{"id":297351,"date":"2025-11-21T11:00:14","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T11:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/297351\/"},"modified":"2025-11-21T11:00:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T11:00:14","slug":"the-clutch-pro-tour-returns-to-mena-region-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/297351\/","title":{"rendered":"The Clutch Pro Tour returns to MENA region in 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">The Clutch Pro Tour is set to return to the MENA region in 2026, with a schedule that includes events in Bahrain, Oman, Qatar, T\u00fcrkiye and the United Arab Emirates.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-56838\" class=\"wp-image-56838 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Education-City-10th-and-18th.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"740\" height=\"416\"  \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-56838\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Education City, Qatar.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">All tournaments will carry full Tier 1 status, award Official World Ranking Points and offer a direct pathway to the HotelPlanner Tour and the DP World Tour.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">As the official feeder to the HotelPlanner Tour, the Clutch Pro Tour will once again have an international footprint in 2026, hosting six events across the MENA region.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">After the Clutch Pro Tour\u2019s 17-tournament season, which features the largest prize funds in European development golf with up to \u00a31.5 million paid out, the top three players on the Order of Merit will earn full cards for the 2027 HotelPlanner Tour. Players finishing fourth to seventh will receive seven starts each on the 2027 HotelPlanner Tour, and the top four players as of 13 August 2026 will be exempt into Second Stage of DP World Q School.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-36080\" class=\"size-full wp-image-36080\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Al-Moug-Golf.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"740\" height=\"500\"  \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-36080\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Al Mouj Golf, Muscat, Oman<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The season will open at Ghala Golf Club in Muscat, Oman, from 25 to 27 March. The tour then stays in Muscat and moves to the Greg Norman-designed Al Mouj Golf from 30 March to 1 April. After a two-week break, the schedule continues with the short trip to Qatar and Education City Golf Club from 14 to 16 April, followed by Royal Golf Club in Bahrain from 20 to 22 April, and Al Hamra Golf Course in Ras Al Khaimah, UAE, from 28 to 30 April.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">After a brief stop in the UK, the tour will return to the MENA region with an event in T\u00fcrkiye at the start of June.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Following the summer events in the UK, the season will finish with the Tour Championship, venue to be confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>2026 Clutch Pro Tour Events in the MENA region<\/p>\n<p>Ghala, Muscat, Oman \u2013 25th \u2013 27th March 2026<br \/>\nAl Mouj Golf, Muscat, Oman \u2013 30th March \u2013 1st April 2026<br \/>\nEducation City, Doha, Qatar \u2013 14th \u2013 16th April 2026<br \/>\nRoyal Golf Club, Bahrain \u2013 20th \u2013 22nd April 2026<br \/>\nAl Hamra Golf Course, Ras Al Khaimah, UAE \u2013 28th \u2013 30th April 2026<br \/>\nGloria Golf Club, Belek, T\u00fcrkiye \u2013 3rd \u2013 5th June 2026<\/p>\n<p>Main Image: The Royal Golf Club, Bahrain<\/p>\n<p>\nSubsribe to Golf Digest Middle East Newsletter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Clutch Pro Tour is set to return to the MENA region in 2026, with a schedule that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":202252,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[133784,133785,49,48,133786,133787,119285,622,11744,133788,40181,133789,21130,133790,82],"class_list":["post-297351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-al-hamra-golf-club","tag-al-mouj-clutch-pro-tour","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-challenge-tour","tag-clutch-pro-tour","tag-emirates-golf-federation","tag-golf","tag-golf-digest-middle-east","tag-la-vie-oman","tag-mena","tag-middle-east-and-north-africa","tag-morocco","tag-official-world-ranking-points","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=297351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297351\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}