Scottie Scheffler has holed a clutch putt on the 18th hole as he earned the right to return on Monday for a sudden-death playoff against Viktor Hovland.at the PGA Tour’s rich and rain-interrupted Travelers Championship.<\/p>\n
The final round of the $A29 million signature event was stopped for 90 minutes as storms moved over the TPC River Highland course in Connecticut, creating a dash to finish, and officials deemed there was not enough daylight for them to play another hole.<\/p>\n
World No.1 Scheffler shot a two-under-par 68 and third-round leader Hovland posted a 69 as they both finished at 21-under 259.<\/p>\n
Norwegian Hovland nearly won it with his birdie attempt from about 25 feet on the last hole, but the ball settled inches from the cup.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Scheffler needed to save par with his second putt from just inside nine feet. He fist-pumped emphatically when his ball dropped.<\/p>\n
“It’s more fun when you’re making the ones to win,” said Scheffler.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“But to keep yourself in it is also nice. Like I said, I live another day until tomorrow, and will be coming out in the morning and see what I can do.”<\/p>\n
Hovland fell behind by two early, only for a two-shot swing on No.7. There was a two-shot swing in Scheffler’s favourto start the back nine, and then Hovland made up ground with three straight birdies, the final two after rain changed the condition of the course.<\/p>\n
The break was good for Hovland just to settle him down.<\/p>\n
“I hit some good shots and then some bad shots and I just couldn’t quite get a flow in,” Hovland said. “So it was nice to just get completely off the golf course and reset and I felt a lot better coming back. So sometimes that’s all you need.”<\/p>\n
Scheffler and Hovland finished one shot ahead of Collin Morikawa, who closed brilliantly with a 61 and was briefly tied for the lead, though it never looked as though it would be enough.<\/p>\n
England’s Matt Fitzpatrick (64) placed fourth at 19 under. Wyndham Clark (65), a week removed from winning the US Open, and Akshay Bhatia (67) shared fifth place a shot further back.<\/p>\n
It wasn’t a great week for the three Australians in the elite 72-player field.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Jason Day closed with a 69 to tie for 55th at six under, while Min Woo Lee surged with a 66 to be two strokes further back.<\/p>\n
Adam Scott (71) was 65th at three under.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Scottie Scheffler has holed a clutch putt on the 18th hole as he earned the right to return…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":767051,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,755,85],"class_list":["post-767050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767050","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=767050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767050\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/767051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=767050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=767050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=767050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}