The first edition of the Optum Golf Channel Games came down to one shot … and one inch. Tied through five challenges, captains Scottie Scheffler and Rory McIlroy went into a playoff, a single swing from 47 yards.<\/p>\n
McIlroy hit first and stuffed his just outside 6 feet. Scheffler went next and hit his to nearly the same distance. Nearly. After an official measurement, it was determined that Scheffler was one inch closer.<\/p>\n
That proved to be the difference for Team Scheffler, which included Sam Burns, Luke Clanton and Keegan Bradley.<\/p>\n
The American side won three of the first four competitions \u2014 driving, short game and the 14-club challenge. Team McIlroy, which included Shane Lowry, Luke Donald and Haotong Li, won the team relay.<\/p>\n
It was 3-1, Team Scheffler, with the captain\u2019s challenge \u2014 worth two points \u2014 as the final event. McIlroy easily beat Scheffler over a variety of 10 shots to force the playoff, where the world No. 1 prevailed by the slimmest of margins.<\/p>\n
Here\u2019s how the Games played out Wednesday at Trump National GC Jupiter in Jupiter, Florida:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The first edition of the Optum Golf Channel Games came down to one shot … and one inch.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":355435,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[427,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-355434","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-golf","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=355434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355434\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/355435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}