2026 Abu Dhabi Aldar Championship field: DP World Tour players, rankings
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2026 Abu Dhabi Aldar Championship field: DP World Tour players, rankings

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The 2026 Abu Dhabi Aldar Championship field is set with the passing of the typical Thursday entry deadline. This week's DP World Tour field is set for this event, played at Yas Links Golf Club in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.

The Abu Dhabi Aldar Championship field is headlined by the likes of Rory McIlroy, Aaron Rai, Jon Rahm and more.

This is set to be a 70-player field is played out over four days, with this event featuring a great list of DP World Tour players in the 41st event for the 2025-2026 DP World Tour schedule.

We don't have open qualifiers for this event, with this being the latest tournament on the 2026 DP World Tour schedule. The top 70 available players in the Race to Dubai standings compete in this event.

The week-of alternate list has been determined, and the field will be updated off the list based on any player withdrawals.

An alternate list is set for the week, starting currently with Joel Girrbach and Oihan Guillamoundeguy.

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

2026 Abu Dhabi Aldar Championship field

PLAYER
Marcus Armitage
Angel Ayora
Sam Bairstow
Dan Bradbury
Davis Bryant
Jorge Campillo
Filippo Celli
Eugenio Chacarra
Ugo Coussaud
Martin Couvra
Gregorio De Leo
Joe Dean
Alejandro Del Rey
Wenyi Ding
Hennie Du Plessis
Nacho Elvira
Manuel Elvira
Ewen Ferguson
Tommy Fleetwood
Grant Forrest
Ricardo Gouveia
Julien Guerrier
Jordan Gumberg
Tyrrell Hatton
Angel Hidalgo
Calum Hill
Daniel Hillier
Michael Hollick
Scott Jamieson
Casey Jarvis
Matthew Jordan
Kota Kaneko
Yuto Katsuragawa
Nathan Kimsey
Frederic Lacroix
Joakim Lagergren
Francesco Laporta
Thriston Lawrence
Mikael Lindberg
Oliver Lindell
Joost Luiten
Stefano Mazzoli
Rory Mcilroy
Adrian Meronk
Guido Migliozzi
Francesco Molinari
Niklas Nørgaard
Shaun Norris
Jacob Olesen
Adrian Otaegui
Victor Perez
Yurav Premlall
David Puig
Jon Rahm
Aaron Rai
Patrick Reed
Kristoffer Reitan
JC Ritchie
Daniel Rodrigues
Antoine Rozner
Jayden Schaper
Freddy Schott
Adam Scott
Richard Sterne
Andy Sullivan
Tom Vaillant
Darius Van Driel
Matt Wallace
Bernd Wiesberger
Jeff Winther

Top 50 players in 2026 Abu Dhabi Aldar Championship field

RANK PLAYER
2 Rory Mcilroy
7 Tommy Fleetwood
15 Jon Rahm
17 Aaron Rai
26 Tyrrell Hatton
32 Patrick Reed
33 Kristoffer Reitan
39 Eugenio Chacarra
44 Adam Scott

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