World primary Scottie Scheffler parred the primary playoff gap to beat Tom Kim on the protest-hit Vacationers Championship title on Sunday, claiming his sixth US PGA Tour title of the 12 months.
Scheffler is the primary participant since Arnold Palmer in 1962 to pile up six wins earlier than July 1 on the PGA Tour, a haul that included his second Masters crown in April.
Making the run all of the extra exceptional is the excessive profile of the tournaments he’s gained: 4 of Scheffler’s wins have come at ‘Signature Occasions’, one on the Masters, and one other at golf’s unofficial fifth main, the Gamers.
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Scottie Scheffler’s 2024 wins (all figures in AUD)
Arnold Palmer Invitational: $6m
Gamers Championship: $6.8m
The Masters: $5.4m
RBC Heritage: $5.4m
Memorial Match: $6m
Vacationers Championship: $5.4m
Complete: $35m
“It’s fairly particular,” Scheffler stated.
“It’s been an incredible season. I’ve been lucky to come back away with some wins and it’s been plenty of enjoyable.
“Tom performed his coronary heart out right this moment,” Scheffler added.
“It was enjoyable battling with him.”
He grabbed the win with a bogey-free five-under par 65 for 22-under 258, sustaining his composure after Kim birdied the 72nd gap to power the playoff shrugging off a spell of confusion as a handful of local weather protesters ran onto the 18th inexperienced with canisters spraying colored smoke.
“Luckily for Tom and me, we’re nice pals so we had been in a position to sort of sit there and actually calm down one another,” Scheffler stated of the “complicated” protest.
“You don’t actually perceive the state of affairs. There’s folks operating round in all places and also you don’t actually know what’s going to occur. Luckily the police did an incredible job getting all the things so as in a short time.”
Kim, who began the day at TPC River Highlands in Cromwell, Connecticut, with a one-shot lead, fired a closing spherical 66.
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Nevertheless it was a shootout on the rain-softened course, with half a dozen gamers holding a chunk of the lead and 5 sharing the highest spot for a lot of the afternoon on the $AUD30 million event.
Scheffler and Kim had been on the high by way of 13 holes.
Scheffler inched in entrance with a second straight birdie at 14, the place his method from the golf green left him three toes for birdie. Kim bombed a large drive however his wedge to the inexperienced left him 16 toes and he settled for a par.
After Scheffler left his 14-foot birdie putt on the par-three sixteenth inches quick, Kim missed a golden alternative to tug degree when he left his personal 10-foot birdie strive quick.
Each parred 17, the place Scheffler’s 16-foot birdie putt settled on the lip of the cup.
After Scheffler’s method at 18 received hung up within the fringe, Kim fired on the flag, his ball bouncing inside inches of the cup earlier than leaving him a 10-foot birdie putt.
Because the gamers had been sizing up their putts the protesters, a few of them sporting T-shirts studying “No golf on a useless planet” raced onto the inexperienced.
They had been rapidly tackled by police and safety workers and marched away.
Scheffler stepped as much as putt first and after he settled for a par Kim rattled in his birdie putt to tie it up.
They returned to 18 for the playoff. Each had been within the fairway, however Scheffler’s second shot threatened the pin to depart him an 11-foot birdie likelihood.
Kim’s method was plugged in a greenside bunker, his shot out leaving him 36 toes for par. He missed, and Scheffler two-putted for the win.
Because the final group drama performed out, Tom Hoge was already within the clubhouse on 20-under after a career-low spherical of eight-under par 62 that featured 9 birdies.
Tied for the lead as he walked off the course, Hoge completed tied for second with South Korean Im Sung-jae, who was four-under over his final six holes to card a 66.
Patrick Cantlay, Tony Finau, Justin Thomas and Akshay Bhatia shared fifth on 262.