The winner of this year’s Mauritius Open will unlock a hostof new global opportunities in a tournament that has always played a key rolein the career growth of its champions.

Throughits status as the final tournament on the DP World Tour’s Opening Swing thatmarks the start of the new season, the 2023 Mauritius Open at the spectacularLa Réserve Golf Links from 14-17 December will be the scene of a double triumphcome the Sunday afternoon.

Beyondthe winner of the tournament, the Opening Swing will also have its own Order ofMerit which will conclude in Mauritius. The leading professional on this Orderof Merit will win an extra $200 000 and, if already a member of the DP WorldTour, an invitation into the DP World Tour’s next scheduled Rolex Seriestournament as well as a spot in each of the DP World Tour’s Back Nine series ofnine high-profile tournaments.

Allof which could make a week in Mauritius this December a truly career-definingone.

It’sin keeping with the history of this tournament as the spark behind the rise ofthe careers of many of its champions.

Everysingle previous winner of the Mauritius Open is now a multiple winner on the DPWorld Tour, while some have also gone on to win on the PGA Tour.

Danishprofessional Rasmus Højgaard made his DP World Tour breakthrough when he wonthe 2019 Mauritius Open, becoming the third youngest winner in DP World Tourhistory after Matteo Manassero and Danny Lee, and in just his fifth start onthe tour. He went on to win a further three DP World Tour titles and was incontention for a place on the European Ryder Cup team this year.

FrenchmanAntoine Rozner lost the playoff to Højgaard in 2019 when he was still competingon the European Challenge Tour. He returned in 2022 to win the Mauritius Openby a commanding five strokes – the largest margin of victory in thetournament’s history – to cement his status as a rising start of the DP WorldTour. The victory in Mauritius marked a personal record of Rozner having won atournament every year for three years in succession since earning his DP WorldTour card in 2020.

SouthAfrican Dylan Frittelli’s victory in the 2017 Mauritius Open was his second DPWorld Tour title. It was a win that lifted him to just outside the top 50 onthe Official World Golf Ranking, and it put him on a path to winning on the PGATour a year later in the John Deere Classic and challenging in the Majors witha finish of tied fifth in The Masters in 2020 and fifth in The Open in 2021.

AmericanKurt Kitayama claimed his maiden DP World Tour title in the 2018 Mauritius Openon his way to later winning the 2023 Arnold Palmer Invitational on the PGA Tourand finishing tied fourth in The PGA Championship this year. He now occupies aplace in the top 30 on the Official World Golf Ranking.

Forearly champions George Coetzee (2015) and Wang Jeung-hun (2016), the MauritiusOpen also formed part of multiple DP World Tour wins in their careers.