Danish Golf Championship: DP World Tour Fantasy ones to watch

Feel closer to the action on the DP World Tour by competing against golf fans from around the world in our official Fantasy game as the Closing Swing reaches its final event with the tenth edition of the Danish Golf Championship.

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This week sees the end of the Global Swings section of the season ahead of the Back 9 starting at next week's Betfred British Masters hosted by Sir Nick Faldo.

The Closing Swing comes to an end this week with last week's winner David Ravetto and the man he beat into second Jesper Svensson the only two players who can overhaul Robert MacIntyre at the top of the Rankings and take home the US$200,000 bonus.

The leading DP World Tour member (not otherwise exempt) will also qualify for the BMW PGA Championship, the third of five Rolex Series events this season.

But that is not all that is on offer on Sunday as a further $1million Bonus Pool will be shared among the leading ten players on the Race to Dubai who have played a minimum of eight ‘regular’ Global Swings events outside the Major Championships and Genesis Scottish Open.

Rasmus Højgaard became the first home winner of this event 12 months ago when he defeated Nacho Elvira in a six-hole play-off and he returns to defend his title, with identical twin brother Nicolai also in the field.

They lead a strong Danish contingent with event Chairman Thomas Bjørn also teeing it up alongside the likes of Søren Kjeldsen and Thorbjørn Olesen and rising stars Rasmus Neergaard-Petersen and Jacob Skov Olesen at new venue Lübker Golf Resort.

If you have not done so already, you can sign up to play the official 2024 DP World Tour Fantasy game here and submit your six-man team before round one gets under way on Thursday.

The 2024 season-long winner will win a trip to the DP World Tour Championship in Dubai next year, enjoy a lesson with a DP World Tour professional and a round of golf on the Earth Course at Jumeirah Golf Estates. For more information on this amazing prize and others, read here.

Fantasy Insight: As it stands, Nicolai Højgaard is the most-picked player this week, featuring in a whopping 88% of teams, making him the most popular pick for any event so far this season, overtaking Cam Smith's 78.89% at the season-opening Fortinet Australian PGA Championship.

Countryman Olesen would hold that honour were it not for Højgaard, as he is in 85% of teams, with Austrian Bernd Wiesbgerger the next most popular player in a distant third (41%).

Here, we pick out three players in action this week who are worth considering for your Fantasy team selections.

Favourite - Nicolai Højgaard

It is a tight-run thing this week in terms of favouritism, with many bookmakers unable to separate the Højgaards, but we are giving the edge to Nicolai - just.

The World Number 48 is the highest-ranked player in the field and arrives off the back of a productive first full season on the PGA TOUR, while also playing in two Rolex Series events, all four Majors and the Olympic Games.

Following his victory at the DP World Tour Championship, he achieved a top ten in his next Rolex Series start at the Hero Dubai Desert Classic and finished second at the Farmers Insurance Open the following week.

The Ryder Cup winner finished seventh in Paris at the Olympics two weeks ago and as one of the few players in the field with some knowledge of the new venue, it is no surprise Fantasy players are selecting him in their droves this week.

Form Horse - Bernd Wiesberger

Could Bernd be back?

If there is one thing Wiesberger has always been it is consistent and he has unsurprisingly brought that into the 2024 season, missing just one cut and recording only one other finish outside the top 25 in his first eight events.

A runner-up finish at the European Open in June suggested he may be ready to turn that good form into a win and he recorded a top ten in his next appearance at the KLM Open before making it three in six starts last time out the D+D REAL Czech Masters.

And while we may be at a different venue this week, the fact that two of his eight DP World Tour victories have come at this event has not gone unnoticed, certainly not by the 41% of players who have him in their team this week.

Wild card - Rasmus Neergaard-Petersen

Neergaard-Petersen is making just his tenth DP World Tour start but he has certainly made a splash in the game since turning professional after his graduation from the University of Oklahoma last year.

He recorded a top ten on debut at the BMW International Open and made the cut in each of the four other events he played in 2023, while also registering three top tens on the European Challenge Tour and making it to the Final Stage of the Qualifying School.

A maiden professional win at the Kolkata Challenge on the Challenge Tour in March of this year was followed by another at the UAE Challenge a month later as he recorded top tens in five consecutive events to top the Road to Mallorca Rankings.

He remains at the summit despite not having recorded a top ten since April but he will have a large and vociferous home crowd behind him this week and it is no surprise he features in 11% of teams.

Looking Back - D+D REAL Czech Masters

A huge tip of the cap to anyone who picked last week's winner David Ravetto as the Frenchman racked up an eye-watering 254 points. He arrived in the Czech Republic having made just six cuts in 16 DP World Tour events in 2024 but with a win on the European Challenge Tour and a top-three in the SDC Championship, which may have prompted his 636 picks (1.95%). And you really had a jump on your rivals if you were one of the five players (0.03%) who had him as your captain.

Our favourite Tom McKibbin did not make the weekend for just the third time this season but Wild Card Sami Välimäki (158 points) and Form Horse Romain Langasque (144 points) both finished in the top 40.

Season so far - 2024 DP World Tour Fantasy Top 10 player rankings