2024 European Tour

Changes for 2024

• The calendar was split into three phases: the "Global Swings", the "Back 9" and the "DP World Tour Play-Offs".
• *There are five global swings: the "Opening Swing", the "International Swing", the "Asian Swing", the "European Swing" and the "Closing Swing". Each swing has its own mini Order of Merit, with the champion of each winning US$200,000. The swings also serve as a qualification route for the Rolex Series and Back 9 events.
• *The Back 9 consists of nine events in Europe, including several national opens and beginning with the Betfred British Masters.
• *The season-ending "DP World Tour Playoffs" consists of two events: the Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship and the DP World Tour Championship. The top 70 in the Race to Dubai Rankings qualify for the playoffs, with the top 50 in the rankings after the first event qualifying for the Tour Championship.
• Two new tournaments were added to the calendar for 2024: the Dubai Invitational and the Bahrain Championship. The Volvo China Open also returned to the schedule, having not been played on the European Tour since 2019 due to restrictions in place during the COVID-19 pandemic.
• Several tournaments held in 2023 were not included in the initial announcement: the WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play, the Thailand Classic, the Hero Indian Open, the ISPS Handa World Invitational, the Commercial Bank Qatar Masters and the Barbasol Championship, for which a replacement event was to be announced at a later date. Additionally, a change of dates for the Nedbank Golf Challenge meant it would not be part of the 2024 season, but was scheduled to return as one of the opening events of the 2025 season. The Hero Indian Open and the Commercial Bank Qatar Masters were later added to the schedule.
• In April 2024, the tour announced that Genesis Motor had become a title partner of the tour. As part of this deal, the Korea Championship, which had been played in 2023 and was due to be played in April 2024, was merged into the Genesis Championship, a long-standing Korean Tour event, which became a "Back 9" event played in October.
• Race to Dubai points were simplified, with regular tournaments during the swings all awarding 3,000 points and Back 9 events awarding 5,000 points. Points available in Rolex Series events, major championships and the tour championship all remained the same, at 8,000, 10,000 and 12,000 respectively.

  Schedule

Date	Tournament	Host country	Purse	points	Winner	OWGR points	Other tours	Notes
26 Nov	Fortinet Australian PGA Championship	Australia	A$2,000,000	3,000	Unofficial events The following events were sanctioned by the European Tour, but did not carry official money, nor were wins official. Date Tournament Host country Purse Winner OWGR points Notes 4 Aug Olympic Games France n/a Race to Dubai Points distribution The distribution of Race to Dubai points for 2024 European Tour events were as follows: Finishing position 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th 9th 10th 20th 30th 40th 50th 60th Major championships 10,000 1,665 1,113 627 500 424 350 300 250 223 200 120 90 68 48 30 Rolex Series 8,000 1,335 889 500 400 339 280 240 200 178 160 96 72 54 38 24 Back 9 tournaments 5,000 835 555 312 250 212 176 150 125 112 100 60 45 34 24 15 Other European Tour events 3,000 500 334 188 150 127 105 90 75 67 60 36 27 20 14 9 Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship 9,000 1,500 1,000 565 450 381 315 270 225 201 180 108 81 61 43 27 DP World Tour Championship 12,000 2,000 1,335 752 600 509 420 359 300 267 240 144 108 82 58 36 Final standings The Race to Dubai was based on tournament results during the season, calculated using a points-based system. PGA Tour exemptions The top 10 players on the Race to Dubai earned status to play on the 2025 PGA Tour. They were as follows: Rasmus Højgaard Thriston Lawrence Paul Waring Jesper Svensson Niklas Nørgaard Matteo Manassero Thorbjørn Olesen Antoine Rozner Rikuya Hoshino Tom McKibbin Awards