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After a two-week summer break in the DP World Tour’s 2025 Race to Dubai schedule, the Nexo Championship took place at Trump International Golf Links Scotland in Aberdeenshire from August 7-10.
The $2.75million tournament, which previously featured as part of the Race to Dubai in 2020, was the penultimate event in the Closing Swing, the fifth and final Global Swing which forms phase one of the DP World Tour’s 2025 season.
A host of DP World Tour winners teed it up in Aberdeen this past week, with home favourites Connor Syme and Calum Hill – who have both triumphed on the Race to Dubai this season – joined by fellow Scots Ewen Ferguson, Richie Ramsay and Grant Forrest on the Aberdeenshire coastline.
Englishmen Marco Penge and Richard Mansell also entered the DP World Tour winner’s circle earlier this year and were eager to double their tally in Scotland, alongside countryman and two-time winner Jordan Smith.
Rafa Cabrera Bello was hoping for more success in Scotland, having won his maiden Rolex Series title in 2017 at Dundonald Links, as he was joined by fellow Spaniards Eugenio Chacarra and Nacho Elvira.
HotelPlanner Tour graduates Martin Couvra and Kristoffer Reitan also pegged it up in Scotland as the pair are establishing themselves as two of Europe’s brightest prospects in 2025.
Grant Forrest powered to his second DP World Tour title with a comfortable four-shot victory at the Nexo Championship.
The Scot was in dominant form over the weekend in tough conditions at Trump International Golf Links to secure his first success since landing the Hero Open at Fairmont St Andrews four years and two days ago.
With this victory, the World Number 294 climbed to the summit of the Closing Swing rankings with only next week’s Danish Golf Championship to play.
Here’s the prize money breakdown for each golfer at the 2025 Nexo Championship
1. Grant Forrest €401,607.28
2. Joe Dean €259,863.53
T3. Jacob Skov Olesen €122,372.10
T3. John Parry €122,372.10
T3. Kristoffer Reitan €122,372.10
6. Jordan Smith €82,683.85
T7. Todd Clements €60,949.81
T7. Oliver Lindell €60,949.81
T7. Andy Sullivan €60,949.81
T10. David Micheluzzi €43,783.07
T10. Eddie Pepperell €43,783.07
T10. Richard Sterne €43,783.07
T13. Matthis Besard €34,097.25
T13. Justin Harding €34,097.25
T13. Casey Jarvis €34,097.25
T13. Ben Schmidt €34,097.25
T13. Jack Senior €34,097.25
T13. Alexander Settemsdal €34,097.25
T19. Matthew Baldwin €27,167.55
T19. Daniel Brown €27,167.55
T19. Daan Huizing €27,167.55
T19. Ryan Lumsden €27,167.55
T19. Ryan van Velzen €27,167.55
T19. Marc Warren €27,167.55
T25. Veer Ahlawat €24,214.56
T25. Marcus Kinhult €24,214.56
T27. Pablo Ereno €22,088.40
T27. Marco Penge €22,088.40
T27. Brandon Robinson Thompson €22,088.40
T27. Daniel Young €22,088.40
T31. Louis Albertse €17,095.15
T31. Kiradech Aphibarnrat €17,095.15
T31. Hamish Brown €17,095.15
T31. Rafa Cabrera Bello €17,095.15
T31. Jens Dantorp €17,095.15
T31. Dan Erickson €17,095.15
T31. Alex Fitzpatrick €17,095.15
T31. Joakim Lagergren €17,095.15
T31. Troy Merritt €17,095.15
T31. Elvis Smylie €17,095.15
T31. Clément Sordet €17,095.15
T42. Andreas Halvorsen €12,756.94
T42. Martin Laird €12,756.94
T42. David Law €12,756.94
T42. Conor Purcell €12,756.94
T42. Jason Scrivener €12,756.94
T42. Maximilian Steinlechner €12,756.94
T48. Julien Brun €10,394.54
T48. Davis Bryant €10,394.54
T48. Jorge Campillo €10,394.54
T48. Robin Williams €10,394.54
T52. Thomas Aiken €8,563.68
T52. Eugenio Chacarra €8,563.68
T52. Jannik de Bruyn €8,563.68
T52. Andrew Wilson €8,563.68
56. Adrian Otaegui €7,795.91
T57. Wil Besseling €7,087.19
T57. John Catlin €7,087.19
T57. Ugo Coussaud €7,087.19
T57. Joost Luiten €7,087.19
T57. Darius van Driel €7,087.19
T62. Nicolas Colsaerts €6,260.35
T62. Wenyi Ding €6,260.35
T64. Filippo Celli €5,669.75
T64. Tapio Pulkkanen €5,669.75
T64. Neil Schietekat €5,669.75
T67. Aaron Cockerill €5,079.15
T67. Sebastian Garcia €5,079.15
69. Tadeas Tetak €4,724.79
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