Scottie Scheffler got here via a final-round tussle with Collin Morikawa to say a fifth PGA Tour victory of the season with a one-shot win on the Memorial Event.
Scheffler, who had already gained the Arnold Palmer Invitational, The Gamers, The Masters and the RBC Heritage in a dominant begin to the 12 months, now heads into the US Open with 5 wins in his final eight begins regardless of being nowhere close to his convincing greatest on Sunday.
The 27-year-old noticed his four-shot in a single day lead lower to at least one at Muirfield Village as Morikawa and Adam Hadwin piled on the stress, though Scheffler by no means relinquished prime spot as he got here via a troublesome closing day at Muirfield Village.
Scheffler combined a birdie with three bogeys throughout a two-over 74, seeing him finish the week on eight underneath and take the $3.6m first prize, with enjoying accomplice Collin Morikawa ending a shot again in second after a one-under 71.
“The golf course was playing so tough today,” Scheffler stated after his win. “It was so firm, so fast. I mean it was a fun test to golf. I like it when it gets this hard and yeah it was good to battle it out. I didn’t really do a whole lot great today, but I did enough to get the job done.”
How Scheffler edged particular Sunday
Scheffler’s in a single day lead shortly lowered when Hadwin chipped in on the first and Morikawa rolled in from 15 ft to birdie on the second, lifting each to seven underneath and inside three of the reigning Masters champion.
Hadwin holed one other from eight ft on the fourth, which moved him only one again when Scheffler did not rise up and down from the sand on the identical par-three, just for the world No 1 to reply with a 10-foot birdie on the sixth to double his benefit.
Adam Hadwin carded a two-over 74 on the ultimate gap
Morikawa quickly fell 5 behind when he bogeyed the sixth, though took benefit of the par-five subsequent after which acquired again inside three of the lead when Scheffler missed from seven ft to avoid wasting par on the eighth.
Hadwin completed his entrance 9 with back-to-back bogeys to achieve the flip two behind Scheffler, whereas Morikawa carded an eight-foot birdie on the ninth after which drained a 30-footer on the par-three twelfth – the toughest gap on the course – to get inside considered one of his enjoying accomplice.
Scheffler did not convert birdie possibilities from inside 10 ft on the identical gap and from even nearer on the subsequent, though remained one forward when Morikawa missed from six ft to tug stage on the par-five Fifteenth.
Morikawa did not rise up and down to avoid wasting par from off the sixteenth inexperienced, the place Scheffler scrambled a 15-foot par to go two up with two to play, with Hadwin’s slim hopes additionally ending with successive bogeys from the sixteenth.
Collin Morikawa threatened all through the ultimate day however stays and not using a win this season
Scheffler missed an eight-footer to avoid wasting par on the seventeenth and joined Morikawa in sending his method on the closing gap into the tough behind the inexperienced, though was capable of rise up and down to carry on for an eleventh PGA Tour victory.
Hadwin took third spot forward of Christiaan Bezuidenhout, whereas a round-of-the-day 69 from Matt Fitzpatrick lifted him to tied-fifth with Ryder Cup team-mates Ludvig Åberg and Sepp Straka.
“I’m proud of the way I battled,” Hadwin stated. “It does sting to kind of finish the way I did, 16 through 18. I had put a Band-Aid on the round for a long time before that, previously, and the Band-Aid came off and it was carnage! So it’s disappointing, but, look, I take a lot of positives away from this week.”
Hideki Matsuyama, Sungjae Im, Tony Finau and PGA champion Xander Schauffele shared eighth spot on one underneath, whereas Rory McIlroy light to tied-Fifteenth after a final-round 76. Viktor Hovland additionally ended the week on two over, whereas McIlroy’s enjoying accomplice Shane Lowry dropped to tied-Forty ninth after a 13-over 85 on the ultimate day.
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