Scottie Scheffler cruises to victory at Tiger Woods' Hero World Challenge
World number one Scottie Scheffler cruised to victory in the Bahamas, winning Tiger Woods' Hero World Challenge on the PGA Tour.
World number one Scottie Scheffler cruised to victory at Tiger Woods' Hero World Challenge.
Rounds of 69, 66, 65 and 68 gave Scheffler a 20-under par total to win by three strokes over European Ryder Cup rookie Sepp Straka.
Justin Thomas returned to form and finished in solo third on 16-under.
Tony Finau and England's Matthew Fitzpatrick finished tied fourth on 14-under.
Jordan Spieth, Collin Morikawa, Justin Rose, Brian Harman and Viktor Hovland rounded out the top-10.
The biggest story of the day came in the form of Morikawa was adjudged to have broken a bizarre golf rule.
He received a two-shot penalty ahead of his final round after the exploits of his caddie on the fourth hole during the third round.
"Look, at the end of the day we made the mistake and it's on us," Morikawa told reporters after his round.
The aforementioned Woods finished level par for the week and 18th overall in the 20-man field in his first start since hobbling out of the 47th Masters.
This was Scheffler's seventh PGA Tour win and marks his first since capturing the Players in March.
Since then he has been in supreme form across the board with his ball striking but has been struggling considerably with his putting.
He was vastly improved on the greens this week having decided to put a new putter into play this week.
Scheffler said: "It feels good. I'm very proud of how I played today. Ted and I did a good job out there staying patient, kept the ball in play, gave myself a lot of looks.
"I didn't feel like I gave the rest of the field much of, I don't know if much of a chance is the right word, but I didn't make any bogeys, so there wasn't a ton of mistakes for them to kind of use as momentum.
"It was more of make them come and catch me kind of day.
"I did a really good job of not trying to force things, not trying to do anything outside of my comfort zone. I just played solid most of the day and made two good birdies on 14, 15 and then finished it off nicely."
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