The ISPS Handa-Championship, a golf tournament sponsored by the International Sports Promotion Society (ISPS), will be held next spring as the first DP World Tour event in Japan. With DP World, a multinational logistics company based in Dubai, as the new title sponsor, the European Tour group’s main tour will be called the DP World Tour from the 2022 season.
A news conference was held in Tokyo’s Shibuya Ward on Nov. 24 to announce and commemorate this event, which has been long-awaited not only by professional golfers, but also by Japanese golf fans. The tournament will take place at PGM Ishioka Golf Club in Ibaraki Prefecture from April 21 to 24. It will be co-organized by the Japan Golf Tour Organization and the European Tour, a famous international event established in 1972 and second-largest in scale after the PGA Tour in the United States.
This tournament is part of the Race to Dubai, a season-long competition to crown the European Tour’s No. 1 player, while it also counts toward the DP World Tour Rankings and the JGTO Order of Merit.