The Norwegian Andreas Halvorsen has jumped from India to Singapore, or more importantly from the HotelPlanner Tour to the DP World Tour. The Nordic golfer has secured his first division card after his second place in the Kolkata Challenge and will debut his new status this week at the Laguna National Golf Resort. He is not yet officially on the entry list, but his participation has been confirmed by the European circuit.
Halvorsen, aged 28, has achieved this thanks to a medical exemption. Last year, including a victory in Denmark, he could only play 13 tournaments due to a knee problem that he has not yet fully resolved. He knows that one day he will have to undergo surgery, but for now, he is managing with conservative treatment. Last year he managed to play the Challenge Final, where he finished in eighth position, but it was not enough to accumulate the necessary points and finish among the top 20, who receive the card. As it stands, he received a six-tournament exemption in 2025 to reach the points that last year’s final card winner achieved.
The Nordic player accumulated 645 points in just 13 appearances last season, including his first victory on the HotelPlanner Tour, which came at the Danish Golf Challenge. After the Final, he finished the year in 27th place on the Road to Mallorca, 40 points behind the last promoted player, Lucas Bjerregaard. In the Kolkata Challenge, he needed at least a top 30 finish to reach that magical points figure. He comfortably achieved this by finishing second. He fell in the tournament playoff against Joshua Berry, but the joy of securing the DP World Tour card outweighs any possible disappointment.
He will now take his place on the DP World Tour and has been added to Category 15 (a) for the remainder of the Race to Dubai 2025. Halvorsen recorded a shared fifth place in the AfrAsia Bank Mauritius Open of the DP World Tour at the start of the Race to Dubai 2025 and is now ready to compete in Singapore this week. “It’s incredible,” he said. “It has been stressful constantly thinking about accumulating the points and I am very happy to have finally achieved them and to know that I am going to play on the DP World Tour. “I kept telling myself that if I didn’t make it, I would still have a good season and that good things would happen, but every time I went out on the course, it was the only thing I thought about.”
Halvorsen achieved his rise to the HotelPlanner Tour from the Alps Tour in 2023 and quickly shone with a victory in his fifth outing of 2024. The Norwegian, who received invitations to play on the HotelPlanner Tour since 2015, assures that those early experiences, along with the last 12 months, have been a crucial part of his development. “It has been great and very exciting,” he added. “I received some invitations when I was just starting as a professional and I was definitely not prepared enough to play here. I spent some time in the United States and have really enjoyed coming back here. Last year was a lot of fun.”
