Qatar Masters Players in focus

Past champions teeing it up this week are: Rikuya Hoshino (2024), Ewen Ferguson (2022), Antoine Rozner (2021), Jorge Campillo (2020), Eddie Pepperell (2018), Chris Wood (2013) and Darren Fichardt (2003).
Fichardt will tee it up in his 23rd Qatar Masters and 17th in a row.
The last three winners of this event, Haotong Li (2025), Rikuya Hoshino (2024) and Sami Välimäki (2023) went on to earn dual membership on the PGA TOUR for the following season. Li finished 13th on the 2025 Race to Dubai Rankings, Hoshino finished 16th in 2024 and Välimäki ended 2023 12th on the Rankings.
Three winners on the 2026 Race to Dubai are teeing it up this week, former Masters champion Patrick Reed who won the Hero Dubai Desert Classic, Dubai Invitational champion Nacho Elvira and Opening Swing winner Jayden Schaper, who claimed back-to-back titles at the Alfred Dunhill Championship and AfrAsia Bank Mauritius Open.
Three-time Major winner Pádraig Harrington will make his 500th DP World Tour appearance this week.
Across a career spanning three decades, Harrington has won 43 professional titles – 15 of which have come on the DP World Tour – including three Major Championships, and he has represented Europe six times in the Ryder Cup. He has become prolific on the over-50s circuit, winning 11 times on the PGA TOUR Champions, and is the reigning U.S. Senior Open and ISPS HANDA Senior Open champion
Rolex Series winners in the field are Reed, Paul Waring, Rafa Cabrera Bello and Bernd Wiesberger.
Five-time DP World Tour winner Matt Wallace and Frenchman Martin Couvra, who was named 2025 Rookie of the Year after finishing 19th on the Race to Dubai Rankings, will also tee it up in Doha.