Drive for show, go low for dough! Tour stars to compete for new ‘first of its kind’ cash prize

There will be a minimum $10,000 up for grabs at each DP World Tour event. Allow us to explain…

The DP World Tour’s finest will now be playing for a new cash prize at each tournament.

The ‘Course Record presented by Nexo’ does exactly what it says on the tin. Any player who breaks the course record at any given DP World Tour event will take home the purse.

It will start at $10,000 for this week’s Nexo Championship, and a further $10,000 will be added to the pot for every tournament where the course record remains untouched. After a successful course record, the prize pot will then reset.

Digital assets wealth platform Nexo, which is the title sponsor of this week’s DP World Tour event – previously known as the Scottish Championship – will also put up an extra $50,000 in cryptocurrency at Trump International Golf Links in Aberdeen.

And that $60,000 combination – which is on top of the $2.75 million already up for grabs in Scotland – will be handed out this week.

That’s because there is no official course record from the Championship tees on the resort’s Old course.

A previous course record of 66 was established during the Legends Tour events of 2024 and ’24, but the course length was 6,987 yards. For this week’s DP World Tour event, it will be stretched to 7,439 yards.

The DP World Tour told TG that the criteria for the Course Record presented by Nexo requires a course to be laid out within 300 yards of its Championship tees to count.

Therefore, no course record is currently established at Trump Aberdeen, and the player that cards the lowest round this week will scoop the pot, which will reset next week in Denmark.

There were 10 course records set in the 2024 DP World Tour season, while there have been seven more this year – the last of which was by Clement Sordet, who carded an 8-under-par 62 at Argentario Golf Club during the Italian Open.

Here are some notable records for courses coming up on the DP World Tour schedule:

The DP World Tour noted that the prize fund will run until the season-ending DP World Tour Championship, before resetting for the start of the new 2026 season. Meanwhile, only tournaments played on one course will be eligible, and if the tournament is weather affected, then at least 36 holes must have been completed and any round that has preferred lies will not be eligible.

Nexo co-founder Antoni Trenchev described the scheme as “the first recurring prize of its kind in golf”, while Ben Cowen, the Tour’s chief operations officer, hopes it will “further enhance the spectacle for our fans, with players tempted to take extra risks to shoot that coveted course record and claim the prize”.

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