He’s received at Arnold Palmer’s place. He’s received on the house of the PGA Tour. He ran away with a win at Augusta, and he received every week later in Hilton Head.
Scottie Scheffler was already the highest golfer on the earth, however Sunday he drove that time even additional with a win on the Memorial Event — Jack Nicklaus’ signature occasion — for his fifth win in eight begins.
On a difficult Muirfield Village course with solely 5 gamers taking part in Sunday beneath par, Scheffler held off runs by Collin Morikawa and Adam Hadwin to shoot a closing spherical 74 and beat Morikawa by one stroke.
The win makes Scheffler the primary golfer to win 5 PGA Tour occasions in a single season since Justin Thomas in 2017, and we’re solely in June with two majors and the FedEx Cup Playoffs to go. And all 5 wins have been in signature occasions: the Masters, the Gamers Championship, the Arnold Palmer Invitational, the RBC Heritage and now the Memorial.
Scheffler entered Sunday with a four-shot lead over Morikawa and the remainder of the sphere. Because the course performed so quick and agency, Scheffler performed the entrance 9 over par whereas the Canadian Hadwin made a robust push to get inside one shot.
Morikawa additionally spent a lot of the again 9 inside one, however whereas a lot of the sphere fell again, Scheffler remained regular. Regardless of lacking seven of his first 11 fairways Sunday, he parred eight straight holes to by no means concede the lead.
Scheffler even bogeyed the seventeenth gap to present Morikawa a possibility to tie on 18. Scheffler’s method shot then took a tough bounce off the inexperienced and into the tough, however Morikawa discovered that very same tough behind the pin.
Scheffler needed to sink a five-foot putt for par to win, and he was capable of seize the victory with an emotional fist pump.
Huge win. Huge fist pump.
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— PGA TOUR (@PGATOUR) June 9, 2024
The tight end represents one other robust second-place outcome for Morikawa, the two-time main winner having his finest season since his 2021 marketing campaign however arising quick a number of occasions. He was within the closing pairing at each the Masters and PGA Championship this spring but completed seven and 6 pictures again of the winner at each, respectively.
He additionally entered Sunday on the RBC Heritage two again of Scheffler solely to finish up six again.
Scheffler is at the moment a 3-to-1 betting favourite at subsequent week’s U.S. Open at Pinehurst as he’s changing into the game’s largest favourite since Tiger Woods’ heyday in 2010.
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