Omega Dubai Desert Classic R4

January 28 – 31
Emirates Golf Club, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
$3,250,000
Round 1, Round 2, Round 3

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Paul Casey stormed to a four-stroke victory at the Omega Dubai Desert Classic, winning his 15 th European Tour title at the iconic Emirates Golf Club.

I’m so over the moon. Not just 15 [victories]. The fact it’s Dubai. It’s an iconic event on The European Tour. You guys all know that. One of the coolest trophies around.”

“You know, and kind of the fact that last year, we’re still in the middle of a pandemic, last year was just, you know, like a lot of people, rubbish. I didn’t enjoy last year. This year is still, obviously we’re still difficult times, isn’t it. But yeah, something very cool because it’s not been great. I’ve not enjoyed my golf — I didn’t enjoy my golf in 2020. I mean, I played well one week but that was about it. So this is, yeah, this is really cool.”

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The Englishman started the day one stroke ahead of Scotland’s Robert MacIntyre but increased his advantage to two strokes after birdies on the third and fourth holes.

The 43-year-old finished the front nine in level par after bogeys on the sixth and eighth holes but three consecutive bogeys from the seventh hole ended MacIntyre’s title tilt.

Casey steadied the ship with gains at the 11th and 13th holes and a closing birdie saw him sign for a final round of 70 and a total of 17 under par, finishing four strokes ahead of South African Brandon Stone.

“It was tough. Didn’t look at scoreboards all day,” said Casey. “Got off to a great start. Really only hit one poor shot on the front nine and that was the 7-iron into the 8th I pulled into the bunker. But I walked to the 10th tee and said to Johnny, look, when you can say you’ve only hit one bad golf shot in nine holes, that’s pretty good. And then really only hit one more poor shot on the back nine and that was another 7-iron into the bank on 15.

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“I didn’t look at the scoreboards until I got on to the 18th green and then I saw I had a three-shot margin there. It doesn’t really tell the full picture. It was a lot tougher out there.

“And, for the record, playing with Rob today, great player. He’s got a very strong possibility of being on Paddy’s Ryder Cup team come later this year. He was brilliant. So it doesn’t really paint the whole kind of picture.”

MacIntyre signed for a 12 under par total, two strokes ahead of England’s Laurie Canter and Kalle Samooja of Finland.

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“I fight till the end,” said MacIntyre. “It was the start I was looking for. I thought, here we go. Sometimes it doesn’t go for you, and today was one of them days. [Paul] was brilliant. Again, he stuck to his own game. He played great. He controlled himself. I’ve just got to look up to that and see what I can get to.”

The win propels Casey inside the Top 15 of the Official World Golf Ranking for the first time since December 2019 as he joins former and current European Ryder Cup Captains Thomas Bjorn and Padraig Harrington – who finished in a tie for sixth at nine under par alongside Sergio Garcia and Bernd Wiesberger – on 15 European Tour titles.

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Pos.	Player	To Par	R1	R2	R3	R4	Total
1	Paul Casey	-17	67	70	64	70	271
2	Brandon Stone	-13	70	67	66	72	275
3	Robert MacIntyre	-12	67	68	67	74	276
T4	Laurie Canter	-10	70	68	68	72	278
T4	Kalle Samooja	-10	68	68	71	71	278
T6	Sergio Garcia	-9	66	73	67	73	279
T6	Padraig Harrington	-9	71	69	69	70	279
T6	Bernd Wiesberger	-9	73	68	69	69	279
T9	Adri Arnaus	-8	68	69	74	69	280
T9	Thomas Detry	-8	67	67	74	72	280
T9	Rasmus Højgaard	-8	72	72	69	67	280
T9	Takumi Kanaya	-8	70	69	72	69	280
T9	Alexander Levy	-8	70	68	71	71	280
T9	Antoine Rozner	-8	70	71	69	70	280
T9	Matthias Schwab	-8	70	69	73	68	280
T9	Ashun Wu	-8	71	71	70	68	280
T17	Matthew Fitzpatrick	-7	70	71	70	70	281
T17	Tommy Fleetwood	-7	68	68	73	72	281
T17	Lee Westwood	-7	69	68	72	72	281
T20	Kurt Kitayama	-6	65	72	75	70	282
T20	Richard Sterne	-6	64	74	75	69	282
T22	Christiaan Bezuidenhout	-5	74	70	70	69	283
T22	Tyrrell Hatton	-5	76	64	71	72	283
T22	Lucas Herbert	-5	74	66	72	71	283
T22	Wade Ormsby	-5	68	73	71	71	283
T22	Shubhankar Sharma	-5	70	68	72	73	283
T27	Nicolas Colsaerts	-4	70	73	67	74	284
T27	Grant Forrest	-4	74	69	71	70	284
T27	Justin Harding	-4	66	70	72	76	284
T27	Scott Jamieson	-4	70	71	68	75	284
T27	Shane Lowry	-4	70	72	67	75	284
T27	Thomas Pieters	-4	71	73	68	72	284
T27	Jeff Winther	-4	69	75	71	69	284
T27	Fabrizio Zanotti	-4	71	67	76	70	284
T35	Alexander Björk	-3	71	71	73	70	285
T35	Dean Burmester	-3	72	72	71	70	285
T35	Rafa Cabrera Bello	-3	73	71	66	75	285
T35	Mikko Korhonen	-3	70	67	72	76	285
T35	David Lipsky	-3	72	71	68	74	285
T35	Justin Rose	-3	71	69	68	77	285
T41	Nino Bertasio	-2	75	68	72	71	286
T41	Ryan Fox	-2	73	69	71	73	286
T41	Jason Scrivener	-2	75	69	70	72	286
T44	Martin Kaymer	-1	68	70	75	74	287
T44	Joost Luiten	-1	74	69	70	74	287
T44	Guido Migliozzi	-1	71	67	73	76	287
T44	Danny Willett	-1	74	69	72	72	287
T48	Steven Brown	E	72	70	72	74	288
T48	Jayden Schaper	E	70	73	74	71	288
T48	Andy Sullivan	E	70	72	73	73	288
T51	Ashley Chesters	1	72	72	72	73	289
T51	Sean Crocker	1	71	73	73	72	289
T51	Ignacio Elvira Mijares	1	71	72	74	72	289
T51	Benjamin Hebert	1	72	72	72	73	289
T51	Pablo Larrazabal	1	70	73	71	75	289
T51	Adrian Otaegui	1	67	74	72	76	289
T51	Sami Valimaki	1	71	73	73	72	289
T51	Matt Wallace	1	71	71	72	75	289
59	Justin Walters	2	72	70	69	79	290
T60	Kiradech Aphibarnrat	3	68	71	74	78	291
T60	George Coetzee	3	72	72	74	73	291
T60	Ross Fisher	3	68	74	74	75	291
T60	Marcus Kinhult	3	70	72	74	75	291
T60	Jordan Smith	3	71	73	75	72	291
T60	Chris Wood	3	71	73	74	73	291
66	Edoardo Molinari	4	76	67	74	75	292
67	Renato Paratore	6	74	70	73	77	294
T68	Miguel Angel Jiménez	7	74	70	76	75	295
T68	Collin Morikawa	7	71	73	76	75	295
T68	Richie Ramsay	7	71	72	76	76	295
71	Gavin Kyle Green	9	73	71	83	70	297
CUT	John Catlin	1	74	71			145
CUT	Victor Dubuisson	1	72	73			145
CUT	Oliver Fisher	1	71	74			145
CUT	Sebastian Heisele	1	71	74			145
CUT	Scott Hend	1	69	76			145
CUT	Andrew Johnston	1	73	72			145
CUT	David Langley	1	72	73			145
CUT	David Law	1	72	73			145
CUT	Victor Perez	1	72	73			145
CUT	Ian Poulter	1	76	69			145
CUT	Kristoffer Broberg	2	72	74			146
CUT	Lorenzo Gagli	2	74	72			146
CUT	Robert Karlsson	2	72	74			146
CUT	Masahiro Kawamura	2	71	75			146
CUT	Søren Kjeldsen	2	72	74			146
CUT	Chris Paisley	2	73	73			146
CUT	Eduard Rousaud (a)	2	73	73			146
CUT	David Drysdale	3	73	74			147
CUT	Stephen Gallacher	3	74	73			147
CUT	Julien Guerrier	3	72	75			147
CUT	Joachim B. Hansen	3	72	75			147
CUT	David Horsey	3	72	75			147
CUT	Romain Langasque	3	68	79			147
CUT	Zander Lombard	3	73	74			147
CUT	James Morrison	3	75	72			147
CUT	Eddie Pepperell	3	74	73			147
CUT	Haydn Porteous	3	76	71			147
CUT	Tapio Pulkkanen	3	72	75			147
CUT	Paul Waring	3	75	72			147
CUT	Gaganjeet Bhullar	4	77	71			148
CUT	Matthieu Pavon	4	75	73			148
CUT	Aaron Rai	4	72	76			148
CUT	Sebastian Soderberg	4	74	74			148
CUT	David Hague	5	75	74			149
CUT	Graeme McDowell	5	76	73			149
CUT	Richard McEvoy	5	78	71			149
CUT	Wilco Nienaber	5	74	75			149
CUT	Callum Shinkwin	5	75	74			149
CUT	Matthew Southgate	5	74	75			149
CUT	Thomas Bjørn	6	74	76			150
CUT	Ernie Els	6	73	77			150
CUT	Maximilian Kieffer	6	76	74			150
CUT	Joakim Lagergren	6	70	80			150
CUT	Min Woo Lee	6	75	75			150
CUT	Haotong Li	6	72	78			150
CUT	Julian Suri	6	72	78			150
CUT	Connor Syme	6	72	78			150
CUT	Jorge Campillo	7	77	74			151
CUT	Alvaro Quiros	7	75	76			151
CUT	Henrik Stenson	7	74	77			151
CUT	Garrick Higgo	8	76	76			152
CUT	David Howell	8	73	79			152
CUT	Raphael Jacquelin	8	79	73			152
CUT	Curtis Knipes (a)	8	79	73			152
CUT	Michael Lorenzo-Vera	8	78	74			152
CUT	Ross McGowan	8	76	76			152
CUT	Oliver Wilson	9	76	77			153
CUT	Shergo Al Kurdi	11	76	79			155
CUT	Karim El Hali	16	82	78			160
WD	Robert Rock	3	75				75
WD	Andrea Pavan	5	57				57