Scottie Scheffler joins Tiger Woods as only repeat winners at Memorial

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Scottie Scheffler ne'er mislaid the pb and ne'er gave anyone overmuch of a accidental down the agelong Sunday successful different relentless performance, closing with a 2-under 70 for a four-shot triumph to articulation Tiger Woods arsenic the lone repetition winners of the Memorial.

Slowed by manus country astatine the commencement of the twelvemonth from a freak accident, Scheffler appears to beryllium successful afloat stride with 1 large already successful the bag and different astir the country astatine the U.S. Open.

"It's ever a hard week," said Scheffler, who finished astatine 10-under 278. "We battled truly hard connected the weekend. Overall it was a large week."

On 1 of the tougher PGA Tour tests of the year, Scheffler made 1 bogey implicit the last 40 holes astatine Muirfield Village.

"Well, you did it again," tourney big Jack Nicklaus told him walking disconnected the green.

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Ben Griffin tried to marque it absorbing astatine the extremity with a 12-foot eagle connected the par-5 15th and a 25-foot birdie putt connected the par-3 16th to adjacent wrong 2 shots with 2 to play. Scheffler, however, doesn't marque mistakes. Griffin made treble bogey connected the 17th.

Griffin made a 4-foot par connected the 18th for a 73 to decorativeness unsocial successful second, worthy $2.2 million, much than what helium earned erstwhile helium won astatine Colonial past week.

Sepp Straka (70) finished different changeable back.

"You cognize Scottie's astir apt going to play a bully circular of golf. The guy's relentless. He loves competition, and helium doesn't similar giving up shots," Straka said. "But it's 1 of those courses wherever it tin ever happen, truthful you got to beryllium prepared for it. I felt similar I gave myself a batch of chances to benignant of marque a push."

Scheffler present has won 3 times successful his past 4 starts — the objection was Colonial, a necktie for 4th the week aft winning the PGA Championship — and expanded his borderline astatine No. 1 successful the satellite to levels not seen since Woods successful his highest years.

Woods is simply a five-time victor astatine Memorial who won 3 consecutive from 1999 done 2001. No 1 had repeated astatine Muirfield Village since past until Scheffler.

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His performances lately look a batch much similar Nicklaus the mode helium wears down the tract by seldom getting retired of position.

Rickie Fowler had his archetypal apical 10 of the twelvemonth astatine conscionable the close time.

He made par connected the 18th to necktie for seventh, earning him a spot successful the British Open. Fowler tied with Brandt Snedeker astatine 1-under 287, but gets the 1 Open exemption disposable based connected a higher satellite ranking — Fowler astatine No. 124, Snedeker astatine No. 430.

"That's 1 I've wanted connected the schedule," said Fowler, who faces a 36-hole qualifier for the U.S. Open connected Monday.

Both received sponsor exemptions to the Memorial, a signature lawsuit connected the PGA Tour.

For Scheffler, it was his 5th triumph successful a $20 cardinal signature lawsuit successful the past 2 years. This 1 looked inevitable, but lone aft a speedy improvement aboriginal connected the backmost nine.

Scheffler ended 31 holes without a bogey astatine pugnacious Muirfield Village connected the 10th hole, dropping his pb to 1 shot. Griffin had 4 feet for birdie connected the par-5 11th. Scheffler made his 15-foot birdie putt and Griffin missed.

Griffin bogeyed the adjacent 2 holes, and conscionable similar that, Scheffler was 4 shots ahead. That's however it was astatine the PGA Championship — choky 1 minute, a blowout the next, and the sweetest locomotion toward the 18th greenish with triumph secure.

This 1 ended successful a handshake with Nicklaus, who had said earlier successful the week of Scheffler, "He plays a batch similar I did."

Nicklaus said helium was each astir fairways and greens, having plentifulness of chances and making capable of them to station a score. That's the Scheffler way, too, adjacent if it didn't ever look that mode astatine the commencement of the last round.

With mud connected the play shot successful the archetypal fairway, excessively overmuch rotation connected abbreviated irons connected the adjacent fewer holes, Scheffler didn't person a birdie putt until the 5th hole. He saved par 7 times successful the last round, including the last hole.