Dp World Tour Championship Leaderboard 2015
2015 Valspar Championship results and final leaderboard and prize money payout Jordan Spieth won the 2015 Valspar Championship in a playoff over Patrick Reed and Sean O'Hair to win the $1.062. The DP World Tour Championship, Dubai is a golf tournament on the European Tour and is the climax of the European Tour Race to Dubai. It is contested on the Earth course at the Jumeirah Golf Estates in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The title sponsor is DP World, a shipping company based in Dubai.
Sheikh Mansour Bin Mohammed awards Race to Dubai trophy to Lee Westwood at Jumeirah Golf Estate. WAM
Gulf Today, Staff Reporter
A second place finish at DP World Tour Championship was enough for veteran Lee Westwood to secure his second Race to Dubai title as Matt Fitzpatrick landed the season-ending DP World Tour Championship on Sunday.
Overnight leaders Fitzpatrick and Patrick Reed, who was striving to become first American to be the top golfer at the European tour by winning the Race to Dubai title, were seen in a fierce battle on the final day of the DP World Tour Championship.
Fitzpatrick got off to a flying start with four birdies to move on the top of the leaderboard and looked set to claim Race to Dubai crown.
In a hilarious turn of events, Westwood swung into action late and birdied two of his last three holes to finish with a final round 68, finishing second at the DP World Tour Championship and bagging enough points, which fetched him the Race to Dubai glory for the second time in his career.
Westwood finished on 3128 points, 18 points more than that of DP World Tour Championship winner Fitzpatrick, who finished on 3110.2 points.
Sheikh Mansour Bin Mohammed crowns Matt Fitzpatrick with the 12th edition of the DP World Golf Tournament at Jumeirah Golf Estates. WAM
With the second Race to Dubai title, Westwood joined the elite club of Rory McIlroy, Henrik Stenson, Els Ernie and Goosen Retief to have won the prestigious title more twice. McIlroy has won thrice in 2012, 2014 and 2015.
'It's been a bizarre season for so many reasons, the European Tour have done an incredible job to pick the season up again from July and have tournaments on every week,' said the 47-year-old Westwood.
'The culmination of it all here, it was a great finish. Thrills and spills, the Race to Dubai up for grabs and the tournament up for grabs.'
Fitzpatrick matched his 68 to finish at 15 under, one shot clear of his fellow Englishman at the top of the leaderboard, and win his first Rolex Series title but not good enough to win the Race to Dubai.
Reed entered the week on top of the Race to Dubai rankings and remained there for much of the day but bogeys on the 16th and 17th saw him finish one shot behind Westwood at 13 under.
Jon Rahm pocketed a mammoth US$5 million in prize money after winning both the DP World Tour Championship and the European Tour’s Race to Dubai on an action-packed final day at Jumeirah Golf Estates.
The Spaniard, who has now won four Rolex Series events, started the day tied at the top of the leaderboard with Mike Lorenzo-Vera but quickly pulled away with five birdies over his opening seven holes to open up a commanding lead over the Earth course. But the 25 year old gave two shots back on the eighth and ninth to give the chasing pack some hope before Tommy Fleetwood carded five birdies in his closing seven holes to set the clubhouse target at 18 under par.
Rahm was tied with Fleetwood heading up the last and it looked as though a play-off was on the cards for just the second time in tournament history before a brilliant up and down from the bunker saw him secure a one-stroke triumph for his second DP World Tour Championship title having first won the event in 2017.
“The last time I thought I was making a big purchase, I bought an Xbox.” @JonRahmpga#dpwtc#racetodubai#rolexseriespic.twitter.com/YtJ8W5sXNg
— Worldwide Golf (@WorldwideGolf) November 24, 2019
“You dream of making birdies on 18 to win a tournament,” said Rahm, who became the first player, since Rory McIlroy in 2015, to win both the DP World Tour Championship and Race to Dubai in the same season.
“I wasn’t expecting to need that after playing so well early in the round but it happened and I came through when I needed it and I’m really proud of myself for that. I’ve thought about winning the Race to Dubai all week. I’ve thought about it the last two hours. I thought about it as soon as I made the putt. But it still hasn’t processed in my mind.
“It’s really so hard to believe that some of the greatest champions in European golf and Spanish golf haven’t been able to accomplish what I have in just three years. That’s what I can’t really get my head around.
“So many great players throughout the history of Spain have had a chance to be crowned European Tour Number One but didn’t get it done. It’s just hard to put that in perspective to know that since Seve (Ballesteros), I’m the next one to get it done. It just doesn’t feel like it’s true. It’s hard to believe.”
The Dubai Double! 🏆🏆@JonRahmpga wins the #DPWTC and #RacetoDubai! pic.twitter.com/A9Flg8PWWy
— The European Tour (@EuropeanTour) November 24, 2019
Fleetwood’s emphatic final round 65 saw him finish runner-up which also took him up to second in the Race to Dubai Rankings on 5414.8 points for the season.
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“I feel fine, I couldn’t have done much more, really,” said the Englishman, who has won over US$4.5 million in the last two weeks after winning US$2.5 million at the Nedbank Golf Challenge, $803,418 at the DP World Tour Championship and a healthy US$1.2 million for finishing second in the Race to Dubai.
“Some of the shots the leading pair were making down the stretch, it started to look like I might get back in it or have a chance. I’m proud of the way I played the last few holes and the end of the season. These last two weeks make the season just seem in a different light than it did a few weeks before. Fair play to Jon. He carded a cracking birdie down the last when he needed it.”
The final #RacetoDubai standings 📊
What a season. What a finale.
— The European Tour (@EuropeanTour) November 24, 2019
Lorenzo-Vera, who had led the tournament for the first three rounds, finished a shot further back to complete the top three while two-time winner, Rory McIlroy, finished in fourth and last year’s champion Danny Willett took fifth place.
Mohammed Al Muallem, CEO & Managing Director, DP World UAE Region, said: “Congratulations to Jon for his DP World Tour Championship title and for winning the Race to Dubai. We’ve had a fantastic week of world-class golf at Jumeirah Golf Estates and I would like to thank the European Tour, the players, volunteers, our partners and of course the golf fans here and around the world. We are proud of our flagship association with the DP World Tour Championship, a tournament that has played a significant part in putting Dubai firmly at the centre of the international sporting world.”
Dp World Tour Championship Dubai 2015 Leaderboard
Meanwhile, Bernd Wiesberger dropped down to third in the Race to Dubai Rankings with a tied 28th place finish at the season-ending event to pocket US$700,000 from the Race to Dubai Bonus Pool while Shane Lowry took home US$600,000 and Matthew Fitzpatrick US$500,000 for finishing fourth and fifth in the Rankings respectively.