Rory McIlroy was the absolute protagonist, winner with 273 (-15) shots of the DP World Tour Championship and for the third consecutive time on the throne of Europe, the sixth in his career, and Matteo Manassero, who won the card for the PGA Tour, in the tournament that closed the competitive season of the 2024 circuit on the Earth Course (par 72), designed by Greg Norman, at the Jumeirah Golf Estates in Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates.
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McIlroy, results
In a very hard-fought and spectacular finale, the Northern Irishman, who had already won this event in 2012 and 2015, beat the Danish Rasmus Hojgaard by two shots, second with 275 (-13) and also author of excellent plays. In third place with 277 (-11) the French Antoine Rozner, the Australian Adam Scott and the Irish Shane Lowry and in sixth with 278 (-10) the English Tyrrell Hatton, member of LIV Golf. Only 30th with 287 (-1) Thriston Lawrence, the only one who could compete with McIlroy for the success in the Race to Dubai (order of merit).
Matteo Manassero (70 77 69 71) finished on par with Lawrence and with the 12th place in the ranking he obtained, as mentioned, one of the cards for the PGA Tour reserved for the first ten not otherwise exempt. Guido Migliozzi finished 19th with 284 (72 70 71 71, -4) and, 21st in the money list, he also came close to crossing the ocean. Further back is Francesco Laporta 45th with 295 (72 75 70 78, +7).
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Rory McIlroy (67 69 68 69), 35 years old from Holywood, has 26 titles on the PGA Tour in his palmars, including four Majors and three WGCs and, net of these, eleven on the DP World Tour, in addition to three FedEx Cups. In the fifth and final race of the Rolex Series he led the final round in 69 (-3) shots with six birdies, the decisive ones on the 16th and 18th, and three bogeys. For the success he received a check for 3,000,000 dollars on a prize pool of 10,000,000 million dollars, in addition to a bonus of 2,000,000 on a total of six million to be divided among the first ten of the order of merit. With his sixth title in the Race to Dubai he has reached Severiano Ballesteros in second place in the multiple winners ranking, approaching the leader, the Scotsman Colin Montgomerie with eight. He has time to reach him or surpass him, but he will never be able to take away a record that will probably remain unbeaten: seven consecutive successes from 1993 to 1999.
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Manassero and Migliozzi ran parallel with a 71 (-1) that both started with two bogeys and then continued with four birdies and another bogey. The latter regretted having lost the American card, but both had a great season with a victory each.
