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His refusal to accept invitations to the Masters and The Open last week after his victory in the Asia-Pacific Amateur Championship hit the headlines. But as he had imagined, the Chinese Wenyi Ding won the exemption on the DP World Tour to which he aspired.
Number 1 in the first Global Amateur Pathway ranking, Wenyi Ding has therefore indeed obtained the exemption on the DP World Tour for the 2025 season that he coveted.
Ding terminated his amateur status and gave up on the two major invitations to which he could claim for 2025, The Masters and The Open. He will therefore make his professional debut this week on his native soil as a guest of the Hangzhou Open on the Challenge Tour.
The 19-year-old Chinese player, who occupies third place in the World Amateur Golf Ranking® (WAGR®), is the indisputable number 1 in the Global Amateur Pathway Ranking after an impressive season.
Amat on the Challenge Tour
As a reminder, this ranking was put in place this year by the DP World Tour, the PGA TOUR and the R&A and the 9 players who have agreed to turn pro are given playing rights on different circuits.
To be eligible for this ranking you must be over 20 years old, not be part of a university and appear in the top 20 of the world amateur ranking (WAGR).
This is also the case for the French Very Bastien who finished 4th behind Ding, the winner of the British Amateur, Jacob Forest Olesenand the Spanish Luis Massave.
19th in the world amateur ranking, the former representative of the New Mexico Lobos (like Victor Perez) therefore won a category on the Challenge Tour next year like the two other players who precede him in the ranking.
