A new week begins in world golf, and there is a lot of data being updated regarding the numerous objectives that players will face in the next month and a half, especially on the DP World Tour. Here we are going to focus mainly on the Italians, because there is still a lot going on for both Matteo Manassero and Guido Migliozzi.
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Manasero, results
Due premise: in the world rankings, the OWGR, absolutely nothing significant has changed at the moment, except for Tommy Fleetwood who returns to the top 10 at the expense of Bryson DeChambeau and Tyrrell Hatton who climbs from 38th to 20th place (basically, the English ride).
In this game of changes, Manassero drops just one place, to 86th, which almost means nothing also because he has not played any tournaments. Migliozzi, on the other hand, who came out with the missed cut from the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship, dropped six places and is now 133rd.
Overall, the two gains come from Francesco Laporta (+9, 411) and Lorenzo Scalise (+16, 570). Much more complex is the issue of the Race to Dubai, which qualifies for the two end-of-year tournaments (Abu Dhabi and DP World Tour Championship), assigns the maintenance of European cards for 2025 and delivers 10 for next year's PGA Tour.
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In particular, here for Manassero and Migliozzi there are two drops, respectively to 7th and 17th place. This follows the leap of Fleetwood from 9th to 5th with the third position in Scotland and the climb of 67 places by Hatton, now sixteenth.
For the two, the situation in the 2025 PGA Tour quota does not change: Matteo is still third among the 10 eligible, Guido remains tenth because Hatton on the PGA Tour, being part of LIV Golf, cannot play at the moment. In particular, the Vicenza native still has to defend himself from the French Frederic Lacroix and the Spaniard Angel Hidalgo as his closest pursuers (but it is clear that the list is much longer).
Both Italians will be competing in the French Open at Le Golf National (the course of the last Olympics and the 2018 Ryder Cup), where Migliozzi won with a feat on the last hole in 2022 and where Manassero never managed to get into the top ten, not even in the period 2011-2014.
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With them also Andrea Pavan, who is currently 67th in the Race to Dubai and absolutely needs a good result to avoid exiting the current cut off of the Abu Dhabi Championship, in which the best 70 take part. Currently 101st is Laporta, who keeps his card safe for the DP World Tour 2025 (cut off currently placed at 115th place).
And at the moment he will also go to France like Scalise, while the entry list currently places both Renato Paratore and Filippo Celli just outside, the closest to that fateful position number 115 in the order of merit. In essence, there is still a lot to decide.
And a lot will be between the French Open and the Andalucia Masters, even if there will be one last stop before the two final tournaments scheduled in South Korea. It will be the Genesis Championship in Incheon, which has essentially incorporated the Korean Open and of which it is known that one of the South Korean stars, Byeong Hun An, will participate.
