Tyrrell Hatton has reached a career-high in the Official World Golf Ranking after winning fourth Rolex Series title at the 2021 Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship
With this win
Tyrrell Hatton earned his sixth European Tour victory in his 151st appearance on the European Tour, and his first win at the Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship. His best finish in six previous appearances was tied sixth in 2015.
Hatton now joins Jon Rahm as the only other player to have won four Rolex Series titles, adding to his Victories at the 2020 BMW PGA Championship, 2019 Turkish Airlines Open and 2017 Italian Open
Will be the first place this season to top the Race to Dubai rankings presented by Rolex on 1335 points.
Moves to a career-high of fifth on the Official World Golf Ranking, up from ninth.
His victory is the 349th win for an English player on the European Tour.
He has also claimed the 14th Rolex Series win for a player from England, following Tommy Fleetwood (2017 Open de France and 2019 Nedbank Golf Challenge hosted by Gary Player), Tyrrell Hatton (2017 Italian Open, 2019 Turkish Airlines Open, 2020 BMW PGA Championship), Justin Rose (2017 and 2018 Turkish Airlines Open), Lee Westwood (2018 Nedbank Golf Challenge hosted by Gary Player and 2020 Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship presented by EGA), Danny Willett (2018 DP World Tour Championship, Dubai and 2019 BMW PGA Championship), Aaron Rai (Aberdeen Standard Investments Scottish Open) and Matt Fitzpatrick (2020 DP World Tour Championship, Dubai)
In addition, Hatton has now moved into second place in the European Ryder Cup Points list, which restarted in Abu Dhabi this week. He has moved up five places, and is now behind Tommy Fleetwood on 4,125.87 points.
