England’s Will Hopkins and Scot Gregor Graham have received the final two exemptions available for the 2025 season via the Global Amateur Pathway – powered by WAGR®.
Hopkins and Graham finished 10th and 12th respectively in the inaugural Global Amateur Pathway Ranking and have now claimed European Challenge Tour exemptions after Denmark’s Jacob Skov Olesen and Frenchman Bastian Amat went on to secure DP World Tour cards via Qualifying School.
China’s Wenyi Ding clinched number one position in the Ranking and with it a DP World Tour card for the 2025 Race to Dubai.
Challenge Tour exemptions, available to European and Middle Eastern players, initially went to Skov Olesen, who won The Amateur Championship at Ballyliffin Golf Club in the Republic of Ireland in July, Amat and Luis Masaveu Roncal of Spain, with Hopkins and Graham now joining Masaveu Roncal on the 2025 Road to Mallorca.
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Americans Nathan Petronzio, Peter Fountain, Ben Warian and Jake Hall earned PGA TOUR Americas membership for the Latin America Swing of the 2025 season and South African Tyran Snyders earned an exemption on the Sunshine Tour.
The Global Amateur Pathway – powered by WAGR® – was launched by the DP World Tour, PGA TOUR and The R&A to help the very best male amateur players take the next step in their careers.
The landmark initiative has created a pathway for non-collegiate amateur players on to the DP World Tour and partner Tours around the world. In all, the inaugural Global Amateur Pathway Ranking has awarded professional membership to nine players across four partner Tours, with those players representing six different nationalities.
The Global Amateur Pathway complements PGA TOUR University – which awards membership on PGA TOUR-sanctioned Tours to the top Division-I college golfers at the end of the NCAA Championship – to ensure opportunities are available for elite players across the amateur ranks.
Registration for the 2025 Global Amateur Pathway will open in January 2025 to non-collegiate players within the top 200 WAGR. The final Global Amateur Pathway Ranking for the class of 2025 concludes on 12 October 2025.
