Scheffler eliminated the world No. 1 from Rahm by winning The Players

The American scottie scheffler He began the final day with a two-stroke lead, which was more than enough to secure the final victory in The Players tournament, considered the fifth largest in men’s golf.

Their theoretically biggest rivals, the Australians cam davis (+2) and min woo lee (+4) and the British Tommy Fleetwood (+4), they ran out of steam, pulling themselves out of the match.

And the ones from the back, like English Tyrrell Hattonsecond five shots behind Scheffler, was not enough to make a better card than a confident leader, who closed with a 69 (-3) for a total of 271 (-17).

The 2022 Augusta Masters champion, who he will defend in a few weeks, won his sixth PGA Tour tournament, second of the season after winning the Phoenix Open.

Scheffler, previously fourth at the Arnold Palmer Invitational, regained world number one in the next ranking thanks to his new victory, removing the Spaniard from the top. Jon Rahmwhich caused him to withdraw from the Ponte Vedra event due to a stomach virus.

The North American closed the day with five birdies, consecutive between holes 8 and 12 and between bogeys 3 and 5.

final classification

271 Scottie Scheffler (USA) 68 69 65 69
276 Tyrrell Hatton (Eng) 72 71 68 65
278 Viktor Hovland (Nor) 69 71 70 68
Tom Hoge (USA) 78 68 62 70
279 Hidaki Matsuyama (Japan) 74 70 67 68
280 Max Oven (USA) 72 72 67 69
Justin Rose (Eng) 69 73 67 71
Justin Suh (USA) 69 73 69 70
Sungjae Im (CdS) 75 69 64 72
David Lingmerth (Sue) 72 68 68 72
Cam Davis (Aus) 69 70 67 74
Min Woo Lee (Aus) 68 70 66 76
281 Collin Morikawa (USA) 65 73 72 71
Adam Svensson (Can) 68 67 75 71
Rickie Fowler (USA) 72 70 68 71​