the northern irish Rory McIlroy won the FedEx Cup on Sunday and pocketed a juicy $18 million prize, ending a comeback against American Scottie Scheffler which could end in embarrassment due to two mistakes on the last hole.
South Korean Sungjae Im is waiting for them there, to add more emotion to the outcome, and this he could cause a tiebreaker by closing his participation with -20, an identical card to the one Scheffler would eventually sign. McIlroy’s -21 ended up giving him the final victory.
This is the third FedEx Cup title for McIlroy, who overcame a six-stroke deficit against a Scheffler who defended his top position but ended up surrendering in the final holes. Card of 66 hits for the Northern Irishman, same number in the final round as Sungjae Im.
Neither had their best on Sunday, both Americans Tony Finau with a 64 and Jordan Spieth with a 65like the Norwegian Viktor Hovland with 65 shots also, signed the best cards of the day, although all of them started too far to touch the sure victory.
Rory McIlroy was very pleased to receive the champion’s trophy: “What week and what day. I feel bad about Scottie today, he had an amazing season.. He was a great golfer and an even better person. At least he’s won one in Georgia with the Masters.”
The Northern Irish golfer also did not miss the opportunity to defend the PGA Tour in relation to LIV Golf: “This victory means a lot, I believe in this circuit and its players. We are the best players in the world who plays golf. It was an incredibly proud moment for me, but also for the PGA. The best players in the world playing against each other“.
The rivalry between Scheffler and McIlroy is very exciting because apart from the direct front for the final victory, neither can forget that there is another candidate, a very accurate Im who played a hole later and caused the fans cheered. that can be heard in the distance, join the list of favorites early.
One of the key moments was on the 12th hole, when McIlroy’s ‘birdie’ put him in the co-leadership with Scheffler at -21 overall. The North American closed the 16th with a ‘bogey’ and surrendered the lead alone in favor of the Northern Irishman.
Both players felt the pressure and in the last two holes they complicated the balls in the public, in the bunkers and against the structures of the stands. But they managed to save at least par on the course thanks to ‘approaches’ and ‘putts’ that showed their quality.
It was a beautiful day on the par green.to McIlroy, up to four times finishing with putts more than ten feet away. One of them, at 16, caused Scheffler to lose his lead for the first time all week.
Rory McIlroy amassed a total of 28 million dollars in circuit prizes this season and made history by becoming the first golfer to add three FedEx Cup wins, leaving behind a legend like Tiger Woods. He was the world number two and closed the course with three titles, having previously won the CJ Cup and the Canadian Open.
Jon Rahm lost his morning options at the close of his third day, with two ‘bogeys’ on 14 and 17 he was way off the lead. In his fourth round he again accumulated four ‘bogeys’ and with no pressure he played more loosely, finishing with two birdies at 15 and 18, closing at least with a better taste in his mouth.
The one from Barrika finished fifteenth, 10 strokes behind McIlroy, far from what might have been expected and behind another Spanish-speaking representative, the Chilean Joaquín Niemann, who closed the final day with card 69 strokes ranked eleventh in the tournament.
final standings
1. Rory McIlroy (NIR) -21 (67-67-63-66)
2. Im Sung-jae (KOR) -20 (67-65-66-66)
. Scottie Scheffler (USA) -20 (65-66-66-73)
4. Xander Schauffele (USA) -18 (66-63-70-69)
5. Max Homa (USA) -17 (71-62-66-66)
. Justin Thomas (USA) -17 (67-68-63-68)
7. Sepp Straka (AUT) -16 (68-68-64-68)
. Patrick Cantlay (USA) -16 (70-66-66-70)
9. Tony Finau (USA) -15 (72-66-67-64)
10. Tom Hoge (USA) -14 (66-66-66-69)
11. Joaquin Niemann (CHI) -13 (64-67-69-69)
. Hideki Matsuyama (JPN) -13 (70-66-63-70)
13. Jordan Spieth (USA) -12 (68-68-69-65)
. Aaron Wise (USA) -12 (65-67-66-70)
15. Viktor Hovland (NOR) -11 (71-68-67-65)
. Matt Fitzpatrick (ENG) -11 (64-71-67-70)
. JT Poston (USA) -11 (65-69-66-69)
. Jon Rahm (ESP) -11 (67-63-71-71)
19. Cameron Young (USA) -10 (67-67-70-69)
20. Cameron Smith (AUS) -9 (67-71-68-69)
21. Brian Harman (USA) -8 (68-70-68-67)
. Billy Horschel (USA) -8 (68-70-66-69)
. Collin Morikawa (USA) -8 (66-69-65-73)
24. Sam Burns (USA) -7 (69-74-67-68)
25. Adam Scott (AUS) -4 (68-70-68-70)
26. Corey Conners (CAN) -3 (74-66-71-67)
27. Lee Kyoung-hoon (KOR) -1 (68-72-69-70)
28. Sahith Theegala (USA) +1 (71-72-67-71)
29. Scott Stallings (USA) +3 (70-74-69-73)
Source: La Verdad
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