As is often the case, the DP World Tour has taken advantage of the week of the Dubai Finale to announce the schedule for the upcoming season. They will make it official in a few minutes. According to Ten Golf, the main news regarding tournaments in Spanish territory is that the Acciona Open de España is confirmed at the Club de Campo Villa de Madrid from 9 to 12 October, and the uncertainty remains for the week of the Estrella Damm Andalucía Masters, which has been played in Sotogrande for the past two years. Its slot in the schedule appears empty pending confirmation. The Open de España will be played two weeks after the Ryder Cup in New York.
The return of the Austrian and Turkish Opens, as well as a series of new tournament venues, headline the global schedule of the DP World Tour 2025. A minimum of 42 events will be played in 26 different countries, competing for a record total prize of 153 million dollars beyond the Majors.
For the second consecutive season, the schedule will consist of three distinct phases, beginning with five Global Swings, followed by the Back 9, and culminating the season with the DP World Tour Play-Offs in November 2025.
The Turkish Open, to be played at Regnum Carya Golf & Spa Resort from 8 to 11 May, will mark the return of the DP World Tour to Turkey for the first time in six years, following seven consecutive editions of the tournament from 2013 to 2019. The Austrian Alpine Open presented by SalzburgerLand, at the Gut Altentann Golf Club from 29 May to 1 June, also marks the Tour’s return to Austria for the first time since 2021. It will be the 23rd edition in total of the Austrian national Open, which first appeared on the schedule when Bernhard Langer won the title in 1990. Both tournaments will be part of the European Swing, one of the five Global Swings that will make up Phase One of the DP World Tour’s global schedule.
Meanwhile, as previously announced, the Nedbank Golf Challenge in South Africa also returns to the schedule and will be the centerpiece of the Opening Swing at the end of this year. The Opening Swing begins with the BMW Australian PGA Championship, which kicks off the season, at the Royal Queensland Golf Club in Brisbane, from 21 to 24 November 2024.
Each Global Swing has its own identity and champion, with exemptions for the Rolex Series events and the second phase of the season – the Back 9 – also available.
The autumn Back 9 events will give players the opportunity to secure their places in the end-of-season Play-Offs of the DP World Tour: Abu Dhabi Championship (6-9 November) and the DP World Tour Championship, Dubai (13-16 November).
Three other Rolex Series events are the Hero Dubai Desert Classic (16-19 January), the Genesis Scottish Open (10-13 July) – co-sanctioned with the PGA TOUR – and the BMW PGA Championship (11-14 September).
The 2025 schedule also includes two team competitions: the Team, Cup, which will take place at the Abu Dhabi Golf Club from 10 to 12 January, and the 2025 Ryder Cup, where Luke Donald‘s European team will attempt to retain the trophy against Keegan Bradley’s American team at Bethpage Black, New York, from 26 to 28 September.
The 2025 schedule also features some new venues. The FedEx Open de France, the oldest national Open in continental Europe, moves to Golf de Saint-Nom-La-Bretèche due to ongoing works at Le Golf National. It is the first time the tournament has been held there since 1982, with a victory by Seve Ballesteros.
The Amgen Irish Open returns to The K Club, a venue that hosted the tournament in 2023 and will do so again in 2027. Meanwhile, the Open de Italia moves to the Argentario Golf Club in Tuscany, the ISCO Championship will be played at the Hurstbourne Country Club in Louisville, and the Danish Golf Championship will be played for the first time at Furesø Golf Klub in Birkerød, near Copenhagen.
Precisely, in those Back 9 where the Acciona Open de España is located, there are two free slots pending confirmation, the week after Madrid and the one following the Genesis in Korea. A tournament in Spain could be played in one of those weeks, while the possibility of holding a second tournament in India is being considered in the other.
Here is the full schedule
