The 2022 European Tour, titled as the 2022 DP World Tour for sponsorship reasons, was the 51st season of the European Tour, the main professional golf tour in Europe since its inaugural season in 1972.
DP World title sponsorship
In November 2021, it was announced that the tour had signed a title sponsorship agreement with DP World, being renamed as the DP World Tour.[1] The agreement was reported to be worth US$400,000,000 over 10 years.[2]
Changes for 2022
Many tournaments had been confirmed independently ahead of the official announcement in November 2021, when the majority of the tournaments were confirmed along with the DP World title sponsorship agreement. The schedule included the four major championships as usual; however the World Golf Championships were downgraded to just two events. The Rolex Series had risen to five events, seeing the inclusion of the Slync.io Dubai Desert Classic for the first time.[1][3]
Following a statement produced by the European Tour on 24 June 2022, they confirmed that players who competed in the inaugural LIV Golf Invitational Series event in London would be fined £100,000 as well as being prohibited from competing in events co-sanctioned with the PGA Tour (which prohibits members from participating in the LIV series). These events were the Genesis Scottish Open, the Barbasol Championship and the Barracuda Championship.[7]
Schedule
The following table lists official events during the 2022 season.[8]
^A further seven tournaments were scheduled but were either cancelled, postponed or otherwise removed from the schedule.
^Scottie Scheffler also won two events, but was not a European Tour member.
^The number in brackets after each winner's name is the number of European Tour events they had won up to and including that tournament. This information is only shown for European Tour members.
^Event reduced to 36 holes due to weather and impending COVID-19 related travel restrictions.[9] Due to the shortening of the event, only 75% of the full DP World Tour Ranking points were awarded.[10]
^With impending COVID-19 related travel restrictions in and out of South Africa affecting the makeup of the field, the event was removed from the European Tour schedule. It proceeded as a sole-sanctioned Sunshine Tour event.[11]
^In January, the tour announced the postponement of the Commercial Bank Qatar Masters; the Ras Al Khaimah Classic was added to the schedule as a replacement.[12]
^The Hero Indian Open was originally scheduled for 24–27 February 2022; in December 2021 it was brought forward a week to fill the space originally reserved for a fifth consecutive tournament in the Middle East.[13] In February 2022, it was announced that the tournament had been postponed to a later date.[14] Just a week before the event was scheduled to start, it was cancelled.[15]
^ abcOn 18 February 2022, the tour announced the addition of two new tournaments in Spain, the ISPS Handa Championship in Spain and the Catalunya Championship, to replace the ISPS Handa Championship in Japan, which proceeded as a sole-sanctioned Japan Golf Tour event, and the postponed Volvo China Open.[16]
^OWGR points at the Volvo Car Scandinavian Mixed were awarded based on men's scores only. Henrik Stenson and Marc Warren tied for the lowest men's score and split the assigned points for first and second places, each earning 19.2 points.[17]
^Field of 78 men and 78 women playing from different sets of tees. Tour ranking and world ranking points based on finish among men's field only.
^ abcOn 12 August 2022, the tour announced the addition of the Mallorca Golf Open and the Portugal Masters, as well as the cancellation of the Cyprus Open.[18]
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