Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship 2025 Picks, Best Bets and Golf Odds:
The DP World Tour concludes this week and next with the DP World Tour Playoffs. Next week, they will be in Dubai for the DP World Tour Championship, but this week they will be in Abu Dhabi for the Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship.
A star-studded field led by Rory McIlroy (6-1) will be in Abu Dhabi for this event.
Tommy Fleetwood (7-1) is a two-time winner of this event (2017, 2018), albeit at the old venue of Abu Dhabi Golf Club. Nevertheless, Fleetwood resides in Dubai and has a strong record in the UAE.
Tyrrell Hatton (9-1) also won this event in 2021 at the Abu Dhabi Golf Club.
Other members of the victorious European Ryder Cup team taking part this week include Ludvig Åberg (12-1), Robert MacIntyre (14-1), Matt Fitzpatrick (18-1), Rasmus Højgaard (25-1) and Shane Lowry (28-1), the 2019 winner of this event.
Marco Penge (22-1) is a three-time winner this season on the DP World Tour. Tom McKibbin (25-1) won the Hong Kong Open last week on the Asian Tour to secure his spot in both the Masters and the British Open next year.
Here is a table of this week’s odds courtesy of Oddschecker.
The Event
This week’s event has a $9 million prize fund and 9,000 Race to Dubai points up for grabs. The Top 50 in the Race to Dubai standings will move on to next week’s DP World Tour Championship finale in Dubai.
The Field
72 players are in Abu Dhabi this week, including 13 of the Top 50 in the OWGR.
Here is this week’s field for the Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship.
The Course
After 16 years at the Abu Dhabi Golf Club, this year’s Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship moved to a new venue in 2022 at Yas Links. The new track is geographically not far from the Abu Dhabi GC, but it is a links-style setup, which will present a different test for the players.
Listed as a 7,425-yard par-72, the course is a typical 36 front nine/36 back nine setup with four par-5s and four par-3s. Sub-400-yard par-4s followed by mid-length par-5s open both sets of nine and should allow players to get off to a positive start before the course bites back with tougher holes.
Designed by Kyle Phillips (think Kingsbarns) and opened in 2010, this course will undoubtedly fall into the links-style category; however, with its exposed fairways, fescue and pot bunkers, it will certainly do a fair impression of a links, especially if the wind blows. Paspalum grass has been used from tee to green.
Yas Links is managed by Troon International and ranked 44th on Golf Digest World’s 100 Greatest Golf Courses outside the USA back in 2018.
The DP World Tour provides a video flyover of Yas Links.
Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship Recent History
2024: Paul Waring (-24/264); 125-1
2023: Victor Perez (-18/270); 55-1
2022: Thomas Pieters (-10/278); 40-1
2021: Tyrrell Hatton (-18/270); 12-1
2020: Lee Westwood (-19/269); 90-1
2019: Shane Lowry (-18/270); 60-1
2018: Tommy Fleetwood (-22/266); 20-1
2017: Tommy Fleetwood (-17/271); 60-1
2016: Rickie Fowler (-16/272); 16-1
2015: Gary Stal (-19/269); 150-1
2014: Pablo Larrazabal (-14/274); 125-1
2013: Jamie Donaldson (-14/274); 66-1
2012: Robert Rock (-13/275); 150-1
2011: Martin Kaymer (-24/264); 8-1
2010: Martin Kaymer (-21/267); 14-1
NOTE: From the event’s inception in 2006 through 2021, this event was played at Abu Dhabi Golf Club before moving to Yas Links in 2022.
Selections
Tyrrell Hatton (10-1, DraftKings)
Hatton has finished second, sixth and seventh over the last three years here at Yas Links.
He also has two wins in the Emirates (2021 Abu Dhabi, 2025 Dubai), plus he is a three-time winner at the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship and was runner-up in the same event last month.
The Englishman is third in the Race to Dubai standings, and a victory here gives him a chance to take down McIlroy for that title next week.
Matt Fitzpatrick (18-1, DraftKings)
Like Hatton, Fitzpatrick is a former winner at the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship in Scotland.
This has been a turnaround year for Fitzpatrick as he has made 17 straight cuts dating back to April, has posted four top-5 finishes, eight top-10 finishes and went 2-1-1 at the Ryder Cup after posting a poor record in his first three appearances for Team Europe.
The only thing missing from this comeback year is a victory.
Nicolai Højgaard (30-1, BetMGM)
Nicolai has won twice in the Emirates — 2022 Ras Al Khaimah and the 2023 DP World Tour Championship on the Earth Course in Dubai.
He finished 10th and 13th in two starts at Yas Links.
Daniel Brown (100-1, Caesars Sportsbook)
Brown finished runner-up four weeks ago to Marco Penge in Spain.
He won in Germany earlier this year at the BMW International Open and also was runner-up in Bahrain earlier this season.
Remember, he was the first-round leader in the 2024 British Open at Royal Troon, so he has a good links pedigree.
