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08:15 GMT<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n <\/span><\/header>\n Rory McIlroy holed three birdies in the final five holes on Saturday to move into the joint lead.<\/p>\n The Northern Irishman carded a four-under-par 68 in the United Arab Emirates, during a round that included five birdies and a bogey as he went to 13 under, along with Denmark’s Rasmus Neergaard-Petersen.<\/p>\n England’s Laurie Canter (68), Matt Fitzpatrick (66), Tommy Fleetwood (68) and Tyrrell Hatton (67) started on 12 under, along with Spain’s Angel Ayora (67) and Denmark’s Rasmus Hojgaard (65).<\/p>\n McIlroy has a 767-point lead at the top of the season-long rankings as he goes for his fourth consecutive Race to Dubai crown.<\/p>\n Hatton is the only player who can stop McIlroy from winning the season-long title with Marco Penge, who started the tournament as the only other who could claim the crown, back on four under at the start of play today. <\/p>\n Hatton needs to win the tournament and have McIlroy finish worse than tied for eighth to win it.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n McIlroy in strong positionpublished at 08:15 GMT 08:15 GMT Rory McIlroy holed three birdies in the final five holes on Saturday to move into the joint lead. The Northern Irishman carded a four-under-par 68 in the United Arab Emirates, during a round that included five birdies and a bogey as he went to 13 under,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":342,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-golf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1235\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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