Wenyi Ding is formally on his strategy to the DP World Tour.
The 19-year-old Ding, who just lately gained the Asia-Pacific Newbie, has opted to bypass his exemptions earned from that victory and settle for full DPWT membership for subsequent season by way of the World Newbie Pathway rating.
Ding, who left Arizona State this summer season after taking part in one semester for the Solar Devils, will make his skilled debut at this week’s Hangzhou Open, a Problem Tour occasion in his native China.
“I’m excited to begin my journey as an expert and stay up for teeing it up on the DP World Tour subsequent season,” Ding stated. “The World Newbie Pathway has given me an unbelievable alternative, and my thanks go to the DP World Tour, The R&A and the PGA Tour for supporting me and my fellow beginner gamers to achieve their targets.”
The GAP rating, in its first yr, was created this previous June as a complement to PGA Tour College and to supply non-collegiate beginner gamers a pathway to the DPWT and different professional excursions. To be eligible for GAP, gamers can’t be an energetic NCAA Division-I participant, and so they should even be a minimum of 20 years outdated and ranked within the high 200 of WAGR. Present professionals Rory McIlroy, Hideki Matsuyama and Min Woo Lee would have been among the many gamers to earn DPWT playing cards had GAP been in impact throughout their beginner days.
Along with Ding, eight different gamers acquired some kind of standing by way of GAP:
Problem Tour membership went to Denmark’s Jacob Skov Olesen, Spain’s Luis Masaveu and France’s Bastian Amat. Olesen, the reigning British Newbie winner, nonetheless has a call to make as he, too, has main exemptions, together with a Masters invite, afforded to him if he stays beginner.
PGA Tour Americas membership (for the Latin swing solely) went to former NCAA gamers Nathan Petronzio, Peter Fountain, Ben Warian and Jake Corridor.
And a Sunshine Tour card went to South Africa’s Tyran Snyders.
“The World Newbie Pathway is a key part of the pathways system we’ve developed on the DP World Tour, in collaboration with our companions at The R&A and PGA Tour,” stated Man Kinnings, DP World Tour chief government. “It brings collectively the very best world expertise and supplies them with a worldwide platform to showcase their skills. Congratulations to Wenyi Ding on changing into the inaugural winner, setting a excessive customary for future stars to observe, and we stay up for welcoming him to the DP World Tour subsequent season.”
