DP World Tour’s 2023 Hero Dubai Desert Classic full field explored

The DP World Tour is currently in Yas Links, Abu Dhabi for the Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship. Following this, the European tour is set to travel to the United Arab Emirates for the 2023 Hero Dubai Desert Classic.

The eighth event of the 2023-2023 DP World Tour schedule, the 2023 Hero Dubai Desert Classic is scheduled to tee off at Emirates Golf Club in Dubai on January 26. The event will go on till January 29.

Ahead of the event, the organizers have released the full field featuring some of the top-rated golfers in the world, including World No.1 Rory McIlroy.

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2023 Hero Dubai Desert Classic field

The field for the 2023 Hero Dubai Desert Classic is all set and will be led by Rory McIlroy. The Dubai event will be the golfer’s return to the golf field in weeks. The two-time champion will be joined by the likes of Shane Lowry, Tommy Fleetwood, and Tyrrell Hatton, amongst others.

It is pertinent to note that the event’s 132-player field will have nine of the top 50 in the Official World Golf Ranking. Sepp Straka, Ryan Fox, Abraham Ancer, Thomas Pieters and Adrian Meronk will all be teeing up.

Interestingly, the event will also feature some LIV golfers on the field. Lee Westwood, Patrick Reed, Ian Poulter and former Ryder Cup captain Henrik Stenson, will be among the contenders.

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The golfers will compete with each other for the $9 million purse on offer. It is also noteworthy that the event, held in its originally scheduled place on the schedule, will not have a Monday qualifier.

Here are the top-rated players on the Hero Dubai Desert Classic field (as per ranking):

1. Rory McIlroy
20. Shane Lowry
24. Tommy Fleetwood
25. Sepp Straka
26. Tyrrell Hatton
28. Ryan Fox
34. Abraham Ancer
38. Thomas Pieters
49. Adrian Meronk

Here is the full field for the Hero Dubai Desert Classic:

Ludvig Aberg
Issa Abou El Ela
Abraham Ancer
Marcus Armitage
Adri Arnaus
Oliver Bekker
Wil Besseling
Alexander Björk
Thomas Bjørn
Richard Bland
Dan Bradbury
Julien Brun
Rafa Cabrera Bello
Jorge Campillo
John Catlin
Aaron Cockerill
George Coetzee
Nicolas Colsaerts
Sean Crocker
Louis De Jager
Luke Donald
Jamie Donaldson
Hennie Du Plessis
Victor Dubuisson
Nacho Elvira
Ewen Ferguson
Ross Fisher
Tommy Fleetwood
Grant Forrest
Ryan Fox
Jeremy Freiburghaus
Stephen Gallacher
Daniel Gavins
Gavin Green
Julien Guerrier
Chase Hanna
Justin Harding
Padraig Harrington
Tyrrell Hatton
Marcus Helligkilde
Lucas Herbert
Angel Hidalgo
Calum Hill
Nicolai Højgaard
Rasmus Højgaard
Sam Horsfield
Daan Huizing
Scott Jamieson
Jazz Janewattananond
Miguel Ángel Jiménez
Andrew Johnston
Matthew Jordan
Masahiro Kawamura
Maximilian Kieffer
Nathan Kimsey
Marcus Kinhult
Søren Kjeldsen
Alexander Knappe
Espen Kofstad
Mikko Korhonen
Jacques Kruyswijk
Joakim Lagergren
Romain Langasque
Pablo Larrazábal
David Law
Thriston Lawrence
Min Woo Lee
Alexander Levy
Haotong Li
Zander Lombard
Hurly Long
Shane Lowry
Joost Luiten
Robert Macintyre
Richard Mansell
Rory Mcilroy
Tom Mckibbin
Adrian Meronk
Guido Migliozzi
Edoardo Molinari
Francesco Molinari
James Morrison
Lukas Nemecz
Niklas Nørgaard
Shaun Norris
Thorbjørn Olesen
Adrian Otaegui
Yannik Paul
Matthieu Pavon
Eddie Pepperell
Victor Perez
Thomas Pieters
Ian Poulter
Tapio Pulkkanen
Richie Ramsay
Patrick Reed
Jc Ritchie
Antoine Rozner
Kalle Samooja
Marcel Schneider
Jason Scrivener
Jack Senior
Shubhankar Sharma
Callum Shinkwin
Jordan Smith
Sebastian Söderberg
Matthew Southgate
Henrik Stenson
Sepp Straka
Ockie Strydom
Andy Sullivan
Connor Syme
Santiago Tarrio
Michael Thorbjornsen
Sami Välimäki
Darius Van Driel
Johannes Veerman
Nicolai Von Dellingshausen
Matt Wallace
Justin Walters
Jeunghun Wang
Paul Waring
Marc Warren
Lee Westwood
Dale Whitnell
Bernd Wiesberger
Oliver Wilson
Jeff Winther
Ashun Wu
Fabrizio Zanotti

More details on the Dubai Desert Classic, including schedule and tee times, will be updated soon.

Edited by Ankush Das