2025 Hero Dubai Desert Classic field: DP World Tour players, rankings
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2025 Hero Dubai Desert Classic field: DP World Tour players, rankings

A photo of golfer Rory McIlroy DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES - JANUARY 30: Rory McIlroy of Northern Ireland celebrates with the winners trophy on the 18th green after the final round of the Hero Dubai Desert Classic at Emirates Golf Club on January 30, 2023 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. (Photo by Ross Kinnaird/Getty Images)


The 2025 Hero Dubai Desert Classic field is set with the passing of the typical Friday entry deadline. This week's DP World Tour field is set for this event, played at Emirates Golf Club in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

The Hero Dubai Desert Classic field is headlined by the likes of Jon Rahm, Tommy Fleetwood, Rory McIlroy and more.

This is set to be a 126-player field is played out over four days, with this event featuring a mixture of players from the DP World Tour in the fifth event for the 2025 DP World Tour schedule.

We do not have open qualifiers for this event on the 2025 DP World Tour schedule.

The week-of alternate list has been determined, and the field will be updated off the list based on any player withdrawals. Rafa Cabrera Bello and Jamie Donaldson are the first two alternates on the list.

The field will be playing for a $9,000,000 purse, with 10 of the top 50 in the Official World Golf Ranking among the top contenders.

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2025 Hero Dubai Desert Classic field

PLAYER
Veer Ahlawat
Thomas Aiken
Kiradech Aphibarnrat
Marcus Armitage
Sam Bairstow
Matthew Baldwin
Akshay Bhatia
Alexander Björk
Dan Bradbury
Adam Bresnu
Daniel Brown
Dean Burmester
Jorge Campillo
Laurie Canter
Ivan Cantero
Todd Clements
Aaron Cockerill
George Coetzee
Nicolas Colsaerts
Ugo Coussaud
Sean Crocker
Jens Dantorp
Jannik De Bruyn
Louis De Jager
Joe Dean
Alejandro Del Rey
Luke Donald
Manuel Elvira
Nacho Elvira
Ewen Ferguson
Darren Fichardt
Ross Fisher
Alex Fitzpatrick
Tommy Fleetwood
David Ford
Grant Forrest
Simon Forsström
Ryan Fox
Dylan Frittelli
Alfredo Garcia-Heredia
Daniel Gavins
Joel Girrbach
Ricardo Gouveia
Gavin Green
Julien Guerrier
Jordan Gumberg
Padraig Harrington
Tyrrell Hatton
Angel Hidalgo
Calum Hill
Daniel Hillier
Nicolai Højgaard
Rasmus Højgaard
Viktor Hovland
Scott Jamieson
Casey Jarvis
Ryggs Johnston
Matthew Jordan
Yuto Katsuragawa
Maximilian Kieffer
Nathan Kimsey
Marcus Kinhult
Alexander Knappe
Jeong Ko
Jacques Kruyswijk
Frederic Lacroix
Romain Langasque
Francesco Laporta
Pablo11:am Larrazábal
Thriston Lawrence
Min Lee
Haotong Li
Mike Lorenzo-Vera
Joost Luiten
Robert Macintyre
Richard Mansell
Rory Mcilroy
Tom Mckibbin
Adrian Meronk
David Micheluzzi
Guido Migliozzi
Keita Nakajima
Rasmus Neergaard-Petersen
Niklas Norgaard
Shaun Norris
Thorbjørn Olesen
Adrian Otaegui
John Parry
Yannik Paul
Andrea Pavan
Thomas Pieters
Jon Rahm
Richie Ramsay
David Ravetto
Patrick Reed
Adrien Saddier
Jayden Schaper
Marcel Schneider
Matthias Schwab
Adam Scott
Jason Scrivener
Shubhankar Sharma
Callum Shinkwin
Marcel Siem
Jordan Smith
Elvis Smylie
Sebastian Söderberg
Brandon Stone
Ockie Strydom
Andy Sullivan
Preston Summerhays
Connor Syme
Tom Vaillant
Darius Van Driel
Ryan Van Velzen
Johannes Veerman
Jimmy Walker
Matt Wallace
Paul Waring
Dale Whitnell
Bernd Wiesberger
Robin Williams
Andrew Wilson
Jeff Winther
Ashun Wu
Fabrizio Zanotti

Top 50 players in 2025 Hero Dubai Desert Classic field

RANK PLAYER
3 Rory McIlroy
8 Viktor Hovland
9 Tommy Fleetwood
14 Robert MacIntyre
16 Tyrrell Hatton
19 Adam Scott
26 Jon Rahm
29 Akshay Bhatia
39 Rasmus Hojgaard
46 Thriston Lawrence

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