Update August 7th 2024

Hello everyone, I hope you’re all doing well and if you’re not, I hope that better times are around the corner for you. I am writing this from Aberdeen, Scotland where I will be playing the Challenge Tour event this week. I’m playing this event for a couple of reasons. Firstly, as a warm up for my upcoming DP World Tour events in Prague and Denmark but also to give myself another chance at keeping my DP World Tour card. If I can accumulate enough points on the Challenge Tour to get myself into the final event it will give me a chance to finish inside the Top 20 on the Race to Mallorca rankings and keep my card via a different pathway than the top 110 on the Race to Dubai.

I am currently 141st on the Race to Dubai rankings, I definitely have 2 more starts, 1 in Prague and 1 in Denmark. I will potentially get 2 more after that but it will be touch and go, as we get into the back 9 events, which are 9 elevated events worth more money and points. This means I need to have 2 really good weeks to give myself a chance to keep my card via the Race to Dubai Rankings. After it looks likely I won’t be getting into any more DP events I will begin to play more events on the Challenge Tour in an attempt to accumulate points there. I am currently 100th on the Road to Mallorca (Challenge Tour rankings) as we’ve been able to accumulate points when playing a DP Tour event the same week as a Challenge Tour event.

The rest of my season is going to be very busy, I could play almost every week if I wanted to, however, I am going to have to take a couple breaks here and there to remain fresh and ready to play. I’m excited about what lay ahead and I’m ready for the challenge.

Thanks for the support, Sam.