DP World Tour
Tom McKibbin completed fourth behind Marco Penge within the Open de España and appears now to have secured his third successive look on the season-ending DP World Tour Championship.
The Holywood star (22) produced an excellent placing efficiency on the Membership de Campo — third in strokes gained placing — and is now thirty eighth within the Race to Dubai after simply 11 begins this season.
The highest 70 out there gamers will contest the primary Playoff occasion, Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship subsequent month, earlier than the highest 50 contest the DP World Tour Championship.
Shane Lowry missed the minimize by a shot in Madrid and sure wants a top-two end within the DP World India Championship to maneuver up from a hundred and fifty fifth within the Race to Dubai and make the highest 70 who qualify for Abu Dhabi.
Conor Purcell withdrew after a gap 81 in Madrid, citing damage, but additionally earns a spot in India this week alongside Lowry and Rory McIlroy, who leads the Race to Dubai from Penge.
Purcell is 148th within the Race to Dubai and desires a top-five end to interrupt into the highest 115 who will retain full taking part in rights in 2026, as he isn’t within the discipline for the ultimate counting common occasion, the Genesis Championship in Korea.
HotelPlanner Tour
This week’s Hangzhou Open in China is the ultimate common season occasion earlier than the. Rolex Grand Closing and it’s a key occasion for Liam Nolan and Max Kennedy as they bid for promotion to the DP World Tour.
The highest 20 within the Highway to Mallorca standings after the Grand Closing can be awarded DP World Tour playing cards.
Italy’s Renato Paratore received his third occasion of the season on the Hainan Open on Sunday to assert automated promotion again to the principle tour.
Solely the highest 45 within the rankings qualify for the Grand Closing, and Thirty seventh-ranked Nolan, who completed T43 within the Hainan Open, and Forty fifth-ranked Max Kennedy (MC within the Hainan Open) are below stress to carry out this week.
Alps Tour
The season concludes this week with the Regione Lazio Alps Tour Grand Closing at Golf Nazionale in Rome.
The 50-man discipline was determined after final week’s Parma Alps Open the place Ronan Mullarney was T15 and Hugh Foley T46 as Robert Moran missed the minimize.
The highest 5 within the rankings will obtain playing cards for the HotelPlanner Tour in 2026.
Mullarney lies fourth within the standings with Foley sixteenth and Moran twenty fourth.
Girls European Tour
Rookie Anna Foster claimed her second prime ten of the season when she tied for seventh behind Shannon Tan within the Hero Ladies’s Indian Open.
The Elm Park golfer has secured her card by transferring to fortieth within the Order of Advantage with the highest 70 retaining full taking part in rights for 2026.
The subsequent two occasions have restricted fields and Foster’s prime 10 appears to be like more likely to have secured her place alongside Eleventh-ranked Lauren Walsh within the Wistron Girls Open in Chinese language Taipei from 23-26 October.
Foster and Walsh can be joined by 62nd-ranked Sara Byrne and 79th-ranked Annabel Wilson within the season-ending Andalucia Costa Del Sol Open de España from 27-30 November.
Byrne appears to be like more likely to stay within the prime 70, however with the highest 80 getting as many as 20 begins subsequent yr, she appears to be like good for the LET in 2026.
The Douglas golfer has withdrawn from this week’s LPGA Tour Qualifying Match, having tried unsuccessfully to mix the LET with the second-tier Epson Tour this yr.
Her focus for 2026 can be solely on the LET.
Canice Screene, who’s a hundred and fortieth within the Order of Advantage, having received a conditional card finally yr’s LET Q-College, will return to the Q-College this yr in search of full standing alongside the likes of 181st-ranked Olivia Mehaffey.
Pre-qualifiers for the LET Q-College happen from 10-12 December in Morocco, with Closing Qualifying scheduled for December 16-20 at Royal Golf Marrakech and Al Maaden Golf Marrakech.
Irish gamers already entered for LET pre-qualifying embody Mehaffey, Aine Donegan and Olivia Hunt.
Walsh will bid to make it to Closing Qualifying for the LPGA Tour on the 72-hole (no minimize) Qualifying Match over the Bobcat and Panther Programs at Plantation Golf and Nation Membership in Venice, Florida, this week.
Gamers who full 72 holes and don’t advance to LPGA Closing Qualifying will earn 2026 Epson Tour standing in line with end place.
The ultimate quantity advancing to Closing Qualifying can be communicated previous to the beginning of the Qualifying Match, which begins this Wednesday.
LPGA
Leona Maguire completed T54 on three-under (72 72 69 72) within the Buick LPGA Shanghai on Sunday, the place world No. 1 Jeeno Thitikul beat Japan’s Minami Katsu with an eagle three on the fifth tie gap of a sudden-death playoff, having closed with a 63 to catch the in a single day chief.
Maguire is in Korea this week for the BMW Girls Championship at Pine Seashore Golf Hyperlinks.
She’s 53rd within the Race to CME Globe standings with the highest 60 qualifying for the season-ending CME Group Tour Championship from November 20 – 23.
Korn Ferry Tour and DP World Tour Q-College
David Carey efficiently made it by means of the First Stage of the Korn Ferry Tour Qualifying College in California final week.
The Dubliner tied for tenth at 9 below at Bear Creek in Murrieta, as 19 gamers superior.
On the final of 10 First Stage occasions on the DP World Tour Qualifying College, Tim Rice missed out by 5 photographs.
The Limerick golfer (47) closed with a one-under 71 at Golf PGA France du Vaudreuil to complete tied thirty second on two below.
How the Irish fared on the First Stage of DP World Tour Q-College
A complete of 21 Irish gamers entered the First Stage, with eight (8) making it by means of — or 38% — to certainly one of 4 Second Stage qualifiers from October 30 to November 2, the place they are going to be joined by exempt gamers from the HotelPlanner Tour.
First Stage – The Gamers Membership
Qualifiers 1
Hugh Foley
First Stage – Huddersfield Golf Membership
Qualifiers 0
Non-qualifiers 2
Paul Conroy
Simon Bryan
First Stage – The Northumberland Golf Membership
Qualifiers 1
John-Ross Galbraith
Non-qualifiers 4
Robert Brazill
Daniel Mulligan
James Sugrue
Luke O’Neill
First Stage – Arlandastad Golf
Qualifiers – 0
Non-qualifiers 1
John Murphy
First Stage – Donnington Grove Golf Membership
Qualifiers 4
David Carey
Tom Dowdall
Paul McBride
Cormac Sharvin
Non-qualifiers 3
Niall Kearney
Marc Boucher
Michael Younger
First Stage – Frederikshavn Golfklub
Qualifiers 1
Robert Moran
Non-qualifiers 0
First Stage – Golfclub Schloss Ebreichsdorf
Quaifiers 1
Mark Energy
Non-qualifiers 2
Alex Maguire
Stephen Grant
First Stage – Golf PGA France du Vaudreuil
Qualifiers 0
Non-qualifiers 1
Tim Rice
