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Can Rory McIlroy clinch another victory, or will Antoine Rozner steal the spotlight in Dubai?

In only two rounds, the DP World Tour’s season finale will conclude and crown the newest champion for the 2024 season. For the ultimate DP World Tour Championship, the European circuit travels to the Jumeirah Golf Estates in Dubai with the top 50 golfers on the Race to Dubai standings. Only one will come out victorious and take home the million-dollar check. This year, the DP World Tour Championship offers a prize purse of $10 million for the 50 golfers field.

And since there is no 36-hole cut at the season finale, it assures that each golfer takes something from the Jumeirah Golf Estates. But obviously, the winner’s share would be the highest. The DP World Tour reports that the winner of the DP World Tour Championship will get $3 million and 2,000 Race to Dubai points to win the DP World Tour’s best player crown. Other than this, the winner will also get 26.70760 OWGR points and 2,000 crucial points to rank better on Ryder Cup standings and automatically qualify for the 2025 edition.

The amount offered at the DP World Tour Championship, though, is nowhere close to what the PGA Tour offered at its finale, the TOUR Championship, where the purse was $100 million and the winner, Scottie Scheffler, received $25 million from it. Regardless, the season finale still offers more than what is at stake at the Butterfield Bermuda Championship, where the winner will get $1.242 million from $6.9 million.

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1st$3,000,000
2nd$1,270,000
3rd$820,000
4th$470,000
5th$373,000
6th$316,000
7th$261,000
8th$224,000
9th$186,500
10th$167,000
11th$149,000
12th$137,000
13th$128,000
14th$120,000
15th$114,000
16th$109,750
17th$105,250
18th$100,750
19th$96,250
20st$92,500
21st$89,500
22nd$86,750
23rd$84,500
24th$82,250
25th$80,000
26th$77,750
27th$75,500
28th$73,250
29th$71,000
30th$68,750
31st$66,500
32nd$64,250
33rd$62,000
34th$59,750
35th$57,500
36th$55,250
37th$53,000
38th$51,500
39th$50,000
40th$48,500
41st$47,000
42nd$45,500
43rd$44,000
44th$42,500
45th$41,000
46th$39,500
47th$38,000
48th$36,500
49th$35,000
50th$33,500

The race to win the DP World Tour Championship will only be tougher in the last two rounds. But here are the four golfers who might take away the winner’s payout and the trophy.

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Who may take the 2024 DP World Tour Championship title?

Surprisingly, among the top 4 candidates for winning the 2024 DP World Championship, two golfers are from LIV Golf. While Jon Rahm chose not to participate in the season finale, his fellow golfers, Tyrrell Hatton and Joaquin Niemann, were still in the game. Rahm’s teammate, Hatton, already won the DP World Tour at the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship and was also T2 at the first playoff event, the Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship. Undoubtedly, he is in the best form and has the chance to win the season finale as he was T2 on the leaderboard after two rounds.

On the solo fourth position is Joaquin Niemann, who won the ISPS HANDA Australian Open when the DP World Tour 224 season started last year. Niemann won on LIV Golf as well in Mayakoba and after shooting 7 under 137, has shown that he is a great threat to other pros. On the other hand, Rory McIlroy is only one stroke off from the leader with Hatton. He is already on his way to win the Race to Dubai standings and become the best European golfer for the sixth time in his career. With the way he is moving, it wouldn’t be wrong to assume that the Northern Irishman will win the season finale.

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Can Rory McIlroy clinch another victory, or will Antoine Rozner steal the spotlight in Dubai?

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So who is the leader then? It is Antoine Rozner. The French pro has had an ordinary season so far, but in the last two starts, he posted top-10 finishes. At the DP World Tour Championship, Rozner shot a bogey-free round 2 with seven birdies and took the lead with 9 underscores. Who do you think will take the DP World Tour Championship from these four? Share it in the comments.

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