A double for history… and to forget the US Open. Rory McIlroy (35) put the cherry on top of a season that threatened to have a bitter taste with a great victory in Dubai, which has double reward and a privileged place in golf history.
The Northern Irish golfer won the DP World Tour Championship, the tournament that closes the course on the Old Continent, after a beautiful and tense battle with the Dane Rasmus Hojgaard. But at stake was not only the title, there was also the final triumph in the Order of Merit (the Race to Dubai), which is accompanied by a shower of millions, and McIlroy also stood out there, who in this case had everything at his disposal. favor and did not fail.
a great battle
McIlroy defeated Rasmus Hojgaard twice: he took the tournament and the Order of Merit
It is the sixth time that the player from Holywood has won the Order of Merit on the European Tour, which equals him with Severiano Ballesteros. “Seve means a lot to the world of golf, everyone knows it, putting myself on par with him is incredible. “In the Ryder Cup locker room it is full of his memories,” he said on the 18th green, just after the victory, through tears, more than emotional. Ahead of both is only Colin Montgomerie, who has eight wins.
With this double victory, McIlroy can definitively put aside, not to forget, the last holes of this year’s US Open when he threw away a victory that he seemed to have in his hands and that was taken from him by Bryson DeChambeau on the last hole of Pinehurst. The Northern Irishman has four majors under his belt but has not won any for a decade now.
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