Billy Horschel believes 2021 would definitely go down as the best year of his career so far if he secured the Race to Dubai title, something no American has done before.
After winning the WGC - Dell Technologies Match Play and BMW PGA Championship in a memorable campaign, Horschel goes into the season ending DP World Tour Championship, Dubai second in the standings, with only fellow American Collin Morikawa ahead of him.
Victory for either Horschel or Morikawa in this week's event would see them clinch the Race to Dubai crown, while four other players - Tyrrell Hatton, Min Woo Lee, Paul Casey and Matt Fitzpatrick - could finish the season as European Number One if they win and other results go their way.
Horschel has had some successful years during his career, having won the FedEx Cup on the PGA Tour in 2014, but he thinks 2021 would rank above the others if he added the Race to Dubai to his CV this week.
He said: "This is probably the best year I've had of my career.
"I know I won the FedEx Cup, but that year I didn't play great until the very end, and this year I've been pretty consistent.
"But to win two big tournaments in the WGC Match Play and the BMW PGA Championship, those are two massive events to win, especially when you sit (and look) back on your career resume and you say these are the events I won.
"And then to add possibly the Race to Dubai, be the first American to win the Order of Merit, obviously by far would be the best of my career.
"And I think that it's just another step closer to - ultimately my goal is to be a Hall of Famer, to have a heck of a career that I can be inducted into the Hall of Fame at one point in my career.
"There's a lot on the line this week, and we'll see how it all plays out when it comes to Sunday."
