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Rory McIlroy walked off the 18th green here at the Earth Course on Sunday with his face frozen in anger. Hot and furious at his failure to win the DP World Tour Championship, he tore at the top of his shirt once he had left the public arena and managed to rip it almost in two.
Consequently, he left the recording area shortly afterwards looking faintly ridiculous, with the top half of his chest exposed and clearly in no fit state to do any interviews, either physically or mentally.
A week that had promised so much had ended in another crushing disappointment and, following his tears at the Ryder Cup, another Sunday where, alongside his torso, all his emotions were laid bare. What a long flight home to Florida it must have been.
Rory McIlroy ripped his shirt in frustration after failing to win the DP World Tour Championship
No one could have foreseen such events with just 90 minutes remaining at the last tournament of the year.
What happened thereafter to provoke the McIlroy meltdown can be attributed to one-third atrocious luck, one-third his own poor reaction, and the rest to the magnificence of Collin Morikawa, who ended up winning the event to become the first American to claim the Race to Dubai — and in true style.
At the age of just 24, he took home a cheque for loose change short of £3million, as well as those two handsome trophies to place alongside the Claret Jug.
Morikawa resembles a latter-day Sir Nick Faldo in the manner
