Willett is comfortable in the spot that he is in
dubai — Heading into what is the final week of the European Tour season, the DP World Tour Championship to be played out at the Jumeirah Golf Estates from Thursday to Sunday, there are four men who have a shot at the Race to Dubai title.
Obviously, there are various permutations and combinations being thrown around between Race to Dubai leader and Dubai resident Henrik Stenson, Englishman Danny Willett, Swede Alex Noren and Rory McIlroy, although the Northern Irishman has a really slim chance.
Quite naturally, it is easy to get caught up in these complex algorithms but the best formula is usually the simplest one — win.
And that is what Danny Willett, the Masters champion, aims to do as he goes in search of his first DP World Tour Championship as well as the prized catch — the Race to Dubai crown.
“I think potentially, at the end of the season, it may be easier to be sat here chasing someone down this week than potentially trying to hold onto a lead,” Willett said at the Jumeirah Golf Estates on Tuesday.
“I’m 300,000 points behind Henrik, so looking at it, I think it’s one of them, the permutations you can look at, but if we can do what we can control this week and we can win a golf tournament, then, you know, nobody can kind of take it away from us. We’ve got four rounds of golf left in what’s been a pretty long season, and slightly different situation to last year, but still need to win the golf tournament to win The Race to Dubai,” he added.
Willett has another go at the Race to Dubai after finishing second to Rory McIlory last year.
“It’s an interesting week. Again, we’re in a situation, 52 weeks ago we were sat here in the same place, second place. It’s not a bad place to be. It would be much better sat here in first, but there’s still one week left and there’s still a chance to get to No. 1,” said Willett, who won the Omega Dubai Desert Classic, on a dramatic final day in February.
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