Scottie Scheffler started the final round with a three-shot lead and was then caught up by Jon Rahm as the two shared the lead coming into the back at the PGA Championship.
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Then Scheffler, two-time Masters champion, simply pulled away on the back nine. After being 2-over for the front nine, he birdied the 10th, 14th and the 15th.
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He finished at 11-under 273 and picked up his 15th victory in just his sixth year on the PGA Tour.
Aaron Rai closed the second Major of the year with a 69 and totalled 2-282-under with rounds of 67-72-74-69 and finished T-19, the best among the three players with an Indian connection.
It has been a decent season for Indo-British player Rai, who has made 11 cuts in 13 starts. Seven of his finishes have been inside Top-25 but only one has been inside the Top-10. At the Masters he was T27 and was T19 at the PGA.
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With others including Rahm falling apart, Scheffler won by five despite a closing bogey.
Scheffler was flawless when he had to be on the back nine of Quail Hollow Club, leaving mistakes to all others and could afford to close with an even-par 71.
Rahm wound up seven shots behind, but the two-time major champion was the only serious threat. His chances began to fade when he failed to birdie the 14th and 15th holes, the two easiest holes on the back nine and the last good scoring chances.
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Rahm made bogey on the 16th hole and double bogeyed par-3 17th and the 18th. Rahm closed with a 73 to tie for eighth.
Bryson DeChambeau birdied the 14th and 15th to get within two shots, but he bogeyed the 18th for a 70. He tied for second with Harris English (65) and Davis Riley, who overcame a triple bogey on No. 7 to play bogey-free the rest of the way and salvaged a 72. JT Poston bogeyed the last two holes for a 73 to tie for fifth.
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Rory McIlroy made the cut on the number, shot 72-72 on the weekend and tied for 47th. It was his lowest 72-hole finish in four years in the Majors.
It was Scheffler’s third Major title and he became the first player since Seve Ballesteros to win his first three Majors by three shots or more. He is now halfway through a career slam.
