Who is playing in the 2024 DP World Tour Championship? McIlroy, Horschel, Fleetwood, Hatton...

The DP World Tour’s Race to Dubai concludes this week at the DP World Tour Championship at the Earth course at Jumeirah Golf Estates in Dubai, with Rory McIlroy all but certain to finish top of the rankings for the sixth time in his career and a third year in succession.

Who will win the 2024 Race to Dubai?

McIlroy is once again the biggest name in the field for the event and can only be caught at the top of the rankings by one man, South Africa’s Thriston Lawrence, who notably finished fourth at this year’s British Open at Royal Troon.

There are, however, plenty of other stars teeing it up in the DP World Tour Championship, which features the tour’s top 50 ranked players in 2024, with a couple of exceptions.

Why aren’t Ludwig Aberg and Jon Rahm playing in the 2024 DP World Tour Championship?

World no. 5 Ludwig Aberg, who plays mainly in the United States, is ranked 21st in the DP World Tour rankings but isn’t in Dubai after undergoing knee surgery to repair a torn meniscus in September.

And LIV Golf’s Jon Rahm, who skipped last week’s Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship, has again decided to prioritise family over fairways. The Spaniard, ranked 38th, became a father for the third time a little over a month ago.

The absences of Aberg and Rahm mean Scotland’s Connor Syme and Francesco Laporta of Italy, ranked 51st and 52nd respectively, are in the field instead.

2024 DP World Tour Championship participants

They join McIlroy, Lawrence and a number of European Ryder Cup stars at Jumeirah Golf Estates, with Tyrell Hatton (sixth), Tommy Fleetwood (seventh), Robert MacIntyre (ninth), Thorbjorn Olesen (12th), Shane Lowry (29th) and Justin Rose (30th) all hoping to finishing off the season in style in the Middle East.

Billy Horschel (fourth) is one of only two Americans in the field, the other being Johannes Veerman (42nd). However, PGA Tour fans past and present will be familiar with several other names, most notably Adam Scott (16th) and Joaquín Niemann (33rd).

Full field for the 2024 DP World Tour Championship.

2024 DP World Tour Championship prize money

As the DP World Tour’s flagship event, the DP World Tour Championship is also its most lucrative.

The tournament has a total prize fund of $10 million, with the winner taking home $3 million, the runner-up $1.27 million and the man finishing last $33,500.

This week’s championship will also determine the top 10 on the 2024 Race to Dubai, who will share a $6 million bonus. $2 million of that will go the winner, which will almost certainly be McIlroy, with the second-placed finisher taking home $1 million and the man in 10th $150,000.