Race to Dubai 2025 standings: Rory McIlroy battles Marco Penge and Tyrrell Hatton at final event

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The top golfers in the world have one last big event to play this year, with the Race to Dubai final starting this week and a huge prize on the line.

The FedEx Cup has been settled. Europe has won the Ryder Cup again. There’s not a lot of golf left this year, but we still have the small matter of the Race to Dubai to resolve.

After Aaron Rai’s win at the Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship last week, there is just one event left on the DP World Tour. With a whopping $10 million on the line at the DP World Tour Championship in Dubai, there’s quite literally everything to play for.

So, as we prepare for the lucrative event, here’s all you need to know about where the top 70 golfers stand right now, and who missed the cut.

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Current Race to Dubai leaderboard

Rory McIlroy is still at the top of the Race to Dubai leaderboard heading into the final event. The Northern Irishman currently has 4,640.06 points from the ten events he’s played.

His nearest rivals, British golfers Tyrrell Hatton and Marco Penge are on 2,919.18 and 3,873.04 respectively. All the talk lately has been about the driving distance of McIlroy and Penge, but the true contest is still to come across 72 holes in Dubai.

Kristoffer Reitan (2,655.65) and Robert MacIntyre (2635.39) round out the top five. McIlroy’s incredible lead at the top is largely down to his win at The Masters, an event which saw him bag a share of 10,000 RTD points. Major winners get 1,665 points.

Here is the current top 70 leaderboard for Race to Dubai points:

Aaron Rai’s win in Abu Dhabi saw him climb the leaderboard by a massive 46 spots last week and he’s now breached the top 10.

The way it all works is that those within the top 70 qualify for the DP World Tour Play-Offs, where they play in the Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship. The top 50 from there go on to play the DP World Tour Championship.

But, it’s worth noting that Ryder Cup players get an exemption, so that means the likes of Ludvig Aberg and Shane Lowry are still going to be involved in Dubai despite missing out on the top 70 before Abu Dhabi.

Notable players outside the top 70

To be fair, most of the top players are still involved ahead of the final event on the DP World Tour, but there are some pretty big names who missed out. Adam Scott and Joaquin Niemann were miles away from qualifying, as were the likes of Min Woo Lee, Harry Hall, Sergio Garcia, and Marcel Siem.

Most notably, former Race to Dubai winner (in 2017) Tommy Fleetwood looked like he would be outside the top 70 not so long ago. He was sitting in 90th place with just 531.47 points after Alfred Dunhill, but his win at the DP World India Championship propelled him up the leaderboard.

You can find the full list of every single player on the rankings list here.

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What’s next in the Race to Dubai 2025?

With the first stage of the Race to Dubai play-offs out of the way after the Abu Dhabi Championship on November 6-9, there is just the all-important final event, the DP World Tour Championship, to be played. That takes place between November 13-16, and boasts a prize pot of 12,000 RTD points.

Over the course of the whole Tour season, there is a massive $153 million prize fund to be chipped away at. The winner of the DP World Tour Championship event will win over $3 million alone. Last year, Rory McIlroy took home over $8.7 million for being the overall champion of the Tour.

There’s also a bonus pool on offer containing $8 million to be split across the top 10 players in the Race to Dubai leaderboard.