Owings Mills, MD. – The figures that Scottie Scheffler composes made comparisons with Tiger Woods. Player No. 1 in the world experienced a moment of tiger with the line on the line and a club in his hand Sunday in the BMW championship.
The 82 -foot chip of Scheffler on the 17th – the hardest hole in the final round in Caves Valley – landed about 60 feet short and rolled the rest of the path, picking up the speed, losing speed and falling on the final turn. The Birdie almost finished another victory, his fifth PGA Tour title this year.
This recalled Woods delivering magic to overshadow its sublime competence, with its penguer from behind the 16th green in the Memorial and its chip-in for eagle in the World Cup in Japan.
Scheffler had already erased a four -stroke deficit against Robert Macintyre, Robert Macintyre in five holes. He clung to an advance at a blow on the 17th, one by 3 intimidating with a right and right pin on the right.
Scheffler was in the left Rough, the safe place, faced with a shot that a dozen players had chilled green.
“I knew it was going to be very fast, and do my best to make it fall there and give me a good look for the peer,” he said. “When he got out, he came out how we wanted, then he started to break and he started to appear better and better.
“And yes, it was really nice to see this one enter.”
Scheffler closed with a 3 -mine of 67 for a two -stroke victory and became the first player since Woods – there is this name again – in 2006 and 2007 to win at least five times on the PGA Tour in the consecutive years.
Macintyre did not sort before the 16th hole but stayed in the match after losing his big lead, mainly when Scheffler began to miss short putts.
Macintyre pulled in a plan of the advance by going to the 17th when Scheffler worked his magic and had to settle for another finalist with a memorable shot, just as he did in Oakmont when JJ Spaun put on a 65-foot Birdie putt to win the United States Open in June.
Macintyre was in the rating room when he looked at the winning putt of Spaun and applauded it. He was alongside Scheffler in the BMW championship, looking with disbelief but angry with his bad game on the tee which cost him the big lead early.
“When he launched this out of 17, then he hit the perfect 18th shot on 18, that’s about this time. You play for second place at that time,” said Macintyre.
“He’s the best player of the day. I’m really upset right now. Right now, I’m wanting to go and crush my golf clubs, to be honest with you.”
Macintyre made 18 birdies in the first 45 holes of the tournament and only two in the last 27 holes. He closed with a 73 and obtained consolation prices that did not mean much in the moment. He made the top 10 of the world for the first time, going to n ° 8.
Scheffler’s chip-in aroused the strongest joy of the day. The most satisfactory shot came on the 15th, while his advance was reduced to a blow after a three strokes. Macintyre du Fairway hit 7 feet. Scheffler was in a deep bunker and hit 8-Fer at 6 feet.
Macintyre missed. Scheffler is.
“It was a really important blow in the tournament, which I think I would fly a little under the radar,” said Scheffler.
The season is not over to Scheffler, who led the 30 players who qualified for this week’s tour of this week at East Lake of Atlanta with the chance to become the first repeated champion of the Fedex Cup since the start of the series in 2007.
The 30 East Lake players can win the first place check for $ 10 million. The field includes Harry Hall, the only golfer who played his way in the top 30 on Sunday, and even it was tense. Hall made Bogey on the 16th par -5 – the simplest hole in the course – then went for a long time and went to the 17th. He also bypassed Birdie and was safe by climbing the 18th.
Rickie Fowler was about to return to East Lake to miss the greenway green twice on the nine rear – leading to Bogey on 14 and double Bogey on the 15th, and bringing him out of the top 30.
Fowler finished with a putt by 5 feet. If he had missed, Michael Kim would have been in the Tour championship. Instead, the 30th place went to Akshay Bhatia, despite four bogeys on the new back and feeling as if he had blown it.
Macintyre also wasted a great chance.
He showed a lot of grain on Saturday by playing in the final group with Scheffler. But on the opening hole, Scheffler pierced his journey in the middle and hit 6 feet for Birdie, while Macintyre missed the fairway and a putt per 6 feet. It was a first statement.
Macintyre missed another fairway in the second and made Bogey. He went from the fairway to a bunker on the short par-4, a two-stroke swing when the Scottish managed to get up for the peer and Scheffler stewed.
Then Scheffler took the lead with a 6 -foot corner for birdie on n ° 7.
It seemed that it would be a leak at that time because Scheffler never seemed to be missing – except when he had the chance to extend the advance. He missed chances of 5 -foot sneaktens at n ° 8 and 8 feet at n ° 10. He bothered a single from top to bottom in the 12th and three blows of 18 feet on the 14. Each chance kept Macintyre in the hunt.
Then came a chip on the 17th for a punch with direct elimination.
Scheffler, who finished 15 sous 265, has 18 career titles during the 3 and a half years since his first title of PGA Tour in Phoenix.
