Rory McIlroy has won his sixth Race to Dubai title after triumphing in the season-ending DP World Tour Championship. The 35-year-old has now won three successive Race to Dubai crowns and his sixth overall — previously winning in 2012, 2014, 2015, 2022 and 2023 — to match the record of golfing legend Seve Ballesteros on the European tour.

The world number three joins Spanish great Seve Ballesteros in second place in the all-time list with six order of merit triumphs.

And Tom McKibbin—the last man standing in 10th place—was one over for the last 11 and surely the most relieved member of the group. With a birdie on the last hole, the Northern Irishman from Rory McIlroy’s home club of Holywood, ended just 10.5 points ahead of Jordan Smith.