Tournament Information

• Tournament: International Series Morocco
• Venue: Royal Golf Dar Es Salam (Red Course), Rabat
• Date: July 4-7, 2024
• Purse: US$2 million (first place US$360,000)
• Asian Tour leg: Eighth event of 2024 season
• International Series leg: Third of 2024 season
• Edition of tournament: Second (first played in 2022)
• Course designer: Robert Trent Jones
• (Redesigned in 2017–2018 by James Duncan)
• Year opened: 1971
• Par/Yards: 73 / 7,596
• Field: 156
• Format: 72-hole stroke play with a cut made after two rounds to the leading 65 pros plus ties
• Social Media Hashtags: #InternationalSeries #ThisISEverything #whereitsAT

Asian Tour Order of Merit leader John Catlin is going for his third win of the year. Picture by Paul Lakatos/Asian Tour.

Field Breakdown

• Order of Merit winners: Sihwan Kim (USA) 2022, Jazz Janewattananond (THA) 2019, Scott Hend (2016), Jeev Milkha Singh (2008 & 2006)
• Nationalities: 30
• Past winners of tournament in the field: Jazz Janewattananond (THA) 2022
• Top contenders: John Catlin (USA), Jeunghun Wang (KOR), Graeme McDowell (NIR), Peter Uihlein (USA), Chonlatit Chuenboonngam (THA)
• Highest ranked player on OWGR: John Catlin (USA) #172
• Highest ranked player on 2024 Asian Tour Order of Merit: John Catlin (USA) #1
• No. of amateurs: 5
• No. of Moroccan players in the field: 8

Tournament key notes + storylines

• Jazz Janewattananond is back to defend his title he won in 2022. On a dramatic Sunday afternoon, he came out of the chasing pack by finishing with an eagle and a birdie to close with a fine six-under-par 67 to end on 12 under and beat Canadian Richard T. Lee by one stroke. It was his first win in three years.
• Asian Tour Order of Merit leader John Catlin of the United States will have a great chance to take over the International Series Rankings from current leader Carlos Ortiz from Mexico who is not playing and is only US$33,975 ahead. Catlin, the won the International Series Macau presented by Wynn and Saudi Open presented by PIF back-to-back in March and April, and is coming into the tournament in good form having posted a T7 and T24 in the last two LIV Golf League events, having been called up to stand in for the injured Charles Howell III on Bryson DeChambeau’s Crushers GC team.
• Northern Ireland’s Graeme McDowell, the 2010 U.S. Open champion and four-time Ryder Cupper, is having a solid season on LIV Golf where he has posted three top 10s this season, in Las Vegas, Hong Kong and Houston. McDowell has 16 professional wins in his career, including 11 on the DP World Tour and three on the PGA Tour.
• American Peter Uihlein had a good start to his season by finishing tied second in the LIV Golf Series Las Vegas event in February, just one stroke behind the winner Dustin Johnson. In two Asian Tour events this season, the Saudi Open presented by PIF and International Series Oman, Uihlein posted tied third and sixth place finishes respectively.
• Jeunghun Wang of Korea has had a lean spell since securing a start in the upcoming Open Championship by finishing runner up at the IRS Prima Malaysian Open to start his season. However, he is a proven winner on the Dar Es Salam Red Course layout. In 2016 Wang won the DP World Tour’s Trophee Hassan II in a play-off for his first DP World Tour win, and promptly won again the following week in the Asian Tour joint sanctioned AfrAsia Bank Mauritius Open.
• Thailand’s Chonaltit Chuenboonngam is coming into the tournament in fine form, having nearly broke through for his first Asian Tour victory in the GS Caltex Maekyung Open in early May coming up just short in a play-off. He followed it up with a creditable tied 13th place at the notoriously difficult Woo Jeong Hills in the Kolon Korea Open in June.
• The Red Course at host club Royal Golf Dar Es Salam is a classic layout with big cork oak trees lining the fairways and in the early 1990s was ranked among the World’s Top 100 Courses. In addition to the Asian Tour’s International Series Morocco, it has also hosted numerous events on the DP World Tour, Ladies European Tour, Challenge Tour and PGA Tour Champions.