Marco Penge didn’t hesitate when asked to reflect.

“It’s been the year of my life,” said the 27-year-old Englishman, whose T-22 finish Sunday in the DP World Tour Championship earned him a runner-up spot in the final Race to Dubai standings, which came with one of 10 PGA Tour cards given to the top finishers in the European circuit’s season-long battle.

Penge won three times this year, starting at the Hainan Classic in April, just one month after he returned from a three-month suspension for placing a few small bets on golf tournaments in which he wasn’t playing. Penge was used to overcoming adversity, as he underwent major right-knee surgery in 2021 and last season needed to hole a nervy par putt on his final hole of the Genesis Championship just to finish No. 110 in the Race to Dubai a

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