Rory McIlroy’s Emotional Interview | 2025 DP World Tour Championship

Rory McIlroy’s emotional interview after the 2025 DP World Tour Championship.

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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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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 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. 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 Rasmman’s 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, he sort of kept it going since. So, so really happy for him as well. Last year you equal the legendary Seaniano Bar stills his six race to Dubai titles. This year you surpassed it. You know if he was here he would be saying t Filito 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 uh it’s very cool now just one behind Colin Montgomery’s eight record total how 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 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. I’d love to be I’d love to be the winningest European in terms of the World Tour Championship in terms of order of 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. To watch another DP World Tour video, click here. And to subscribe, click here.