Prime-ranked Scottie Scheffler matched the bottom 72-hole rating in PGA Tour historical past on Sunday, overwhelming the sphere to finish a wire-to-wire victory on the CJ Cup Byron Nelson event.
In his last tuneup for the PGA Championship in two weeks, the 28-year-old from close by Dallas completed 72 holes on 31-under par 253 at TPC Craig Ranch in McKinney, Texas.
“I really feel like my sport is trending in a very good course,” Scheffler stated. “I’m excited to begin the remainder of the season.”
He matched the bottom whole strokes over 4 rounds in a PGA Tour occasion, a mark shared by Sweden’s Ludvig Aberg from the 2023 RSM Traditional and American Justin Thomas on the 2017 Sony Open.
Japan’s Hideki Matsuyama set the PGA 72-hole document in relation to par with a 35-under 257 to win this 12 months’s Sentry on the par-73 Kapalua course.
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Scheffler, who gained 9 occasions worldwide final 12 months, captured his first title of 2025 after firing an eight-under par 63 to defeat South African Erik van Rooyen by eight strokes.
“This event means lots to me. It was my first begin as a professional 11 years in the past and my sister caddied for me,” an emotional Scheffler stated.
“It seems like a lifetime of onerous work and sacrifice for little moments like these and they’re fairly particular.”
Scheffler choked up chatting with followers, together with a lot of his household.
“I grew up coming to look at it,” Scheffler stated of the occasion. “My household was all in a position to be right here and it was simply actually particular reminiscences, and I feel at occasions all of it comes crashing right down to me directly.
“I simply dreamed to have the ability to play in it and it’s extra of a dream to have the ability to win it.”
Reigning Olympic champion Scheffler captured his 14th profession PGA Tour title and first triumph since final December’s Hero World Problem invitational, an unofficial occasion.
It was essentially the most lopsided victory on the Byron Nelson since Sam Snead gained by 10 strokes in 1957.
“Scottie was virtually flawless, which is type of what you count on from the world primary,” van Rooyen stated.
Scheffler turned solely the third wire-to-wire winner on the occasion, following fellow Individuals Mark Hayes in 1976 and Tom Watson in 1980.
Scheffler, the primary Dallas-area participant to win the occasion since 2007, claimed his ninth title in 14 possibilities with a 54-hole PGA Tour lead. It was his fifth in a row in that state of affairs and first since final 12 months’s Tour Championship.
Scheffler, who started the day with an eight-stroke lead, made a 13-foot birdie putt on the second gap and after struggling a bogey on the third gap, Scheffler reeled off birdies on the subsequent 4 holes — every putt from eight toes or much less — adopted by a 20-foot eagle putt on the par-five ninth.
Scheffler added a six-foot birdie putt on the eleventh, a four-footer for birdie at 14 and a seven-footer for birdie on the par-three fifteenth earlier than struggling a bogey on the par-three seventeenth.
Scheffler reached the tee on the par-five 18th needing a birdie to take the 72-hole document for himself.
After blasting 303 yards off the tee into the green, Scheffler discovered a greenside bunker and blasted out to eight toes, however missed the birdie putt for the solo document, tapping in for par to finish a devastating week.
Spieth fires 62
Jordan Spieth, a three-time main winner recovering from left wrist surgical procedure final August, fired a bogey-free 62 last spherical to complete fourth on 265, one stroke behind fellow American Sam Stevens.
It was Spieth’s lowest PGA spherical since 2021 and comes two weeks earlier than he tries to finish a profession Grand Slam on the PGA Championship at Quail Hole in Charlotte, North Carolina.
“The last word purpose is constant play, nevertheless it’s not bogey avoidance or something like that. I’m not altering technique,” Spieth stated.
“It’s simply that my mechanics are simply getting slightly bit higher every week. I’m in a position to do adequate stuff perhaps that I wasn’t in a position to do final 12 months that perhaps my wrist was holding me again, I’m unsure.”