Henrik Stenson has labelled 2016 as the best year of his career so far after clinching a second Race to Dubai title in four seasons.
Stenson began the week 299,675 points ahead of Danny Willett and made certain of ending the year as European No 1 with a closing 65 matched by defending champion Rory McIlroy.
The Swede finished tied-ninth, five stokes adrift of tournament winner Matt Fitzpatrick, to cap a special year and secure his first Race to Dubai title since 2013.
"I'm very pleased to get my name on this trophy once again," Stenson told Sky Sports. "It's been a great year, the best year of my career.
"I've always thought it was going to be hard to top 2013, but I think I've done that this year. Maybe not to the level of golf over six months, but certainly with the highlights of winning The Open, [winning silver at] the Olympics and managing to win The Race to Dubai again.
"I always knew it was going to be a tough race to finish it off here in The Final Series. Luckily for me, I didn't really win it this week here in Dubai or last week in South Africa.
"I knew I needed one really good week, and I managed to knock that one out early at HSBC. It's been more of a cruise and seeing what the other guys do."
Willett needed a top-five finish or better to have any chance of ending the year in top spot, but struggled to a tie for 50th and finshed as runner-up in the Race to Dubai for the second year running.
"It's a disappointing four-week stretch that I've just had, to end what still will be a pretty memorable year," Willett said. "It hasn't been quite good enough for what we needed to do.
"I'll be a bit disappointed I would have thought for a bit, but you then kind of look at what you've done and then try and move forward.
"I think the body and mind need a bit of a rest, and hopefully we can come out fresh around a golf course that I quite like at Hong Kong and then have a good four or five week break over Christmas."