{"id":83002,"date":"2025-11-20T00:32:27","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T04:32:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/fitzpatrick-beats-mcilroy-in-dubai-but-rory-takes-the-race-to-dubai-6\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T00:32:27","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T04:32:27","slug":"fitzpatrick-beats-mcilroy-in-dubai-but-rory-takes-the-race-to-dubai-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/golf\/fitzpatrick-beats-mcilroy-in-dubai-but-rory-takes-the-race-to-dubai-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Fitzpatrick beats McIlroy in Dubai, but Rory takes the Race to Dubai"},"content":{"rendered":"DUBAI, United Arab Emirates \u2013 Rory McIlroy’s season finale was filled with excitement, culminating in an eagle on the final hole that forced a playoff. However, Matt Fitzpatrick took the victory at the World Tour Championship for the third time.\n\nDespite not taking first place, McIlroy secured his fourth consecutive Race to Dubai title, solidifying himself as the best European player of the year.\n\n\n

A Standout Year for McIlroy<\/h2>\n\n\nThis achievement adds to his victories at the Masters, completing the career Grand Slam, The Players Championship and the Irish Open. In addition, McIlroy was key in the victory of the European team at the Ryder Cup.\n\nAll his great individual victories were defined in tiebreaks, but on this occasion, luck was not on his side. A shot into the water on the first playoff hole, the 18th, cost him a bogey. Fitzpatrick, for his part, made a par, securing the victory.\n\n\u201cObviously, you never like how things end, but I’m delighted,\u201d Fitzpatrick declared after his victory.\n\nMcIlroy generated great expectation by achieving an eagle on the 18th hole, completing a round of 67 strokes, which tied him with Fitzpatrick at the top of the leaderboard.\n\nFor McIlroy, this is his seventh Race to Dubai title, surpassing Seve Ballesteros and being one title away from Colin Montgomerie’s record.\n\n\u201cI didn’t dream of getting this far, so it’s great,\u201d McIlroy commented.\n\nMcIlroy added that he hopes to have several more successful years to reach and surpass Montgomerie’s record.\n\n
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Matt Fitzpatrick venci\u00f3 a Rory McIlroy para ganar el World Tour Championship por tercera vez, mientras que McIlroy se llev\u00f3 su cuarto t\u00edtulo consecutivo y el s\u00e9ptimo en general de la Race to Dubai.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\nFor several hours, nine players led or shared the lead on the Earth Course. Fitzpatrick achieved three birdies in his last five holes to surpass McIlroy and other European stars like Tommy Fleetwood and Ludvig \u00c5berg.\n\nA 6-foot birdie putt on the 18th hole gave Fitzpatrick a lead over Fleetwood, \u00c5berg and Laurie Canter, and two strokes over McIlroy, who needed an eagle to tie.\n\nFitzpatrick, the 2022 US Open champion, had a slow start to the season, but finished strongly, securing his place on the Ryder Cup team thanks to his results at the British Masters, the European Masters, and the BMW PGA Championship in September.\n\n\u201cTo turn it around in the summer like I did and to have a Ryder Cup like I had, I feel like it\u2019s hard to top,\u201d Fitzpatrick said.\n\nFitzpatrick’s performance in the tournament was outstanding, demonstrating his ability to stay at the top of the world golf.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates \u2013 Rory McIlroy’s season finale was filled with excitement, culminating in an eagle on the final hole that forced a playoff. However, Matt Fitzpatrick took the victory at the World Tour Championship for the third time. Despite not taking first place, McIlroy secured his fourth consecutive Race to Dubai title, solidifying […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":83003,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[163,5943,10184,161],"class_list":{"0":"post-83002","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-golf","9":"tag-matt-fitzpatrick","10":"tag-race-to-dubai","11":"tag-rory-mcilroy"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83002","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=83002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83002\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}