The last event of the year is a low-key affair at the La Reserve Golf Links at the Heritage Golf Club in Mauritius. This is the second time La Reserve has hosted, after co-course designer Louis Oosthuizen won at his own course at the end of 2023. The course is a 7,357 yard par 72, with five par threes and five par fives, and we have Paspalum on all the playing surfaces. There are expected to be showers throughout the week, so the course will likely be softer and slower than i

The Alfred Dunhill Championship is taking a one year hiatus from its regular home of Leopard Creek and is instead at Royal Johannesburg this year. Royal Johannesburg is a 36-hole facility and last appeared on the DPWT as host of the Joberg Open from 2007 to 2017. But while that tournament used both courses with one round played on the shorter West course, this year’s event will only be played on the longer championship East course. The East course is a par 72 that measures 7,

The ‘other’ event this week, the Nedbank is still a great tournament in its own right and is colloquially known as ‘Africa’s major.’ Starting out as an extremely small field invitational, the Nedbank joined the DPWT in 2013 and increased in size to a 30 man field, and then again to the current field size of around 66 in 2016. It has at times been a part of the DPWT finals series and elevated Rolex series but has only been a regular DPWT event since last year, albeit still wit

BOOOOOTS. It’s Australian Open week at Royal Melbourne and that means there will be boots on the ground as I plan to attend on what is a sold out Sunday to see star attraction Rory McIlroy. But the other star attraction is the golf course itself. Royal Melbourne is a 36-hole facility, with the West course ranking up at number 7 in the latest Golf.com rankings, and the East course at 82. These courses span across four parcels of land, but the Australian Open will be played on

Course Breakdown As the PGA Tour season ends, the DPWT begins their new season down under with the Australian PGA. Royal Queensland is hosting for the fifth consecutive time, and the fourth time as part of the DPWT (the January 2022 Aus PGA was also played here). Queensland is the Florida of Australia, and in keeping with that this is a very flat, parkland, Bermuda (called Couch grass in Aus) golf course that runs along the river. As part of a major redesign nearly two decade

After a grandstand finish to the DPWT season, we have Matt Fitzpatrick as the Tour Championship winner, Rory McIlroy as the Race to Dubai winner, and our ten PGA Tour graduates with Rasmus Neergaard-Petersen (RNP) knocking out Dan Brown. After starting the final round in a share of the lead, RNP had a shaky start with poor approaches on 3 and 4 leading to bogeys. A poor drive on 7 led to more trouble on the par 5, but he slam dunked his 4th shot for a miraculous birdie. Furth

The DP World Tour concludes their season this week with the Tour Championship held at long-time host, The Earth Course at Jumeirah Estates. The top 50 in the race to Dubai have qualified, but unlike the FedEx Cup there are no end of season gimmicks such as a points reset or starting strokes. This means that with a lead of 767 points, Rory McIlroy will most likely be the DPWT winner for the fourth time in a row. Marco Penge is the main threat and could cap a brilliant breakthr

The PGA Tour may be the preeminent golf tour, but the DPWT has always had a certain charm to me. Being more worldwide, it has had a wider variety of both courses and players. And now in its role as a proxy feeder tour, it’s where a lot of promising younger players are trying to make that next jump. With ISN being a predominantly American focused company, I thought it would be good to have at least some focus on the wider golf world, both to spotlight these future PGA tour pla