{"id":280907,"date":"2025-11-13T03:15:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T03:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/280907\/"},"modified":"2025-11-13T03:15:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T03:15:12","slug":"jumeirah-golf-estates-earth-course-whats-the-record-score","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/280907\/","title":{"rendered":"Jumeirah Golf Estates Earth Course: What’s The Record Score?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jumeirah Golf Estates has hosted the DP World Tour Championship since 2009, with its Earth Course<\/a> proving the final battle ground for the European circuit’s season finale.<\/p>\n

In the years since it opened, a number of low scores have been posted there despite intimidating bunkers, water features and green complexes throughout.<\/p>\n

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Any number of pros have signed for scores in the mid-to-low 60s, and the winning total has hovered between 14-under and 25-under in each year the big-money event has occurred.<\/p>\n

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In 2013, Henrik Stenson<\/a> posted an incredible 25-under on his way to a first DP World Tour Championship title via a couple of 64s. The very next year, the Swede won again but managed just 16-under.<\/p>\n

Since then, only twice have players come anywhere close to breaking that record – Rory McIlroy<\/a>‘s 21-under in 2013 and Nicolai Hojgaard<\/a>‘s identical tally 10 years later.<\/p>\n

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The 18th hole at the Jumeirah Golf Estates’ Earth Course <\/p>\n

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And it was in the year of Hojgaard’s success that Matt Wallace carded a simply outrageous round of 60<\/a>, a 12-under-par score on the par-72 Earth Course.<\/p>\n

The Englishman birdied every single hole on the back nine and had a chance to match Oliver Fisher’s record as the only European Tour 59<\/a> had he holed a green-side bunker shot at the last.<\/p>\n

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However, Wallace had to make do with a 60 – a score which would have been the new course record at the Earth Course if preferred lies had not been in place.<\/p>\n

Speaking immediately afterwards, Wallace was full of emotion about his remarkable Sunday.<\/p>\n

He said: “What a day, an amazing day. I just tried my hardest to get myself back into the tournament. I’m really happy that I’ve been able to do that. Played great.<\/p>\n

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“At the end, I didn’t even think there was a 59. Honestly I think it helped me a little bit. I just played nicely coming down the stretch, just keep getting one more if I could and I managed to do that.<\/p>\n

“Kind of gutted now actually a little bit. Great opportunity to do it. I’ve done it at Moorpark on the West Course which is only a par 68, but to do it out there would have been really special today.<\/p>\n

“Ball in hand helps. I had a couple good lies for up-and-down, but it was fantastic and a good effort for 59.”<\/p>\n

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As a result of preferred lies being in place that year, Justin Rose<\/a> remains the owner of the course record at Jumeirah Golf Estates’ Earth Course.<\/p>\n

Rose posted an extraordinary 10-under-par 62 during the final round of the 2012 DP World Tour Championship as he finished on 21-under, two strokes behind champion McIlroy.<\/p>\n

Months before winning the US Open at Merion, Rose capped off his previous campaign with a final-round charge which has become synonymous with the Englishman over the years.<\/p>\n

He produced eight birdies and an eagle to shave two shots off the previous record, which was held by a number of players including Sergio Garcia<\/a> (twice), Lee Westwood, Martin Kaymer, Ross Fisher, Peter Hanson, Alvaro Quiros and Jeev Milka Singh.<\/p>\n

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The score could have been even better, too, with Rose running a 100-foot eagle try to within inches of the hole at 18. Nevertheless, he tapped in for birdie and won the DP World Tour’s November Shot Of The Month.<\/p>\n

Speaking at the time, Rose said: “That was a lot of fun. The front nine was just as good as the back nine and on the back nine the putts just started going in.<\/p>\n

“It was important for me to stay positive and aggressive because there were a lot of birdie opportunities out there.”<\/p>\n

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On the other half of Jumeirah Golf Estates’ main golfing layout, Andy Sullivan holds the Fire Course record thanks to a brilliant 11-under-par 61.<\/p>\n

Sullivan went bogey free during the first round of the 2020 Golf in Dubai Championship and reeled off 11 birdies to lead by two strokes after 18 holes.<\/p>\n

He had made six gains by the turn and was on 59 watch with two holes to play, but made par on both to sign for a very handsome 61 ahead of Antoine Rozner, Wallace and Fisher who had each posted nine-under rounds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jumeirah Golf Estates has hosted the DP World Tour Championship since 2009, with its Earth Course proving the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":280908,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,755,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-280907","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\/280907","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=280907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280907\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/280908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}