Scottie Scheffler by no means misplaced the lead and by no means gave anybody a lot of an opportunity down the stretch Sunday in one other relentless efficiency, closing with a 2-under 70 for a four-shot victory to hitch Tiger Woods as the one repeat winners of the Memorial.
Scheffler now has received 3 times in his final 4 begins — the exception was Colonial, a tie for fourth the week after profitable the PGA Championship — and expanded his margin at No. 1 on the earth to ranges not seen since Woods in his peak years.
Woods is a five-time winner at Memorial who received three straight from 1999 via 2001. Nobody had repeated at Muirfield Village since then till Scheffler.
Slowed by hand surgical procedure initially of the yr from a freak accident, Scheffler seems to be in full stride with one main already within the bag and one other across the nook on the U.S. Open.
“It’s at all times a tough week,” mentioned Scheffler, who completed at 10-under 278. “We battled actually onerous on the weekend. Total it was an amazing week.”
Sweden’s Stark wins her first Main
Maja Stark continued the regular play she had demonstrated all week to win the U.S. Girls’s Open and declare her first main championship Sunday at Erin Hills.
Stark carded a last spherical 72 and completed with a four-round complete of 7-under 281 to beat top-ranked Nelly Korda and Japan’s Rio Takeda by two strokes.
The 25-year-old Stark — who obtained USD 2.4 million winner’s prize — grew to become the sixth Swede to win an LPGA main, and the primary since Anna Nordqvist earned the Girls’s British Open title in 2021.
“I believe that I simply stopped making an attempt to manage all the things, and I simply form of let all the things occur the way in which it occurred,” Stark mentioned. “In the course of the follow days, I spotted that, if I simply form of hovered the membership above the bottom just a little bit earlier than I hit, I launched some stress in my physique. I believe that simply doing my processes effectively and realizing, giving myself little issues like that was the important thing this week as a result of I don’t actually wish to depend on my confidence for stuff.”