Owings Mills, MD.-Scottie Scheffler knew a shortage of four shots in five holes and then supplied a hay maker at the discouraging par-3 17th by chipping 82 feet for Birdie who brought him to the BMW championship for his fifth PGA Tour title of the year on Sunday.
Scheffler closed with a 3-under 67 for a two-shot victory and became the first player since Tiger Woods (2006-07) who won at the PGA Tour at least five times in successive years.
Robert Macintyre did not make a birdie until the 16th hole, but stayed in the game after losing his main class, mostly when Scheffler Short Putts started to miss.
Macintyre pulled in a shot from the lead that went to the 17th, the heaviest hole in Caves Valley, with a rear pin on a crispy green that slides to the water to the water. Scheffler just went in the rough road, the ball sat down nicely, but the shot is still scary.
He landed it for about 60 feet short and saw it dripping, and then rolling, and then slowly again until it fell into the cup.
“It looked good when it landed, looked good when it was rolling, and it was nice to see that you went in,” said Scheffler.
Macintyre could only look at him and stare at the world’s number 1 player who made a different world shots in another special season. Macintyre, who made 18 birdies in the first 45 holes of the tournament, only made two about the last 27 holes. He shot 73.
It is not yet over for Scheffler, who 30 players who continued to the Tour Championship In East Lake with the chance to become the first repeated FedExcup champion since the series started in 2007.
All 30 players at East Lake can win the first place of $ 10 million. The field includes Harry Hall, the only player who played his way in the top 30 on Sunday, and even that was tense. Hall made Bogey on the PAR-5 16th-the easiest gap on the track and then went long and left on the 17th. He too Suitable for Birdie And was safe on the 18th.
Rickie Fowler was about to go back to East Lake to miss the green twice from the Fairway on the rear nine, which led to Bogey on the 14th and double bogey on the 15th, and hit him out of the top 30.
Fowler ended with a 5-foot par putt-as he had missed, Michael Kim would have been in the Tour Championship. Instead, the 30th place went to Akshay Bhatia, despite making four bogeys on the back nine and the feeling that he had blown it.
Macintyre also wasted a big chance.
He showed a lot of grit on Saturday and played with Scheffler in the last group. But on the opening hole, Scheffler drilled his ride through the middle and hit 6 feet for Birdie, while Macintyre missed the fairway and a 6-foot par putt. It was an early explanation.
Macintyre missed another fairway on the second and made Bogey. He went from the fairway to a bunker on the short par-4 fifth, a two-shot swing when the shot did not go up and down for Par and Scheffler Birdie.
This is how the wallet will be paid in the second play -off event of the PGA Tour, the $ 20 million BMW championship.
And then Scheffler took the lead with a wedge to 6 feet for Birdie at no. 7.
It seemed that it would be a runaway at that time, because Scheffler never seemed to be missing – except when he had the chance to extend the leadership. He missed Birdie opportunities from 5 feet at no. 8 and 8 feet at no. 10. He packed a simple on-and-down on the 12th and three-allocated from 18 feet on the 14th. Every chance, Macintyre held in the hunt.
And then came a chip on the 17th, a knockout punch.
Scheffler, who finished 265, has 18 career titles in the past three years and six months since his first PGA Tour title in Phoenix.
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