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Adrian Meronk is headed to the PGA Tour.

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While Adrian Meronk ‘s year wasn’t enough to earn him a spot on the Ryder Cup team , he’ll be able to prove European captain Luke Donald wrong from the PGA Tour.

Meronk was one of 10 DP World Tour pros who punched their tickets to the PGA Tour Sunday at the DP World Tour Championship .

As part of the expanded strategic alliance between the two tours, for the first time ever this season, the top 10 finishers in the DP World Tour’s Race to Dubai standings not otherwise exempt, were awarded PGA Tour cards.

After a T32 finish in Dubai this week, Meronk locked up the No. 4 spot in the order of merit but will be the top player in the new exemption category. The top finishers in the Race to Dubai were Rory McIlroy , Nicolai Hojgaard and Jon Rahm who all already have PGA Tour status for next season and don’t count toward the new cards allocated.

Hojgaard secured his PGA Tour card as a Special Temporary Member and accumulated the requisite number of non-member FedEx Cup points. Min Woo Lee, who finished 10th in the Race to Dubai, also secured his card via Special Temporary Membership and doesn’t count toward the 10 cards.

And while Hojgaard, who won the DP World Tour Championship by two shots over Viktor Hovland, Tommy Fleetwood and Matt Wallace, already had his PGA Tour status secured, his twin brother Rasmus wasn’t as fortunate.

Nicolai Hojgaard wins DP World Tour Championship as brother Rasmus misses PGA Tour card

Rasmus entered the final event of the DP World Tour season 16th in the season-long standings but watched as Matthieu Pavon birdied his final four holes to rocket up the leaderboard and bump Rasmus out of a PGA Tour card.

Pavon ended up finishing 15th in the standings, nabbing the 8th PGA Tour card while Rasmus was 18th and just 27 points short of the last of the 10 PGA Tour cards.

Here are each of the 10 DP World Tour players who just earned their PGA Tour cards.

DP World Tour PGA Tour card earners

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(4) Adrian Meronk

(5) Ryan Fox

(7) Victor Perez

(9) Thorbjorn Olesen

(11) Alexander Bjork

(12) Sami Valimaki

(13) Robert MacIntyre

(15) Matthieu Pavon

(16) Jorge Campillo

(17) Ryo Hisatune

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Rasmus Hojgaard, just 19, was one of 10 players to win their first European Tour titles in 2020 after play resumed this summer.

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In the wake of a four-month COVID-19 lockdown and the subsequent resumption of the 2020 season, the reshaped European Tour—diminished financially and thinner on top in terms of field strength—actually came to represent lands of opportunity for some. Many top-ranked players from Europe chose instead to ride things out in the United States and play on the PGA Tour, providing less familiar names with multiple chances to flourish on the Old World circuit.

“The last few months have been a time for a lot of guys to break through, or re-establish themselves,” says former Ryder Cup captain Thomas Bjorn. “The outside pressures have largely been removed. With no crowds present, everyone is just playing golf. And no one has been paying much attention to those who have played poorly. So things have become a lot freer. It’s been easier to play without some of the mental obstacles that normally lead to discomfort, especially during final rounds. But that sort of environment has been non-existent on tour this year.”

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And many have taken advantage. Following a return to action at the Austrian Open in July, 10 players have recorded maiden victories: Joel Stalter, Sam Horsfield, Romain Langasque, Rasmus Hojgaard, John Catlin, Garrick Higgo, Callum Shinkwin, Robert MacIntyre, JB Hansen and Antoine Rozner. Meanwhile, three actually went on to repeat that feat.

Redemption, although not quite so prevalent, also found its place. Three men—Andy Sullivan, Marc Warren and Ross McGowan—have all returned to the winner’s circle after long absences.

So, who most notably emerged to seize the moment? Here’s a brief look at the most promising golfers among the lot, all of whom are wrapping up their 2020 seasons by playing in this week's DP World Tour Championship.

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Rasmus Hojgaard

World Ranking March 15: 184

World Ranking Dec. 7: 82

Bjorn is not surprisingly a big believer in his fellow Dane. “Rasmus has all the tools,” Bjorn says. “There is no weakness in his game, and he has a great attitude. He works hard and believes in himself. He asks the right questions. Things still have to break your way and things have to happen the right way for anyone to get right to the top. But nothing is holding him back. He has a remarkable talent, as him winning two of his first 19 events clearly shows.”

The first of Hojgaard’s wins came in December last year, at the relatively low-key Mauritius Open. But his second win at The Belfry in the U.K. Championship was more impressive, coming as it did at the at the end of a four-week run in which the 19-year-old finished second at the British Masters, T-6 at the Hero Open, and third at the English Championship.

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Robert MacIntyre

World Ranking March 15: 67

World Ranking Dec. 7: 59

“Rookie of the year” on the European Tour in 2019 after a string of fine performances that included a T-6 finish in his Open Championship debut at Portrush, Macintyre’s breakthrough at the Cyprus Showdown is perhaps the least surprising in this group of emerging talents.

“I’ve watched Bob a lot over the past couple of years,” says fellow Scot and 1999 Open champion Paul Lawrie. “His rise has been quick and steady. He seems like a lovely lad. I can see him winning more. He clearly has a good attitude, temperament and way about him. And he has the game. How high he goes remains to be seen. But judging by the World Rankings (MacIntyre is the highest-ranked Caledonian at 61st), he looks like Scotland’s best chance to have a Ryder Cup player next year.”

Antoine Rozner

World Ranking March 15: 202

World Ranking Dec. 7: 123

The climax to what had been an unobtrusively impressive season came late, with a victory in last week’s Golf in Dubai Championship. Twice a winner and eighth on the 2019 Challenge Tour money list, Rozner had accumulated as many as five top-10 finishes—including a playoff loss at the Mauritius Open—in 19 starts before his breakthrough victory. Only twice had he missed the cut. And the final-round 64 with which he clinched that win was the 27-year old Frenchman’s 19th round in succession at par or better.

Those numbers are impressive enough. But there’s more. In his rookie season on the European Tour, Rozner ranks inside the top 15 in both driving distance and greens in regulation. And only two men—Ryder Cup players Andy Sullivan and Tommy Fleetwood—have a stroke average lower than his 69.72. Given his present rate of progress, Rozner could become only the fourth Frenchman to take his place in the biennial contest with the United States.

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Sam Horsfield

World Ranking March 15: 222

World Ranking Dec. 7: 99

The 24-year old Florida-based Englishman (his family moved stateside when Horsfield was just a child) might not be the most consistent player on the European Tour, but when he gets a sniff of victory he tends to take it. Twice in two weeks back in August he did just that, first at the Hero Open, then at the Celtic Classic. None of which will have come as a surprise to Ian Poulter or Terry Mundy. The six-time Ryder Cup player is a long-time mentor of his younger compatriot and Mundy—Poulter’s caddie—is Horsfield’s co-manager.

“He’s the best young player I’ve ever played with,” said Poulter when a 14-year old Horsfield first beat him over nine holes. A decade or so later, it’s safe to say that assessment is proving more than prescient.

John Catlin

World Ranking March 15: 211

World Ranking Dec. 7: 96

Most weeks, there aren’t many Americans on the European Tour. But Catlin has long proved that a lack of familiar accents is no barrier to success around the globe. Four times the 29-year-old former University of New Mexico student won on the Asian Tour. And now he has half as many wins in Europe to add to his burgeoning resume.

“My goal at the start of 2019 was to win on the European Tour, so to have accomplished that is hard to put into words,” was Caitlin’s verdict after seeing off two-time major champion Martin Kaymer to win the Andalucian Masters at what is surely the most difficult course on the circuit, Valderrama.

And only three weeks later, Catlin was back, this time at the Irish Open, where he came from behind to pip soon-to-be Scottish Open champion Aaron Rai to lift one of golf’s most historic titles.

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Callum Shinkwin

World Ranking March 15: 351

World Ranking Dec. 7: 149

In truth, Shinkwin should not be part of this list. Needing only a par 5 on the 18th hole at the Dundonald Links to win the 2017 Scottish Open, Shinkwin missed the green left with his second shot, found an unfortunate lie, then took four more shots to hole out for a bogey 6. Perhaps inevitably, he lost the playoff to Rafa Cabrera-Bello at the first extra hole.

So victory more than three years on at the Cyprus Open in November was a triumph over adversity as much as anything else. Especially as, mired in a slump, the former English Amateur champion had lost his European Tour card at the end of the 2018 season.

“That was the final kick up the backside I needed,” he said in the wake of his playoff victory over Finland’s Kalle Samooja. “And you can say I got what I deserved back in 2017. But it makes this all the sweeter.”

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The PGA Tour is awarding cards to the leading 10 players from the European tour and bringing back a direct path to the PGA Tour through Q-school.

The changes were outlined Tuesday as part of an extended partnership between the PGA Tour and European tour through 2035. As part of the joint venture, the PGA Tour has increased its share in European Tour Productions from 15% to 40%.

PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan last week outlined significant changes to the schedule that will feature a January-to-August season starting in 2024 and create purses of $20 million on average for eight elite events.

The recent changes give European tour players immediate access to the PGA Tour. The leading 10 players -- excluding those already on the PGA Tour, such as Rory McIlroy and Jon Rahm -- will have full cards for the following year.

The partnership is likely to create better coordination of a global schedule for both tours. The Scottish Open next week is the first tournament co-sanctioned by both, and the field is the strongest in tournament history.

"While this closer collaboration between our tours was always in the road map of our strategic alliance, it's pretty obvious to say the current situation in golf has significantly accelerated that process," European tour CEO Keith Pelley said.

In addition to access to the leading 10 European tour players, the PGA Tour is restructuring who it brings on domestically.

The tour now offers cards to the top 25 players on the Korn Ferry Tour, with an additional 25 cards from a three-tournament series for players from the Korn Ferry Tour and PGA Tour members who finished outside the top 125.

Starting in 2023, the top 30 players from the Korn Ferry Tour will get cards. For everyone else, there will be Q-school in which the top five players and ties go straight to the PGA Tour. The tour has not offered direct access from Q-school since 2013. That means top college players will have a chance to avoid a year on the Korn Ferry Tour.

The PGA Tour believes that with 30 cards to Korn Ferry Tour players, 10 from Europe and five or more from Q-school, it will create more opportunities for those who finished just outside the top 125 and have only conditional access.

"Ultimately for us it's all about creating the best, most efficient competitive platform for the best players in the world to ... establish context, to establish historical relevancy and to establish relevancy in the eyes of fans throughout the world," Monahan said.

Based on last year's European rankings, the leading 10 players would have gone all the way down to Laurie Canter of England at No. 24 (Canter is now part of LIV Golf).

Pelley said the European tour should not be looked upon as a "feeder tour" because of a schedule that features national opens across continental Europe and the Middle East swing, such as Abu Dhabi and Dubai.

Even so, with historically two dozen of the top finishers in Europe on the PGA Tour -- the leading 10 and current U.S. members -- they would be playing fewer events in Europe.

Previously, players from the European tour and other main tours around the world could have earned money from majors, World Golf Championships or sponsor starts on the PGA Tour and earned a card if they were equivalent to No. 125 or better.

The new system would have helped U.S. Open champion Matt Fitzpatrick . He reached the top 50 in the world in 2015 but kept falling short of the 125 number and didn't earn a PGA Tour card until after the 2019 season. Under the new system, he would have been eligible to join the PGA Tour three years earlier.

Pelley, meanwhile, said he met with Golf Saudi in Malta last summer, presented its presentation to the European board and decided the offer was less compelling than the one it had turned down from the Premier Golf League some nine months earlier.

The European tour previously worked with Golf Saudi when the Saudi International was part of its schedule for three years. Pelley said he proposed Golf Saudi get involved with Europe's feeder Challenge Tour.

"I've been consistent that if, in fact, they are interested to play inside the ecosystem and not launch a rival tour that I think is detrimental to the game at large, then I personally, from DP World's perspective, would be open -- and they know that -- to having a conversation," he said.

"But I'm not interested and that's why there has been no conversation since the summer of 2021."

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Nelly Korda then claimed the first women's major of the year a week later, with victory at The Chevron Championship securing the American her fifth LPGA Tour triumph in a row, matching the records of Annika Sorenstam (2005) and Nancy Lopez (1978).

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