Scottie Scheffler was totally on cruise management on the best way to a 3-under-par 69 in Sunday’s last spherical to win The Players Championship at Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla.
Scheffler, who posted a 17-under 271, claimed the highest prize of $4.5 million with a five-stroke benefit over Tyrrell Hatton of England at TPC Sawgrass.
Scheffler, 26, a former University of Texas golfer, is now the reigning champion of the Masters and the TPC. The solely different golfers to carry these two titles on the identical time had been Jack Nicklaus and Tiger Woods.
Hatton carded the day’s finest spherical at 7-under 65. When he completed, he was inside vary of Scheffler, however provided that the chief tanked down the stretch. Instead, Scheffler expanded his result in six photographs after reaching the spherical’s halfway mark with a three-shot benefit.
Scheffler posted birdies on 5 consecutive holes (Nos. 8-12) to offer a cushty working margin. That included a chip-in for a birdie.
Hatton had birdies on the final 5 holes as a part of a 29 on the again 9. That was the bottom back-nine rating for a last spherical within the event’s historical past.
Tom Hoge, who set a course report with Saturday’s 62, shot 70 and completed at 10 beneath for the event in a tie for third place with Norway’s Viktor Hovland (68).
Hideki Matsuyama (68) of Japan was fifth at 9 beneath.
Min Woo Lee of Australia was within the last pairing with Scheffler and was tied for the lead via 53 holes earlier than a bogey on the final gap Saturday.
Lee slumped to a seven-way tie for sixth place by capturing 76 on Sunday, unraveling early with a triple-bogey 7 on the fourth gap. He made up floor with birdies on Nos. 16 and 17 earlier than one other bogey on the final gap.
Alex Smalley checked in with a 74 and tied for sixty fifth general at 1 over, however his hole-in-one on the famed seventeenth offered some thrills.
–Field Level Media