For the primary time in its 50 years of competitors, The Gamers Championship topped a repeat champion, and his identify is Scottie Scheffler.
Preventing by neck ache and difficult the PGA Tour’s greatest amid the pitfalls of the Gamers Stadium Course at TPC Sawgrass, Scheffler triumphed in a gripping four-way battle forward of Xander Schauffele, Wyndham Clark and Brian Harman in Sunday’s remaining spherical.
Clark practically pressured a playoff along with his birdie putt on 18, however his putt lipped out.
Scheffler erased a five-stroke deficit with a final-round 64 and topped the sphere with 20 below for the event, the first-ever back-to-back winner of the Gold Man Trophy within the golden anniversary of The Gamers. Clark, Harman and Schauffele every got here in at 19 below.
The 27-year-old Dallas resident turns into the seventh man to win the Gamers a number of instances, becoming a member of Jack Nicklaus, Hal Sutton, Davis Love III, Fred {Couples}, Steve Elkington and Tiger Woods.
Scheffler, who obtained remedy Friday and Saturday for neck ache that hampered his backswing and his potential to form pictures, started with an eagle on No. 4. From there, he added birdies on Nos. 5, 8, 9, 11, 12 and at last No. 16 to maneuver into sole possession of the lead, closing with a par on the treacherous 18th.
The successful rating was the bottom at The Gamers since Greg Norman received at 24 below within the 1994 Gamers. Scheffler’s final-round 64 tied for the bottom for a Gamers champion, becoming a member of {Couples} in 1996 and Love in 2003.
St. Simons Island resident Harman, needing a birdie at 18 to power a playoff, escaped pine straw to seek out the inexperienced in two however could not sink the birdie try from 17 toes, 4 inches.
Morning chief Schauffele had an opportunity to tie Scheffler on the Island Inexperienced however pulled a birdie putt left from 6 toes, 8 inches. He then missed proper along with his tee shot on 18 into the pine straw, resulting in an method that left him over 60 toes from the outlet. His birdie putt rolled simply large proper of the cup.
Clark, who had made birdies at 16 and 17 to shut the hole, hit his method on 18 to nearly the identical spot as Harman, 17 toes and 4 inches from the cup. His putt rolled across the rim and bounced out simply when it appeared set to drop.