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The MENA Golf Tour has announced its return to the Middle East and GCC region, starting in 2025.
Backed by Arena Group and a private investor, the MENA Golf Tour, which originally ran from 2011 to 2024, will relaunch with a 12-event season.
The season will commence in Portugal later this year, followed by a Qualifying School in November designed specifically for non-exempt players.
Established in 2011, the MENA Golf Tour remains the only Official World Golf Ranking (OWGR) recognised circuit headquartered in the Middle East, providing opportunities for professional golfers from the region and around the globe.
LIV Golf Invitational Jeddah 2022
In 2022, the MENA Tour announced a strategic alliance with LIV Golf and its Invitational events, becoming part of and sanctioned by the MENA Tour. The alliance allowed LIV Golf members to earn OWGR points. Two events followed, one in Thailand and one in Jeddah, where Brooks Koepka claimed victory.
The Official World Golf Ranking (OWGR) received an application from LIV Golf seeking inclusion in the OWGR system on June 30, 2025, and the review process has commenced…
Former DP World Tour Chief Operating Officer and Official World Golf Ranking (OWGR) board member Keith Waters has been appointed Chairman and Commissioner of the MENA Golf Tour.
Each tournament in the 2025/26 season will have a $100,000 prize fund and be contested over 54 holes, with a 36-hole cut to the top 60 players and ties. The winner will receive $18,000.
2018 Dubai Creek Open – Williams is flanked by the MENA Tour’s amateur trailblazer Rayhan Thomas, patron Darren Clark and Dubai Golf boss Chris May.
Former MENA Tour players include PGA Tour and DP World Tour winners Robert MacIntyre, Matt Fitzpatrick and Todd Clements.
Order of Merit winners:
2022-23 – Brooks Koepka
2020-22 – Tom Sloman
2019 – Mathiam Keyser
2017 – Jamie Elson
2016 – Craig Hinton
2015 – Thriston Lawrence
2014 – Joshua White
2013 – Zane Scotland
2012 – Stephen Dodd
2011 – Jake Shepherd
The MENA Golf Tour is also in discussions with both the DP World Tour and the HotelPlanner Tour to establish a pathway that would give leading MENA Golf Tour players the opportunity to advance directly to DP World Tour Qualifying School and the HotelPlanner Tour.
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