Abu Dhabi Championship final-round leaderboard
-23 J Rahm (Spa); –21 T Hatton (Eng); -19 R McIlroy (NI); -17 F Laporta (Ita); -16 B Wiesberger (Aut), A Ayora (Spa), D Puig (Spa); -15 J Schaper (SA)
Chosen others: -14 N Kimsey (Eng), M Jordan (Eng); -13 S Bairstow (Eng), T Fleetwood (Eng), A Sullivan (Eng); -12 E Ferguson (Sco); -11 E Chacarra (Spa); -10 A Rai (Eng); -9 M Wallace (Eng); -4 P Reed (US)
Jon Rahm fired a final-round 67 to clinch a two-shot victory over England’s Tyrrell Hatton on the Abu Dhabi Championship.
It was a primary victory for the two-time main winner since he introduced his departure from LIV Golf, and a primary win at a DP World Tour occasion in 4 years.
The Spaniard, in his first match because the delivery of his fourth baby final month, produced six birdies with only one dropped shot on Sunday to complete away from Hatton with Northern Eire’s Rory McIlroy one other two strokes additional again.
“It means quite a bit. It has been fairly some time to play effectively within the DP World Tour,” Rahm advised Sky Sports activities.
“Besides a shot on 17, so far as I am involved, I performed a reasonably flawless again 9. It was actually strong, by no means at risk of creating a bogey besides that one gap.
“After all the pieces that has gone on, some poor play and a few battles mentally with plenty of noise, to return again out after a little bit of a break and a brand new addition to the household, it is fairly particular.”
Having completed on the very backside of the leaderboard on the BMW PGA Championship at Wentworth in his final look, Rahm joked that going “final to first” was particularly pleasing.
For McIlroy, his third-placed end was sufficient to make sure he goes into subsequent week’s season-finale on the DP World Tour Championship sitting second within the Race To Dubai standings as he seeks a record-equalling eighth win.
The 37-year-old, who was given a two-shot penalty in his first spherical, leapfrogged American Patrick Reed and now trails solely Spain’s Eugenio Chacarra in his bid to match Colin Montgomerie’s eight season-long titles.
Regardless of beginning the week exterior the highest 50, Rahm’s victory ensured he remained within the hunt too ought to he have the ability to go back-to-back in Dubai.
