Owings Mills, Maryland – The numbers being compiled by Scottie Scheffler have been comparing with Tiger Woods. The world’s No. 1 player got a tiger-like moment in the racing stadium, holding the club at the BMW Championship on Sunday.
He landed about 60 feet on the 17th on the 82-foot chip – the hardest hole in the last round of the Cave Valley – and rolled the rest of the way to speed, reaching speed, losing speed on the last lap. The birdies almost all ended another victory, his fifth PGA Tour title this year.
This is reminiscent of Woods’ passing magic that makes his sublime skills obscure his sublime skills, his Memorial No. 16 Green behind chips, and he’s bargaining chips for the Hawks at the World Cup in Japan.
Schaffler has removed a four-inning deficit against tough Robert McIntyre on five holes. He grabbed a tight lead on the 17th, which was a daunting 3-spin, right pin and right water.
Scheffler is safe to the left, facing a dozen players who cut down on the green.
“I know it’s just quick and do my best to put it there and make myself look at PAR well,” he said. “When it comes out, it comes out, the way we want it, and then it starts to break and it starts to look better and better.”
“Yes, it’s great to see someone in.”
Scheffler finished with a 37-shot victory with a 67-shot victory and became the first player since Woods – again the name – with at least five wins in the PGA Tour in 2006 and 2007.
McIntyre didn’t birdie until the 16th hole, but stayed in the game after losing the lead, most of the time when Schefler began to miss a brief putt.
MacIntyre finished No. 17 in a lead shot when Scheffler played his magic and had to settle down as second-place as his memorable shot at Oakmont, when JJ Spaun scored a 65-foot birdie putt to the U.S. Open.
MacIntyre was in the scoring room as he looked at Spaun and clapped. He was on par with Schaffler at the BMW Championship and stared at his bad game incredibly, which made him his big lead early.
“When he pitched at 17, then he played the perfect T-shirt at 18, it was almost the game,” McIntyre said.
“He was the better player of the day. I’m really angry right now,” he said. “Now, I want to go smash my golf club and tell you the truth.”
McIntyre made 18 birdies in the first 45 holes of the game, only two of the last 27 holes. He ended with a score of 73 and received some consolation prizes that weren’t many at the moment. He defeated the world’s top ten for the first time and ranked eighth.
Scheffler’s chips attracted the biggest cheer of the day. The most satisfying shot was on the 15th, when his lead was behind three shots. MacIntyre on the fairway hit 7 feet. Scheffler was in a deep buried field and hit 8 iron to 6 feet.
McIntyre missed it. Scheffler did it.
“It’s a very important shot in the game, and I think it’s going to fly a little under the radar,” he said.
Schefller didn’t end the season, who led 30 players who won the Tour title at East Lake and had the chance to be the first repeated FedEx Cup title since the start of the game in 2007.
All 30 players in East Lake can win a $10 million check. The field includes Harry Hall, the only player to enter the top 30 on Sunday, and even that was nervous. Hall bogeyed on a 5-16-hole (Par-5) (the easiest hole on the route) and walked for a long time and left for the 17th. He also ran for the birds and was safe in the 18th place.
Rickie Fowler is about to return to East Lake, only back to the back nine fairways and missed the green, leading to a bogey on the 15th and double bogey and knocking him out of the top 30.
Fowler received a 5-foot par putt – Michael Kim will be on the tour if he missed it. Instead, No. 30 entered Akshay Bhatia, despite shooting four bogeys on the back nine, feeling as if he had blown it.
McIntyre wasted a lot of opportunities, too.
He showed a lot of courage in his final group match against Scheffler on Saturday. But in the opening hole, Schaffler drilled his drive in the middle and hit a 6-foot birdie while McIntyre missed the fairway and 6-foot par putt. This is an early statement.
MacIntyre missed another fairway for the second time and made a bogey. He turned from the fairway from the 4th and fifth to a bunker, which was two swings when the Scots failed to make Birdie to PAR and Scheffler.
Scheffler then led the way with a 6-foot wedge on No. 7 Birdie.
It seemed like it would be a runaway at the time, as Scheffler never seemed to miss it – unless he had a chance to expand the lead. He missed the 8th and 10th feet birdies at 10th and 8th feet. Every opportunity brings MacIntyre into the hunt.
Then on the 17th, a knockout match appeared.
Scheffler finished with a score of less than 265 and has won 18 professional titles in the past three years and six months, since his first PGA Tour title in Phoenix.
