around co-hosts the United States.<\/a><\/p>\nTheir country played France on Friday near Boston, which is a two-hour drive from Travelers Championship host TPC River Highlands and led to a Norwegian contingent making the trip to cheer on Hovland.<\/p>\n
Hovland had a one-shot lead going into the fourth round and was close to clinching victory on the 18th, but his birdie attempt from 25 feet narrowly missed as he carded a one-under 69.<\/p>\n
The world number one had to save par from inside nine feet to match Hovland on 21 under and fist-pumped when the putt dropped to give him a 68.<\/p>\n
Organisers deemed there was not enough daylight for the sudden-death play-off as a result of an earlier 90-minute storm delay so the world number 30 and Scheffler will return on Monday at 09:00 local time (14:00 BST).<\/p>\n
“So close to getting it done on 18, but I’ll take the play-off,” Hovland said.<\/p>\n
“I played a lot of great golf this week, so I’m feeling pretty good. Obviously, I would have liked to have got it done in regulation, but I have a chance again to win.”<\/p>\n
Hovland dropped back after a fourth bogey at the start of the back nine but he bridged the suspension with three consecutive birdies from the 13th to pull level with Scheffler.<\/p>\n
“For a while there, I wasn’t even in second place, so really happy that I still have a shot,” said the 28-year-old.<\/p>\n
Collin Morikawa began the day nine strokes off the lead but shot a nine-under 61 to set a clubhouse target of 20 under, with Hovland and Scheffler having six holes to play.<\/p>\n
Morikawa eventually finished third, with England’s Matt Fitzpatrick a shot further back after a 64 – the same score as his brother Alex, who was tied for seventh on 17 under.<\/p>\n
US Open champion Wyndham Clark carded a closing 65 to finish tied fifth on 18 under, with Scotland’s Robert MacIntyre in a share of 10th two strokes further back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Travelers Championship final round -21 S Scheffler (US), V Hovland (Nor); -20 C Morikawa (US); -19 M Fitzpatrick…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":664192,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-664191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-golf","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664191","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=664191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664191\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/664192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=664191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=664191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=664191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}