Calum Hill aims to ‘rinse and repeat’ after best-ever DP World Tour season
Arizona-based player finishes DP World Tour season as top Scot in Race to Dubai Ranking
Calum Hill is heading home to Arizona to spend a short off-season with his wife Miranda and their six-month-old son Josh on the back of his best-ever year on the DP World Tour.
The 32-year-old signed off his fourth straight campaign on the circuit by finishing joint-11th behind runaway winner Tyrrell Hatton in the season-ending DP World Tour Championship at Jumeirah Golf Estates in Dubai.
A closing salvo that contained six birdies on the Greg Norman-designed Earth Course for a five-under-par total secured Hill’s best finish in the Rolex Series event and earned him a cheque worth $129,600.
“I played really nice,” he said of his closing salvo. “Yeah, I played lovely. It was probably the best tee to green round of golf I've played in a long time. It was just really under control.”
The effort lifted Hill nine spots on the leaderboard on the final day and, in doing so, also saw him climb four places to 27th in the Race to Dubai Ranking. Hill’s previous highest finish on the points list was 38th last year, having ended up 58th in both 2023 and 2024.
“It's nice, yeah,” admitted the Gleneagles Hotel-attached player. “It was a good year. There were lots of good in there.”
Referring to the aforementioned Josh, he added, smiling: “Had a boy throughout the route in April. A lot of good things happened, yeah.”
Hill, who came up two places short in the battle to secure a spot in The 155th Open through the points list, will start his 2027 DP World Tour schedule in the Nedbank Golf Challenge in South Africa followed by the Mauritius Open.
“So a couple of weeks at home and then off to those two and then Christmas break and then back here in January (for the Hero Dubai Desert Classic),” he said. “Just rinse and repeat, get going again.
“Things are different now with Josh. When it was just me and Miranda, she would travel around, so we could afford to spend an extra week out here and not have to stay away as much.
“So, yeah, it'll be a bit more transatlantic travel and a little less time in other places. It's just the jet lag that you have to deal with, but I'll manage that.”
Helped by his Open de Espana win, Grant Forrest finished 43rd on the points list - his best effort since being 38th in 2023 - while Ewen Ferguson stayed in 52nd spot after the $10 million season finale.
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