After being passed by Rory McIlroy for the Race to Dubai title, Eugenio 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 season-long points race before ending up second. “I just came out short. That’s the beauty of golf, Obviously, when you play with the best in the world. And he’s played here 14, 15 times, you knew it was going to be tough, and he had a better day than I did.”
Chacarra’s consolation: officially collecting his PGA Tour card for 2027.
Chacarra led the 10 newly minted PGA Tour members on Sunday. Joining Chacarra in earning their cards through the European circuit were Chacarra’s fellow 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 earned the final card at No. 16 in the standings, one spot ahead of Spain’s Nacho Elvira.
Dean closed in 2-over 74 to drop to T-27. Elvira opened with 14 straight pars on Sunday before adding a couple late birdies for 70 and a T-11 finish. He ended up fewer than 23 points behind Dean.
With his win in Dubai, Tyrrell Hatton climbed nine spots to third in the final point standings. However, Hatton was ineligible to earn a PGA Tour card because he is still suspended by the PGA Tour. Jon Rahm placed sixth in the Race to Dubai and is also suspended, though he wouldn’t count either because he’d otherwise have PGA Tour status via his 2023 Masters victory.
“It’s been a dream of mine since I was a kid, and to achieve that dream this season was amazing,” Jarvis said. “Showed me that all the hard work I’ve put in has finally paid off. It’s a steppingstone. Going to go try to prove myself to the world on the PGA Tour.”
Here’s a closer look at the 10 newest PGA Tour members:
Eugenio Chacarra: The former All-American at Oklahoma State turned pro before his fifth season in Stillwater, joining LIV for what would be three seasons. His contract wasn’t renewed prior to last season, and he won the 2025 Hero Indian Open two springs ago to earn full DPWT status. He’s 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 pick to secure his first Ryder Cup berth for Team Europe.
Patrick Reed: Following his exit from LIV at the start of this year, Reed won twice in three weeks, all but locking up his return to the PGA Tour by March. Now 36, Reed resumes his PGA Tour career, which boasts nine wins in 283 starts.
Welcome back, Patrick Reed 🇺🇸🫡
— Golf Channel (@GolfChannel) November 15, 2026
He earns his 2027 PGA Tour card after a strong 2026 DP World Tour season and high finish in the Race to Dubai (4th)
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Casey Jarvis: The first of two exciting Presidents Cup prospects from South Africa, the 23-year-old Jarvis has already won on the DP World Tour (two), HotelPlanner Tour, Sunshine Tour (three) and Big Easy Tour since turning pro in 2022. He was T-6 at this past summer’s Open Championship, too.
Jayden Schaper: The 25-year-old South African, whose decorated prep career included winning the 2019 Junior Players, won in back-to-back weeks last December to boost his Race to Dubai portfolio. He added two other top-4 showings in his first five starts of the DP World Tour season, though he posted just a single top-10 in his final 20 starts.
Daniel Hillier: Another successful junior, Hillier won his native New Zealand Amateur twice before turning pro in 2019. Now 28, Hillier won on the DP World Tour in 2023 before capturing this year’s New Zealand Open.
Jacob Skov Olesen: The 27-year-old Dane burst onto the scene when he won the 2024 British Amateur. Prior to that he went to three different U.S. schools – Ranger Junior College, TCU and then Arkansas. The lefty has yet to win as a pro, though he has made two straight cuts at The Open. He could arrive on the PGA Tour as one of its top putters.
Oliver Lindell: Joins fellow Finnish pro Sami Valimaki on the PGA Tour after over a decade as a pro. He first turned at 17 years old and after a two-win season on the Nordic League (he won on that tour as an amateur, too), Lindell spent seven years on the HotelPlanner Tour before finally graduating to the DP World Tour in 2025.
Andy Sullivan: The 39-year-old Englishman’s career has included four DP World Tour victories, 18 major starts, and Walker Cup (2011) and Ryder Cup (2016) berths. However, he’s never made more than 11 starts in a single PGA Tour season before.
Bernd Wiesberger: At 41 years old, Wiesberger’s career is like that of Sullivan. He’s got significantly more DP World Tour wins (nine), but he’s made 32 major starts without a top-10 finish 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 this year’s Volvo China Open.
Joe Dean: Easily the most inspiring story among the 10 grads. Dean is a 32-year-old from Sheffield, England. As a junior, he represented England in numerous team events and won the 2015 English Amateur, where he routed Alfie Plant, 9 and 7. He skipped college to turn pro in 2016 at 21 years old. He spent the majority of the next eight years on the EuroPro Tour, earning HotelPlanner Tour status in 2019 just to lose it after one year. When he finally earned his DP World Tour card for 2024 at Q-School, he couldn’t immediately compete because he couldn’t afford travel costs. He spent years working as a supermarket delivery person, and even worked a shift between a missed cut in Qatar and his breakthrough T-2 at the 2024 Magical Kenya Open. He posted a top-25 at The Open later that year and this year captured his first DP World Tour title, at the British Masters. Earlier this week, he told Today’s Golfer that he’d rather be doing something else: “A lot of people are probably going to hate me for saying this, but if I could earn 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 that fun. I find being sat by a fishing lake or cleaning my car fun and no pressure. But that’s just personal to me. If you hit good shots in the moment, it’s rewarding and almost like a fix. It’s like an addiction. You want to be able to do that again, but in that moment, I hate it. I’d rather do something else, to be honest.”
Now, Dean and nine others are headed to the U.S.
