DP World Tour Championship final scoreboard https://www.europeantour.com/european-tour/dp-world-tour-championship-dubai-2019/results
Rory had his chances, Tommy Fleetwood birdied the last to tie for the lead, Mike Lorenzo-Vera had 2 putts to tie but in the end it was the sensational big Spaniard Jon Rahm, known to all as " Rahmbo" who controlled his once volatile temper after squandering a 6 shot lead, who made a birdie 4 on the last hole of the season to beat them all and join his hero Seve Ballesteros as the only Spaniards to be the European Tour #1,win the Tour Championship and the Race to Dubai in the same year. (Seve won the Order of Merit)
He made 4 birdies in his first 7 holes and was running away with it, but bogey's at 8 and 9 burst his bubble, he lost his momentum and his swing to allow the guys back in. However he steadied himself with birdie, par, birdie over the last 3 holes to win by a shot at 68 -19 total.
With his fiance on his arm he told the crowd " this is for all you guys who think you have to work out every day. Rest is as important. I took 6 weeks off, 5 with no golf and here I am proof of that "
He won the world record $3m 1st prize and a $2m bonus for the Race to Dubai and he moves to #3 in the world behind Brooks Koepka and #1 Rory McIlroy.
Tommy Fleetwood (65) 2nd, Bernd Wiesberger (72) T28, Shane Lowery (70) T12 and Matt Fitzpatrick (69) 9th also shared in the bonus money.
Scotland's Robert MacIntyre (69) won the 2019 Rookie of the Year joining fellow countrymen Sam Torrance, Colin Montgomerie and Sandy Lyle.
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Bryan Angus
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