Eugenio Chacarra, Rory McIlroy and Patrick Reed. That’s where the Race to Dubai list starts. McIlroy jumped Reed via a third-place finish Sunday at the Abu Dhabi Aldar Championship, but still, these three remain with the best odds of taking home the season-long title when the DP World Tour Championship starts this week at Jumeirah Golf Estates in Dubai.
There can be two winners this week—a tournament winner and a season-long winner. They often are the same, but they certainly can be different.
Chacarra, a 26-year-old from Spain, is on top thanks to three victories this season, two in June and one in October. Reed won twice early in the season, in back-to-back weeks in late January and early February, but has not won since. He tied for 43rd in Abu Dhabi on Sunday. Chacarra tied for 22nd place.
The biggest movers were Jon Rahm, Tyrrell Hatton and Francesco Laporta. Rahm cruised to a two-shot victory over Hatton in the Abu Dhabi Aldar Championship and moved up 45 postions and into sixth place in the standings. Hatton moved up 43 spots to 12th place. Italy’s Laporta was tied for the lead with Rahm late Sunday but made a triple-bogey on the 14th hole. He finished in fourth place and moved up 32 spots to 25th place.
“Actually gives me a little extra incentive next week,” Rahm said. “I really didn’t think I was going to have a chance. Those are better odds than I expected.”
There is a $10 million purse on the line with $3 million going to the winner of the tournament. The winner of the Race to Dubai season title will earn a multi-million-dollar bonus from a $6 million purse, which is typically $2 million. McIlroy is looking to win his eighth Race to Dubai title, which would tie Colin Montomgerie, who won what was then called the Order of Merit.
Here are the 50 player who qualified for the DP World Tour Championship
1: Eugenio Chacarra
2: Rory McIlroy
3: Patrick Reed
4: Casey Jarvis
5: Aaron Rai
6: Jon Rahm
7: Jayden Schaper
8: Ryan Fox
9: Daniel Hillier
10: Jacob Skov Olesen
11: Bernd Wiesberger
12: Tyrrell Hatton
13: Andy Sullivan
14: Matt Fitzpatrick
15: Oliver Lindell
16: Joe Dean
17: Angel Ayora
18: Nacho Elvira
19: Angel Hidalgo
20: Shane Lowry
21: David Puig
22: Hennie Du Plessis
23: Adrian Meronk
24: Dan Bradbury
25: Francesco Laporta
26: Shaun Norris
27: Tommy Fleetwood
28: Davis Bryant
29: Thristan Lawrence
30: Marcus Armitage
31: Calum Hill
32: Mikael Lindberg
33: Martin Couvra
34: Frederic Lacroix
35: Alex Fitzpatrick
36: Yuto Katsuragawa
37: Julien Guerrier
38: Freddy Schott
39: Kristoffer Reitan
40: Niklas Norgaard
41: Matthew Jordan
42: Kota Kaneko
43: Grant Forrest
44: Jorge Campillo
45: Jeff Winther
46: Adrian Otaegui
47: Adam Scott
48: Min Woo Lee
49: Manuel Elvira
50: Gregoria De Leo
FIRST FIVE OUT
Rasmus Neergaard-Petersen (down eight spots, did not play Abu Dhabi)
Ewen Ferguson (down two spots)
Ludvig Aberg (down eight spots, did not play Abu Dhabi)
Matt Wallace (down two spots)
Victor Perez (down two spots)
This article was originally published on golfdigest.com
