Patrick Cantlay/Xander Schauffele (winners/-29) set the 72-hole scoring record at the Zurich Classic of New Orleans with a 259 (previous: 261, Jonas Blixt/Cameron Smith/2017/won, Scott Brown/Kevin Kisner/2017/runner-up).
They become the event’s first team to win in wire-to-wire fashion; most recent wire-to-wire winner on PGA TOUR: Joaquin Niemann/2022 Genesis Invitational.
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Third-round leaders to convert for the win since the Zurich Classic became a team event in 2017: Jonas Blixt/Cameron Smith (2017), Jon Rahm/Ryan Palmer (2019), Cantlay/Schauffele (2022).
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Finished T11 in their debut appearance as a team in 2021.
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Cantlay, the 2021 FedExCup Champion and PGA TOUR Player of the Year collected his seventh TOUR win in his 131st start, winning for the first time since the 2021 TOUR Championship.
Collected 400 points and moved from No. 9 to No. 4 in the FedExCup.
Becomes the first player to lose a playoff one week (RBC Heritage) and win a tournament the next since Dustin Johnson in 2020 (BMW Championship, TOUR Championship).
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Wins for the third time in four attempts with the 54-hole lead/co-lead (2-for-3 in stroke play: 2021 BMW Championship, 2021 TOUR Championship; 1-for-1 in team play: 2022 Zurich Classic of New Orleans).
Has four top-15 finishes in five starts at the Zurich Classic (T14/2017, T7/2018, MC/2019, T11/2021 won/2022).
Schauffele picked up his fifth TOUR win in his 129th start; wins for the first time since the 2019 Sentry Tournament of Champions.
Collected 400 points and moved from No. 52 to No. 20 in the FedExCup.
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Won for the first time in five tries with the 54-hole lead/co-lead (0-for-4 in stroke-play events; 1-for-1 in team events).
He has three top-15 finishes in as many starts at the event (T11/2017, T11/2021, won/2022).
Six-time TOUR winner Billy Horschel picked up his ninth runner-up finish on TOUR, while three-time winner Sam Burns earned his third. Horschel is the only player to win the Zurich Classic in both the individual (2013) and team format (with Scott Piercy in 2018).
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Burns finished T4 (2021) and second (2022).
Defending champions Marc Leishman and Cameron Smith finished T21 at 17-under.
Making his 799th TOUR start, Jay Haas (and son, Bill) finished T36. Elder Haas became the oldest player to make a cut in TOUR history this week, doing so at the age of 68 years, 4 months and 20 days.
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