It has been officially confirmed Scotland’s David Law will make his 2026 DP World Tour (DPWT) debut in leading 10 Hotel Planner Tour graduates heading ‘Down Under’ later this month for the BMW Australian PGA Championship.
Law superbly finished second at the recent ‘Race to Mallorca’ final in Spain to regain his DPWT membership and will be joined by Kingsbarns attached Daniel Young who attained his membership after finishing 11th on the Spanish holiday isle.
The Tartan duo are among 10 of the leading 20 Hotel Planner Tour qualifiers who secured full DPWT membership.
Scot David Law finishes second overall in this year’s Hotel Planner Tour to regain full 2026 DP World Tourr membership. Image – Getty
Both Law and Young will tee-up on November 27th in the Queensland capital of Brisbane for the co-sanctioned BMW sponsored event featuring a class field headed by Masters champion Adam Scott, Open Championship winner Cam Smith and a third fellow Aussie in US Open champ Geoff Ogilvy who had denied Scot Colin Montgomerie to win at Winged Foot in 2006.
Others to confirm include DPWT champions include England’s Marco Penge, currently contesting the DP World Tour Championship in Dubai along with Nicolas Colsaerts,
Six of 10 touranment invitatons have already been confirmed including Abraham Ancer, Nicolas Colsaerts, Sebastian Munoz and the PGA winning Aussies Cam Davis and Marc Leishman.
As well, 2023 Australian Open champion and current LIV Adelaide winner Joaquin Niemann along with this year’s double PGA Tour winner Ryan Fox will also take their place in the Royal Queensland field.
David Law wins 2019 ISPS Handa Vic Open. (Photo – www.europeantour.com)
Law is no stranger to competing in Australia having competed as an amateur before making the step into the play-for-pay ranks in 2011. In 2019 he made his full DPWT season debut and in his fifth event – The Handa VIC Open in Victoria – he eagled the last in a closing 66 to win his maiden DPWT title.
“It’s a massive win,” said Law at the time. “It’s not something I expected. For me just being out here playing on the European Tour was enough.
“I’ve been loving the four events I’ve played so far and to just be a European Tour player was what I was happy with. To have won today, it sort of changes things a little bit. I’ll go home, reflect a little bit on things and reassess.
“We said we were going to try to finish three-two-four in the hope that we could get a top-three finish. Then birdie 16, par 17, and going down the last we said we need eagle. We make eagle, we post at 18 under, you never know what can happen.”
Image – PGA of Australia
However his Aussie visit this time a year ago was not the best having missed the halfway cut in the BMW Australian PGA but he regrouped to finish T20th a week later in the Australian Open in Melbourne.
Disappointingly in the bigger 2024 picture Law lost his card following a poor season but to his enormous credit he joined the secondary Hotel Planner Tour, superbly winning twice and then being runner-up in the money list to regain his 2026 DPWT card.
The only Scot who had joined Law and Young in gaining his DPWT card in Mallorca but is not travelling to Australia is the 14th place finisher in Euan Walker.
Also contesting the BWP Australian PGA are Denmark’s Rasmus Neergard-Petersen, Korea’s Jungwhan Lee, Japan’s Yuto Katsuragawa, English trio Alex Fitzpatrick, Eddie Pepperell, Andrew “Beef” Johnston, Italy’s Renato Paratore, Austria’s Bernd Wiesberger, Spaniard Rafa Cabrera-Bello, Thailand’s Kiradech Aphibarnrat and China’s Wenyi Ding.
