With three events played, there are just two remaining across the Closing Swing and Phase One of the DP World Tour season.
The Genesis Scottish Open, ISCO Championship and Corales Puntacana Championship have left things delicately poised as we head into the Danish Golf Championship and Nexo Championship.
Then will come the Back 9 and the Play-Offs but first, let's have a look at the Closing Swing so far, what it means and what is to come.
What's at stake?
The Swings provide a chance for players to enjoy a truly exceptional season on the DP World Tour, with the player who tops the Rankings earning entry into every event in Phase Two of the season - the Back 9. Those nine events made up of national opens and storied tournaments provide elevated prize funds and points and a perfect platform to play your way into Phase Three - the DP World Tour Play-Offs. Also available to the Rankings winner is a bonus of US$200,000.
And that's not all: the player who finishes highest in the Rankings and is not already exempt will earn a place in the field at the BMW PGA Championship - the third Rolex Series event of the season.
How do the Rankings stand?
After claiming a maiden DP World Tour and PGA TOUR victory at the Corales Puntacana Championship, Italian Stefano Mazzoli is the man atop the Closing Swing Rankings.
His cause is helped by the fact that Tom Kim and Steven Fisk, winners of the Genesis Scottish Open and ISCO Championship respectively, are not DP World Tour members so have not accrued any points to rival him.
Going against him, however, is the fact he will not play any furher events on the Swing, leaving the door open for those who do.
With Min Woo Lee not set to tee it up on the DP World Tour over the next two weeks, Todd Clements, who Mazzoli reeled in to win in the Dominican Republic, is his closest challenger after also making the cut at the ISCO Championship.
| Position | Player | Events played | Points |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Stefano Mazzoli | 2 | 585.00 |
| 2 | Min Woo Lee | 1 | 555.00 |
| 3 | Todd Clements | 2 | 304.00 |
| T4 | Keita Nakajima | 1 | 237.37 |
| Robert MacIntyre | 1 | 237.37 | |
| Matt Fitzpatrick | 1 | 237.37 | |
| 7 | Kristofffer Ventura | 2 | 172.25 |
| 8 | Rory McIlroy | 1 | 137.50 |
| 9 | Thomas Rosenmueller | 2 | 134.85 |
| 10 | Jacob Skov Olesen | 2 | 134.72 |
Clements is set to it up in Denmark and Scotland as he looks to overturn a 281-point deficit to Mazzoli.
Keita Nakajima is a further 66.63 points back after finishng third at The Renaissance Club and while he is not playing in Denmark, he will have the chance to earn more points on his return to Scotland.
Jacob Skov Olesen sits tenth in the Rankings, 450.28 points back, and he will be teeing it up in both the remaining events.
With 7,000 points to play for and a win matching Mazzoli's 585.00, the Closing Swing is still wide open.
To view the full Closing Swing Rankings, click here.
Looking Back
Genesis Scottish Open
Kim won his maiden DP World Tour title with a brilliant display of back-nine frontrunning as he came full circle in East Lothian.
The South Korean announced himself on the DP World Tour and PGA TOUR stage at The Renaissance Club four years ago with a third-place finish and after that he went on to win three PGA TOUR titles and make two Presidents Cup appearances.
A poor 2025 and start to 2026, however, meant he was outside the top 150 in the world just a month ago before roaring back to form to finish third at the U.S. Open.
And after a closing bogey-free 64 that gave him a 17 under par total in Scotland, he was a Rolex Series champion in an event co-sanctioned with the PGA TOUR.
"Obviously I've had a tough couple of years," he said. "I got to taste a lot of that humble pie and I got to really learn about myself and I'm still trying to grow, still trying to learn. Still got a long way to go.
"But this one I wanted to dedicate to the people that were in my corner the whole time and struggled with me and who celebrated with me."
ISCO Championship
In an event where 50 DP World Tour members teed it up on the PGA TOUR, it was largely home favourites who dominated as Fisk beat Taylor Pendrith in a play-off.
The American carded a closing 67 at Hurstbourne Country Club in Kentucky to finish at 16 under alongside Canadian Pendrith, before prevailing with two-putt par on the third extra hole.
Fisk is now a two-time PGA TOUR winner, having won the Sanderson Farms Championship last year, while this is his first on the DP World Tour in just his fourth start.
"I love to be in the position [to win]," said Fisk. "I crave it like nothing else. It's what we play for.
"I couldn't give a damn about finishing 60th in a golf tournament. This is what I want to do."
Spaniard Manuel Elvira was the best placed DP World Tour member for the second consecutive year, backing up a third-place finish 12 months ago with a tie for eighth after a closing 67.
Corales Puntacana Championship
Mazzoli became the DP World Tour's newest first-time winner as he made a final-hole birdie to win and gain access to the PGA TOUR in the Caribbean.
The Italian rookie, who earned promotion from the HotelPlanner Tour last year, trailed Clements by four shots ahead of the final round but shot a six-under-par 66 to finish one shot ahead of the Englishman and Gordon Sargent of the United States.
With the victory in the Dominican Republic, 29-year-old Mazzoli earns PGA TOUR playing privileges through to the end of 2028.
“It’s been a rollercoaster, this past year,” said Mazzoli.
"You doubt yourself quite a lot, but I’ve always been really determined on working, sacrifice and everything since when I was a kid.
“I knew since 15, 16 that this is what I wanted to do so I was really happy to do it even if maybe other people outside from school and everybody else was looking at me like kind of weirdly, ‘Why is this guy not coming to the cinema with us?’
"Like I knew this is what I wanted to do and I was really happy to do it and wake up early or go to bed early at night.”
What's to come?
After a three-week break since Mazzoli lifted the trophy, we are back in action this week at Great Northern - a new venue for the DP World Tour - for the Danish Golf Championship.
Clements and Olesen are both in action as they look to close the gap at the Rankings and they also tee it up next week at the Swing-concluding Nexo Championship.
There they will be joined by Nakajima and Race to Dubai Rankings Delivered by DP World leader Patrick Reed as a Swing champion is crowned.
