Seven players can still claim to succeed Colin Morikawa, winner of the Race (now ranking) in 2021 and conspicuously absent from this 2022 edition. If Rory McIlroy, currently leader with 4,154 points, remains the big favourite, Ryan Fox, second, n is only 125 points behind.
Multiple choice scenario.
Dp, schedule
Winner here on the Earth Course of the Jumeirah Golf Estates in 2012 and in 2015, moreover achieving that year the double DP World Tour Championship-Race, Rory McIlroy can join in the legend the Swede Henrik Stenson, n°1 at the both on the PGA Tour and on the European Tour in 2013.
A victory on Sunday but also simply a better ranking than his main rivals would allow him to lift the Harry-Vardon trophy (Race) for the fourth time after 2012, 2014 and 2015. In the event of second place, Ryan Fox would have to win to block his way to this triumph… announced!
Twice winner in 2022 on the DP World Tour, three times second, once third, the season for Kiwi Ryan Fox (4,026 points) is simply impressive. As outlined above, a win would secure him first place but the New Zealander can, in theory, finish third.
In this case, he will have to beat his two British opponents McIlroy and Fitzpatrick… Third in the ranking with 3,155 points, Matthew Fitzpatrick, winner of the final in 2016 and 2020, can be satisfied with a top 2. If McIlroy and Fox finish behind him, it is the English winner of the US Open who will be sacred.
In the event of second place, we must avoid Fox winning and hope that McIlroy stumbles beyond 7th place. Tommy Fleetwood (4th), Viktor Hovland (5th), Shane Lowry (8th) and even Pole Adrian Meronk (9th) still have a small chance.
Fleetwood needs McIlroy to finish beyond 3rd and Fox to do less than second. For Hovland, McIlroy must finish beyond 4th place and Fox beyond 3rd place. More complicated but not impossible either for Shane Lowry. The Irishman, winner of The Open 2019, must rely on a place beyond McIlroy’s 7th place, that Fox do beyond a top 5 and that Fitzpatrick does not finish at least second.
The big odds are undoubtedly for Adrian Meronk. Judge instead. He can win if McIlroy completes his week beyond 16th place, Fox finishes beyond 8th place and Fitzpatrick is not in the final top 2…
