Rory McIlroy Final Round Highlights | 2024 Hero Dubai Desert Classic

Highlights from Rory McIlroy’s final round winning round, as he claims his fourth Hero Dubai Desert Classic title.

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The DP World Tour continues this week with the first Roles Series event of the season as the Emirates Golf Club hosts the Hero Dubai Desert Classic. World Number Two McIlroy is in the field again. He is aiming to become the first four-time winner of the prestigious event, having begun his 2024 campaign with a runner-up finish at the inaugural Dubai Invitational. Tommy Fleetwood will also be teeing it up again this week. His victory at the Dubai Invitational last week was built upon a consistent campaign in 2023, which saw him register five top-tens, including a runner-up finish at the season-ending DP World Tour Championship. Tyrell Hatton will also be in Dubai this week for his season debut. He finished 2023 with three top-12’s in his last five events to round of the year. Others to look out for are Nicolai Hojgaard, Francesco Molinari and Ryan Fox.

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Heading towards the bunker ah maybe just a bit too clean from Rory dig Doug at the back there still on The Fringe it’s a long way out for maoy just gently the last part he faced in this great Championship was of similar length on the 18th yesterday but this is a lot more

Difficult and so very fast allowing for a good yard of Break he’s very good good for waight just outside the circle of trust from meloy on the first he’ll be putting up the hill for a second though yeah that’s well done steady power for or on the [Applause] first looking slightly anxious at it why why would you look anxious at it that’s uh

That is what class one of yours Andrew uh I take two of me to get there when that’s how you do it eh yeah well it was kind of heading in the right direction and then thought better of it didn’t it with six feet to go one a

Three kind of laying down a marker as well the quality of the shot good two puts at the first nice biry at the second he’s 18th of the week SE him 13 Under 186 milph ball speed but sniffs an opportunity Sublime needs to hit it straight out of the center of the Bat he set himself for a cut [Applause] maoy perfect on the left hand side of the Fairway just a knock down nine just a massage one he’s gone ever so slightly down the shaft there to help with that Wayne take a touch of distance off six out of 10 at best for that

One ice skating quick tickly under there it’s looking good it’s looking good good what a way to go one more ahead from mckoy the bend on this [Applause] part looks pretty good can see a little bit of a changing setup from Michel Roy today he’s a bit more open to the

Target there it’s easy to leak it right not a lot of room right you’ll shorts side yourself little hurt now it comes and it goes this wind it’s fluky delightful and the soft Landing down to the fact that he has such great elevation on so many of his

Shots so beautifully connected with his arms and body start of the week they were getting a little stuck behind him at times now off the left Rory on nine he’s got it he’s got it he’s spinning the hammer down on the end of this front line Roy mro making a massive

One on eight and following that up with another big one on nine Andrew huge 3 threes to finish that front he likes that finish trying to unleash Dom because we got some help in the air oh there’s trouble right although not the right portion of the

Fairway this is where you want to be just right here this is the balls above his feet perfect for a draw look out it’s the same shape of shot but with full commitment from Rory that’s lovely young just looked like he wanted to sort of go towards the hole he knew

He should respect it and it was sort of caught between shots and he just committed to nothing there good aggressive run young back to 11 underp Palm melroy makes his part and Rory is four shots clear of the rest now with six holes to play on this final

Dayi he sent it deep into the trees Game of inches golf at times that looks a little bit too tight to that tree for my liking we’ll see Drama please St oh just shy in the front bunker maoy that leaves a 40 yard long bunker shot it would have been easier if he just laid up short at the green going to pitch this up top and hope that it comes to attention sit down what a lad of spin is

There oh it’s difficult Andrew oh he’s got a nice little horrible chip now but Mak 13 very difficult maoy a gunning Le close and that’s his first bogy I make it in 38 holes here at the Emirates a of light for those chasing

But he seems to live in he seems to live in that left rough I think it’s a great Point Wayne I think he’s he knows that with his power and his length he can easily run out of room down that right side he’s done exactly as you’ve said oh dear there are

Some well whispy bushes and grass over there in the sand that’s not pretty could tell you what he’s done well there danger was popping it up catching the trees that’s an outstanding shot right of the crunch out of it he’s going to make a bogey and then he cans something like

This down the hill down wind down grains all down and it’s out of his right leaving the flag in he’s a great player he’s box office and he does things that not many can well there are Lag puts and there are Lag [Applause] Puts however that is somewhat helpful that’s an absolute Peach off the 18th of maroy right hold the top of your [Applause] glasses yeah well he’ll back himself to do no worse than five there mroy and that will be enough to wrap things up here a sensible shot it was a cloudy Shot well if you’ve got two take [Applause] them and it is for Ferrari in the desert his love affair with Dubai continues mooy the 2024 hero Dubai Desert Classic Champion Rory many congratulations you’ve successfully defended the hero Dubai Desert Classic and become the first man in his 35- year history to win four

Times how special is this moment yeah it’s really cool um I you know I didn’t really think about that during the uh the the course of the round um you know it was a really tricky day it was hard to to get a close and make a ton of birdies and um you

Know the pivotal point for me I feel came on the eth and the ninth pole making two threes there uh that sort of set me up to to sort of try and control it on the way in and um you know I made that one you know one blunder on 13 and

And made Boogie there but I felt like I studied the ship well over over the last few holes and um yeah it was it was one of those days where you know there wasn’t a ton of fireworks just because the course was so difficult but I held

On as best as I could and uh you know thankfully no one around the um the top of the leaderboard made a made much of a run came into the weekend on three underpar 10 behind the leaders shot 11 underpar over the weekend to win this thing where does that rank in your

Greatest ever comebacks yeah so I I thought the way the golf course was trending um I thought 267s would would really have a chance so um you know obviously the the 63 yesterday put me in a great position but yeah I thought you know on Friday night I thought 10 under

For the weekend I’d you know I’d have a really good chance to win I shot 11 and ended up winning by one so uh play played the game long enough night to sort of know how these things are going to go and uh you know thankfully I

Played the golf I needed to uh and just you know incredible to to get my fourth win here at the Emirates two behind at the start of the day four ahead at one point with six holes to play then Adrien makes a couple of birdies you make a

Bogey it’s very tight what’s going through your mind at that stage then I thought just steady the ship I I knew you know I didn’t birdie 10 uh and I didn’t you know I didn’t even par 13 you know those are the two birdy holes on

The on the at the start of the back nine so I just thought I’d steady the ship if if I could make um I felt like if I could make par on 14 15 and 16 I wasn’t going to lose much grind then uh and then obviously I had two chances on the

Last two Halles ended up didn’t need to didn’t need to birdy one of them but um you know my game plan was for those last five get through those first three and even and then take my chances at the last two second and first in your first

Two starts of this year what sort of platform does that give you to build towards major season which is obviously always your major Focus yeah um yeah it’s a it’s a great start to the season um you know I started well last year with the win here uh I was a little more

In in dramatic Fashion on the last screen compared to that there but um it’s a it’s a great platform to build from um I know I’m playing good golf there’s still a couple of Misses off the tea left you know one got me on 18

Um last week you know I missed I missed a t- shot left on 13 today which sort of cost me a shot and then one on 16 as well um which nearly cost me a shot I made a good par there so couple little things still to work on but um you know

These weeks are great you you learn a ton from them um and obviously great to get the competition and and come out on top as well Rory many many congratulations well played cheers thank you to watch another DP World t video click here and to subscribe click here for