Marco Penge at a event earlier this 12 months.
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The DP World Tour has suspended 26-year-old English professional Marco Penge for betting on golf tournaments.
In a assertion Wednesday, the tour didn’t say which occasions Penge guess on however did report that he wagered neither on himself nor on the progress of tournaments during which he was competing, main the disciplinary panel to rule that “the integrity of such occasions had not been compromised.”
Penge’s ensuing two-month suspension took impact Dec. 13 and can expire on Feb. 13. The tour additionally fined Penge £2,000.
DP World Tour members are prohibited to gamble on tournaments underneath Regulation 3(a)(i) of the tour’s integrity program. That stipulation reads as follows: “No Coated Particular person shall both immediately or not directly guess or instruct every other individual to guess on the consequence, progress, conduct or every other side of any skilled or elite novice golf occasion wherever on the planet.”
In its assertion, the tour added that “Penge’s instant admission of breach and co-operation all through the investigation warranted mitigation mirrored within the eventual sanction imposed.”
Penge is the 414th ranked participant on the planet. He was promoted to the DP World Tour after profitable the Problem Tour in 2023. This 12 months, he narrowly held on to his DP standing for 2025 by ending a hundred and tenth within the Race to Dubai Rankings. In his most up-to-date begin — on the Australian Open late final month — Penge completed twenty seventh.
This isn’t the primary time knowledgeable golfer has been suspended for betting on golf. In 2023, the PGA Tour suspended Korn Ferry Tour gamers Vince India and Jake Staino for six months and three months, respectively, for playing on PGA Tour competitions, which violates the PGA Tour’s Integrity Program.
In 2023, the Tour bolstered its bet-monitoring capabilities by partnering with watchdog U.S. Integrity. In a press release on the time, the Tour stated, “U.S. Integrity will present supplementary integrity-monitoring providers by way of its proprietary dashboard, in an effort to proactively determine irregular contest-level, officiating and wagering patterns by conducting evaluation throughout many information units.
Although each the DP World Tour and PGA Tour have strict betting insurance policies for his or her gamers, each excursions even have offers with betting platforms designed to drive fan engagement. In 2023, the DP tour made OlyBet its official betting operator. In 2019, the PGA Tour signed a multi-year settlement with DraftKings to change into the Tour’s official day by day fantasy recreation accomplice.
