An emotional Rory McIlroy thanked wife Erica for “sticking by me” after admitting that 2024 had been the toughest year of his career. McIlroy triumphed at the season-ending DP World Tour Championship in Dubai to wrap up a sixth Order of Merit title in a winning finish to his campaign.

After a year fraught with personal and professional turbulence, Rory McIlroy ended 2024 in his much-frequented happy place: the winner’s circle.

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.