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After a stellar week in the Middle Eastern desert, Jon Rahm scored a Dubai double on Sunday, winning the European Tour’s season-ending DP World Tour Championship and the Race to Dubai. With a birdie at the last, the 25-year-old Spaniard edged England’s Tommy Fleetwood by a stroke and padded his coffers with a $3 million first-place check and a $2 million bonus for winning the season-long points competition.
No player in the modern era can make the best golf look so effortless and enjoyable as Rory McIlroy, who capped his season with a fourth-place finish in Dubai, writes John Hopkins.
Sei Young Kim seized the LPGA’s CME Group Tour Championship title in dramatic fashion on Sunday, draining a long birdie putt on the final green at Tiburón Golf Club in Naples, Florida, to win by a stroke and earn $1.5 million, the largest payday in women’s golf history.
Tyler Duncan, who retained his PGA Tour card at the Korn Ferry Tour Finals this fall, won his first tour title, the RSM Classic, defeating Webb Simpson with a birdie on the second playoff hole on Sunday in Sea Island, Georgia.
LPGA commissioner Mike Whan, who is closing in on 10 years at the helm and has renewed for an unspecified period, is just as enthusiastic about his job now as he was the day he showed up, writes Steve Eubanks.
With a top-15 finish at the DP World Tour Championship, Scotland’s Robert MacIntyre clinched the European Tour’s Henry Cotton Rookie of the Year award.
The withdrawal of Brooks Koepka from the Presidents Cup due to injury – he was replaced on the U.S. team by Rickie Fowler – raised the question of how long it will be before Koepka is healthy enough to play competitive golf again.
The change in format of the CME Group Tour Championship that made all 60 players in the field eligible to win $1.5 million gave the tournament the feel of a major.
The R&A and the USGA have announced a series of sweeping changes to the World Amateur Golf Ranking, introducing what they call the Power Method which they believe will better reflect the current form of golfers by placing greater emphasis on recent results, writes Colin Callander.
This week’s instalment of The Divot probes a mystery: What happened to kilties on golf shoes?
Mike Cullity
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