After an agonizing 2024 campaign that featured a U.S. Open heartbreak, a near miss at the Irish Open at Royal County Down, and a playoff loss to Billy Horschel at the BMW PGA Championship, Rory McIlroy is all but assured to end the year with a big win.
He arrives at this week’s Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship—the penultimate tournament of the DP World Tour season and the first DP World Tour playoff event—holding a massive lead in the season-long Race to Dubai standings. McIlroy leads South African Thriston Lawrence by 1,572.39 points. But given that the DP World Tour awards the winner of this week’s event with 1,500 points,
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