European Tour DP World Tour Championship final leaderboard http://www.europeantour.com/europeantour/season=2017/tournamentid=2017094/leaderboard/index.html#/leaderboard
Next week the 2018 Race to Dubai begins again in Hong Kong, just as it did last year.
Moments ago the 2017 Race was decided and it virtually came down to the last hole, after 50 events and 26 different countries.
Justin Rose seemed to have it all in his hands after 4 birdies on the front nine, but bogey's on the 14th and 16th dropped him out of the lead, Sergio who had an outside chance played spectacular golf for 17 holes, but drove into the trees on 18, and put his next shot into the creek resulting in a bogey, but still a -7 65 -17 T4 finish for the Masters champion.
Tommy Fleetwood opened with a 73, then recovered with a pair of 65's, but after he struggled to a messy 74 today he looked like he'd blown the lead in the Race he had held for much of the year.
Big Jon Rahm is already the Rolex Rookie of the Year with 2 wins on his resume, and he got hot on his back nine, chipping it stiff on the 17th and making a birdie putt on the difficult 18th, and his final score of -5 67 -19 turned out to be good enough for the win
Meanwhile Fleetwood sat waiting in the clubhouse and when Rose finished T4th with a -2 70 -17 score, the numbers were all totalled up and despite his final round, his performance all year with 2 wins and 10 top 10's was good enough to crown him the Race to Dubai champion.
Irishman Shane Lowery closed with the low round of the day -9 63 -18 along with in form Kiradech Aphibarnrat whose worst score of the week was 69, had a 67 today -18 finish T2.
So it's England's Tommy Fleetwood, about to be married with a new born son Frankie, who wins the Race to Dubai and the lions share of the $10m dollar bonus, and 25 year old Spanish star Jon Rahm who crowns his Rookie of the Year season as the DP World Tour champion.
Bryan Angus
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