Who is leading the 2024 DP World Tour Championship after day 1? Leaderboard explored

The first round of the 2024 DP World Tour Championship concluded on Thursday, November 14 at the Jumeirah Golf Estates in Dubai. The two main favorites for the title top the leaderboard, but not by much over their main rivals.

Rory McIlroy and Tyrrell Hatton lead the DP World Tour Championship at 5-under. Seventeen other players are three shots or less behind them.

2024 DP World Tour Championship Day 1 Leaderboard

Here is the DP World Tour Championship leaderboard after the first round:

1 HATTON, Tyrrell -5
MCILROY, Rory -5
3 WARING, Paul -4
4 NAKAJIMA, Keita -3
SCOTT, Adam -3
FITZPATRICK, Alex -3
WALLACE, Matt -3
HOSHINO, Rikuya -3
HORSCHEL, Billy -3
NORGAARD, Niklas -3
11 LEE, Min Woo -2
VAN DRIEL, Darius -2
BAIRSTOW, Sam -2
MERONK, Adrian -2
ELVIRA, Nacho -2
NIEMANN, Joaquin -2
OLESEN, Thorbjørn -2
ROZNER, Antoine -2
MANASSERO, Matteo -2
20 SYME, Connor -1
VEERMAN, Johannes -1
OTAEGUI, Adrian -1
LOWRY, Shane -1
CAMPILLO, Jorge -1
LANGASQUE, Romain -1
20 MCKIBBIN, Tom -1
SMITH, Jordan -1
SVENSSON, Jesper -1
FLEETWOOD, Tommy -1
HØJGAARD, Rasmus -1
31 LAPORTA, Francesco PAR
FERGUSON, Ewen PAR
COUSSAUD, Ugo PAR
LACROIX, Frederic PAR
MIGLIOZZI, Guido PAR
MACINTYRE, Robert PAR
37 SULLIVAN, Andy +1
PAUL, Yannik +1
LAWRENCE, Thriston +1
40 ROSE, Justin +2
CANTER, Laurie +2
BRADBURY, Dan +2
HIDALGO, Angel +2
44 BROWN, Daniel +3
JORDAN, Matthew +3
46 GUERRIER, Julien +4
47 DEAN, Joe +5
COCKERILL, Aaron +5
SÖDERBERG, Sebastian +5
50 RAVETTO, David +6

Rory McIlroy carded six birdies and a bogey in the first round of the DP World Tour Championship to share the lead with Tyrrell Hatton. Hatton finished with seven birdies and two bogeys minutes earlier.

Hatton said after the first round (via ASAP Sports):

"To be honest I feel like the score was better than it felt. I felt I was tinkering over most tee shots and at times, I felt like my misses were bigger than perhaps they have been over the last month or so, month and a half."

"But at the end of the day, to shoot 5-under, you have to, I guess, play fairly solid golf. And in my head, I don't really know what that is. But here we are."

Last week's winner of the Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship, Paul Waring, is in third place after the first round of the DP World Tour Championship. Waring carded five birdies and one bogey.

In the group of players who have not yet secured their PGA Tour card for next season, Rikuya Hoshino is the best-placed player. The Japanese player is tied for 4th place at 3-under after carding 5 birdies and two bogeys.