Rory McIlroy Shocks Crowd with Birdie on 18th to Win Dubai Desert Classic!

Rory McIlroy held off a dramatic final-day surge from Patrick Reed to win the Dubai Desert Classic for the 1/3 time on Monday.

McIlroy had started the very last spherical – behind schedule to Monday because of final week’s storms within the place – 4 shots clear of the American; however, Reed stormed up the leaderboard to enroll in McIlroy at 17 below.

McIlroy birdied the 17th to move one shot clean before Reed, gambling simply beforehand of the Northern Irishman, birdied the par-five 18th to attract him a degree once more.

That left McIlroy requiring a birdie on the ultimate to keep away from a playoff. A wayward power off the tee pressured him to the put-up brief of the green, and his method shot over the water left him with a fifteen-foot putt for a birdie and victory. McIlroy held his nerve to roll domestic the downhill putt and claim the name.

The chance of a Reed-McIlroy playoff did not materialize at the give up of an event that started with the pair at odds off the path. Reed, who plays at the revolt LIV circuit, has had a hectic time of it in Dubai – a driving range brush with McIlroy, quickly dubbed Teegate, put him within the spotlight even as an incident with a drop ball after hitting his power right into a tree on Sunday additionally stoked controversy.