GOLF – Leading players on the Mena Golf Tour will earn exemptions into the second stage of the DP World Tour Qualifying School in 2026, in a move that significantly strengthens the tour’s standing as a route to the upper reaches of the professional game, it was announced yesterday.
The exemption takes the leading three players in the Mena Golf Tour’s final 2025-26 Rankings, to a limit of 10th place and not otherwise eligible, straight into the qualifying school’s stage two, bypassing the first stage entirely.
For the players involved, it is a tangible reward for a season’s work and a clear shortcut towards a card on one of the world’s leading circuits.
To take up a place, players must have applied to enter the first stage by the designated entry deadline.
Players already exempt by other means will not count towards the three places, with the exemption passing to the next eligible player in the final standings.
The benefit could reach well beyond the three.
With several members likely to hold other exemptions by the time the DP World Tour Qualifying School begins, a strong group of Mena Golf Tour players could find themselves competing at the second stage.
It marks another building block in a pathway the Mena Golf Tour has worked hard to construct, one that now offers its leading players a credible, structured route to the DP World Tour.
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