{"id":283619,"date":"2025-11-14T09:07:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T09:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/283619\/"},"modified":"2025-11-14T09:07:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T09:07:09","slug":"race-to-dubai-permutations-how-rory-mcilroy-can-finish-epic-golf-season-with-seventh-crown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/283619\/","title":{"rendered":"Race to Dubai permutations: How Rory McIlroy can finish epic golf season with seventh crown"},"content":{"rendered":"

You might think 2025 couldn’t get much better for Rory McIlroy<\/a>, having claimed a Grand Slam-clinching Masters victory and a Ryder Cup trophy on enemy soil with Europe.<\/p>\n

But there is still one big title left to play for, the DP World Tour’s Race to Dubai.<\/p>\n

The Race to Dubai, formerly known as the European Tour’s Order of Merit, is a season-long competition where golfers accumulate points from DP World Tour events and major championships, and McIlroy is currently in pole position to claim a fourth straight title, and seventh overall.<\/p>\n

– Penge, main Rory rival, prepared for Dubai title from sick bed<\/a><\/p>\n

That would see him overtake the great Seve Ballesteros<\/a>, and put him one behind Colin Montgomerie<\/a>‘s tally of eight.<\/p>\n

McIlroy has one final hurdle, the Dubai World Tour Championship where two men can still deny him.<\/p>\n

Rory McIlroy is hoping to land a seventh Race to Dubai title this weekend.\u00a0GIUSEPPE CACACE\/AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n

The Northern Irish golfer is 767.02 points ahead of second-placed Marco Penge<\/a> (despite playingly only 10 DP World Tour events to the Englishman’s 25) and 1,720.88 points ahead of Ryder Cup teammate Tyrrell Hatton<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Race to Dubai RankingsRankPlayerTotal points1Rory McIlroy4,640.062Marco Penge3,873.043Tyrrell Hatton2,919.184Kristoffer Reitan2,655.655Robert MacIntyre2,635.396Adrien Saddier2,518.937John Parry2,431.658Alex Noren2,414.329Aaron Rai2,391.6010Tommy Fleetwood2,366.47<\/p>\n

That may sound like a lot — but there are 2,000 points up for grabs in the season-ender in Dubai, which starts with McIlroy and Penge in the final group on Thursday.<\/p>\n

For Penge, he must finish Sunday tied second or better to have any chance.<\/p>\n

If Penge wins, then he will need McIlroy to come lower than runner-up.<\/p>\n

Should Penge share second place then he would need the McIlroy to finish outside the top eight.<\/p>\n

Hatton has an outside shot — for him to emerge victorious he must win this week and see McIlroy finish lower than eighth, and Penge miss out on a share of second place.<\/p>\n

McIlroy won last year at Dubai’s Jumeirah Golf Estates to clinch the Race to Dubai — and will be looking to finish the season in style again this weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"You might think 2025 couldn’t get much better for Rory McIlroy, having claimed a Grand Slam-clinching Masters victory…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":283620,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,755,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-283619","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\/283619","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=283619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283619\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/283620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}