he European Tour’s grand finale is this week in Dubai with the DP World Tour Championship. Here are a few groups to keep an eye on at Jumeirah Golf Estates:
9 a.m. local time (midnight ET) Thursday: Rory McIlroy, Darren Fichardt
McIlroy can’t go back-to-back in the Race to Dubai, but he can still defend his title in the season finale. Though it’s been a largely disappointing 2013 campaign, the world No. 6 has two top 10s in his last three worldwide starts and insists that his game is finally beginning to turn the corner. Whether that means he’ll get off the schneid before the season is through remains to be seen, of course.
11:05 a.m. local time (2:05 a.m. ET): Lee Westwood, Miguel Angel Jimenez
There should be no shortage of conversation topics among two of the Euro Tour’s most eccentric characters, though it’s unlikely they’ll discuss the ways in which they kicked away the 2013 Open. Anyway, both players would love to pick up their first wins of the year and end the season with a bang. Jimenez, who turns 50 in January, hasn’t finished better than 57th in his last four starts. Westwood hasn’t won a tournament, per se, though he is coming off a victory of sorts in the closest-to-the-pin competition from the 22nd-floor balcony. On the course, he hasn’t finished better than 24th in the three Final Series events.
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