Justin Rose maintained his one-shot lead in the final round of the DP World Tour Championship, Dubai to stay on course for a stunning victory in the Race to Dubai.
The Englishman has won his last two European Tour starts to sit just behind countryman Tommy Fleetwood in the Race to Dubai Rankings presented by Rolex and knows a third consecutive triumph will see him crowned Europe's Number One for the second time.
The eighth Rolex Series event of the season had already produced high drama over the first three days, with Rose and Fleetwood jostling for supremacy in the projected Rankings.
Fleetwood entered the week with a lead of 256,737 points but Rose was set for top spot after day one with Fleetwood regaining the position after round two.
Should Rose finish solo second, Fleetwood has to win to claim the Harry Vardon Trophy, with a host of permutations in play as long as Rose finishes in the top five.
Two birdies in his first four holes moved Rose to 17 under and gave him a one-shot lead over South African Dylan Frittelli, with Fleetwood at 14 under after five holes.
Spaniards Sergio Garcia and Jon Rahm were at 15 under alongside England's Tyrrell Hatton, with Thai Kiradech Aphibarnrat, South African Dean Burmester and Ireland's Shane Lowry in the group with Fleetwood.
Only six players failed to break par on Saturday and the low scoring continued in round four.
All the focus may have been on Rose and Fleetwood but Garcia still has an outside chance of winning the Race to Dubai and he got off to a blistering start. Dialled-in iron play meant he had birdie putts of less than 15 feet on his first four holes and he made them all to get within one of the lead.
Hatton hit an excellent approach to the first for a birdie and followed that up by taking advantage of the par five second to also get to 14 under.
Fleetwood was out in the third-last group of the day and he made an early statement of intent, putting his approach to six feet on the first and making the putt to also sit just a shot behind Rose.
Burmester also birdied the first with Rahm chipping in to save his par.
Aphibarnrat made the most of the second but Fleetwood missed a chance to join the lead as he three-putted after getting on in two.
Burmester made no such mistake and his birdie moved him into a share of the lead alongside Rose.
Frittelli was the next man to capitalise on the par five but Rose followed him in to move back into top spot on his own, with Burmester dropping a shot on the third.
Rahm put his approach on the same hole to three feet for his first birdie of the day and when countryman Garcia made a gain on the par five seventh, he was within a shot of the lead.
Frittelli holed a 15-footer on the third to briefly join the lead but Rose again followed him in from four feet to get to 17 under.
Hatton birdied the seventh for a third gain of the day while Lowry was making a surge with six birdies and a bogey in his first 12 holes.
