Jon Rahm won the 2026 Abu Dhabi Aldar Championship by two strokes over Tyrrell Hatton. It’s Rahm’s 11th career DP World Tour win and a record sixth Rolex Series title.
Rahm held a one-shot lead over Hatton and Francesco Laporta heading into the final round. The Spaniard shot a final round of 65 (-5) to claim his first DP World Tour win since the 2023 Masters. The victory moves him up to sixth in the Race to Dubai Rankings and into the top 10 of the Official World Golf Rankings.
“[I] played really good all week,” Rahm said in the post-round conference, adding, “There was a bit of a question mark of how it was going to go for me on Tuesday and Wednesday, and [I’m] just happy to pull through with a fantastic week overall.”
He joins fellow Spanish golfers David Puig, Eugenio Chacarra and Nacho Elvira as winners on the DP World Tour this season. Rahm is the second Spanish golfer to win this event in their tournament debut, joining Pablo Larrazábal who did the same in 2014. This is the 216th DP World Tour win by a golfer from Spain.
Meanwhile, Race to Dubai leader Chacarra finished 22nd at 11-under. He has a 534-point lead over Rory McIlroy, who finished third at 19-under. Laporta started the week at 57th in the Race to Dubai rankings but moved up to 25th with his solo fourth finish. Hatton’s second-place finish moved him to 12th in the Race to Dubai Rankings after starting the week at 55th.
The DP World Tour finishes the season next week in Dubai at the DP World Tour Championship. The top 50 players in the Race to Dubai Rankings after this week’s event are eligible to play. Matt Fitzpatrick defeated McIlroy in a playoff to win the tournament last year, and McIlroy won his fourth consecutive Race to Dubai title – the seventh of his career.
