Tour Championship, closing leaderboard
-16 S Scheffler (US); -13 V Hovland (Nor); -12 R Gerard (US); -11 A Fitzpatrick (Eng), C Gotterup (US), R McIlroy (NI), R Henley (US), MW Lee (Aus), J Bridgeman (US), L Aberg (Swe)
Chosen others: -10 T Fleetwood (Eng), C Younger (US), A Scott (Aus); -9 C Morikawa (US); -7 J Rose (Eng); -5 M Fitzpatrick (Eng), W Clark (US); E R MacIntyre (Sco)
At occasions it felt like there was a sure inevitability about Scottie Scheffler accumulating his second Fedex Cup title on Sunday.
As these round him started to falter, the world primary, who began the day three strokes adrift of in a single day chief Viktor Hovland, produced a sometimes metronomic efficiency with the successful cheque in sight.
And what a prize. Scheffler’s reward for his twenty second profession victory on the PGA Tour’s season-ending Tour Championship in Atlanta will see his checking account credited to the tune of $10m (£7.4m).
It strikes Scheffler to the highest of the PGA Tour’s profession cash record on $130.4m, above Tiger Woods, who has earned $120.9m and led the standings for the previous 25 years.
The 2024 champion additionally joins Woods (2007 and 2009) and Rory McIlroy (2016, 2019 and 2022) as the one gamers to have gained the occasion on a number of events.
“To return from behind and have the ability to win match is a extremely cool feeling,” Scheffler mentioned.
“There have been quite a lot of gifted guys in entrance of me on the leaderboard. I used to be lucky to get off to begin and put myself within the combine. It is a reward to be out right here on tour. Every day I will attempt to give it my greatest.”
Throughout the ultimate three pairings, Scheffler’s four-under 66 was the one spherical to interrupt par along with his very good means to search out inexperienced after inexperienced giving him a considerable edge over his rivals.
Hovland, whose driving grew to become extra erratic, additionally discovered that his putter had gone chilly when he most wanted it, and the Norwegian signed for a two-over 72 as he completed three again in second place.
American debutant Ryan Gerard, who began one behind Hovland, ended the day in the identical place and third total on 12 beneath par after additionally taking 72 photographs.
McIlroy was unable to rediscover the rhythm that rocketed him into rivalry on Saturday, along with his topsy-turvy spherical of 69 containing 4 birdies, an eagle and 5 bogeys.
Apart from the Northern Irishman there have been few moments of sparkle on present elsewhere among the many potential contenders, albeit Justin Rose’s slam-dunk hole-in-one on the par-three ninth was an apparent exception.
Whereas Rose was unable to collect any momentum from that to noticeably problem, ending the day at seven beneath total, one other Englishman Alex Fitzpatrick matched Scheffler’s 66, the bottom spherical of the day, to catapult himself up the leaderboard to conclude the match alongside six-time main winner McIlroy and 5 others at 11 beneath.
It earned the 27-year-old a tie for fourth on his debut to cap a exceptional season by which he gained his first DP World Tour occasion on the Indian Open earlier than teaming up along with his elder brother, the 2022 US Open champion Matt, to win the Zurich Traditional of New Orleans pairs occasion.
Tommy Fleetwood, who famously triumphed 12 months ago started the day too far off the tempo for his three-under 67, to hassle the likes of Scheffler and resulted in a tie for eleventh at 10 beneath total.
