In Dubai, the first round of the DP World Tour Championship speaks English. In the United Arab Emirates, Tyrrell Hatton and Matt Fitzpatrick took the stage and the top of the rankings in the latest season tournament of the DP World Tour, which will designate the best European player of 2022.
DP World Tour Championship, results
At the Jumeirah Golf Estates (Earth Course, par 72), with a total of 65 (-7), they lead the leaderboard with one shot ahead of the Swedish Alex Noren, 3 / o with 66 (-6) ahead of the Spanish Adri Arnaus, 4 / o with 67 (-5).
More complicated start for Rory McIlroy. The number 1 in the world and at the top of the merit order of the DP World Tour, the Northern Irishman is 22 / o with 71 (-1) like Guido Migliozzi. The Vicenza player, the only blue on the field – in an event reserved for the best 50 players, to climb, of the circuit – after an initial eagle (at hole 2, par 5) made three birdies, with four bogeys.
Fitzpatrick became the protagonist with a bogey free test supported by seven birdies, of which five in the first holes played. Ninth in the world ranking and third in the “money list”, the 28-year-old from Sheffield has already won the DP World Tour Championship twice (in 2016 and 2020) and is now aiming for the three of a kind (no one has ever succeeded in this feat).
But there is more. Because the Englishman has never won the Harry Vardon Trophy as the best player on the circuit. And in 2022, the year he saw him win a major (the US Open) for the first time, he dreams of another important affirmation.
A “British” brand boot where Tommy Fleetwood also performed well. Fresh from the exploit in South Africa at the Nedbank Challenge, in the last event of the Rolex Series – which is giving away 10 million dollars – he is 5 / o with 68 (-4) like four other players.
Rory McIlory was born in Holywood, Northern Ireland, where he attended Sullivan Upper School. He belongs to the Holywood Golf Club, where he began his first training followed by Michael Bannon, the coach he has maintained to this day.
