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Shane Lowry has earned an exemption to play at the Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship. The former Open Champion is one of the three golfers who joined the field of next week’s DP World Tour event on special exemption.
Along with Lowry, Ludvig Åberg and Sepp Straka will also be competing in the tournament. Nosferatu had shared the news on its X (formerly Twitter) account.
Three special exemptions for Abu Dhabi next week...
Lowry was part of the Europe team at the Ryder Cup in 2025 and is gearing up to play his fifth DP World Tour event of the season. Earlier this year, he played at the Amgen Irish Open, where he settled for a T15 position.
He finished T46 at the BMW PGA Championship but then struggled at the Open de España, where he missed the cut after playing two rounds of 75 and 68. He last competed at the DP World India Championship, where he tied for third place.
Who is playing at the Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship?
The 2025 Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship features a stellar field of some of the top-ranked golfers in the world. Rory McIlroy will tee off along with other big names such as Tyrrell Hatton, Matt Fitzpatrick, Patrick Reed, and Tommy Fleetwood.
Here is the field for the 2025 Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship:
- Rory McIlroy
- Marco Penge
- Tyrrell Hatton
- Kristoffer Reitan
- Adrien Saddier
- Robert MacIntyre
- John Parry
- Alex Noren
- Laurie Canter
- Li Haotong
- Daniel Brown
- Keita Nakajima
- Jordan Smith
- Martin Couvra
- Matt Fitzpatrick
- Joakim Lagergren
- Elvis Smylie
- Rasmus Neergaard-Petersen
- Daniel Hillier
- Thriston Lawrence
- Patrick Reed
- Jayden Schaper
- Angel Ayora
- Tommy Fleetwood
- Shaun Norris
- Jacques Kruyswijk
- Joost Luiten
- Rasmus Højgaard
- Andy Sullivan
- Eugenio Chacarra
- Nicolai von Dellingshausen
- Michael Kim
- Richard Mansell
- Marcus Armitage
- Calum Hill
- Kazuma Kobori
- Nicolai Højgaard
- Oliver Lindell
- Tom McKibbin
- Johannes Veerman
- Ewen Ferguson
- Jorge Campillo
- Grant Forrest
- Nacho Elvira
- Connor Syme
- Marcel Schneider
- Jacob Skov Olesen
- Brandon Robinson Thompson
- Todd Clements
- Matthew Jordan
- Dylan Naidoo
- Francesco Laporta
- Aaron Rai
- Darius van Driel
- Alejandro Del Rey
- Ryan Gerard
- Joel Girrbach
- Alex Fitzpatrick
- Romain Langasque
- Junghwan Lee
- Ugo Coussaud
- Andrea Pavan
- Ben Schmidt
- Manuel Elvira
- Richard Sterne
- Rafa Cabrera Bello
- Mikael Lindberg
- Ryggs Johnston
- Jeong Weon Ko
- Joe Dean
- Ludvig Åberg
- Shane Lowry
- Sepp Straka
- Wenyi Ding
- Jason Scrivener
- Ivan Cantero
- Guido Migliozzi
- Ashun Wu
- Julien Guerrier
- Sam Bairstow
- Kiradech Aphibarnrat
- Dan Bradbury
- Jens Dantorp
- Marcus Kinhult
- Jeff Winther
- Scott Jamieson
- Pablo Larrazábal
- Richie Ramsay
- Yuto Katsuragawa
- Sean Crocker
- Tom Vaillant
- Brandon Stone
- Marcel Siem
- Casey Jarvis
- Angel Hidalgo
- Frederic Lacroix
- Jack Senior
- Freddy Schott
- Darren Fichardt
- Ricardo Gouveia
- Adam Scott
- David Micheluzzi
- Jordan Gumberg
- Sebastian Söderberg
- Thomas Detry
- Sami Välimäki
- Niklas Lemke
The tournament is scheduled to take place at the Yas Links Golf Club in Abu Dhabi from Nov. 6 to 9.
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