Rory McIlroy held off Denmark’s Rasmus Hojgaard to win the season-ending DP World Tour Championship and clinch his sixth Race to Dubai title.
The Northern Irishman completed two strokes forward of Hojgaard on 15 beneath at Jumeirah Golf Estates after a three-under-par 69 in his remaining spherical.
McIlroy, 35, was confirmed because the Race to Dubai winner halfway by means of his spherical when nearest challenger Thriston Lawrence – who had wanted to win the event to have any likelihood of clinching the general title – completed one beneath.
It’s the third yr in succession that McIlroy has completed prime of the season rankings and his sixth title general – matching Seve Ballesteros’ report.
Sharing a three-way lead in the beginning of the ultimate spherical, McIlroy put two pictures between himself and Hojgaard with 4 birdies in his first 5 holes.
However bogeys on the ninth and thirteenth allowed the Dane to attract stage with 4 holes remaining.
Simply as Hojgaard was piling on the strain, McIlroy produced a surprising method shot on the sixteenth to tee up a birdie putt.
It was exactly the kind of dangerous, aggressive play that has labored towards McIlroy up to now but it surely moved him one stroke clear on this event with two holes left.
Hojgaard was compelled to be aggressive in reply, however the Dane narrowly missed a birdie putt on the 18th – relieving the strain on McIlroy who holed his personal birdie try to seal the win.
