{"id":280821,"date":"2025-11-13T02:22:15","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T02:22:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/280821\/"},"modified":"2025-11-13T02:22:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T02:22:15","slug":"sick-marco-penge-watches-rory-mcilroy-youtube-videos-to-prepare-for-dubai-finale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/280821\/","title":{"rendered":"Sick Marco Penge watches Rory McIlroy YouTube videos to prepare for Dubai finale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For Rory McIlroy to be denied another season-long Race to Dubai title, Marco Penge is going to have to pull off the biggest win yet of his breakthrough year on the European tour.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s a problem, though. Penge was consigned to his bed early this week because of sickness and has barely had a chance to see the Earth Course.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, Penge revealed Wednesday he has resorted to watching McIlroy on YouTube to gain an insight into what he\u2019ll have to produce at the World Tour Championship this week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was actually lying in bed yesterday watching Rory play all four rounds from last year on YouTube,\u201d Penge said. \u201cSo I felt like I had a pretty good idea before I got here today.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was seeing what holes he hits driver off, etc. And I\u2019ll get a good idea tomorrow when I watch him play as well.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, the English golfer will be paired with McIlroy for the first two rounds of the season-ending event in Dubai, like he was at the Abu Dhabi Championship last week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m just approaching the week, watching Rory play golf, making the most of that experience. Learning from him like I did last week in the first two rounds. He\u2019s got more experience than me, and he\u2019s world No. 2 right now,\u201d Penge said.<\/p>\n<p>    <a class=\"Link\" aria-label=\"Rory McIlroy: Content with career but now \u2018more driven in focused areas\u2019\" href=\"https:\/\/www.golfchannel.com\/dp-world-tour\/news\/rory-mcilroy-content-with-career-but-now-more-driven-in-focused-areas\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"Image\" alt=\"DP World Tour Championship 2025 - Previews\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1763000535_463_\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p>With the career Grand Slam locked up, Rory McIlroy isn\u2019t fully content \u2014 he\u2019s just hungrier for certain goals.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ll be just be in his shadow, I suppose, and trying to follow him around the golf course,\u201d he added, laughing.<\/p>\n<p>Penge is second in the Race to Dubai standings, around 767 points behind McIlroy. To overhaul McIlroy, Penge \u2014 a three-time winner on the tour this year \u2014 either needs to win and hope McIlroy finishes worse than second alone, or finish in a tie for second and for the Northern Irishman to be down the leaderboard.<\/p>\n<p>After being away from the course on Monday and Tuesday, Penge at least got to play nine holes on Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s pretty new to me,\u201d Penge said. \u201cIt\u2019s still a golf course, fairways and greens, and that\u2019s the plan, I suppose. You can see it. Just got to hit it straight.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For Rory McIlroy to be denied another season-long Race to Dubai title, Marco Penge is going to have&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":280822,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,755,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-280821","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-golf","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=280821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280821\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/280822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}