PGA TOUR Players
Aaron Rai
Aaron Rai
RANK 23 |
OWGR 3.20
Rai defeated Tommy Fleetwood on the first playoff hole to win the Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship following his five-under 67 in the final round.
With everyone making birdies on Sunday, Rai needed to come up clutch down the stretch. He had a key par save on 15 and then followed with back-to-back birdies at 16 and 17. Rai would have a chance to reach 26-under-par for the week and shut the door with a birdie on 18, but his putt just burned the edge. The Englishman would be faced with the task of having to stare down the defending FedExCup champ Tommy Fleetwood in a playoff to take home the victory. Rai did just that and would this time convert for birdie from a similar distance on the first extra hole. The win was Rai's third on the DP World Tour and moves him up to ninth in the Race to Dubai standings heading to the DP World Tour Championship next week.
