Matt Fitzpatrick claimed DP World Tour Championship glory as Rory McIlroy secured the Race to Dubai for a seventh time on a thrilling final day of the 2025 Race to Dubai.

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Fitzpatrick won the prestigious title for the third time in his career at the first play-off hole after the Bethpage Ryder Cup team-mates had ended regulation play tied on 18 under par.

The 31-year-old booked his place in extra holes thanks to a stunning end to his final round on the Earth Course at Jumeirah Golf Estates, birdieing the 14th, 15th and 18th holes to dramatically cut the deficit which had seen him drop three shots off the pace with six to play following a run of eight pars in a row from the sixth.

His closing birdie looked to have done enough to win outright after breaking him out of the logjam of players on 17 under par, a group which included his Ryder Cup team-mates Ludvig Åberg and Tommy Fleetwood alongside third round co-leader Rasmus Neergaard-Petersen and Laurie Canter.

But he hadn’t reckoned with the remarkable resilience of McIlroy. The Masters champion and Career Grand Slam winner looked to be out of the reckoning following bogeys at the 12th and 16th which had seen him surrender the lead. But the Northern Irishman produced a stunning second shot approach to 16 feet on the 72nd hole from where he rolled in his eagle putt to join Fitzpatrick at the top of the pile.

Neither player could repeat the fireworks of earlier at the first extra hole, McIlroy producing the first error when his drive found the creek in the middle of the fairway. His third shot after the penalty drop found a bunker, only slightly further from the green than Fitzpatrick, whose third shot ended up in the rough to the right of the putting surface.

One thing that was stellar from the Englishman this week was his chipping from around the greens and he continued in that vein, knocking his fourth shot to less than three feet. It meant McIlroy realistically had to hole his par effort from 20 feet to have a chance of extending matters. He didn’t, and Fitzpatrick duly knocked home his par putt to win.

Fitzpatrick’s win moved him to third on the final Race to Dubai Rankings, McIlroy’s considerable consolation for not claiming his third DP World Tour title of the season was the fact that, once again, he finished the season as the Race to Dubai number one.

It was the fourth time in a row he has achieved the feat and the seventh time in total, moving the Northern Irishman one ahead of the late Seve Ballesteros and now only one behind legendary Scot Colin Montgomerie in the golfing record books.

Also up for grabs in at the end of the week in Dubai were ten dual memberships on the PGA TOUR, with Marco Penge, Laurie Canter, Kristoffer Reitan, Adrien Saddier, Alex Noren, John Parry, Haotong Li, Keita Nakajima, Rasmus Neergaard-Petersen and Jordan Smith claiming the ten cards for the 2026 season.

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