Tyrrell Hatton travels to four-stroke win in Abu Dhabi as Rory McIlroy sweats after a clear start | Golf News

Rory McIlroy is still looking for his first Rolex Series title after Tyrrell Hatton made his fourth claim after a 66-run close-up forced the Englishman to make a big impact at the Abu Dhabi Championship; Hatton now plans to move ahead of McIlroy to achieve British No. 1 status

Tyrrell Hatton kept bogey off his cart and made it to a four-shot win

Tyrrell Hatton achieved another strong performance on the final day when he defeated Rory McIlroy to claim four hits at the HSBC Abu Dhabi Championship.

McIlroy was led by an overnight man and started desperately trying to win the Rolex Series maiden title, but errors began to creep in and Hatton bored with the weight with three birdies in four holes around him. the turn.

Another birdie at 13 gave the Englishman a clear four, and neither McIlroy nor Tommy Fleetwood could find a way back over the closing stages as Hatton made 66 sweeps to a winning score of 18 under par, with Jason Scrivener storming into second place and the biggest payday of his career after a 29-yard runner-up.

The result was also important in the global rankings, with Hatton now moving ahead of McIlroy to achieve British No. 1 status, and the 29-year could be as high as fifth in the world. the world when the rankings are updated Monday, according to where Patrick Cantlay finishes at the American Express.

McIlroy, a four-time runner-up in Abu Dhabi, was looking in the mood to break his duck if it happened when he matched a Hatton birdie at second and added another at third. go two clear beats.

But Hatton pulled one goal at the seventh, and then McIlroy made a mess of the eighth long while pulling his driver into trouble, digging his third into the bunker short-right on the green, and he barely escaped the trap and missed the target with a chip as he ran up a scrappy bogey-six.

Rory McIlroy failed to build on a good start

Hatton shook a good putt for a birdie at ninth and then grabbed another from outside 30 feet to maintain his two-shot win at the 10th long, a lead that expanded to three when McIlroy fouled his. -again at the 11th.

A pleasing approach to the 13th established Hatton’s fifth birdie of a dominant day at the 13th, and he found another at 16 when McIlroy moved again to fall six behind with Scrivener racing into the home- club thanks for how good it was.

Hatton, who also won the BMW PGA Championship at Wentworth in October, safely scored the last two holes to capture his sixth European Tour victory, and fourth best in the Rolex Series when he went one ahead. on Jon Rahm.

Hatton’s accomplished performance earned him the fourth Rolex Series title

A forlorn McIlroy, without a win from the WGC-HSBC Champions in November, 2019, doubled from 45 feet for a birdie at the last one saved a par-level 72, recording his eighth three-high finish. in Abu Dhabi.

Scrivener brought himself out of the controversy with three bogs in five holes on the face of nine, though he greatly improved his rankings and his bank balance with a staggering cost back-nine, starting with an Eagle at the 10th before sending back five birdies to return 66. .

The Australians won the race for second place just ahead of McIlroy and Rafa Cabrera Bello, who made the final for 69 finishing on 12 under, while Fleetwood fell to the board. after a bogey followed at 16 with a six-bogey six at the 17th.