REACTION! Matt Fitzpatrick wins DP World Tour Championship after DRAMATIC play-off with Rory McIlroy

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Rory McIlroy secured the Race to Dubai for the fourth year running despite narrowly missing out to Matt Fitzpatrick in a thrilling finish to the DP World Tour Championship.

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Matthew, many congratulations on winning the DP World Tour Championship 2025. Your third win in this championship, your first win in two years, your second Rolex Series event. Just tell us just how good this feels, what it means to you. It means the world. Yeah, it means the world. I mean, you know, struggled at the start this year obviously and um you know, to turn it around in the summer like I did and have the RDER Cup like I did, it’s, you know, Ryder Cup in particular, I feel like it’s hard to top um given everything. But, you know, the way that I played today, I you know, I feel like I really hit like one one bad shot all day. So, you know, I’m just so so proud of myself. You know, the effort that everyone puts in behind the scenes, you know, my team and stuff. It’s um yeah, what a feeling. What a feeling. Eight pars in a row in the middle of the round. Three behind with six to play. How did you turn it around? How did you shoot three under over those last few holes and then make that difficult up and down at the last to walk away as champ? Yeah, I know. I mean I’d not been hitting it amazing uh all week. I kind of really hit it well yesterday and and I would say I hit it really well today and um you know Dan was insistent on being patient all day and just letting the pot puts come and you know like you say in the middle of round there nothing really was going my way and then uh you know managed to roll a couple in late and get yourself in position. your thoughts when Rory was coming up the 18th. You’ve got to believe he’s going to hold this, but in your mind, were you really thinking that? Of course you do. Yeah, it’s uh he’s probably one of the only few um that you know that you’re going to a playoff. You know, you’re too clear to want to play and you know you’re going to a playoff. So, um you know, in typical Rory fashion, you know, he did it again and obviously you know, you never like to see it to the way it ends, but um obviously delighted. From the middle of 2024 to the middle of 2025, you didn’t have a top 10 for 11 months. Is this a win for Perseverance? Is this a win for Mark Blackburn’s work with you? Uh, yeah, it’s a, you know, it’s a, it’s a win for everyone. It really is. It’s, you know, Dan, Dan’s gone above and beyond in the effort that he’s put in in this team. You know, my performance director Lou Mackey has done awesome. Phil Kenyan’s amazing. Um, you know, strength coach Andrew, every everyone in the team is really, I feel like, has come come together and um, you know, I couldn’t be couldn’t be happier. and and obviously in that down period, you know, I had the support of of my my wife and my friends and family and it to to turn it around and and be here now is very special. Many many congratulations DP World Tour champion 2025. Thanks Tim. Thank you. It is by the way his 10th DP World Tour title. There is our race to Dubai champion though. He’s moved clear of Sabriano Bayos. He’s within one of the all-time record holder Colin Montgomery. Let us hear from Rory Maroy with Tim Barta. Rory, before we talk about winning the race to Dubai again, let’s talk about today and the dramatic events that unfolded. Eagling the last again. just talk us through your day from your point of view. Yeah. Um got off to the perfect start. You know, I um you know, three under through five, four under through seven. Uh felt like I’d sort of taken control of the golf tournament, was a couple ahead, and then um yeah, I made a you know, I made two bogeies on the way in on 12 and 16 and and didn’t birdie 14 and 15, the birdie holes. And um obviously knew I needed something to to happen on the last. So, I actually hit a great shot on 17. Came up a little short on a great putt that lipped out. Um, but yeah, the last look, I I knew what I needed to do. I hit a great fivewood. Um, lucky to see Rasmus’ pup before mine. Saw his sort of hung out to the right a little bit before it started to turn, so got a bit of a read from him. Um, and yeah, look, great way to finish. It was nice to be able to summon what I needed to to make the playoff, but um yeah, unfortunately hitting it in the water there on on 18 in the playoff just um sort of put me behind the eightball, but you know, happy happy for Matt. He’s had a he’s had a great end of the season. Um you know, played great, you know, to to get on the RDER Cup team and then, you know, we sort of kept it going since. So, so really happy for him as well. Last year, you equal the legendary Seano Bars, his six race titles. This year, you surpassed it. You know, if he was here, he would be saying tilito, meaning congratulations to you. Tell us how it feels to to surpass his total. Uh, it’s amazing. I um I had a conversation with his wife Carmen um before I went out to play today and um you know, she told me how proud he would have been. And um yeah, it’s you know uh he you know I said this on this screen last year to you he means so much to this tour and to the European Rder Cup team and um we rally so much around his spirit and his quotes and you know everything he meant for European golf and um to equal him last year was cool but to surpass him this year um yeah I I I didn’t get this far in my dream so it’s h it’s very cool now just one behind and Colin Montgomery’s eight record total. Yeah. How much do you want it? You don’t need it, but how much do you want it? I want it. Of course I do. When you get that close and, you know, I was I caught up with Monty this week and he was here a couple days ago and I saw him and um yeah, look, I it it it seems, you know, within touch touching distance now. And um I would, you know, I I would love to, you know, I was the first European to win the Grand Slam. And I’d love to be I’d love to be the winning European in terms of World Tour Championship in terms of order merits and season long races and um you know I’ve hopefully got a few more good years left in me and uh you know hopefully I can I can catch him and surpass him. Rory, many many congratulations. Thanks for everything you’ve given us this year. It’s been amazing. Thanks Tim. Thank you.