{"id":22487,"date":"2025-11-16T08:04:26","date_gmt":"2025-11-16T08:04:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/rory-mcilroy-in-joint-lead-as-he-closes-in-on-race-to-dubai-title\/"},"modified":"2025-11-16T08:04:26","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T08:04:26","slug":"rory-mcilroy-in-joint-lead-as-he-closes-in-on-race-to-dubai-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/rory-mcilroy-in-joint-lead-as-he-closes-in-on-race-to-dubai-title\/","title":{"rendered":"Rory McIlroy in joint lead as he closes in on Race to Dubai title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 36-year-old has a 767-point lead at the top of the season-long rankings as he goes for his fourth consecutive Race to Dubai crown.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hatton and compatriot Marco Penge are the only two who can stop McIlroy from winning the season-long title.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hatton needs to win the tournament and have McIlroy finish worse than tied for eighth to win it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;m in a better position than him [Hatton],&#8221; added McIlroy. &#8220;I&#8217;m focused on myself. If I go out and play the golf that I know that I&#8217;m capable of, especially around this golf course, I know that I&#8217;ll be OK.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It would be an amazing way to end the season.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Penge shot an improved 68 in round three after scores of 74 and 70, but looks out of contention on four under.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/golf\/articles\/clyljzd551zo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 36-year-old has a 767-point lead at the top of the season-long rankings as he goes for his fourth consecutive Race to Dubai crown. Hatton and compatriot Marco Penge are the only two who can stop McIlroy from winning the season-long title. Hatton needs to win the tournament and have McIlroy finish worse than tied [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22488,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-golf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22487"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22489,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22487\/revisions\/22489"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}