Season in Numbers: 2014 Race To Dubai

<strong><em><strong></strong></em><em><strong>Those familiar with our 'Day in Numbers' feature will know the score - the most insightful numbers all rolled into one piece. So without further delay, here's some fascinating numbers from what was a memorable 2014 Race To Dubai season...</strong></em></strong>

<strong>1</strong>– Race To Dubai winner, Mr. Rory McIlroy

<strong>2 </strong>– Race To Dubai titles for McIlroy now (2012 & 2014)

<strong>4</strong>– European Tour International Schedule victories for the Northern Irishman this season

<strong>2</strong>– Major titles for the world number one (The 143rd Open Championship & the US PGA Championship)

<strong>5</strong>– multiple winners this season – they were McIlroy, Mikko Ilonen, Alexander Levy, Miguel Angel Jiménez & Bubba Watson

<strong>1,312</strong>- different players participated in tournaments on the 2014 Race To Dubai

<strong>18,755</strong>- the amount of stroke play rounds played between them all

<strong>1,346,594</strong>- the overall amount of shots played, with a stroke average of 71.8

<strong>69.24</strong>– stroke average for McIlroy, numbers which nobody could better on The European Tour

<strong>6,883,784.89</strong>– Euros won by the 25 year old on The 2014 Race To Dubai

<strong>RORY MCILROY POSES WITH HIS 2014 RACE TO DUBAI TROPHY</strong>

<strong>12</strong>– first-time winners, including the likes of Oliver Wilson, Brooks Koepka & Levy

<strong>1</strong>– Rookie of the Year winner – Turkish Airlines Open champion Koepka

<strong>157</strong>– under par for France’s Romain Wattel led the way in overall scoring

<strong>35</strong>– hole-in-ones, with Graeme Storm & James Heath making two each and Shane Lowry acing the 13th hole at the season-ending DP World Tour Championship in Dubai

<strong>25 </strong>– course records set, including Martin Kaymer’s 65 at the US Open & Thomas Bjørn’s ten under par 62 in the first round of the BMW PGA Championship

<strong>THOMAS BJØRN - ENJOYING HIS FINE 62 AT WENTWORTH & THE BMW PGA CHAMPIONSHIP</strong>

<strong>8</strong>- out of ten Ryder Cups won for the Europeans after Paul McGinley's men defeated the USA 16½-11½ at Gleneagles

1 - winning shot from Jamie Donaldson at the biennial match play contest, thanks to a fine approach to the 15th in his singles match against Keegan Bradley

<strong>4</strong>– albatrosses carded by Joost Luiten, Steve Webster, Mark Tullo & James Kingston

<strong>9 </strong>– top-five finishes for Henrik Stenson made the Swede the leader in this category

<strong>10</strong>– top-ten finishes for Stenson over the season, with McIlroy & Luiten the nearest men to the two-time DP World Tour Championship winner, with nine apiece

<strong>60</strong>– was the lowest round of the year, set by Nicolas Colsaerts on the opening day of the Portugal Masters

<strong>312.6</strong>– yards was the tour-leading number in average driving distance, set by ‘The Belgian Bomber’ Colsaerts

<strong>9 </strong>–  under par was the lowest nine hole score to par this season – posted by Stephen Gallacher on the back nine of this third round at the Omega Dubai Desert Classic

<strong>13</strong>– Play offs were needed to decide tournaments, with Fabrizio Zanotti’s win at the BMW International Open in Germany the longest of those, lasting five holes

<strong>7</strong>– wire-to-wire winners, including McIlroy at Hoylake, Ilonen at the Irish Open, Westwood at the Maybank Malaysian Open & Kaymer at the US Open Championship

<strong>8</strong>– shots was the biggest deficit made up on the final day by a winner, thanks to Graeme McDowell’s fine comeback at the Alstom Open de France in July

<strong>6</strong>– shots was the largest 36 hole lead (no ties), which was held by Kaymer at the US Open Championship and Ian Poulter at the Turkish Airlines Open

<strong>8</strong>– shots was the biggest winning margin, set by Kaymer at Pinehurst

<strong>MARTIN KAYMER SHOWS OFF HIS US OPEN CHAMPIONSHIP TROPHY AFTER BLOWING THE FIELD AWAY</strong>

<strong>2 </strong>– players found more than 75% in GIR during the 2014 season – Thomas Aiken & Emiliano Grillo

<strong>1</strong>– in the driving accuracy stats was Brazil’s Adilson Da Silva, who found 80.6% in fairways

<strong>22</strong>– under par was the lowest 72 hole score to par, set by Felipe Aguilar at The Championship at Laguna National (preferred lies)

<strong>18 </strong>– under par from Alex Levy in the rain-shortened Portugal Masters was the lowest 36 hole score

<strong>28.4</strong>– average putts per round made Brett Rumford, Darren Fichardt & George Coetzee the tour’s putting kings

<strong>1</strong>– the top spot in the sand saves went to short game master Fichardt, who made 76.3% in that category