Jumeirah Golf Estates has hosted the DP World Tour Championship since 2009, with its Earth Course proving the final battle ground for the European circuit’s season finale.
Any number of pros have signed for scores in the mid-to-low 60s, and the winning total has hovered between 14-under and 25-under in each year the big-money event has occurred.
In 2013, Henrik Stenson posted an incredible 25-under on his way to a first DP World Tour Championship title via a couple of 64s. The very next year, the Swede won again but managed just 16-under.
Since then, only twice have players come anywhere close to breaking that record – Rory McIlroy‘s 21-under in 2013 and Nicolai Hojgaard‘s identical tally 10 years later.
The 18th hole at the Jumeirah Golf Estates’ Earth Course
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And it was in the year of Hojgaard’s success that Matt Wallace carded a simply outrageous round of 60, a 12-under-par score on the par-72 Earth Course.
The Englishman birdied every single hole on the back nine and had a chance to match Oliver Fisher’s record as the only European Tour 59 had he holed a green-side bunker shot at the last.
However, Wallace had to make do with a 60 – a score which would have been the new course record at the Earth Course if preferred lies had not been in place.
Speaking immediately afterwards, Wallace was full of emotion about his remarkable Sunday.
He said: “What a day, an amazing day. I just tried my hardest to get myself back into the tournament. I’m really happy that I’ve been able to do that. Played great.
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“At the end, I didn’t even think there was a 59. Honestly I think it helped me a little bit. I just played nicely coming down the stretch, just keep getting one more if I could and I managed to do that.
“Kind of gutted now actually a little bit. Great opportunity to do it. I’ve done it at Moorpark on the West Course which is only a par 68, but to do it out there would have been really special today.
“Ball in hand helps. I had a couple good lies for up-and-down, but it was fantastic and a good effort for 59.”
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