsson Workwear Open | South Africa | 1,500,000 | 2,000 | Nick Bachem (1) |
13.85 | AFR | New to European Tour |
| 26 Mar | WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play | United States | 20,000,000 | 8,000 |  Sam Burns (n/a) |
52.41 | World Golf Championship | |
| 9 Apr | Masters Tournament | United States | 18,000,000 | 10,000 | Jon Rahm (10) |
100 | Major championship | |
| 23 Apr | ISPS Handa Championship in Japan | Japan | 2,000,000 | 2,750 | Lucas Herbert (3) |
19.22 | JPN | New to European Tour[lower-alpha 4] |
| 30 Apr | Korea Championship | South Korea | 2,000,000 | 2,750 | Pablo Larrazábal (8) |
17.05 | KOR | New tournament |
| 7 May | DS Automobiles Italian Open | Italy | 3,250,000 | 4,250 | Adrian Meronk (3) |
20.48 | ||
| 14 May | Soudal Open | Belgium | 2,000,000 | 2,750 |  Simon Forsström (1) |
15.24 | ||
| 21 May | PGA Championship | United States | 18,000,000 | 10,000 |  |
100 | Major championship | |
| 28 May | KLM Open | Netherlands | 2,000,000 | 2,750 | |
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| 4 Jun | Porsche European Open | Germany | 2,000,000 | 2,750 | |
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| 11 Jun | Volvo Car Scandinavian Mixed | Sweden | 2,000,000 | 2,750 | |
LET | Mixed event[lower-alpha 5] | |
| 18 Jun | U.S. Open | United States | 10,000 | |
100 | Major championship | ||
| 25 Jun | BMW International Open | Germany | 2,000,000 | 2,750 | |
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| 2 Jul | Betfred British Masters | England | 3,500,000 | 4,250 | |
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| 9 Jul | Made in HimmerLand | Denmark | 3,250,000 | 4,250 | |
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| 16 Jul | Genesis Scottish Open | Scotland | 9,000,000 | 8,000 | |
PGAT | Rolex Series | |
| 16 Jul | Barbasol Championship | United States | 3,800,000 | 4,250 | |
PGAT | ||
| 23 Jul | The Open Championship | England | 10,000 | |
100 | Major championship | ||
| 23 Jul | Barracuda Championship | United States | 3,800,000 | 4,250 | |
PGAT | ||
| 20 Aug | ISPS Handa World Invitational | Northern Ireland | 1,500,000 | 2,000 | |
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| 27 Aug | D+D Real Czech Masters | Czech Republic | 2,000,000 | 2,750 | |
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| 3 Sep | Omega European Masters | Switzerland | €2,500,000 | 3,500 | |
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| 10 Sep | Horizon Irish Open | Ireland | 6,000,000 | 6,000 | |
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| 17 Sep | BMW PGA Championship | England | 9,000,000 | 8,000 | |
Rolex Series | ||
| 24 Sep | Cazoo Open de France | France | 3,250,000 | 4,250 | |
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| 8 Oct | Alfred Dunhill Links Championship | Scotland | 5,000,000 | 5,500 | |
Pro-Am | ||
| 15 Oct | Acciona Open de España | Spain | |
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| 12 Nov | Nedbank Golf Challenge | South Africa | 6,000,000 | 7,000 | |
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| 19 Nov | DP World Tour Championship | UAE | 10,000,000 | 12,000 | |
Tour Championship Rolex Series |
Unofficial events
The following events are sanctioned by the European Tour, but do not carry official money, nor are wins official.
| Date | Tournament | Host country | Purse | Winners | OWGR points |
Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15 Jan | Hero Cup | UAE | €2,000,000 |  Team Continental Europe |
n/a | New team event |
| 1 Oct | Ryder Cup | Italy | n/a | |
n/a | Team event |
Race to Dubai
Top five players in the Race to Dubai as of 14 May 2023 (Soudal Open):[17]
| Pos. | Player | Majors | WGCs | Rolex Series | Top 10s in other ET events | Total pts |
Tmts | Money | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Mas | PGA | USO | Opn | WGC MP |
Abu | Dub | Sco | BMW PGA |
DPW TC |
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | Reg. (€m) |
Bon. ($m) | |||||||||||
| 1 | McIlroy |
CUT 0 | 3rd 500 |
• | 1st 1335 | 1,835 | 3 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 2 | Rahm |
1st 1665 | T31 54 |
• | • | 1,719 | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 3 | Perez |
• | T31 54 |
1st 1335 | T28 69 | T9 75 | 1,573 | 5 | |||||||||||||||||||
| 4 | Meronk |
CUT 0 | T17 92 |
T10 132 | CUT 0 | 1st 335 | T4 127 | 1st 710 | 1,438 | 9 | |||||||||||||||||
| 5 | Herbert |
• | T9 138 |
• | 3rd 500 | T10 33 | 1st 460 | 1,131 | 5 | ||||||||||||||||||
• Did not play
Notes
- The number in brackets after each winner's name is the number of European Tour events they had won up to and including that tournament. This information is only shown for European Tour members and are inclusive of the three United States-based major championships which were included on the schedule for the first time in 1998, with earlier editions having retrospectively been recognised as official tour wins. Victories in "Approved Special Events" are not recognised as official tour wins.
- Except for the major championships, which have fixed points allocations, points listed for tournaments that have not been completed are official projections based on the expected field and/or minimum points allocations. Final allocations are usually published the day after completion of all tournaments eligible for ranking points that week.[16]
- AFR − Sunshine Tour; JPN − Japan Golf Tour; KOR − Korean Tour; LET − Ladies European Tour; PGAT − PGA Tour; PGTI − Professional Golf Tour of India.
- Tournament's debut on European Tour delayed from 2022.
- Field of 78 men and 78 women playing from different sets of tees. Tour ranking and world ranking points based on finish among men's field only.
References
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- "DP World Tour announces global 2023 schedule". European Tour. 3 November 2022. Retrieved 3 November 2022.
- "The DP World Tour Rankings to become the Race to Dubai Rankings in Partnership with Rolex for the 2023 season". European Tour. 21 November 2022. Retrieved 21 November 2022.
- Carter, Iain (28 June 2022). "LIV Golf: DP World & PGA Tours strengthen partnership to combat Saudi-funded series". BBC Sport. Retrieved 23 February 2023.
- Morfit, Cameron (24 December 2022). "Five things to know about the PGA Tour for 2023". PGA Tour. Retrieved 23 February 2023.
- Chia, Laura (21 June 2022). "Golf: European Tour to return to Singapore in 2023 after nine-year hiatus". The Straits Times. Retrieved 4 October 2022.
- Hytner, Mike (29 April 2022). "Australian Open to make golf history with equal billing and prize money for men and women". The Guardian. Retrieved 29 April 2022.
- Fraser, Lewis (14 April 2023). "ISPS Handa Japan: Preview, betting tips, how to watch". Bunkered. Retrieved 23 April 2023.
- "Hero Cup stars set for Thailand Classic". Irish Golfer. 3 February 2023. Retrieved 5 February 2023.
- "Hero Indian Open returns with record prize fund". European Tour. 9 February 2023. Retrieved 23 April 2023.
- "European Tour Schedule". PGA European Tour. Retrieved 3 October 2022.
- McAuley, John (6 September 2022). "DP World Tour announce new match-play team event to take place in Abu Dhabi". The National. Retrieved 4 October 2022.
- Murray, Ewan (12 September 2022). "Dubai Desert Classic loses sponsor amid Chris Kirchner fallout". The Guardian. Retrieved 4 October 2022.
- "Events | European Tour | 2023". Official World Golf Ranking. Retrieved 3 October 2022.
- "Race to Dubai Rankings". European Tour. Retrieved 14 May 2023.