The MENA Golf Tour is making an anticipated return later this yr, with former DP World Tour Chief Working Officer and Official World Golf Rating (OWGR) board member Keith Waters appointed as Chairman and Commissioner.
Waters’ intensive expertise and strategic management are anticipated to considerably elevate the Tour’s standing and affect.
Established in 2011, the MENA Golf Tour stays the one OWGR-recognised circuit headquartered within the Center East, offering important alternatives for skilled golfers from the area and across the globe.
The addition of Waters, who brings over 40 years of experience creating the DP World Tour and was instrumental in founding the OWGR in 2004, is ready to be transformative.
“I’m delighted to be concerned within the relaunch of the MENA Golf Tour,” stated Waters. “This Tour has super potential and serves as an important pathway for golfers, not simply from the Center East, however internationally.
Now we have already seen success tales similar to Robert MacIntyre, who progressed from the MENA Golf Tour to successful prestigious titles just like the RBC Canadian Open on the PGA TOUR and the Genesis Scottish Open on the DP World Tour.”
MacIntyre, at present second on the European Ryder Cup rating, stated: “The MENA Golf Tour opened doorways, taught me tips on how to win, and ready me for the challenges of the DP World Tour and PGA TOUR.
I’m excited to see it return and provides the subsequent era of gamers the identical alternatives I had.”
Below Waters’ steerage, the Tour will proceed to be an eligible OWGR tour, together with enhanced prize cash, additional elevating its aggressive attraction.
“We’re happy the MENA Golf Tour will stay an eligible Official World Golf Rating tour in addition to prize cash of $100,000 per occasion,” stated Waters.
“Every event might be contested over 54 holes, that includes a 36-hole lower to the highest 60 gamers and ties, with the winner taking house $18,000.”
The relaunched 2025/2026 MENA Golf Tour season will function a 12-event schedule, commencing in Portugal. The opening occasion will comply with a Qualifying Faculty in November designed particularly for non-exempt gamers.
Moreover, the MENA Golf Tour is at present in discussions with each the DP World Tour and the HotelPlanner Tour to determine a transparent growth pathway, with the ambition to supply the main MENA Golf Tour gamers with the chance to advance on to the DP World Tour Qualifying Faculty and the HotelPlanner Tour.
For extra data or to register your curiosity within the MENA Golf Tour please go to: www.menagolftour.com
