Staff WriterThe Nexo Championship will return to Trump International Golf Links in Aberdeenshire from August 20-23, 2026, after Nexo and the DP World Tour confirmed a renewed agreement that keeps the tournament on the Race to Dubai schedule.
It is not merely another date nailed to the golfing fridge with a magnet. The event will close the DP World Tour’s Closing Swing, making it the final tournament of the first phase of the 2026 Race to Dubai.
In other words, it arrives at the point of the season when calculations become sharper, nerves become thinner, and every dropped shot starts to feel like a small tax demand from the golfing gods.
Nexo Strengthens Its DP World Tour Presence
Nexo joined the DP World Tour in 2025 as its Official Digital Wealth Platform through 2027, before adding title rights to the Nexo Championship. The renewed agreement gives the digital assets wealth platform a second consecutive year attached to one of Scotland’s more dramatic modern links stages.
That matters commercially because golf, particularly DP World Tour golf, remains a tidy fit for brands chasing an affluent, international, financially engaged audience. Nobody accidentally sponsors tournament golf. It is too precise, too polished, and too good at gathering the sort of people who understand compound interest and still think a downhill four-footer is a moral failing.
“The Nexo Championship has become something we are genuinely proud of – a tournament that launched the first-ever course record prize on the DP World Tour, and a Scottish champion on home soil in its inaugural year. We are back because this partnership earns its place in our portfolio through measurable long-term view.
The Nexo Championship and the DP World Tour give us concentrated, recurring exposure to exactly the audience Nexo is built for – and that is a combination worth renewing,” the Nexo team said of the sponsorship.
Trump International Back In The DP World Tour Spotlight
Trump International Golf Links, set along the North Sea coastline in Aberdeenshire, will again provide the stage. The Old Course hosted last year’s tournament and has developed a reputation as one of the more prominent new links courses in the United Kingdom.
Ben Cowen, Chief Tournament and Operations Officer at the DP World Tour, said: “We are pleased to have reached this new agreement with both Nexo and Trump International Golf Links for the Nexo Championship to again be part of our global schedule, and we thank them for their continued commitment. The Trump International Old Course has earned a reputation as one of the leading new links courses in the United Kingdom, and it was a great backdrop for last year’s tournament. With the Staysure PGA Seniors Championship taking place on our Staysure Legends Tour at the start of August, it is set to be another fantastic month of golf in Aberdeen this summer.”
That last point is not insignificant. Aberdeen is set for a serious spell in the golf shop window, with the Staysure PGA Seniors Championship arriving earlier in August before the Nexo Championship brings the DP World Tour back later in the month.
Speaking on behalf of the host venue, Eric F. Trump said: “We are greatly honoured to host the DP World Tour’s Nexo Championship at Trump International, Scotland – home of the greatest 36 holes in world golf. This is the second consecutive year we have hosted this prestigious event, and I am immensely proud of the two championships link courses that we have built along the spectacular North Sea shoreline. It is testament to their quality and stature that both the Old Course and New Course will host world-class tournaments this August.”
Don Trump Jr. also commented on the renewal of the Nexo Championship: “2026 is set to be another incredible year for championship golf at Trump International, Scotland. A huge thank you to the title sponsor Nexo and all those committed to delivering this great event.”
A Tournament With Scottish Roots And A Sharper Identity
The tournament first appeared on the Race to Dubai in 2020 as the Scottish Championship. Since then, it has evolved into the Nexo Championship, gaining a clearer commercial identity while retaining its Scottish backbone.
Last year’s edition gave the event exactly the sort of narrative organisers dream about and rarely get without bribing the weather. Scotland’s Grant Forrest won on home soil, claiming his second DP World Tour title at eight under par, four shots clear of England’s Joe Dean.
Forrest also collected a $10,000 bonus as the first winner of the Course Record presented by Nexo, thanks to a second-round 66. The initiative was launched as a season-long rolling prize fund, beginning at $10,000 per tournament and growing until a course record is broken, before resetting for the next event.
That sort of detail gives the Nexo Championship more than a logo on a leaderboard. It adds a competitive sub-plot, the golfing equivalent of someone quietly placing a crisp note on the mantelpiece and daring the field not to notice.
Celebrity Pro-Am Added For 2026
The 2026 Nexo Championship will also introduce a celebrity pro-am on Wednesday, August 19, giving the week a broader entertainment pull before the professionals get properly down to business.
It is a sensible addition. Pro-ams can sometimes feel like golf’s version of polite theatre, but when done well they bring atmosphere, accessibility and a little colour to tournament week. For a venue looking to stretch the appeal beyond hardened leaderboard watchers, it is a useful card to play.
Nexo’s Wider Sport Strategy
The Nexo Championship also sits within a wider sports portfolio. Nexo is Official Partner of the Audi Revolut Formula 1 Team, Official Crypto Partner of the Australian Open, title partner of the ATP 500 Dallas Open, and Official Regional Digital Asset Partner of the Argentine National Football Team ahead of the 2026 FIFA World Cup.
That spread tells its own story. Nexo is not simply buying visibility; it is building repeated exposure across premium global sport, from tennis courts to Formula 1 paddocks to championship golf. The DP World Tour offers another layer: tradition, travel, hospitality, and a global schedule with a very particular audience.
For the DP World Tour, the renewal brings stability, title sponsorship and another defined stop in Scotland. For Nexo, it is a return to a stage that already delivered a home winner, a new prize concept and a neat foothold in one of golf’s most commercially valuable corridors.
The Nexo Championship now has its date, its venue and its role in the 2026 Race to Dubai. All it needs next is the wind to behave itself, which in Aberdeenshire is rather like asking a bunker rake to write poetry.
