Meet the 10 DP World Tour graduates, including Eugenio Chacarra, Patrick Reed and a former grocery delivery driver

After being overtaken by Rory McIlroy for the Race to Dubai titleEugenio Chacarra could only tip his cap.

“It was a good fight,” said the 26-year-old Spaniard, who entered the DP World Tour Championship leading the points race all season before finishing second. “I didn’t make it. That’s the beauty of golf, obviously, when you play with the best in the world. And he played here 14, 15 times, we knew it was going to be difficult, and he had a better day than me.”

Chacarra’s consolation: officially getting his PGA Tour card back for 2027.

Chacarra led the 10 new members of the PGA Tour on Sunday. Joining Chacarra in earning their cards on the European Tour were former LIV players Patrick Reed and Bernd Wiesberger, Eugenio Chacarra, young South African talents Casey Jarvis and Jayden Schaper, Daniel Hillier, Jacob Skov Olesen, Oliver Lindell, Andy Sullivan and Joe Dean, who won the final card at 16th in the rankings, one place ahead of Spaniard Nacho Elvira.

Dean closed in 2-over 74 to fall to T-27. Elvira opened with 14 straight pars on Sunday before adding a few late birdies for 70 and a T-11. He finished within 23 points of Dean.

Thanks to his victory in Dubai, Tyrrell Hatton climbed nine places to third in the final standings. However, Hatton was not eligible to obtain a PGA Tour card as he is still suspended by the PGA Tour. Jon Rahm placed sixth in the Race to Dubai and is also suspended, although he also wouldn’t count because he would otherwise have PGA Tour status via his victory at the 2023 Masters.

“This has been a dream of mine since I was a kid, and to realize that dream this season has been incredible,” Jarvis said. “Showed me that all the hard work I’ve been putting in has finally paid off. It’s a stepping stone. I’m going to try to prove myself to the world on the PGA Tour.”

Here’s a look at the 10 new members of the PGA Tour:

Eugenio Chacarra: The former Oklahoma State All-American turned pro before his fifth season in Stillwater, joining LIV for what would be three seasons. His contract was not renewed until last season and he won the 2025 Hero Indian Open two springs ago to achieve full DPWT status. He added three wins this year and will arrive on the PGA Tour next year as one of the best ball strikers in the world and a popular choice to secure his first Ryder Cup berth for Team Europe.

Patrick Reed: After his exit from LIV earlier this year, Reed won twice in three weeks, all but guaranteeing his return to the PGA Tour in March. Now 36, Reed resumes his career on the PGA Tour, which has nine victories in 283 starts.

Casey Jarvis: The first of two exciting South African Presidents Cup hopefuls, Jarvis, 23, has already won the DP World Tour (two), HotelPlanner Tour, Sunshine Tour (three) and Big Easy Tour since turning professional in 2022. He was also T-6 at last summer’s Open Championship.

Jayden Schaper: The 25-year-old South African, whose decorated prep career included winning the 2019 junior players, won back-to-back weeks last December to strengthen his Race to Dubai portfolio. He added two more top-4 finishes in his first five starts of the DP World Tour season, although he has posted just one top-10 in his last 20 starts.

Daniel Hillier: Another successful junior, Hillier won his native New Zealand Amateur Championship twice before turning professional in 2019. Now 28, Hillier won the DP World Tour in 2023 before winning this year’s New Zealand Open.

Jacob Skov Olesen: The 27-year-old Dane burst onto the scene by winning the 2024 British Amateur. Before that, he attended three different American schools: Ranger Junior College, TCU and then Arkansas. The southpaw has yet to win as a professional, although he has made back-to-back cuts at the Open. It could arrive on the PGA Tour as one of its best putters.

Olivier Lindell: Joins fellow Finnish pro Sami Valimaki on the PGA Tour after more than a decade as a pro. He first toured at age 17 and after a two-win season in the Nordic League (he also won on that tour as an amateur), Lindell spent seven years on the HotelPlanner Tour before finally moving to the DP World Tour in 2025.

Andy Sullivan: The 39-year-old Englishman’s career includes four DP World Tour victories, 18 major starts and places in the Walker Cup (2011) and Ryder Cup (2016). However, he has never made more than 11 starts in a single PGA Tour season before.

Bernd Wiesberger: At 41, Wiesberger’s career resembles Sullivan’s. He has many more victories on the DP World Tour (nine), but he has made 32 major starts without finishing in the top 10 and appeared on a Ryder Cup team (2021). The Austrian spent two seasons on LIV, then returned to the DP World Tour in 2024. He won the Volvo China Open this year.

Joe Dean: Easily the most inspiring story among the 10 graduates. Dean is a 32 year old man from Sheffield, England. As a junior he represented England in numerous team events and won the 2015 English Amateur, where he routed 9 and 7 year old Alfie Plant. He skipped college to turn professional in 2016 at age 21. He spent the majority of the next eight years on the EuroPro Tour, gaining HotelPlanner Tour status in 2019 only to lose it after a year. When he finally got his DP World Tour card for 2024 at Q-School, he was unable to compete immediately because he could not afford the travel expenses. He spent years working as a supermarket deliveryman and even worked between a missed cut in Qatar and his T-2 breakthrough at the 2024 Magical Kenya Open. He placed top 25 at the Open later that year and won his first DP World Tour title this year, at the British Masters. Earlier this week, he told Today’s Golfer that he would rather be doing something else: “A lot of people are probably going to hate me for saying this, but if I could make a better living doing something else, I probably would. Even in the moment when I’m playing well, it’s not fun. It’s stressful. There’s a ton of pressure and I don’t find it fun. I find sitting on a fishing lake or cleaning my car to be fun and pressure-free. But it’s just personal. If you hit good shots in the moment, it’s rewarding and almost like an addiction. You want to be able to do that again, but at that point, I would hate to do anything else, to be honest.

Now Dean and nine others are heading to the United States.

McIlroy said his father, Gerry, had a “serious operation in September” and told his son to go and win the Race to Dubai.