DP World Tour to PGA Tour?
Hack It Out Golf
Golf Swing Productions by Mark Crossfield Greg Chalmers and Lou Stagner
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🗓️ 4 December 2025
⏱️ 25 minutes
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These are tough days for what was once the European Tour. In this episode, Mark, Lou, and Greg talk about the conclusion of the DP World Tour season, and especially the fact that the top ten players on that tour are issued playing privileges on the PGA Tour. Is this sustainable? Does the DP World Tour have any better options than to be a development tour for the American tour?
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| 0:00.0 | I have a question for you both. Lou and Greg in the house, Mark Crosswood here speaking, |
| 0:05.0 | heck it out golf podcast listeners, welcome back. So it's end of 2025-ish and DP World Tour has kind of |
| 0:14.7 | had its finals and what have you. And we've got that list of 10 players who can go and play the PGA tour from D.P. World. |
| 0:23.6 | So there's a list of 10 players who have qualified to go for their PGA tour card. |
| 0:31.8 | What do we think of the DP World Tour to give in away its 10 best employees every year. I know they're not employees, |
| 0:39.5 | but you could frame it that way. And then in turn, my secondary question, which will come to, |
| 0:45.5 | is are we in an era at the minute where European Gulf has big enough names to compete with the |
| 0:52.3 | era that we were in when we had Faudo and Sevi and |
| 0:54.8 | a Lazubal and that, which was a golden era, but are we not even close to that now? |
| 0:59.6 | I look at the names in events and there are European players pulling big crowds from Rory |
| 1:08.6 | obviously to Tommy Fleetwoods and Justin Roses roses um so let's it's a two part |
| 1:14.0 | question really so the first part we'll get to the second part later first part is thoughts on giving |
| 1:18.8 | away those cards positive negative don't care about giving those 10 cards to go and play pza |
| 1:26.2 | tour player Greg do you want to go first? |
| 1:34.5 | Yeah, yeah, I do. I've got a lot of thoughts on this. I don't know how this helps the long-term health of the DP World Tour. If you're in the sales and marketing team and your job is to find |
| 1:41.6 | new sponsors, the first question the sponsor is going to ask |
| 1:44.6 | when they put up their money or want to put up their money is, okay, who's going to play my |
| 1:48.2 | event? And to be able to sit there and say every year that the top 10 players are gone is crazy |
| 1:56.4 | to me. It's just, and it's also the diminishing of your talent. Like, if we flip this and you imagined |
| 2:02.7 | in the last 15 years, every time a top 10 player from America just left the tour, right, |
| 2:10.0 | and went some to another tour, Scotty Sheffler, gone, Spieth, gone, Woods, gone. So you're |
| 2:15.4 | diminishing the talent on your tour, which is just terrible for |
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