{"id":67052,"date":"2025-11-11T15:52:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T11:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/?p=67052"},"modified":"2025-11-11T15:52:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T11:52:07","slug":"mena-golf-tour-graduates-out-in-force-at-dp-world-tour-play-offs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/mena-golf-tour-graduates-out-in-force-at-dp-world-tour-play-offs\/","title":{"rendered":"MENA Golf Tour Graduates Out In Force At DP World Tour Play-Offs"},"content":{"rendered":"

The DP World Tour Play-Offs are in full swing in the UAE<\/a>, and four MENA Golf Tour<\/a> graduates \u2013 Matt Fitzpatrick, Robert MacIntyre, Thriston Lawrence\u00a0and\u00a0Todd Clements\u00a0\u2013 have featured in the back-to-back Rolex Series\u00a0events in Abu Dhabi and Dubai, underlining the\u00a0Tour\u2019s status as a proven springboard\u00a0to the elite level.<\/p>\n

MENA Golf Tour Q School kicks off at Troia\u00a0Golf Course next week, with entries closing on\u00a0Friday 15 November<\/strong>, giving ambitious players across the region and beyond the chance to follow in the footsteps of the illustrious alumni.<\/p>\n

Fitzpatrick, a Ryder Cup star and Major champion, has long championed the need for genuine pathways for ambitious players. \u201cTo give players opportunity is always a real positive \u2013 particularly out here in the Middle East,\u201d he said. \u201cThe MENA Golf Tour is a proper testing ground; if you can win a few times, it bodes well for progressing to the next level.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lawrence, the 2015 MENA Tour Order of Merit winner and now a\u00a0five-time DP World Tour champion, added: \u201cI had nowhere to play in 2015. The MENA Tour gave me a run of events and that was the right step \u2013 winning the Order of Merit gave me the confidence and platform to push on.\u201d<\/p>\n

Clements, a DP World Tour winner,praised the revamped Tour\u2019s practical, player-centred ethos. \u201cWhen I heard the news about the MENA Golf Tour coming back, I was absolutely delighted because it means so much to me and what it did for the start of my career,\u201d he said. \u201cThe young players can learn so much – all the tricks of the trade, getting used to traveling, playing on different grasses. I\u2019d encourage any aspiring golfers to book their spot at Q School before the deadline.\u201d<\/p>\n

The 2025\u201326 schedule features 12 events across Portugal, Egypt, Morocco, Jordan and the GCC, routed in logical swings to cut travel time and costs. Every regular-season event carries a guaranteed, tax-free USD $100,000 purse, with payouts initiated within 48 hours of the final putt. A mid-season Q-Sprint (22\u201323 Feb 2026, Al Houara) adds a second pathway to status and a re-rank opportunity, with a USD $50,000 purse.<\/p>\n

\u201cEverybody wants to play for as much money as possible and when I saw they were guaranteeing USD$100k per event it was quite refreshing to see that the tour and the region is really putting back into the grassroots,\u201d added Clements. \u201cThat prize money goes back into the players\u2019 development and gives them more opportunities to play in difference places so it\u2019s massive.\u201d<\/p>\n

MENA Golf Tour Q School entries close on Friday November 15, to enter please visit <\/strong>www.menagolftour.com<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The DP World Tour Play-Offs are in full swing in the UAE, and four MENA Golf Tour graduates \u2013 Matt Fitzpatrick, Robert MacIntyre, Thriston Lawrence\u00a0and\u00a0Todd Clements\u00a0\u2013 have featured in the back-to-back Rolex Series\u00a0events in Abu Dhabi and Dubai, underlining the\u00a0Tour\u2019s status as a proven springboard\u00a0to the elite level. MENA Golf Tour Q School kicks off […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":67054,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67052"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67055,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67052\/revisions\/67055"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}