The Global Amateur Pathway Ranking, powered by the World Amateur Golf Ranking® (WAGR®), has provided a route for three promising amateur golfers to tee it up on the HotelPlanner Tour for the 2026 season.
The Global Amateur Pathway, formed two years ago to ensure opportunities for elite players in the amateur ranks, sees the best non-collegiate male amateur within the top 20 of the WAGR® during the Ranking period earn DP World Tour playing privileges for the following season. This year, Scotsman Cameron Adam earned an exemption after holding onto his Ranking following the World Amateur Team Championships in Singapore.
With the 22-year-old taking the only available DP World Tour card, the next three players in the Global Amateur Pathway – English duo Dominic Clemons and Charlie Forster and Kristian Hjort Bressum of Denmark – can take up playing rights on the HotelPlanner Tour for the 2026 season.
Clemons, who represented GB&I at the 2025 Walker Cup, has six amateur titles to his name, including the NCJAA Individual National Championship and the Scottish Men’s Open Championship. The 23-year-old also made his Major Championship debut at The 2024 Open after making it through Final Qualifying at Burnham & Berrow alongside European Ryder Cup star, Justin Rose. Clemons has also featured on the PGA TOUR after winning the Folds of Honor Collegiate, gaining him entry into the 2025 Rocket Classic in Detroit.
Clemons’ compatriot Forster finished second in the Global Amateur Pathway Rankings with 182 points, 43 adrift of DP World Tour-bound Adam. Forster was also part of GB&I’s Walker Cup team and combined with Luke Poulter to win two points at Cypress Point. The 22-year-old, who has played 36 events during the latest Global Amateur Pathway period, has two wins to his name this year, coming at the Wyoming Cowboy Classic and Lake Las Vegas Invitational.
Dane Hjort Bressum completes the amateur trio who are eligible to tee it up on the HotelPlanner Tour in 2026. Hijort Bressum, who tasted victory on home soil at the Danish International Amateur Championship last year, finished second at the 2025 European Amateur Championship in Sweden to leave him fourth in the Global Amateur Pathway Rankings on 156 points. The Dane also competed in the Danish Golf Championship on the DP World Tour earlier this year before making it to Final Stage Qualifying School at INFINITUM, where he missed the four-round cut.
