Dubai Invitational Field 2026: Tommy Fleetwood And Rory McIlroy Headline

Tommy Fleetwood holding the Dubai Invitational trophy and insets of Rory McIlroy and Shane Lowry holding their finishes on drives — (Image credit: Getty Images)

The DP World Tour returns for 2026 with the Dubai Invitational, played at Dubai Creek Golf and Yacht Club.

The event returns for the second iteration, having been played for the first time in 2024. It made way for the Team Cup last year, with both events alternating in years.

The £2.75m limited-field event features 60 professionals and 60 amateurs playing in a three-day pro-am format before the final round featuring just the pros.

Dubai Invitational field 2026:

Category 1 — Winners of the Race to Dubai Rankings in 2018 and 2021-2025, and winners of Major Championships in 2018 and 2021-2026

Rory McIlroy
Francesco Molinari
Patrick Reed

Category 2 — Winners of Rolex Series tournaments and winners of World Golf Championships in 2023-2026

Paul Waring
Nicolai Hojgaard
Ryan Fox

Category 3 — Winners of Race to Dubai Ranking Tournaments with a prize fund equal to or above US$ 2M 2024-2026, and the winner of the Gold Medal at the men’s Olympic Golf tournament in 2024

Junghwan Lee
Tommy Fleetwood
Thriston Lawrence
Grant Forrest
Connor Syme
Nicolai Von Dellingshausen
Martin Couvra
Ashun Wu
Eugenio Chacarra
Richard Mansell
Jacques Kruyswijk
Alejandro Del Rey
Johannes Veerman
Julien Guerrier
Dan Bradbury
Angel Hidalgo
Matt Wallace
Niklas Norgaard
Frederic Lacroix
David Revetto
Ewen Ferguson
Marcel Siem
Guido Migliozzi
Nacho Elvira
Adrian Otaegui
Yuto Katsuragawa
Darius Van Driel
Rikuya Hoshino
Dylan Frittelli
Thorbjorn Olesen
Pablo Larrazabal
Ockie Strydom

Category 3a — Membership Extension

Daniel Gavins

Category 4 — Winners of Race to Dubai Ranking Tournaments in the 2025-2026 Official Seasons that have a prize fund below 2 million US Dollars followed by winners of Race to Dubai Ranking Tournaments in the 2026 Official Season with a prize fund below 1 million Euro who were already Ranked DP World Tour or Ranked HotelPlanner Tour Members at the time of the win, followed by winners of DP World Tour/HotelPlanner Tour Dual Ranking tournaments in the 2026 Official Season.

Jayden Schaper
Rasmus Neergaard-Petersen
David Puig
Calum Hill
Dylan Naidoo
Shaun Norris
Ryggs Johnston

Category 5 — Professional tournament Invitations

Padraig Harrington
Danny Willett

Category 9 — Members of the 2025 European Ryder Cup Team (Members are ranked within this Category based on their qualifying position within the European Ryder Cup Rankings) followed by the Captain of the 2025 European Ryder Cup Team

Shane Lowry

Category 10 — Any Member who earned a 2025 PGA TOUR card through the Race to Dubai Rankings who is not otherwise exempt above and has fulfilled his minimum Counting Tournament requirement in the 2025 DPWT season, followed by the top 115 players in the final 2025 Race to Dubai Rankings followed by any Affiliate Members, HPT Ranked Members and Ranked Amateurs who have earned at least the same points on the Non-Member Race to Dubai Points List as the 115th player in the final 2025 Race to Dubai Rankings

Matteo Manassero
Antoine Rozner
Tom McKibbin
Daniel Hillier
Angel Ayora
Joakim Lagergren
Andy Sullivan
Joost Luiten
Marcus Armitage
Jacob Skov Olesen
Oliver Lindell

Elliott Heath is our News Editor and has been with Golf Monthly since early 2016 after graduating with a degree in Sports Journalism. He covered the 2022 and 2025 Masters from Augusta National and was there by the 18th green to watch Rory McIlroy complete the career grand slam. He has also covered five Open Championships on-site including the 150th at St Andrews.

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