What's at stake for Scots in Dunhill Links as DP World Tour crunch looms

For some, it’s getting close to make or break in the bid to be involved in the two season-ending Play-Offs worth a combined $19 million.

The top 70 on the Race to Dubai at the end of the Genesis Championship in Korea on 25 October will qualify for the Abu Dhabi Championship on 5-8 November.

The leading 50 after that will then go forward to the season finale, the DP World Tour Championship in Dubai the following week.

Both those events are scheduled to go ahead as planned, though the DP World Tour has Sotogrande in Spain as Plan B for the latter if the Middle East is deemed as unsafe due to the ongoing conflict in the region.

Here’s how the Scots teeing up in this week’s $5 million event on home soil - Ewen Ferguson and Richie Ramsay are sitting it out due to injury issues - stand heading into the final few weeks of the regular season.

Calum Hill

The Fifer’s exemption for winning the Joburg Open in March 2025 runs out at the end of this season. Sitting 24th in the Race to Dubai, though, his card is safe for another year. Hill’s aim for the remainder of the campaign is to try and secure one of the ten 2027 PGA Tour cards up for grabs, having had that target in his sights on the back of two second-placed finished back-to-back in the Middle East in February.

Scott Jamieson

On the back of his Nexo Championship victory at Trump International Golf Links in Aberdeenshire last month, the Florida-based player has exemption until the end of the 2028 season and that means he’ll have held a card for 18 consecutive campaigns. Sitting 57th in the Race to Dubai, his target now will be to be involved in both those Play-Off events, having last been involved in the DP World Tour Championship in 2020.

Bob MacIntyre

Sitting 70th in the Race to Dubai, the defending Dunhill Links champion needs a big week in his bid to be involved in the DP World Tour Championship for the eighth season in a row, having finished in the top ten at Jumeirah Golf Estates for the past two years. That said, the Oban man admitted a fortnight ago at Wentworth during the BMW PGA Championship that he wasn’t “wanting to go to the Middle East with everything that is going on” and said he would be “keeping an eye on what is going on out there before I make a decision”.

David Law

Having regained his place at the top table on the back of a brace of victories on the Hotel Planner Tour last season, the Aberdonian sits 98th in the Race to Dubai. He’s made the cut in his last five events to move just inside the cut-off zone but would have loved to have turned one of those T37, T53, T23, T44 and T44 performances into a top-ten finish. Nonetheless, he’s playing steady golf and that is certainly a plus at this stage of the season.

Grant Forrest

The East Lothian-based player sits 117th on the points list, yet isn’t in danger of losing his card thanks to securing an exemption until the end of the 2027 thanks to his win in last year’s Nexo Championship on home soil. It would be a welcome boost, though, if he could put in another strong display in front of Scottish fans, having missed the cut in six of his last eight events and retired from the Husqvarna British Masters at The Belfry after the first round.

Euan Walker

In his rookie season on the main tour, the Ayrshireman is battling to hang on to his card. He sits 125th in the Race to Dubai, with the highlight of his campaign so far being a tie for sixth in the Hainan Classic. He also finished joint-tenth behind Scott Jamieson in the Nexo Championship but three straight missed cuts since then killed off his hopes of using that to gain some momentum.

Cameron Adam

After a promising start as a rookie this year, which included a top-ten finish in the Magical Kenya Open presented by absa, the left-hander has slipped to 132nd on the all-important points list after missing three cuts in a row. He’ll be hoping that a return to St Andrews, where he won the LinksTropy last year en route to topping the Global Amateur Pathway to secure his main tour ticket, will help inspire a big week.

Daniel Young

The Kingsbarns-attached player sits 148th in the Race to Dubai Ranking and needs a strong performance on home soil more than any of the Scots. He hasn’t made enough cuts to be in a better position, with his best performances so far being a tie for 18th in the Crown Australian Open - his second event as a DP World Tour card holder - and joint-19th in the Volvo China Open.

Connor Syme

After making it all the way to the DP World Tour Championship for the last four years, the Fife-based player has his work cut out to keep that run going. He sits 164th on the money-list, though his card is safe until the end of next season thanks to a maiden win in the KLM Open last year.