Rory McIlroy secured another big win in his illustrious career at the 2024 DP World Tour Championship, beating some of Europe’s best players in the season finale.
Again, he is on course to win the Race to Dubai, which would be the fourth time in a row. In 2024, he became the first player to win the Race to Dubai at least three times in a row since Colin Montgomerie. Staggeringly, Montgomerie won it seven times in a row between 1993 and 1999.
The DP World Tour Championship is also the second and final event of the DP World Tour Playoffs. The first event is the Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship for the top 70 players in the Race to Dubai rankings.
The event, as ever, is being played on the Earth Course at Jumeirah Golf Estates. A winner of the DP World Tour Championship will be crowned, as well as the Race to Dubai winner (the season-long points champion).
As this is a Rolex Series event, the DP World Tour Championship has an elevated purse. It is the biggest purse of the season, and although it is still dwarfed by a signature event on the PGA Tour ($20 million purse), it is still the biggest earning opportunity for a DP World Tour member.
Tyrrell Hatton won the first Rolex Series event of the season, which was the Hero Dubai Desert Classic in January. America’s Chris Gotterup then won the Genesis Scottish Open at the Renaissance Club, and Swede Alex Noren won the BMW PGA Championship at Wentworth for the second time in his career.
The purse for each Rolex Series event is $9 million, significantly more than each regular DP World Tour event.
The purse at the DP World Tour Championship is $10 million and has been since Jon Rahm won the event in 2022. The first-ever purse of this event, which was played for the first time in 2009 as the Dubai World Championship and won by Lee Westwood, was $7.5 million.
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Not only are the top 50 players competing for a large share of the money, they are also competing for PGA Tour cards if they do not already possess one. The Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship winner of 2024 Paul Waring was in position A to finish in the top 10 places that earn a spot in the US circuit this time last year, and he confirmed it at the season-ending finale.
Until we have the full breakdown of the DP World Tour Championship prize money, read below what previous purses have looked like.
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Prize money DP World Tour Championship 2025
2024
Purse: $10,000,000
Winner: $3,000,000 (Rory McIlroy)
2023
Purse: $10,000,000
Winner: $3,000,000 (Nicolai Hojgaard)
2022
Purse: $10,000,000
Winner: $3,000,000 (Jon Rahm)
2021
Purse: $9,000,000
Winner: $3,000,000 (Collin Morikawa)
2020
Purse: $8,000,000
Winner: $3,000,000 (Matt Fitzpatrick)
2019
Purse: $8,000,000
Winner: $3,000,000 (Jon Rahm)
2018
Purse: $8,000,000
Winner: $1,333,300 (Danny Willett)
2017
Purse: $8,000,000
Winner: $1,333,300 (Jon Rahm)
2016
Purse: $8,000,000
Winner: $1,333,300 (Matt Fitzpatrick)
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