Patrick Reed and Eugenio Chacarra Lead 10 DP World Tour Players Into 2027 PGA TOUR Cards

Two years ago they were cashing LIV checks. On Sunday in Dubai, Eugenio Chacarra and Patrick Reed earned their way back to the PGA TOUR the hard way, through a full season of points on someone else's tour.

Chacarra and Reed head the list of 10 DP World Tour players who earned 2027 PGA TOUR cards through the final Race to Dubai standings, PGA TOUR reported (opens in a new tab) after the season-ending DP World Tour Championship. The cards go to the top 10 players in the standings who are not otherwise exempt, a pathway now in its fourth year under the Strategic Alliance between the two tours. The rest of the class: Casey Jarvis, Jayden Schaper, Daniel Hillier, Jacob Skov Olesen, Oliver Lindell, Andy Sullivan, Bernd Wiesberger and Joe Dean.

The Comeback Kids

Chacarra is the headliner. The 26-year-old Spaniard won three times on the DP World Tour this year, sits 37th in the world and finished as the top player in the standings among those without PGA TOUR status, which also gets him into the first two Signature Events of 2027 and THE PLAYERS Championship, per PGA TOUR. He nearly won the whole thing, too, leading the Race to Dubai entering Sunday before Rory McIlroy passed him on the final day to claim a record-tying eighth title.

His road here was not straight. Chacarra turned pro in 2022 after an All-American career at Oklahoma State and joined LIV at its launch that year, per PGA TOUR and GOLF.com. He played three seasons there and was not renewed after 2024, GOLF.com reported (opens in a new tab) in October. He spent 2025 on sponsor invites in Europe, won the Hero Indian Open and still fell short of the top 10. This year he left no doubt.

Reed's path ran through a suspension. The 2018 Masters champion and nine-time PGA TOUR winner left LIV in January and has been serving a one-year PGA TOUR suspension while playing a full DP World Tour schedule, per GOLF.com. He won the Dubai Desert Classic and the Qatar Masters early in the season, per PGA TOUR (opens in a new tab), and Golf Channel (opens in a new tab) said the Qatar win all but locked up his card back then. He led the standings for much of the year before sliding late, per CBS Sports (opens in a new tab), and finished fourth with 3,627.36 points, according to Golf Monthly (opens in a new tab). Before the finale, Reed acknowledged that a top-10 finish was what it would take to earn his spot on the PGA TOUR, per PGA TOUR.

Both men, as Golf Digest (opens in a new tab) put it, had to play their way back after one-year suspensions, and both did.

The Rest of the Class

The other eight have stories worth knowing, per PGA TOUR's breakdown.

Casey Jarvis, 23, of South Africa won twice early in 2026 and is the only player to sweep South Africa's amateur Triple Crown. Countryman Jayden Schaper, 25, owns wins at the Alfred Dunhill Championship and the Mauritius Open. New Zealand's Daniel Hillier, 28, won his national open this spring and climbed from 10th to fifth in the standings down the stretch.

Then there are the grinders. Denmark's Jacob Skov Olesen, 27, made it without a world-ranking-recognized win, riding nine top-20 finishes over the last four months. Finland's Oliver Lindell, 28, has two runner-up finishes this year and missed only one cut, and he closed his card-clinching season with a bogey-free 65 on Sunday, per CBS Sports. He will join Sami Valimaki, who sits one back of the lead heading into Monday's rescheduled final round in Austin, as one of only two Finns on the PGA TOUR.

The veterans got in too. England's Andy Sullivan, 39, a 2016 European Ryder Cup player, had a boom-or-bust year with three top-three finishes and eight missed cuts. Austria's Bernd Wiesberger, a nine-time winner, is 41 and the oldest player to earn a card through this pathway.

The Delivery Driver Who Held On

The best story of the bunch might belong to No. 10. England's Joe Dean, 32, was once ranked 2,930th in the world and worked part-time as a supermarket delivery driver, per PGA TOUR. He won the British Masters this year.

On Sunday, he nearly gave it all back. Dean entered the final round outside the top 10, shot a closing 74 and kept the last card only because Mikael Lindberg bogeyed his final hole, Golf Digest reported. That is about as thin a margin as a tour card gets.

Why It Matters More Than Usual

These are not ordinary cards. The PGA TOUR's format change in 2028 introduces a Championship Series with $20 million purses, Golf Digest noted, and 2027 is the season players use to position themselves for it. A card this year is a ticket into that fight.

For Reed and Chacarra, there is a bigger subtext. The PGA TOUR still has not settled how or when the rest of the former LIV roster can return, a question that has hung over the sport since the league began winding down. Reed and Chacarra did not wait for a policy. They took the long way around, played a full year in Europe and earned it on points.

The rest of the LIV alumni hoping for a way back now have a template. It is not glamorous, and it takes a year. But on Sunday in Dubai it worked twice.

Sources: PGA TOUR, Golf Digest, GOLF.com, CBS Sports, Golf Monthly, Golf Channel. More golf coverage on Undrafted.

Photo Credit: PGA TOUR.