Viktor Hovland produced one of many best back-nine performances within the historical past of the FedEx Cup on Monday (AEST) as he stormed from behind to beat Scottie Scheffler and Matt Fitzpatrick on the BMW Championship.
The Norwegian fired a course file nine-under 61, which included and unimaginable seven birdies on the back-nine that gave him the clubhouse lead at 17-under.
“You’ve simply witnessed one of many nice nines of golf you’ll ever, ever see,” Jim Nantz stated in commentary as Hovland holed out his remaining birdie.
Trevor Immelman added: “Gosh, this can be a spherical of golf we’re going to recollect for a very long time.”
Hovland’s whole couldn’t be matched by main winners Scheffler or Fitzpatrick, who each completed at 15-under.
“That undoubtedly needs to be the perfect spherical I’ve ever performed given the circumstances,” Hovland stated.
“To complete off the way in which I did within the final 9 holes was fairly particular.”
After enjoying 9 holes at Olympia Fields, Hovland was nonetheless 4 pictures behind Scheffler and Fitzpatrick, however went on to win by two pictures.
Hovland pockets $3.6m (A$5.6m) for the win and — probably extra considerably — strikes into second-place within the FedEx Cup standings.
It means he’ll begin subsequent week’s Tour Championship at East Lake behind solely Scheffler, with the winner taking house $18m.
In the meantime, Jason Day confirmed his place as the one Australian within the Tour Championship regardless of coming a lowly T45 in Chicago.
The one different Australian within the discipline, Cam Davis, got here fortieth, leaving him outdoors of the bubble to play within the season finale.
TOUR CHAMPIONSHIP FIELD / FEDEX CUP STANDINGS
1 Scottie Scheffler
2 Viktor Hovland
3 Rory McIlroy
4 Jon Rahm
5 Lucas Glover
6 Max Homa
7 Patrick Cantlay
8 Brian Harman
9 Wyndham Clark
10 Matt Fitzpatrick
11 Tommy Fleetwood
12 Russell Henley
13 Keegan Bradley
14 Rickie Fowler
15 Xander Schauffele
16 Tom Kim
17 Sungjae Im
18 Tony Finau
19 Corey Conners
20 Si Woo Kim
21 Taylor Moore
22 Nick Taylor
23 Adam Schenk
24 Collin Morikawa
25 Jason Day
26 Sam Burns
27 Emiliano Grillo
28 Tyrrell Hatton
29 Jordan Spieth
30 Sepp Straka