{"id":81855,"date":"2025-11-19T03:53:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T07:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/mcilroy-conquers-his-seventh-race-to-dubai-surpasses-ballesteros-2\/"},"modified":"2025-11-19T03:53:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T07:53:07","slug":"mcilroy-conquers-his-seventh-race-to-dubai-surpasses-ballesteros-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/golf\/mcilroy-conquers-his-seventh-race-to-dubai-surpasses-ballesteros-2\/","title":{"rendered":"McIlroy conquers his seventh Race to Dubai: Surpasses Ballesteros"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">McIlroy Surpasses Ballesteros and Conquers his Seventh Race to Dubai Title<\/h2>\n\n\nIn a day full of emotions, Rory McIlroy achieved a significant milestone by winning his seventh Race to Dubai title, thus surpassing the record of Seve Ballesteros, who held six victories. Despite losing in a playoff against Matt Fitzpatrick at the DP World Tour Championship, the Northern Irishman secured the season championship.\n\nMcIlroy, visibly emotional, shared his feelings about this achievement. &#8220;It&#8217;s incredible. I had a conversation with Carmen [Ballesteros&#8217; ex-wife] before going out to play today and she told me how proud he would be,&#8221; he revealed.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n\n<p>He means a lot to this Tour and to the European Ryder Cup team. We rally a lot around his spirit and his quotes and everything he meant to European golf.<\/p>\n\n<cite>Rory McIlroy<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nMcIlroy also expressed his desire to reach the record of Colin Montgomerie, who has eight titles. &#8220;I want that [eight titles], of course I do. I was the first European to win the Grand Slam and I would love to be the European with the most victories in terms of the Order of Merit and the season races,&#8221; he added.\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a2.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2025%2F1116%2Fr1576500_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg\" alt=\"Rory McIlroy ha ganado un s\u00e9ptimo t\u00edtulo de la Race to Dubai.\" title=\"\"><\/figure>\n\n\nFitzpatrick, for his part, celebrated his third victory in the event. The final day began with six players one stroke behind McIlroy and Rasmus Neergaard-Petersen of Denmark.\n\nMcIlroy got off to a promising start, reaching four under par in the first seven holes. However, Fitzpatrick positioned himself for the victory with a birdie on the last hole, completing a bogey-free round of 66 strokes, which forced McIlroy and Neergaard-Petersen to seek eagles to force a playoff.\n\nDespite the playoff loss, McIlroy took the Race to Dubai title. Fitzpatrick commented on the competition with McIlroy: &#8220;He&#8217;s one of the few you know you&#8217;re going to a playoff with.&#8221;\n\nTommy Fleetwood and Neergaard-Petersen tied for third place, while Tyrrell Hatton, who had hoped to snatch the title from McIlroy, finished in 14th place.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>McIlroy Surpasses Ballesteros and Conquers his Seventh Race to Dubai Title In a day full of emotions, Rory McIlroy achieved a significant milestone by winning his seventh Race to Dubai title, thus surpassing the record of Seve Ballesteros, who held six victories. Despite losing in a playoff against Matt Fitzpatrick at the DP World Tour [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":81856,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[163,10184,161,10236],"class_list":{"0":"post-81855","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-golf","9":"tag-race-to-dubai","10":"tag-rory-mcilroy","11":"tag-seve-ballesteros"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81855\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}