Scottie Scheffler would be the sizzling favorite to win the US Open and his fourth main at Oakmont subsequent week after he held off Ben Griffin to retain the Memorial Event by 4 photographs in Ohio.
The world primary went into the ultimate spherical only a shot forward of Griffin on eight-under par and closed with a two-under 70 to his rival’s 73 to win for the third time in his final 4 begins on 10-under par and pocket $4 million.
“It is fairly cool,” mentioned Scheffler, who turned the primary participant since Tiger Woods received three in a row in 2001, to retain the title.
“It is all the time a tough week this week. It is so difficult to play this event, and I battled actually arduous over the weekend. Ben made issues attention-grabbing there down the stretch.”
Scheffler is not going to be becoming a member of Rory McIlroy on this week’s RBC Canadian Open, however the PGA champion heads residence to observe for Oakmont, believing he’s ready himself nicely to win his second main this yr.
“It is a golf course that’s undoubtedly going to show weaknesses,” Scheffler mentioned. “I obtained a number of issues that I can observe subsequent week, however total it was a extremely stable week.
“It was a extremely good battle immediately and (caddie) Teddy (Scott) and I did a extremely good job working our approach across the course and never getting forward of ourselves and put up one other actually good spherical on this very tough golf course,”
The Dallas-based world primary didn’t have his A-game on the entrance 9 at Muirfield Village.
However he turned in degree par to steer by two strokes and whereas he bogeyed the tenth, he prolonged his result in 4 photographs over the subsequent three holes as he birdied the eleventh and watched Griffin bogey the twelfth and thirteenth.
Griffin, who was searching for his third win in six begins and his second in a row after successful the earlier week’s Charles Schwab Problem, produced a short late rally so as to add some pleasure to the end.
However after making eagle to Scheffler’s birdie on the 548-yard fifteenth and a 27-footer for a birdie two on the sixteenth to chop the deficit to 2 photographs, his problem evaporated on the seventeenth, the place he made a double-bogey to go away Scheffler 4 clear taking part in the 18th.The American went on to make a seven-footer for a two-putt par on the 18th to win his sixteenth PGA TOUR title and his third this yr following triumphs within the CJ Cup Byron Nelson and the PGA Championship at Quail Hole.
Sepp Straka was third, 5 photographs behind Scheffler after a closing 70 however Shane Lowry carded a disappointing, five-over 77 to complete joint twenty third on three-over ($208,000).
After making birdie on the first, the Offaly synthetic a three-putt bogey on the second and double-bogeyed the third after placing his second within the water.
He dropped one other shot on the par-five fifth however after a birdie on the sixth, he drove out of bounds and triple-bogeyed the ninth earlier than taking part in the again 9 in degree par.
On the plus aspect, he holed 127 toes of putts, making three between 20 and 30 toes to realize strokes on the sphere with the blade for the primary time all week.
Lowry returns to motion this week within the RBC Canadian Open alongside McIlroy and Seamus Energy at TPC Toronto at Osprey Valley as Scheffler rests on his laurels at residence in Dallas.
