Summary McIlroy says he has enough motivation to do well at this week's Dubai World Tour Championship.
The 23-year-old from Holywood, Northern Ireland, emulated the ground-breaking feat of Luke Donald from last year when he won the Money List on both US PGA and European Tours.
While Donald had to wait till the very last event on both sides of the Atlantic for his achievement, McIlroy wrapped up the PGA Tour honour without playing a single Fall Series event, and clinched the European Money List when he finished third in the Singapore Open a couple of weeks ago.
Ahead of the $8 million season-ending tournament at the Earth course of Jumeirah Golf Estates here, McIlroy said: "I am obviously very proud and very honoured to have won the Race to Dubai this year. I ve had four go s at it since 2009. I came close a couple of times, and you know, it was great to be able to do it this year.
McIlroy, who missed the cut last week at the Hong Kong Open where he was the defending champion, said one of the best things about the 2012 season was the way he came out of the slump in form he experienced mid-way through the year when he missed three cuts, including the US Open and the BMW PGA Championship.
McIlroy leads a stellar field of 57 players this week in Dubai. There have been three dropouts - Thomas Bjorn, Ross Fisher and Retief Goosen.
Bjorn has had a recurrence of his neck injury, Fisher decided to stay back in the US where he has made it to the final stage of the qualifying school, while Goosen has still not started playing after his back surgery in August.
