One month to go until Major Champions Rory McIlroy and Matt Fitzpatrick arrive at Jumeirah Golf Estates for the season-ending $10 million DP World Tour Championship, Dubai, from November 17-20.
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00:00We're here to mark one month to go until the DP World Tour Championship here at Jemirah
00:08Golf Estates on the earth course.
00:10The field is really shaping up on the DP World Tour rankings.
00:14We've got confirmation that Rory McIlroy and Matthew Fitzpatrick will be leading the way,
00:20so it promises to be really exciting on the course but also off the course as well.
00:25For the first time we're opening up the Rolex Pro-Am on Tuesday to spectators, so people
00:30will be able to come in and watch the golfers but also some celebrities, some amateurs having
00:34a bit of fun.
00:35That will be a very relaxing day.
00:37And then during the four days itself, we've got a ladies day, we've got a community day,
00:41we've got a sustainability day, family day, so lots of activities going on.
00:45And then of course we have our G4D Tour series finale as well for eight of the golfers for
00:49determination who've qualified over the last few months will be coming out here to Dubai
00:54to compete as well.
00:56So last year we saw the EGGER finale here at the earth course, Brendan Lawlor of course
01:01won it and if you looked at his score, you would have realised that he would have finished
01:05somewhere midfield had he participated in the main tour and that's actually one of my
01:09personal ambitions is to try and bring those two platforms together.
01:13I'd love to see players of determination play on the main tour, there's absolutely no reason
01:17why they can't, they'll tell you that themselves and that's one of the things we'd love to
01:21see in the future, where we see all players truly play in an inclusive environment because
01:26that's really what golf is all about.
01:29It's a year ago we announced our long-term partnership with DP World and we announced
01:34the DP World Tour and it's been a really, really great year.
01:37We couldn't be happy with our partnership with DP World, there's been some amazing performances
01:41by our members on the golf course, off the golf course, it's been a great year as well.
01:45We've celebrated our 50th anniversary, so did DP World celebrated their 50th anniversary.
01:51First year is always a year of firsts by definition and of course we've learnt a lot in terms
01:55of how we bring our customers, our stakeholders and the wider golfing public into the platform.
02:02Coming even closer through alliances with the PGA Tour but also with the Sunshine Tour,
02:07the PGA Tour of Australasia, the Emirates Golf Federation, so yeah both on and off the
02:11course it's been a really, really good year.
02:14Today we are so close together, I think the support we're getting in Asia from DP World
02:20is tremendous and our partnership is very, very solid.
02:25I'm very happy for DP World Tour that they come up very well this year, they're supporting
02:30us big time and it's unbeatable.
02:36I think very exciting time coming up, like Tom mentioned it's going to be totally different
02:40than everything that has happened before, it's going to be very exciting for the audience
02:44as much as for the players, as much as for us.
02:48I think this all has meanings and for us in the EGF we'll be there to support, to enjoy
02:57and to have our players see what great players look like, something for them to look forward
03:02to be one day.
03:05We've got so many amazing winners over the past years and I'm sure the 14th episode will
03:09be just as exciting.
03:11The top 50 players on the DP World Tour rankings all here trying to win the trophy but also
03:16try and win the year-long rankings as well, it's going to be really exciting.