DP World Tour : Hero Dubai Desert Classic Results
Rory said in his post round interview on Saturday, getting through the front nine, the tougher nine was for him the key on the Emirates GC.
Earlier this morning he made 3 birdies all pars out in 32 -15 just what he wanted, then with the pressure turned up when Polish star Adrian Meronk posted a 71 to get to -13, after Rory had made his lone bogey with a wild hook into the bushes at the par 5 13th, he steadied himself, making pars the rest of the way in for 70 -14 and his record breaking 4th Hero Dubai Desert Classic.
He had this to say after his round :
"It's a great start to the season, I started well last year with the win here. A couple of little things still to work on but these weeks are great. You learn a ton from them and obviously great to get the competition and come out on top as well.
"I thought on Friday night, I thought ten under for the weekend, I would have a really good chance to win. I shot 11 and ended up winning by one.
"I've played the game long enough to sort of know how these things are going to go. Thankfully I played the golf I needed to and it's just incredible to get my fourth win here at the Emirates.
"The pivotal point for me came on the eighth and ninth hole - making two threes there, that sort of set me up to try to control it on the way in.
"I made that one blunder on 13 and made bogey there but felt like I steadied the ship well over the last few holes and it was one of those days where there wasn't a ton of fireworks just because the course was so difficult. I held on as best as I could and thankfully no one around the top of the leaderboard made much of a run."
36 hole leader Cam Young slipped into 3rd with a closing 74 -12.
Meanwhile Canada's Aaron Cockerill had his best week of this 2024 season which began in South Africa in December, with a closing -4 68 (71 67 72 68 -10) to T4.
Only 1 bogey, 5 birdies all the rest pars, it was his cleanest round of the week, out in E35, then a terrific back nine all pars, 3 birdies in a row at 11,12,13 then finishing in style with a 245yd approach over the water to the top of the green, 2 putts down the hill for his 5th birdie of the day.
This is a Rolex series event, one of 5 premier tournaments on the DP World Tour worth $9,000,000. Aaron began the week 42nd in the Race to Dubai, this performance moves him up 33 spots to #9 and his biggest payday $514,000.
Bryan Angus
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