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Sunday 13 December 2020European TourYear in Review
Fitzpatrick wins DP World Tour Championship, Dubai
Jumeirah Golf Estates, Dubai, United Arab Emirates · Thursday 10 to Sunday 13 December 2020 · Matt Fitzpatrick’s win no. 6 on the European Tour · purse US$8,000,000 USD · DP World · Rescheduled due to the COVID-19 pandemic; originally scheduled to end 22 November 2020 (Wikipedia season table; original start date not stated).
The headline is set by GNN from the record. Reports from the papers of the day are below as they are found.
The weather
10 h 27 m
of daylight on the final day, the sun 42° up at noon, and that night a waning crescent moon (computed from the date and the place).
- R127°/19°C · wind 19 km/h NW, gusts 33 · 0.1 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R227°/16°C · wind 14 km/h SW, gusts 23 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R326°/17°C · wind 17 km/h WNW, gusts 29 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R426°/17°C · wind 12 km/h NW, gusts 20 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
The name over time
Not yet traced: its earlier names, sponsors and courses come with research.
The ones it got away from
- Lee Westwood ENG · 274held on to second, one shot back, after a closing 68; won the Race to Dubai 2020 DP World Tour Championship final results: Prize money payout, leaderboard and how much each golfer won
65 started, 64 made it
Same week
DP World Tour event
DP World Tour Championship, Dubai
Jumeirah Golf Estates (Earth Course), Jumeirah Golf Estates, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
4 of 5 researched
Winner
Matt Fitzpatrick
Runner-up not yet researched.
From the papers
ESPN (Reuters wire)
13 December 2020
It's been a bizarre season... The European Tour have done an incredible job to pick the season up again from July and have tournaments on every week,
Sporting Life
13 December 2020
He’s had enough of them hasn’t he, can’t he share one with me,
Sporting Life
13 December 2020
But all I was bothered about this week was winning. At the Masters I felt my game was nowhere to be seen. I was struggling.
ESPN (Reuters)
13 December 2020
It's been a bizarre season... The European Tour have done an incredible job to pick the season up again from July and have tournaments on every week
Top 10
| Pos | Player | Rounds | Total | To par |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Matthew Fitzpatrick | 68 · 68 · 69 · 68 | 273 | −15 |
| 2 | Lee Westwood | 70 · 68 · 68 · 68 | 274 | −14 |
| T3 | Viktor Hovland | 71 · 69 · 66 · 69 | 275 | −13 |
| T3 | Patrick Reed | 70 · 64 · 71 · 70 | 275 | −13 |
| T5 | Sami Välimäki | 69 · 69 · 69 · 69 | 276 | −12 |
| T5 | Laurie Canter | 71 · 66 · 68 · 71 | 276 | −12 |
| 7 | Victor Perez | 67 · 74 · 69 · 68 | 278 | −10 |
| T8 | Branden Grace | 72 · 66 · 72 · 69 | 279 | −9 |
| T8 | Tyrrell Hatton | 69 · 68 · 72 · 70 | 279 | −9 |
| T10 | Tommy Fleetwood | 69 · 69 · 74 · 69 | 281 | −7 |
| T10 | Collin Morikawa | 72 · 70 · 69 · 70 | 281 | −7 |
| T10 | Andy Sullivan | 71 · 71 · 67 · 72 | 281 | −7 |
| T10 | Adri Arnaus | 71 · 68 · 67 · 75 | 281 | −7 |
The golfer
born 1994-09-01, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England; ENG; turned pro 2014; age 26 that week; tour wins to date: 6; majors to date: 0; world No. 22 that week (OWGR rankBefore as stated by owgr.com player profile).
What’s in the bag
No bag on file yet