DP World Tour Championship: Power Ranking the top ten in Dubai
The 2018 European Tour season is in the books after this week’s closing event, the DP World Tour Championship
Before players take some time off for the holidays, we’ve got one last tournament on the European Tour docket: The DP World Tour Championship.
This event in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, has been held since 2009 each year at Jumeirah Golf Estates.
A European player has won every year and there’s been two multiple winners. Ironically, one of them just missed out on making this week’s top ten power rankings (sorry, Henrik Stenson).
Francesco Molinari leads the Race to Dubai with 4,709,921 points (Euros) and will look to fend off Tommy Fleetwood at 3,684,755.
Given that this is a guaranteed money event, it will take a lot for Fleetwood to wrestle away the trophy. He needs a win and Molinari to finish T5 or worse to finish atop the rankings. A solo second or win guarantees Molinari the top spot.
A bonus pool of $5 million USD is allotted to the top 10 Race to Dubai finishers with the winner hauling in $1.25 million.
The Earth Course at Jumeirah is the host again and is a Greg Norman design. It plays to a par 72 at 7,675 yards.
Length is an asset this week and we’ve seen bombers play well and win here often.
Winning scores have been 14-under or lower every year including the tournament record 25-under by Stenson (again, sorry, Henrik).
The weather unsurprisingly looks warm and sunny, but winds between 10-20 miles per hour could be a factor.
This tournament is pretty wide open with all 60-plus players capable of winning, but there are about 10-15 names that really separate from the rest.
Here are my best bets to win this week: