European Tour: DP World Tour Championship Power Rankings
By Matt Coles
The DP World Tour Championship, once again, signifies the end of another European Tour season, and this could be the closest Race to Dubai yet.
The DP World Tour Championship is the final event of the season, the last of 47 events which have taken place in 31 countries throughout the latter part of 2018, right through to this week in the United Arab Emirates.
The winner of this week’s event will take home the biggest ever prize for a single tournament in golf, with the winner taking home a whopping $3,000,000 home with them.
Five men are still in the hunt for the season’s points crown, with Bernd Wiesberger extending his lead at the top thanks to a T3 finish at the Nedbank Golf Challenge in South Africa last week.
He is looking to become the first Austrian to win the Race to Dubai crown, as well as the first player from his nation to win at the magnificent Jumeirah Golf Estates in Dubai.
The other four men that could take the crown are the 2017 Race to Dubai champion Tommy Fleetwood, three-time Rolex Series winner Jon Rahm, 2019 British Open champion Shane Lowry, and 2016 DP World Tour Championship winner Matthew Fitzpatrick.
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Rahm has also won at the Jumeirah Golf Estates, doing so in 2017, the year Fleetwood went on to win the Race to Dubai crown. The 7,675 Earth Course plays host to the season finale, with Justin Rose holding the course record. The Englishman carded a ten-under-par 62 back in 2012.
The course was inspired by parkland courses in both Europe and North America, and there are hazards everywhere, including sand and rushing water.
The two par-5s on the back nine are two of the signature holes on the Earth Course, with the closing hole measuring over 650 yards from the Championship tees. The par-5 14th is also over 600 yards, while the par-3 4th hole will be a tough test of the players’ long iron play, with 238 yards from the Championship tees to the centre of the green.
So, five people can win the Race to Dubai title for the season, and they all feature in our rankings this week, but there is someone else at the top of the rankings ahead of the season finale in Dubai…