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One birdie all day but still just one shot from the lead. Dutchman Joost Luiten knows how to win though in saying that it’s been eight years since he last won on the DP World Tour and that being a sixth Tour success in the 2018 Oman Open. However after four top-10s this year, including a sixth in the BMW PGA Championship and a season-best of a T5th in the more recent DP World India Championship, it’s not surprise that Luiten is after a sixth DP World Tour ‘W’. LUITEN JUST ...

A birdie at the last has helped rescue Rory McIlroy’s pride heading to the weekend rounds of the DP World Tour Championship in Dubai. McIlroy’s closing hole birdie, and after back-to-back bogeys at 16 and17, helped restore some confidence in his quest to not only capture the tournament itself but also join Scotland’s Colin Montgomerie with eight Race to Dubai money-list titles. McIlroy had been two shots clear of the field after just 10 holes before dropping three shots from 12 ...

Top Spaniard Eugenio Chacarra now admits Rory McIlroy is going to be tough to beat but 36 holes is a lot of golf heading to the closing two days of the 2026 Race to Dubai season. Chacarra posted scores of 72 and 71, having birdied his closing two holes on day two in continuing bright but difficult windy conditions on the host Jumeriah Estates course in the UAE. He birdied the first and second holes on day two but proceeded to add just a further three birdies, including at the closing two hole but ...

Rory McIlroy started the strongest of the Race to Dubai title contenders at the season-ending World Tour Championship, posting a 3-under 69 to sit in third place, two strokes off first-round leader Joost Luiten. McIlroy is seeking to claim the yearlong award — crowning the top player on the DP World — for a record-tying eighth time and for the fifth straight year. He is guaranteed to do so with a victory at Jumeirah Golf Estates this week. The world No. 2 is second in the Race to Dubai ...

Dutch golfer Joost Luiten leads the way by a shot in the season-ending DP World Tour Championship on the Jumeriah Estates course in Dubai. Luiten, 40, produced seven birdies in a stella five-under-par score 67 to head the elite field of just 50 players contesting the event that winds up the season. Denmark’s Jason Skov Olesen also birdied the last to be lying in second place with a four-under 68 and with five players, including two players in contention all last week dowm the road in the UAE ...

Eugenio Chacarra declares joining Seve Ballesteros and Jon Rahm as a European Number One would “mean the world” as he heads into the closing DP World Tour Championship with a comfortable lead and the Harry Vardon Trophy within reach. The Spaniard holds a 533.93-point lead over Rory McIlroy at the top of the Race to Dubai Rankings, and while there are nine players in the running for the season-long race, Chacarra knows victory at Jumeirah Golf Estates would secure the season-long title, regardless ...

The Spanish duo of Jose Luis Ballester and Rocco Repetto Taylor shared victory at the Final Stage of DP World Tour Qualifying School as 20 players earned their DP World Tour cards for the 2027 season at INFINITUM The pair carded matching rounds of six under par 65 to reach 32 under par for the week, one shot ahead of Australia’s Cameron John who secured his graduation with a 66 on the final day. Ballester will be playing his first full season on the DP World Tour, while Repetto Taylor returns ...