The Rolex Challenge Tour Grand Final supported by The R&A is the final event on the Road to Mallorca schedule, with 45 players set to tee it up next week on the Alcúdia coastline.
In total, 20 players will earn promotion to the DP World Tour at the end of four rounds in Mallorca, after a full season of highs and lows which began in South Africa back in February.
Here are some of the numbers that have led us to the season finale…
29 – Events on the schedule
The Rolex Challenge Tour Grand Final will mark the 29th and final event on the 2024 Road to Mallorca, giving players one final opportunity to stake their claim for a place on the DP World Tour. To get to this point, 28 events have been and gone. Starting in South Africa in February with four consecutive event weeks, the season has visited 19 countries in total, including India, the UAE and several countries in Europe, including a return to Poland for the first time in 15 years.
20 – Number of different winners
From 28 events so far, there have been 20 different winners. That number is six fewer than at the same point last year due to the volume of two and three-time winners in 2024. Dane Rasmus Neergaard-Petersen and Englishman John Parry both earned automatic promotion after winning three times, with Spaniard Joel Moscatel, Dane Hamish Brown, Irishman Conor Purcell and Joakim Lagergren all winning twice. Of the 20 winners, 11 joined the Challenge Tour winner’s circle for the first time.
2 – Number of three-time winners
Talking of three-time winners, John Parry and Rasmus Neergaard-Petersen both secured automatic promotion to golf’s Global Tour via that route. Parry, who missed out on retaining his DP World Tour card last year, bounced back in impressive fashion, winning the Delhi Challenge, Blot Open de Bretagne and Italian Challenge Open. Those three wins, mixed with five other top tens will see him enter the Rolex Challenge Tour Grand Final as the current Number One.
He's followed closely by Neergaard-Petersen, with less than 50 points separating them in the Rankings. The 25-year-old, teeing it up in his first full season as a professional, actually achieved the feat before Parry. Two wins in three event weeks in the Kolkata Challenge and the UAE Challenge saw him climb to the top of the Rankings, before he added a third in the Big Green Egg German Challenge powered by VcG in September to earn promotion.
9,140,000 – Prize fund in Euros
Including the Rolex Challenge Tour Grand Final, the prize money in 2024 is the most in the Tour’s history. The season-ending event will see each player fighting for a spot on golf’s Global Tour and a share of the €500,000 prize pot.
61 – Season-low round
Englishman Joshua Berry and Frenchman Martin Couvra share the low-round of year, with both firing sensational 11 under par rounds in the opening weeks of the season in South Africa. Berry’s came in the first week of the season, in the SDC Open at Zebula Golf Estate & Spa, while Couvra matched that in NMB Championship at Humewood Golf Club three weeks later. Despite those being the lowest scores to par on the Road to Mallorca, Scotsman Euan Walker and Mats Ege from Norway have both managed ten under par rounds of 60.
69.30 – Leading stroke average
It’s no surprise that the leading stroke average belongs to the current Road to Mallorca Number One, John Parry. A model of consistency during his 23 starts this year, alongside his three victories, he’s also amassed five other top tens. Those results have culminated in Parry having a stroke average far higher than the Challenge Tour’s average of 70.63 strokes this year.
9 – Most top ten finishes
Oliver Lindell has been in sparkling form over the closing months of the season and will arrive in Mallorca for the Rolex Challenge Tour Grand Final having notched up more top tens this year than any other player in the field. He’s finished no lower than ninth in each of his last seven starts. In fact, going back to July, apart from missing one cut, he’s recorded 11 finishes inside the top 20 in his last 12 outings.
