The DP World Tour’s flagship event takes place at Wentworth in Surrey, England. The tournament always attracts a strong field, and this year’s is particularly stacked as every player in the European Ryder Cup team appears.
That includes headliners Rory McIlroy and Jon Rahm, who are ranked second and third in the world, respectively. Each player has had an excellent 2023 so far, with Rahm picking up four wins since the turn of the year, including The Masters, and McIlroy with two.
The Ulsterman has been on an impressive run in recent months that had included nine successive top-10 finishes. That ended with a T11 at the Tour Championship, and while last week’s effort in the Horizon Irish Open finished with a T16, he will be confident of repeating his success at Wentworth in 2014 when he beat Shane Lowry to the title by one shot.
Lowry also plays, and he’ll be the player many have an eye on as he looks for his first win since claiming victory over McIlroy and Rahm by one shot in 2022. The Irishman has endured a disappointing 2023 so far, with the only top-10 finishes coming in February’s Honda Classic and T3 at the K Club last week.
Shane Lowry defends his BMW PGA Championship title
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However, with that recent win in the BMW PGA Championship, and the Ryder Cup just two weeks away, he will be focused on another productive week following his strong performance in his homeland a week ago.
Another Team Europe Ryder Cup player in the field is the in-form Viktor Hovland. He capped an excellent PGA Tour season with back-to-back victories in the BMW Championship and Tour Championship to win the FedEx Cup by five shots over Xander Schauffele and will be looking to continue that form here.
Matt Fitzpatrick, Tyrell Hatton, Tommy Fleetwood, Sepp Straka and Justin Rose are other big names in the field who will be representing Europe in the biennial match, with Hatton a former victor after his four-shot win in 2020.
Ryder Cup rookies Ludvig Aberg, Nicolai Hojgaard and Robert MacIntyre will also be keen to show captain and two-time BMW PGA Championship winner Luke Donald – who also plays – what they can do as the match draws closer.
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