Paul Waring rose to the top of the leaderboard at the 2024 Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship on Sunday when he successfully fended off a murderers' row of pursuers to claim a late-season victory. Firing a final-round 66 at Yas Links,

The wildest of circumstances would prevent Rory McIlroy from winning a sixth Order of Merit at next week’s DP World Tour Championship.

The nearly man has to wait a little longer, but for the journeyman everything has changed in an instant. While Rory McIlroy’s tie for third here at the HSBC Abu Dhabi Championship on Sunday was not quite enough to wrap up the Race to Dubai a week early,