The Dp World Tour moves from Spain to Scotland where, from 3 to 6 October, the 23rd edition of the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship will be played. The tournament, with a pro-am formula in pairs, made up of a professional and an amateur, will be played on three different courses: the Old Course of St.
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Andrews, the Carnoustie Golf Links of Carnoustie and the Kingsbarns Golf Links of Kingsbarns. Alongside many big names of the green, from Rory McIlroy to Jon Rahm, there will also be many personalities from the world of sport, cinema and entertainment such as, among others, Gareth Bale, Ruud Gullit, Kelly Slater, Michael Douglas, Andy Garcia, Bill Murray and Kathryn Newton.
Alfred Dunhill Links Championship, schedule
Defending the title he won in 2023 will be Englishman Matt Fitzpatrick, who will try to become the second player, after his compatriot Tyrrell Hatton (2016 and 2017), also competing, to win the competition consecutively.
Several champions of the Arab Super League will be in the field. With the Spaniard Rahm, number 3 in the world and fresh from second place in the Spanish Open, there will be Hatton, Brooks Koepka, Patrick Reed, Talor Gooch, David Puig and Eugenio Lopez-Chacarra.
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In the field, also, many protagonists of the European green such as Tommy Fleetwood, Shane Lowry, Robert MacIntyre, a favorite of the home crowd, Padraig Harrington, who scored in 2002 and 2006, Nicolai Hojgaard. Also to keep an eye on is the American Billy Horschel, who recently won the BMW PGA Championship in England.
Five Italians will be chasing the feat: Guido Migliozzi, Francesco Laporta, Renato Paratore, Filippo Celli and Lorenzo Scalise. Matteo Manassero will have a rest day. The event will have a prize pool of 5,000,0000 dollars, of which 850,000 will go to the winner.
Rahm played successful college golf for Arizona State University. During this time, he won 11 titles and led the World Amateur Golf Ranking for a total of 60 weeks. After graduating, he became a professional golfer in 2016. In the first year of his professional career, he confirmed his good results and played his way up to second place in the world rankings.
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Rahm won the Dubai World Championship, the final tournament of the European Tour, in 2017 and 2019, among others. In July 2020, Jon Rahm reached the top of the world golf rankings for the first time by winning the Memorial.
Rahm was the 24th player and the second Spaniard after Severiano Ballesteros to lead the world rankings. He lost his top position two weeks later to Justin Thomas, but regained it after the PGA Championships, only to lose it again two weeks later to Dustin Johnson.
After Rory McIlroy and Jordan Spieth, Rahm was the third player to lead the world rankings in both the amateur and professional categories. At the 2021 Memorial, Rahm was the defending champion and was six strokes ahead after three rounds, but had to withdraw from the current tournament due to a positive test for SARS-CoV-2.
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Four weeks later, on his return to the tour, Rahm achieved his first major victory when he won the 2021 US Open at the Torrey Pines Golf Course near San Diego, California, by one stroke ahead of Louis Oosthuizen. Rahm is the first Spaniard to win the US Open.
In addition, with the victory, Rahm took the lead in the world golf rankings for the third time, which he held until July 2021. In April 2023, he won his second major, the Masters in Augusta, by four strokes ahead of Phil Mickelson and Brooks Koepka, who he was four strokes behind before the final round. With the victory, Rahm climbed back to the top of the golf world rankings.
