Commercial Bank Qatar Masters: Fantasy DP World Tour ones to watch

Feel closer to the action on the DP World Tour by competing against golf fans from around the world in our official Fantasy game as the International Swing on the 2025 Race to Dubai continues with the Commercial Bank Qatar Masters.

The International Swing reaches its halfway point with a fourth consecutive week in the Middle East as the DP World Tour returns to Doha Golf Club.

Since its first appearance on Tour in 1998, the event has been won by a host of the the DP World Tour's biggest names including Paul Lawrie, Adam Scott, Ernie Els, Henrik Stenson, Retief Goosen, Robert Karlsson, Thomas Bjørn and Sergio Garcia.

Last week's winner Laurie Canter is in the field after overhauling Tyrrell Hatton in the International Swing Rankings, with Daniel Hillier, Alejandro del Rey, Marcus Armitage, Dan Brown and Pablo Larrazábal all able to claim top spot this week.

Former champions Ewen Ferguson, Antoine Rozner, Jorge Campillo, Justin Harding, Eddie Pepperell, Alvaro Quiros, Chris Wood and Darren Fichardt are all also teeing it up before the Race to Dubai takes a one-week break ahead of moving on to Kenya and a double-header in South Africa.

From insight into the week’s most-picked players among Fantasy managers, to our ones to watch, we run the rule ahead of Thursday’s deadline to pick your team.

Who are the most backed players?

Fresh off his victory last week and sitting at a career-high 51st in the Official World Golf Ranking, Canter is our most-picked player in the early stages of selection with 56% of players putting him in their team.

Fellow Englishman Jordan Smith is next on 40%, with another countryman in Dan Brown then close behind in third.

There is seemingly little to choose between those just behind Canter, with Spaniard Jorge Campillo and Frenchman Julien Guerrier both within five percentage points of Brown and rounding out the top five.

Who are our ones to watch?

Here, we pick out three players in action this week who are worth considering for your Fantasy team selections.

Favourite - Laurie Canter

The Englishman is the overwhelming favourite this week with both our players and the bookmakers and it's fairly easy to see why. After claiming a maiden DP World Tour win last season, he was in the mix for dual membership right up until the end of the campaign but he has not let the disappointment of missing out spill over into 2025. After helping Great Britain & Ireland to a thumping win in the Team Cup, he finished third in the Hero Dubai Desert Classsic to catapult himself up the Race to Dubai Rankings. A second career win at last week's Bapco Energies Bahrain Championship then saw him rise to the top of the Inernational Swing Rankings and he will arrive at a layout where he had a top 15 in 2022 brimming with confidence.

Form Horse - Ivan Cantero

With a victory for Alejandro del Rey and a strong start for rookie Angel Ayora, we could be having a year of Spanish breakouts on the DP World Tour and Cantero is showing everybody why he should be included in that conversation. When he arrived here last season, he missed a seventh consecutive cut to start the campaign and he would make just one in 14 from June onwards heading into the Genesis Championship. A tie for sixth in South Korea, however, saw him move up the Rankings and keep his card and he has not loked back since. He comfortably made the weekend in his three Opening Swing events and then did the same on his Rolex Series debut in Dubai. Back to back top fives in Ras Al Khaimah and Bahrain have put him in the top ten on the International Swing Rankings and it looks like for Cantero, the only way is up.

Wild Card - George Coetzee

George Coetzee is a man on a mission. In 2023 the South African had surgery to repair a torn ligament and would not tee it up competitively between May of that year and the following August. Before last week's event in Bahrain he had not made a DP World Tour cut in almost two years and is currrently playing on a medical exemption. But anyone who knows anything about golf realises that injuries are all part of the game and the talent that has made him a five-time DP World and 14-time Sunshine Tour winner is still there. That made cut will have been a confidence-boosting relief and he arrives this week at a venue where he has two runner-up finishes and three other top tens. Beware the injured golfer; form is temporary, class is permanent - you can use any cliché you like. But Coetzee could be a man to watch this week.

How can I play?

If you have not done so already, you can still sign up to play the official 2025 DP World Tour Fantasy game and submit your six-man team before round one gets under way on Thursday.

To play Fantasy DP World Tour, click here.

What can I win?

There are plenty of prizes on offer throughout the 2025 season including the Ultimate Prize courtesy of DP World which includes:

- Flights to Dubai for two people

- Accommodation in Dubai for two people

- Private lesson from a top DP World Tour professional on the Earth course driving range

- Two ball on the Earth course the day after tournament play finishes

- Two General Admission Season Tickets for the 2025 DP World Tour Championship

Those that finish second to fifth in the season long competition will also receive a range of DP World Tour Store vouchers. There will also be prizes to be won on a weekly and monthly basis so no matter how well you start or when you sign up to play, you will always have the opportunity to win.

Looking back - Bapco Energies Bahrain Championship

Canter put smiles on plenty of faces last week as he featured in 44.5% of teams, handing players who picked him 193 points, while 2,695 players had him as their captain.

Our Favourite last week Thorbjørn Olesen endured a rare missed cut but our Form Horse and Wild Card both made the weekend, with Sebastian Söderberg and Pádraig Harrington finishing in ties for 24th and 38th respectively.

Season so far - 2025 DP World Tour Fantasy Top 10 player rankings