{"id":540095,"date":"2026-04-19T22:46:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T22:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/540095\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T22:46:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T22:46:08","slug":"rbc-heritage-matt-fitzpatrick-beats-scottie-scheffler-in-play-off-to-win-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/540095\/","title":{"rendered":"RBC Heritage: Matt Fitzpatrick beats Scottie Scheffler in play-off to win title"},"content":{"rendered":"

England’s Matt Fitzpatrick beat world number one Scottie Scheffler in a play-off to win the RBC Heritage in South Carolina.<\/p>\n

The 31-year-old carded a bogey five on the 18th when a par would have sealed victory, but he quickly overcame that disappointment to birdie the same hole a few minutes later and claim his second PGA Tour title in the space of a month.<\/p>\n

Fitzpatrick had started the final round with a three-shot lead as he attempted to follow up his victory at the Valspar Championship<\/a> in March.<\/p>\n

The former US Open champion played his first 17 holes in two under par without dropping a shot, but American Scheffler was able to close the gap to one by the time they stood together on the 18th tee.<\/p>\n

Both players failed to find the green in two at the last and while Scheffler made it up and down for par to complete a four-under round of 67, Fitzpatrick’s poor chip led to his first bogey of the day.<\/p>\n

But Sheffield-born Fitzpatrick hit a superb approach on the first play-off hole, before nervelessly sinking his birdie putt to win.<\/p>\n

This latest victory continues his hot streak of form, having also finished second at last month’s Players Championship.<\/p>\n

And it meant Scheffler, 29, had to be content with a second consecutive second-place finish, having finished as runner-up to Rory McIlroy at last week’s Masters.<\/p>\n

Si-woo Kim of South Korea shot a final-round 68 to finish third on 16 under par, two shots behind Fitzpatrick and Scheffler.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"England’s Matt Fitzpatrick beat world number one Scottie Scheffler in a play-off to win the RBC Heritage in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":540096,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-540095","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-golf","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=540095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540095\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/540096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=540095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=540095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=540095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}