With just one event remaining in the 2017 Race to Dubai, europeantour.com puts the spotlight on a stellar field assembled for the season-ending DP World Tour Championship – the eighth and final Rolex Series tournament of the year – at Jumeirah Golf Estates.
In the field, there are:
60 players from 20 different countries
50 European Tour winners (83 per cent of the field) with 206 victories between them including…
Lee Westwood (23)
Sergio Garcia (14)
Martin Kaymer (11)
Charl Schwartzel (11)
Justin Rose (10)
22 winners from the 2017 Race to Dubai including 4 multiple winners…
Sergio Garcia (Omega Dubai Desert Classic, Masters Tournament and Andalucía Valderrama Masters)
Tommy Fleetwood (Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship and HNA Open de France)
Tyrrell Hatton (Alfred Dunhill Links Championship and Italian Open)
Justin Rose (WGC-HSBC Champions and Turkish Airlines Open)
4 Major Champions with 5 titles between them
Martin Kaymer (2010 US PGA Championship, 2014 US Open)
Sergio Garcia (2016 Masters)
Justin Rose (2013 US Open)
Charl Schwartzel (2011 Masters)
9 of the top 25 in the Official Golf World Ranking
Jon Rahm (5)
Justin Rose (6)
Sergio Garcia (11)
Alex Noren (16)
Tyrrell Hatton (17)
Tommy Fleetwood (19)
Rafa Cabrera Bello (20)
Francesco Molinari (21)
Patrick Reed (22)
2 former winners of the DP World Tour Championship, Dubai
Matt Fitzpatrick (2016)
Lee Westwood (2009)
29 players who have played in all eight Rolex Series events in 2017
16 tournament debutants
Jon Rahm
Paul Dunne
Dylan Frittelli
Hideto Tanihara
Jordan Smith
Ryan Fox
Mike Lorenzo-Vera
Callum Shinkwin
Andrew Dodt
Alexander Björk
Matthieu Pavon
Adrian Otaegui
Dean Burmester
Haydn Porteous
Julian Suri
Paul Waring
29 players under the age of 30 (48 per cent of the field)
3 players who have made an albatross this season
Joost Luiten (Andalucia Valderrama Masters)
Patrick Reed (Porsche European Open)
Li Haotong (Rocco Forte Open)
All 10 of the top 10 longest drivers on Tour this year
- Ryan Fox – 318.4 yards
2. Haydn Porteous – 309.7 yards
3. Lucas Bjerregaard – 308.8 yards
4. Nicolas Colsaerts – 306.7 yards
5. Dean Burmester – 306.6 yards
6. Matthieu Pavon – 304.9 yards
7. Scott Hend – 304.9 yards
8. Charl Schwartzel – 304.5 yards
9. George Coetzee – 304.5 yards
10. Dylan Frittelli – 303.0 yards
