Round 1 Highlights | 2025 DP World Tour Championship

Highlights from Round 1 of the DP World Tour Championship where Rory McIlroy has his sights set on overtaking one European golfing great in Seve Ballesteros and closing the gap on another in Colin Montgomerie as he looks to win the Harry Vardon Trophy for a seventh time at the season-ending event.

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The 2025 Race to Dubai is set for a dramatic climax this week at the DP World Tour Championship. After visiting 27 countries across five continents, the DP World Tour’s wraparound schedule reaches a climax this week in Dubai. Since 2009, the DP World Tour Championship has annually played host to the season-ending event. Contested over 72 holes, with no cut, the concluding Rolex Series event features a $10 million prize fund – the biggest of the 42-tournament 2025 Race to Dubai season. Luke Donald’s side that are in action this week, as are McIlroy, Hatton, Robert MacIntyre, Matt Fitzpatrick, Tommy Fleetwood, Rasmus Højgaard, with Justin Rose joining in the action after opting to miss last week’s Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship. Jacob Skov Olesen, who made his Rolex Series debut last week in Abu Dhabi, is the only graduate of DP World Tour Qualifying School in the field. While any player in the field can with the Tour Championship, only three players could win the Race to Dubai: Rory McIlroy, Marco Penge and Tyrell Hatton.

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Justin Rose. Great to see him here. Second shot at the third. Pin back left. It’s a little bit of a slope. You can use just right of that pin location. Doesn’t need to. This is dead aim. Go on. Do it. Oh, why not? Oh, [Applause] into the green with your third shot. That’ll be disappointing if he doesn’t make it. We shall see. too. Oh, bad. Well, bad mess off the tea. Oh, Andrew. Andrew. How good is that? It was on the cushion of that that roof in the mulch. Hillier back towards the hole. Right to left. It will go left to right at the end. I would have thought it tried to. That’s a bonus now. Ludvig after that sensational pitch shot from the mulch. Wow, what a three that is. What a three. World class from Ludvig. Should make a three from here. Well, there’s a good chance Radar with a shot like that. Just a couple of feet for Maroy on the first. Straight out of gates. The perfect start for Mroy. This is full green light here from BRT. It’s an easy shot to picture as that flag sits in between two slopes. There we go. Somewhere David Howell will be smiling. Yes, David How of course spent a bit of time trying to convince Lori about his putting. There’s a lovely putt there for near guard Peterson. Yeah, look at that. 651 18th is playing today. Not reachable in two. Normally pretty good with this club. Yeah, I reckon 68. I think that’s an excellent score. Good score out there in these conditions. This for the 68. Go on, Dom. Take it away. Lovely stuff, isn’t it, from Shane? Little bit of a side slope, so looking maybe just left of it. Trying to cut it in. This looks good, Anthony. Easy game, Nico. Oh, you could tell that that was just perfect with a sore finish. Just working the ball nicely from left to right. Back to the first, Tommy. 121 for Fleetwood. A green lighter as it should be. I’ve got a feeling these two are going to offer a great spectacle after the one from last week. They’re off to a great start, the two of them. Oh, look. Rory Rory Lori Caner for Eagle at the second. This is just a habit of having seen Roy Maroy putting for eagle on par five on but this time it’s Lorie Caner. What a start. Dirty Eagle three under after two. Head to six. It’s par three and Matthew Fitzpatrick. Will he take it on? Just got to make sure you don’t get a turning over too much. Right to left, left side of the green sort of falls left. That’s brilliant. Tournament leader Michael Kim has reached the par five 14th. It’s his third shot now. See the pin just tucked over that left hand bunker shot. Well, that was a an excellent wedge from Michael Kim and this to extend the lead. I’m not surprised to see him play well here. I mean, for somebody that grew up in the US, probably very experienced on Bermuda grass and for his first time over here, seven under after 14 holes. A little bit of a wide off the 15th T for Michael Kit might have gotten lucky here. Paul maybe screw use the lift here. It’s one of the advantage of playing early. I I I didn’t I I kind of set you up there. I didn’t think he was going to hit it this close to 15. Kim, I didn’t expect to be saying he’d have a birdie putt after the drive, but he has. And this is to move three clear. What a bonus this is to make a three here. Being out of position. Way out of position off the tea as well. What an outstanding shot from Marco Pedge. Chile dipped it and got help off the bank. Didn’t mean to play it like that at all. You know, that’s why he’s got all this money cuz he’s just born lucky. That was the line, wasn’t it? picking the spot. Never missing for Rory Mroy. Terrific like Rose and Lowry before him. Bodies the first three holes. That’s Tristan Lawrence who played so well last year on the DP World Tour and had his card in America this year. Didn’t go great for Tristan. He played 19 events, only made seven cuts, and the only way he can get it close is to landing in the fringe. Oh my word. Like that. How good is that? That’s a good bumper as you’ll see this week. What you don’t see is about 12 ft below the level of the flag there. Just a pitch at the final hole for Kim. Looking to get this tight. That’s pretty good. It’s a friendly flag. 83 ft’s very low. Yeah, 183. He was probably hitting a sixiron there. And let’s pay the price. Let’s see if Kim can finish off with around a 63. And now a few opportunities missed on those last three holes from Kim. I just wonder. He’s always seen it and done it. Can’t get a good wedge at 10. Can he do it again? Absolutely he can. Pick it up, Lori. certain shots this week will find you out because it’s tight. It’s grainy around the greens. You got to be very accurate. Decent wedging for Fleetwood. Perfect pace. Just drops in the right edge. 40 ft of trickle. Played it wonderfully. Yeah, isn’t it? He’s an underestimated chip of this boy. He really is. He might be a world champion and a grand slam winner, but people don’t talk much about that as much as they should. It’s become a bit more of a strength for him. He only made one bogey in 72 holes last week and dropped a shot here this week. It’s imperious growth from Fleetwood. Yeah, impressive. There’s mistakes to be made everywhere. My guard never missing. Walks it in. Delightful shot from Marco. He’s progressed over 120 spots up the rankings in strokes game approach this year. Hugely improved part of his game. Rolled beautifully and true for Hoyart. He nudges his way up there now. Six and a part coming down the closing path five. Seems to be quite a long way back for his third. Coming from the left hand side of the fairway. So it will be a mid iron from there. Oh, how good’s that? How good’s that from Lawrence like pretty flat for the first part and then a little bit down from here onwards. Oh, this looks good. Oh yes. Oh yes. A long rope from Tommy Petwood. Always nice when they around 100 the yardages. A like like Radar said, it was is the perfect yardage for a full lobber. Almost dunked it. Pretty hard not to hit it close. Oh, he’s looking good with this shot. Oh, he’s looking really good with these. It’s great control. It’s just taking a little bit of yardage off a 50° wedge with the wind coming out of the left as well. Right now, I’ve got this inside left. It is a birdie birdie start to the bat n and Maroy advances. Just a flick for Fleetwood at 15. Go working with Butch Parman now and looks to have put the finishing touches to the great talent that Tommy Fleetwood has been. As has Tommy Fleetwood and he’s got this for five birdies in six holes. Tommy is on the charge again as he was last week in Abu Dhabi where he just missed out in that playoff to Aaron Ry. Seven iron pretty absolutely sensational. As Wayne was describing there earlier, his arm play has been superb today. Aaron Rice had a bad day as you can see with the score. He had two double bogeies early and that put him on the back foot. He’s going to dig himself out of the hole though cuz that’s what Baron does. And uh there’s no doubt that he’s going to climb that leaderboard beginning of August till the end of November down on a down slope here right about there. That’s lovely. Goodness me. That’s two perfect shots. You can see the ball come up against the sky there. Driven in low, Wayne. Oh, it’s brilliant. It’s a masterclass with the wedges from Maroy today. Distance control, ball flight. This will test his touch. Played it absolutely beautifully. Oh, what a bet you this boy can play the piano. Brilliant. More evidence there of the complete game that Maroy now possesses. And we talk a lot about his talent. It’s no doubt it’s there, but it takes more than talent to be successful in this game. and he’s uh going to learn a lot those last few weeks playing with these top players in these bigger DP World Tour events. As you see, Tommy tidy up. Yeah, it was a chance to join Kim there at the top leaderboard with a 64. It’s a 65 for Fleetwood. Flop shot required. How good is that? How good was that? It’s pretty good. Taking a little bit of yadage off on the wedge. Oh yeah, did just look a little left unfortunately. Goodness me, he just coed it around the earth there to 66. Michael, well done. A 64 to begin. What was the hallmark of that performance for you? Um, just had uh had everything going. Um, drove it in the fairway enough times and I hit my irons really, really great and uh was able to roll some putts in. Double digit approaches inside 10 ft. One of the best iron play performances that you can remember in your career. for sure. Um, my coach Sean and I kind of worked a quick uh FaceTime session um on a Monday Monday night I guess and uh we worked really well and uh happy happy to hit that many inside 10 ft. Well, you’re a proud PGA Tour member. Um you’ve got a great history there as well. There are many great things about the PGA Tour. Well, there are also many great things about the DP World Tour, including its history, and you won one of the most historic of championships in the French Open this year. If you were telling your mates at home, what’s so wonderful about the DP World Tour, what you’ve enjoyed, what would you tell tell them? that we get to go to fantastic different countries. Uh the PJ tour mostly sticks inside the United States which is great but uh you know coming to places like Abu Dhabi, Dubai, uh France and even India I went to for the DP. Um I I I personally really enjoy the travel. Um the competition is still great and uh I’ve thoroughly enjoyed uh my time here. We love watching you play. 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