{"id":264443,"date":"2025-11-15T14:49:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T14:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/264443\/"},"modified":"2025-11-15T14:49:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T14:49:07","slug":"rory-mcilroy-in-joint-lead-as-he-closes-in-on-race-to-dubai-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/264443\/","title":{"rendered":"Rory McIlroy in joint lead as he closes in on Race to Dubai title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 36-year-old has a 767-point lead at the top of the season-long rankings as he goes for his fourth consecutive Race to Dubai crown.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hatton and compatriot Marco Penge are the only two who can stop McIlroy from winning the season-long title.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hatton needs to win the tournament and have McIlroy finish worse than tied for eighth to win it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;m in a better position than him [Hatton],&#8221; added McIlroy. &#8220;I&#8217;m focused on myself. If I go out and play the golf that I know that I&#8217;m capable of, especially around this golf course, I know that I&#8217;ll be OK.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It would be an amazing way to end the season.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Penge shot an improved 68 in round three after scores of 74 and 70, but looks out of contention on four under.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 36-year-old has a 767-point lead at the top of the season-long rankings as he goes for his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":264444,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-264443","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-golf","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264443\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}