Join now and get your first month for just $1.<\/a><\/p>\nDay climbed 18 spots in his first start of the year and finished four strokes back from Scheffler.<\/p>\n
It gave the 37-year old his 100th top-100 finish of his PGA Tour and made him the fourth Aussie to reach the feat after Bruce Crampton (136), Greg Norman (129) and Adam Scott (115).<\/p>\n
\u201cThat was a milestone that I was very interested in, like very excited to get to,\u201d Day said of his 100th top 10 finish.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s just another little notch in the cap that you\u2019re very pleased about hitting.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou look at some of the careers of the other guys and you always look at how many wins, top fives, top 10s, top 25s. You don\u2019t want to compare yourself, but you always seem to compare yourself.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s good to be able to finally get over that little hump, and now the rest is great.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m looking forward to the rest of my career and seeing how many more top 10s I can obviously get.\u201d<\/p>\n
Day was joined on 265 by Americans Ryan Gerard, Matt McCarty and Andrew Putnam, Gerard posting a seven-under 65 and McCarty and Putnam each signing for a 68.<\/p>\n
Scheffler, 29, became the first player since Tiger Woods to grab his 20th US PGA Tour title before the age of 30. He\u2019s off to his fifth straight season with at least one victory.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt means a lot,\u201d Scheffler said. \u201cIt was a challenging week. I did a good job of staying patient and executing when I needed to.\u201d <\/p>\n
World No. 1 Scottie Scheffler launched his 2026 US PGA Tour campaign with a runaway victory in the American Express as Jason Day stormed home in the final round.Source: FOX SPORTS<\/p>\n
Scheffler, who hasn\u2019t missed a cut on the PGA Tour since August 2022, started the day one off the lead and opened with a birdie. He bogeyed the second before settling in with back-to-back birdies at four and five and another pair at seven and eight.<\/p>\n
He added four more birdies coming in, his four-footer at the par-five 16th pushing him to 29-under.<\/p>\n
He was in the water off the tee on the way to a double-bogey at the par-three 17th, but by then there was no catching him.<\/p>\n
Overnight leader Kim Si-woo of South Korea carded an even par 72 to tie for sixth on 22-under.<\/p>\n
Teenager Blades Brown, who started the day tied with Scheffler on 21-under, closed with a two-over 74 for a share of 18th.<\/p>\n
It finished off a remarkable week for the 18-year-old from Tennessee, who tied for 17th in a Korn Ferry event in the Bahamas on Wednesday before a dash to California to tee it up on a sponsor\u2019s exemption.<\/p>\n
He flirted with a 59 on Friday, when a 60 gave him a share of the halfway lead. He had a birdie chance at 18 for a share of 10th — and a place in the Torrey Pines field.<\/p>\n
He closed with a bogey but departed happy with his week.<\/p>\n
\u201cI could probably write a book about what I\u2019ve learned these past couple of days,\u201d Brown said.<\/p>\n
\u201cJust knowing that I can compete out here. It was so cool watching Scottie win in person and getting to play with him.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s such an unbelievable guy. He talked to me numerous times throughout the round and was giving me a lot of encouragement, so it was awesome.\u201d<\/p>\n
FINAL ROUND SCORES<\/p>\n
261 – Scottie Scheffler 63-64-68-66 265 <\/p>\n
Jason Day (AUS) 63-71-67-64<\/p>\n
Ryan Gerard 70-66-64-65<\/p>\n
Matt McCarty 63-66-68-68<\/p>\n
Andrew Putnam 72-60-65-68 266<\/p>\n
Sam Stevens 64-67-68-67<\/p>\n
Kim Si-woo (KOR) 63-65-66-72 267<\/p>\n
Sahith Theegala 71-64-67-65<\/p>\n
Li Haotong (CHN) 68-67-64-68<\/p>\n
Russell Henley 65-66-69-67<\/p>\n
Austin Smotherman 66-65-68-68<\/p>\n
Tom Hoge 64-68-65-70<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"World No. 1 Scottie Scheffler launched his 2026 US PGA Tour campaign with a runaway victory in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":437956,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[5487,2095,53831,228205,228211,1724,64,63,205331,64933,228203,228210,228206,485,9239,74064,24416,228202,5499,105805,228208,34914,2041,2067,228207,6931,42358,5813,85,228209,228204,973,9244,42353,2614,175347,10911],"class_list":["post-437955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-adam-scott","tag-america","tag-american-express-company","tag-americans-ryan-gerard","tag-andrew-putnam","tag-asia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australian-veteran","tag-back-to-back-birdies","tag-birdie-chance","tag-blades-brown","tag-bruce-crampton","tag-california","tag-eastern-asia","tag-final-leaderboard","tag-greg-norman","tag-insane-finish-sets","tag-jason-day","tag-la-quinta","tag-live-ampampampampamp-exclusive","tag-matt-mccarty","tag-north-america","tag-northern-america","tag-runaway-victory","tag-russell-henley","tag-sam-stevens","tag-south-korea","tag-sports","tag-storms-home","tag-strokes-back","tag-tennessee","tag-tiger-woods","tag-tom-hoge","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-webex-players-series","tag-world-number"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=437955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437955\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/437956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=437955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=437955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=437955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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