Victor Perez at the start of the first two Australian tournaments of the 2024-25 DP World Tour season

Absent from November 7 to 10 at the Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship, first of the two playoff tournaments of the 2023-24 European Tour, while he is the title holder, Victor Perez announced his presence at the first two tournaments of the 2024-25 DP World Tour season, the BMW Australian PGA Championship and the ISPS Handa Australian Open.

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Engaged from October 24 to 27 at ZOZO Championship (PGA Tour) where he took the final 33rd place, Victor Perez clearly hasn't finished his calendar year. Despite what he let us hear before the FedEx Open de France…

While he has not yet formalized his presence at the Butterfield Bermuda Championshipthe penultimate event of the FedEx Cup Fall scheduled for November 14 to 17, the Frenchman has just confirmed that he will be at the start of the first two tournaments of the 2024-25 season of DP World Tour in Australia (co-sanctioned with the PGA Tour of Australasia), namely the BMW Australian PGA Championship (November 21-24) near Brisbane andISPS Handa Australian Open (November 28-December 1) in Melbourne.

I can't wait to go to Australia, enjoy the world-class Golf courses and see what Brisbane and Melbourne are like off the course.

Victor Perez

The Tarbais will be accompanied here by several members of the European Tour such as the Englishman Jordan Smiththe German Yannik Paulthe Spanish Rafa Cabrera-Bellothe Belgian Nicolas Colsaerts or even the Dane Rasmus Neergaard-Petersen. Other big names in Australian and world golf have also confirmed their presence: Jason Day, Cameron Smith, Min Woo Lee, Cameron Davis, Lucas Herbert et Marc Leishman.

« Australia is one of the best golf destinations in the worldunderlines the Frenchman to our colleagues from Golf Australia. You often hear PGA Tour and DP World Tour players talk about the tournaments and courses there and how good the golf is. I played the BMW Australian PGA Championship in 2017, but not at Royal Queensland and I haven't played an ISPS Handa Australian Open yet, so I'm looking forward to going to Australia, enjoying the class golf courses world and to see what Brisbane and Melbourne look like off the course. »

« Both of these events have great histories, great lists of champions and I would love to have my name on one of those trophies. But it will be difficult against the Australians », he adds by way of conclusion.

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