Scottie Scheffler got here by means of a final-round tussle with Ben Griffin to assert a 3rd PGA Tour win of the season with a profitable title defence on the Memorial Match.
Scheffler took a one-shot lead into the ultimate day at Muirfield Village and by no means relinquished high spot, with the world No 1 carding a final-round 70 to shut out a four-shot victory and change into the primary participant since Tiger Woods to win back-to-back editions of the occasion.
The three-time main champion combined three birdies with one bogey to register a 3rd win in 4 begins, following on from the CJ Cup Byron Nelson and the PGA Championship, with the success extending his benefit on the high of each the world rankings and the FedExCup standings.
Griffin performed alongside Scheffler and was inside a shot for big sections of the ultimate spherical, solely to double-bogey his penultimate gap and end 4 strokes again, with Sepp Straka in third spot on 5 underneath after a final-round 70.
Nick Taylor grabbed fourth spot forward of Russell Henley and Maverick McNealy, whereas Rickie Fowler’s tied-seventh end earns him a spot at The Open subsequent month by way of the Open Qualifying Collection, the place one spot was on supply for Royal Portrush to the very best finisher not already exempt.
Scheffler stars once more at Signature Occasion
A topsy-turvy begin noticed Scheffler stand up and down from off the primary inexperienced to scramble a par to double his in a single day lead, just for Griffin to undo his opening-hole bogey by changing from 5 to birdie the following.
Griffin carded a three-putt bogey on the fourth however took benefit of the par-five subsequent, the place Scheffler missed a four-foot birdie likelihood and continued his par streak.
Ben Griffin was searching for a 3rd PGA Tour victory in six weeks
Scheffler holed from seven ft to save lots of par on the sixth and claimed a primary birdie of the day from shut vary on the par-five subsequent, with the world No 1 reaching the flip two forward after getting up and down to save lots of par on the ninth.
The defending champion responded to beginning his again 9 with a bogey by rolling in from 15 ft to birdie the par-five eleventh, earlier than grabbing full management of the match when Griffin didn’t stand up and down from the sand on the par-three twelfth for the primary of successive bogeys.
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The group needed to duck out of the way in which following a wayward shot from Jordan Spieth throughout the closing spherical at Muirfield Village
Scheffler transformed from 10 ft to save lots of par on the 14th and made a two-putt birdie on the par-five fifteenth, the place Griffin holed a 12-foot eagle after which drained a 30-foot birdie on the subsequent to leap again inside two.
Griffin’s hopes ended with an errant drive on the par-four seventeenth and premature double-bogey, dropping him 4 behind, as Scheffler completed with successive pars to shut out a sixteenth PGA Tour victory.
Griffin dissatisfied with runner-up end to Scheffler
Scottie Scheffler: “Only one bogey around this place is pretty good. I hit a lot of fairways. I definitely wasn’t in the rough very much. I think I hit it in the rough off of 10, but outside of that, I don’t think I was really in the rough at all. So around this place, that’s going to be key. I drove the ball really nice today.”
Ben Griffin: “My putter positively wasn’t fairly 100 per cent there. I made it thrilling there on the finish for a few holes. It is humorous, I might take this end, like, a 12 months in the past, two years in the past, three years in the past. I am positively a little bit dissatisfied to not have made it a little bit bit nearer or gotten it accomplished.
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Scottie Scheffler displays on his Memorial Match victory and the way essential his household assist was in the direction of the win
“I’ll learn from some of my swings down the stretch, I’ll remember some of the good stuff, and I’ll bounce back and get right back to it. So overall, great week, but definitely a little disappointed with the second.”
What’s subsequent?
The PGA Tour heads to Ontario for the RBC Canadian Open, the place Robert MacIntyre returns as defending champion and Rory McIlroy is again in motion for the primary time because the PGA Championship. Early protection begins on Thursday from 11.45am on Sky Sports activities+ forward of full protection from 8pm on Sky Sports activities Golf.
Scheffler takes every week off earlier than heading to the US Open at Oakmont, stay on Thursday June 12 from 12.30pm on Sky Sports activities Golf. Get Sky Sports activities or stream with NOW.
