"The Schedule Needs To Change": David Law Calls For Changes To DP World Tour’s Season-End Run

David Law Calls For Changes To DP World Tour’s Season-End Run© Instagram

David Law kept his DP World Tour card for 2027 last week at the Genesis Championship in South Korea. He entered the week 97th in the Race to Dubai standings, missed the cut, slipped two spots to 99th, and just held on. It was a grind he would rather not repeat, and not just because of the results. The 35-year-old Scot spoke to The Scotsman's Martin Dempster after the season ended and had some pointed things to say about the structure of the tour's closing stretch. “The one thing I feel is that the schedule needs to change a little bit on the tour,” Law said. “I think having 11 weeks in a row at the end of the year when you have guys fighting for jobs, guys fighting for PGA Tour cards and guys fighting to get into the play-offs is a bit much.”

He went further on the geographic side of the problem. “I think finishing the season off after we've been in Europe for so long to go out to India and Korea with the time difference and have those as the last two counting events is pretty poor, to be honest.”

What Law Actually Lived Through

Law played 11 consecutive weeks to close the 2025-26 DP World Tour regular season, making the cut in nine of them. He finished the year with 30 events played and 19 cuts made, with his best result a tied-ninth at the Hero Indian Open in March. None of that was enough to feel comfortable. He was grinding for points through October, watching the entry lists stay frustratingly high for weeks longer than expected.

“I just feel it's not fair on guys in the situation I found myself in to be expected to play that much, especially with the uncertainty of those entry lists, which were staying so high for so long,” he said.

The Bigger Picture

Law's complaints are not new to professional golf, but the specificity of his argument is worth taking seriously. The DP World Tour closing run in Asia asks players who have been on the road since the summer to push through significant time zone changes with their seasons and livelihoods on the line. For players hovering just outside the top 100 in the Race to Dubai, the situation combines exhaustion, financial pressure, and family separation in a way that a schedule rethink could at least partially address.

Law retained his card. Whether the tour takes his criticism seriously is another matter.