Scottie Scheffler claims dominant victory at FedEx St. Jude Championship as Tommy Fleetwood fades on powerful again 9 | Golf Information

Scottie Scheffler produced a medical efficiency at TPC Southwind on his method to sealing an eight-shot victory on the FedEx St. Jude Championship.

Scheffler took a two-shot lead heading into Sunday’s closing spherical, however as his challengers faltered within the boiling Memphis warmth, the 30-year-old four-time main winner held his cool as he surgically dismantled the course to put up a final-round rating of 66 to complete on 17 below.

Scheffler is now the third-youngest participant to succeed in 21 PGA Tour wins, behind Tiger Woods and Jack Nicklaus, however the American may have reached that milestone a lot earlier, having positioned as a runner-up on 5 events on the PGA Tour this season.

“It is not simple to win out right here,” Scheffler stated. “I felt just like the 12 months that I’ve had sort of exhibits how tough it’s.

“Now we have plenty of gifted guys, and I performed some actually strong golf over the course of this 12 months, however I hadn’t performed a lot nice golf.

“I’ve had my shut calls and misplaced a pair play-offs. It was good coming right into a day throughout which I had the lead and was in a position to maintain that lead and actually sort of construct on it because the spherical went on.

“I felt like per week like this was coming. I felt like I used to be on repeat all 12 months simply being like: ‘Hey, I am taking part in strong. I am shut’.

“It feels good to be answering some totally different questions on the finish of this week.”

Scheffler’s solely blemish throughout his closing spherical got here on the third gap, the place the American chipped out of a bunker however struck a sprinkler head. A lot to his dismay, his ball ricochetted right into a water hazard, with Scheffler happening to put up a bogey.

Unperturbed by the incident, he hit again two holes later, making birdies on holes 5 and 6, earlier than including three extra on his again 9 to complete at 4 below for the day.

“Going into at the moment I simply wished to do my greatest and try to execute,” Scheffler stated. “Third gap I hit a great shot out of the bunker and it hit a sprinkler head and went into the water. I am like: ‘When is that this going to cease occurring?’ However I did a great job of staying in it and bouncing again from that and I received to loosen up coming down the stretch.”

Si Woo Kim completed because the solo runner-up at 9 below par, whereas a bogey on the 18th would see Sam Burns drop again to tied-third with Alex Noren.

“I knew he was going to place a strong spherical collectively,” Burns stated on Scheffler. “Truthfully it was going to be actually tough, what did Scottie end, at 17 below?

“I might have needed to play just about an ideal spherical of golf to have an opportunity at the moment, and I did not come near that. He performed precisely how I anticipated him to.”

Defending FedExCup champion Tommy Fleetwood toiled, mixing two bogeys with two birdies to go degree par by his entrance 9. The Englishman would in the end fall again to six-under and tied for seventh on the leaderboard after making 4 bogeys on his again 9.

Rory McIlroy, in the meantime, endured a tough return to PGA Tour motion, with the Northern Irishman, who has been on vacation for the previous 4 weeks, posting a closing spherical rating of 72 to finish his week 66th on the leaderboard.

Justin Rose was the one participant to shoot decrease than Scheffler on Sunday, posting a closing spherical rating of 64, nevertheless, he would finish his week at degree par and tied-Thirty ninth on the leaderboard, after taking pictures rounds of 73, 70, and 73 in his opening three days.

Huge names miss out on BMW Championship

The FedExCup Playoffs proceed subsequent week on the BMW Championship, reside on Sky Sports activities, however a number of massive names is not going to be in attendance, together with Jordan Spieth.

The highest 50 gamers within the FedExCup standings will qualify for the second FedExCup Playoff subsequent week, and Spieth had been hovering round that marker, even advancing to forty fifth within the standings after going two below by his entrance 9.

However the 2015 Masters champion faltered late on, slumping to tied-Nineteenth on the leaderboard, after wrapping up his closing spherical at degree par.

“It was a tall process coming in,” Spieth stated. “I used to be going to want to complete basically within the prime 10 this week and fell simply shy of it.

“It is humorous, I simply really feel like I am sort of getting again to taking part in actually good golf, prefer it’s near kicking off, and I am not going to play a event for a very long time.

“In some methods I really feel like I am leaving some on the market, and in some methods it is a good factor as a result of like I discussed after the primary spherical, this would be the final time I end like this for some time.”

Harry Corridor was one other who was simply on the sting of qualifying for the BMW Championship, however a 3 below par closing rating was not sufficient to propel him into the highest 50, with the Englishman rating No 56 within the FedExCup standings.

His compatriot Jordan Smith ended his season 66th within the FedExCup standings and was unable to maneuver up the rankings after he completed with a closing rating of 4 over par.

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