Scottie Scheffler

Scottie Scheffler heads into the week top of the PGA Tours season-long standings; Patrick Cantlay looking to successfully defend the Tour Championship and ...

Scottie Scheffler will take a six-shot lead into the final round of the Tour Championship after taking advantage of the weather delay to end his third round ...

After two days in which it appeared the Tour Championship would be a procession for Scottie Scheffler, the world No. Rain delays can be concerning as players come back cold having to restart in the middle of a hole. Early birdies set the tone and an eagle on six set him on the move to five-under after 16 holes - and to 15-under with two to play. Scheffler began the final event of the PGA Tour season with a two-shot lead due to the staggered start, and The world No. Scottie Scheffler will take a six-shot lead into the final round of the Tour Championship after taking advantage of the weather delay to end his third round in impressive fashion.

Scottie Scheffler carded four birdies over six holes to complete the third round with a 4-under 66 that gave him a 6-shot lead in the Tour Championship.

He won just over $14 million in the regular season -- already a record, and not surprising given the steady rise in prize money. He sent his next tee shot so far to the right that he had to hit a provisional in case it was out of bounds. Scheffler is the No. 1 player, pulling away with four birdies over six holes to complete the third round with a 4-under 66 that gave him a 6-shot lead in the Tour Championship. Scheffler holed birdie putts from about 5 feet on the 13th and 15th holes. At the time, Scheffler was 1 shot ahead.

However, the second in the standings, Xander Schauffele, reduced the distance, reaching -17.

He closes the top 10 with a trio of stars and stripes made up of Cameron Young, Tom Hoge and Max Homa. The fourth place is divided between the American Patrick Cantlay, very performing after a subdued first lap, and the Korean Sungjae Im, stuck at a score of -12. The last Olympic champion was the author of an exceptional lap today with 63 strokes.

The richest payday in PGA Tour history has arrived. With $58 million to be split up 30 ways, 29 golfers (not including the injured Will Zalatoris) will ...

With the fourth round beginning in Atlanta, let's take a look at the key tee times for the top of the leaderboard. Second ($6.5 million) and third ($5 million) place aren't too bad either, but the top of the leaderboard is only looking at one spot. The big question Sunday is whether Scottie Scheffler, who entered East Lake with a two-stroke lead and saw it balloon to five only to lead by one at the end of play Saturday, can hold on to his advantage now that the third round is complete.

There will be plenty of time for Scheffler – a four-time winner on the PGA Tour this season, including his victory at the Masters – to unpack what happened on ...

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Rory McIlroy became the first three-time winner in FedExCup history after coming through a final-round tussle with world No 1 Scottie Scheffler to claim a ...

"I got a little lucky with Scottie (Scheffler) not playing his best golf today, and I took advantage of that with my good play. McIlroy hit the pin with a chip from the back of the 16th green and poured in from eight feet to save par, which was enough for the solo lead when Scheffler did not get up and down from the sand, while Im recovered from a double-bogey at the 14th to birdie the 15th and 17th to get within one. A close-range birdie at the eighth was enough for Scheffler to edge back ahead until McIlroy rolled in from eight feet at the 12th to get to 20 under, with Im a shot off the pace after cancelling out a bogey at the eighth by picking up a shot at the par-three next and birdieing the 12th.

Rory McIlroy started the final round six shots behind Scottie Scheffler, but walks away with the $18 million first-place prize.

On Sunday evening, McIlroy surely had nothing to regret about the path he has chosen. McIlroy looked poised to take control on the long par-4 14th after a perfect, 346-yard drive, one of his many 330-yard bombs for the week, but blocked his second shot and short-sided himself. He seemed to like his approach, even twirling his club, but the ball sailed long into the gallery behind the green, leaving a difficult third shot from the trampled down rough with the green running away from him. However, Sunday afternoon, Scheffler looked far from the player who dominated much of the Spring and had earned a two-stroke advantage to start the tournament in the staggered-start format. But McIlroy found himself as one of LIV’s most outspoken critics and, along with Tiger Woods, led some of the player effort to make wholesale changes to the PGA Tour. He caught another break with the ball ricocheting back into to play. Just this week, McIlroy announced the creation of It’s got the best players. [Scottie Scheffler](https://golf.com/news/scottie-scheffler-hurt-awkward-spot-describes-it/) in the first seven holes to tie for the lead during Sunday’s Tour Championship final round, but had made bogey on 14 after a perfect tee shot. His approach came up short, coming to rest nestled in the Bermuda rough. But, you know, I went up against the best player in the world today and I took him down, and that’s got to mean something.” I got a little lucky with Scottie not playing his best golf today, and I took advantage of that with my good play.

ATLANTA (AP) — Rory McIlroy, the strongest voice for the PGA Tour in a tumultuous year, had the final say with his clubs Sunday when he rallied from six ...

And it was McIlroy who joined Tiger Woods in leading a momentous player-only meeting last week that led to significant changes ahead for the tour. Most of that fell to Scheffler, who looked like different players when he returned Sunday morning and after a two-hour break before the final round. McIlroy won the FedEx Cup in 2016 in a playoff. And at the end, the tour’s biggest voice had its biggest trophy. Scheffler badly misread a 10-foot birdie chance on the 17th to tie, sending the Tour Championship to the final hole with $18 million on the line. McIlroy holed a 30-foot birdie putt on the par-3 15th hole to tie for the lead. He won the FedEx Cup again in 2019, the first year of a staggered start. “I’ve had a really great year and I wanted to finish it off with a win here, and unfortunately I wasn’t able to do that.” Scheffler was hoping to cap off the best year in golf with the FedEx Cup title. The last one to do that was Dustin Johnson in 2017 at the HSBC Champions. 1 seed, who began with a two-shot lead and never trailed until the 70th hole. McIlroy won $18 million, pushing his PGA Tour earnings to over $26 million for the season.

Scottie Scheffler lost a big lead Sunday at the Tour Championship, but he never was out of contention. He kept fighting.

“I hit the bunker shot exactly how I wanted to and there was no sand in the bottom of that bunker,” Scheffler said. “I should have just played it out to the right like I normally would, and for some reason I tried to force it in there,” Scheffler said. He had one final chance on the 72nd hole, putting his second shot in one of the front right greenside bunkers on East Lake’s other par-5. He played the wrong shot from short left of the green at the par-5 to a front left pin. “I don’t know the angle y’all had on the cameras, but if it was down the line you would have seen it hop off a little bit.” Scheffler’s tee shot on 16 was pulled left and settled down in the Bermuda rough, the direct line to the green blocked off by trees.

ATLANTA — Whether you believe in the golf gods or not, something certainly set up the end of the 2021-22 PGA Tour season in the most compelling way possible ...

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Rory McIlroy pulled off an improbable feat to cap the week off with a FedEx Cup title at East Lake Golf Club down in Atlanta Georgia.

He had 10 top 10s and 17 top 25s and was widely regarded as the no. Rory McIlroy, on the other hand, was seventh with 2,414 points, so he started the event 4 under. In fact, he started the PGA TOUR Championship at 10 under, thanks to his field-best 4,206 FedEx Cup points.

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I feel like Scottie deserves at least half of this today. “I told him we’re 1-all now. “There’s one thing I want to say.

One of the more interesting player-of-the-year elections begins next week and yet it probably won't be that close.

“Scottie Scheffler is going to win the Player of the Year. Smith also won four times this season, including The Open and The Players. Scheffler won four times this season, including the Masters and WGC-Dell Match Play.

I just for whatever reason, I couldn't get enough looks,” Scheffler said after falling a shot short of Rory McIlroy, giving the Ulsterman the FedEx Cup. “Maybe ...

“I play to win tournaments and I play to have fun and do my best and see where the game can take me. Hell of a player, hell of a competitor. “I tried to ride the wind with a 4-iron coming into the green, and I just pushed it a little bit, Scheffler said about the 18th. Throw in a likely finish in the revamped Player Impact Program, it was a profitable campaign. He is a lock for PGA Tour Player of the Year. Scheffler will appear for Team USA at the Presidents Cup in late September. It was a costly Sunday for Scottie Scheffler, and by “costly” we mean roughly to the tune of $12 million. While he stumbled at the end, it does nothing to diminish what he did to reach this point. That is not the easiest of swallows. Beginning the round with a six-shot advantage over McIlroy, Scheffler watched that lead evaporate by the seventh hole, playing the opening stretch in three over while McIlroy erased an opening bogey with four birdies. Needing something good on the par-5 18th Scheffler instead found the sand and walked away with 5. With all respect to Scheffler, that might be a bit of revisionist history.

ATLANTA – It seemed like Sunday at the TOUR Championship would provide a fitting ending to a stellar season, a four-hour coronation for the year's top ...

I've had a really great year and I wanted to finish it off with a win here, and unfortunately I wasn't able to do that,” Scheffler said. Both players missed birdie putts on 17 – 20 feet for McIlroy and 9 feet for Scheffler – and they both parred the par-5 18th. He made nine pars and a bogey the rest of the way, hanging with McIlroy with some grinding pars after struggling off the tee. McIlroy made a 6-foot birdie putt on 12 to tie Scheffler again at 21 under par (Scheffler pumped his fist after making a 12-foot par putt of his own). Scheffler hit his drive behind a tree and his punch shot found a greenside bunker. With little sand in the bunker, Scheffler caught his greenside bunker shot thin and it rolled through the green. Scheffler regained the top spot in the standings with his T3 finish at last week’s BMW Championship, and thus started the TOUR Championship at 10 under par and with a two-shot lead over No. McIlroy bogeyed the 14th but made a 30-footer for birdie on 15. Scottie Scheffler, winner of four events in 2022 and the FedExCup leader for most of the season, seemed to put the TOUR Championship away after returning to East Lake on Sunday morning to complete his weather-delayed third round. Scheffler finished the season with four wins, including the Masters, and sits atop the Official World Golf Ranking. Scheffler regained his lead with a kick-in birdie at the eighth hole. Scheffler has led the FedExCup since March, except for the week after Will Zalatoris won the first event of the FedExCup Playoffs.

Rory McIlroy. Northern Irish professional golfer (born 1989) · Scottie Scheffler. American golfer (1996-) · Sungjae Im. Golfer.

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In the end the dude who has been leading the charge against the soulless LIV golf league hoisted the FedEx Cup trophy for a third time in his career (which is ...

McIlroy has always been one of the classiest athletes in all of sports and that showed once again following his victory when he saw Scheffler’s family standing nearby. [firing one of the sweetest pitches of the MLB season](https://ftw.usatoday.com/lists/padres-yu-darvish-sweet-pitch-against-royals). [one of the best MLB mic’d up moments last night on ESPN](https://ftw.usatoday.com/lists/adam-wainwright-warmup-bullpen-interview-advice-video-espn-reaction-braves-cardinals). McIlroy and the man he caught – world No. [McIlroy shared hugs with the rest of the Scheffler crew in what was a great moment](https://twitter.com/PGATOUR/status/1564026704519110656). [crucial putts that had the crowds at East Lake going nuts](https://twitter.com/PGATOUR/status/1563997607160168456)).

World No. 1 Scottie Scheffler said a swarm of "mental errors" led to his tumble from the top of the leaderboard and second-place finish to Rory McIlroy at ...

Scheffler's bogey on No. He made bogey on No. On No. McIlroy tied for the lead with a birdie on No. "On No. He finished his third round with birdies on Nos. He made par on eight of his final nine holes and carded a bogey on No. Scheffler held a five-stroke lead through the first round of the tournament. 14, but responded with a 31-foot putt for birdie on the next hole to tie the for the lead. Scheffler recovered with a birdie on No. He made par on three of his next four holes, but made bogey on Nos. He made par on Nos.

The players had begun the week at East Lake on staggered scores determined by their place in the FedEx Cup standings, and Scheffler re-opened his lead to six ...

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The players had begun the week at East Lake on staggered scores determined by their place in the FedEx Cup standings, and Scheffler re-opened his lead to six ...

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Although they came out 1 and 2 in the season-long FedEx Cup standings, from an equipment standpoint Rory and Scottie are polar opposites.

[Rory swapped 3-woods halfway through the event](https://golf.com/gear/fairway-woods/rory-mcilroy-taylormade-3-woods-us-open/), going from his SIM TI to the fixed hosel version of the Stealth for added spin and workability off the tee. [TaylorMade Stealth Plus](https://fairwayjockey.com/products/taylormade-stealth-plus-custom-fairway-wood?utm_source=GOLF_com&utm_medium=Article_WITB&utm_campaign=WITB) ( [Fujikura Ventus Black 9X](https://fairwayjockey.com/products/fujikura-ventus-black-wood-shaft?utm_source=GOLF_com&utm_medium=Article_WITB&utm_campaign=WITB) shaft), 19 degrees With a more rounded profile and camber, the sole of his MG3 offers more versatility for partial shots, which is something Rory has been putting a lot of work into. [TaylorMade Stealth Plus](https://fairwayjockey.com/products/taylormade-stealth-plus-custom-driver?utm_source=GOLF_com&utm_medium=Article_WITB&utm_campaign=WITB) ( [Fujikura Ventus Black 6X](https://fairwayjockey.com/products/fujikura-ventus-black-wood-shaft?utm_source=GOLF_com&utm_medium=Article_WITB&utm_campaign=WITB) shaft), 9 degrees After the holiday break, Rory came back in January with new Stealth Plus 3 and 5 woods to build out the top end of his bag, and although the 5 wood has stayed put, he went back to the SIM Ti at the Players. We should note this was before the Stealth line was available, but the SIM2 had been out for the season and Rory never made a full-time switch to the club. Considering Scheffler’s Texas upbringing, it should be no surprise the Dallas native (Scheffler was born in Ridgewood, N.J., but his family moved to Texas in 1999 when he was 3) was linked to Nike Golf headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas, early in his playing days. Considering his strengths in these areas it should be no surprise he hasn’t messed with these clubs too much, but after that is where it gets really interesting. [TaylorMade Stealth Plus](https://fairwayjockey.com/products/taylormade-stealth-plus-driver?variant=41073535811770¤cy=USD&utm_medium=product_sync&utm_source=google&utm_content=sag_organic&utm_campaign=sag_organic&src=google&kwd=&utm_campaign=10690327842&utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_content=452622514010&utm_term=&adgroupid=109172459167&gclid=CjwKCAiA1JGRBhBSEiwAxXblwRhQaKK1EJ1d6pjqu8dKOUO3zRt5Q1bEkLoUq_O2aJtkBlxVqXTQ2hoCx94QAvD_BwE) ( [Fujikura Ventus Black 7X](https://fairwayjockey.com/products/fujikura-ventus-black-wood-shaft) shaft), 8 degrees Up until that point, Scottie had been playing mostly a mixed bag which included an 11-year-old Nike VR Pro Limited 3-wood, which is a club he had used dating all the way back to high school. Ultimately, it was McIlroy who took home the FedEx Cup and the $18 million prize after shooting a four-under 66 to Scheffler’s 73 and co-runner up Sungjae Im’s 66. After a full season of golf, the Tour Championship and the FedEx Cup came down to an 18-hole shootout at East Lake between Rory McIlroy and Scottie Scheffler.

That was the position Scottie Scheffler found himself Sunday after he shot a 73 to kick away a six-shot lead in the final round of the PGA Tour season, opening ...

Maybe that doesn't matter when it comes to the world of sports, but conversely, maybe it's the only thing that matters. "Scottie Scheffler is going to win the Player of the Year," said McIlroy. He told Scheffler after their duel that they're now even in the state of Georgia this year. It was the second-best statistical season of his career, according to Data Golf. 1 in the world. The viral video of Scheffler's father and wife hugging McIlroy -- in the wake of their guy kicking away $11.5 million and a fifth win on national television -- is grace personified. I play to win tournaments, and I play to have fun and do my best and see where the game can take me. He didn't have his best stuff today, and I played well and took advantage of that. I put myself in position to win this tournament when I wasn't playing my best today, and so I'm proud of how I fought." Despite Tiger's landmark win and Europe's rout in the Ryder Cup a week later, it undoubtedly left a bitter taste in Rory's mouth. The following year, though, he played some of the best golf of his entire life. It must be a strange experience to win nearly $6 million after playing four days of golf and walk away feeling nothing but disappointment.