Marco Penge at a match earlier this 12 months.
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The DP World Tour has suspended 26-year-old English professional Marco Penge for betting on golf tournaments.
In a assertion Wednesday, the tour didn’t say which occasions Penge wager on however did report that he wagered neither on himself nor on the progress of tournaments by which he was competing, main the disciplinary panel to rule that “the integrity of such occasions had not been compromised.”
Penge’s ensuing two-month suspension took impact Dec. 13 and can expire on Feb. 13. The tour additionally fined Penge £2,000.
DP World Tour members are prohibited to gamble on tournaments beneath Regulation 3(a)(i) of the tour’s integrity program. That stipulation reads as follows: “No Coated Particular person shall both instantly or not directly wager or instruct another particular person to wager on the outcome, progress, conduct or another facet of any skilled or elite beginner golf occasion wherever on the earth.”
In its assertion, the tour added that “Penge’s instant admission of breach and co-operation all through the investigation warranted mitigation mirrored within the eventual sanction imposed.”
Penge is the 414th ranked participant on the earth. He was promoted to the DP World Tour after profitable the Problem Tour in 2023. This 12 months, he narrowly held on to his DP standing for 2025 by ending a hundred and tenth within the Race to Dubai Rankings. In his most up-to-date begin — on the Australian Open late final month — Penge completed twenty seventh.
This isn’t the primary time an expert golfer has been suspended for betting on golf. In 2023, the PGA Tour suspended Korn Ferry Tour gamers Vince India and Jake Staino for six months and three months, respectively, for playing on PGA Tour competitions, which violates the PGA Tour’s Integrity Program.
In 2023, the Tour bolstered its bet-monitoring capabilities by partnering with watchdog U.S. Integrity. In an announcement on the time, the Tour stated, “U.S. Integrity will present supplementary integrity-monitoring providers through its proprietary dashboard, in an effort to proactively establish irregular contest-level, officiating and wagering patterns by conducting evaluation throughout many information units.
Although each the DP World Tour and PGA Tour have strict betting insurance policies for his or her gamers, each excursions even have offers with betting platforms designed to drive fan engagement. In 2023, the DP tour made OlyBet its official betting operator. In 2019, the PGA Tour signed a multi-year settlement with DraftKings to develop into the Tour’s official each day fantasy recreation associate.
