HILTON HEAD ISLAND, S.C. — A Masters inexperienced jacket wasn’t sufficient for Scottie Scheffler.
Scheffler was working on emotional fumes recent off his four-shot victory at Augusta Nationwide, however stuffed with goal that greater than made up for his lack of preparation for the RBC Heritage. The outcome not solely was related, it has come to be anticipated.
He hardly ever missed a shot. He gave little hope to these chasing him. And he walked away from Harbour City on Monday morning with one other victory that prolonged a dominance not seen because the peak years of Tiger Woods.
“I did not present up right here simply to have some type of ceremony and have folks inform me congratulations. I got here right here with a goal,” Scheffler mentioned after sharpening off a 3-under 68 for a three-shot victory.
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Victory was inevitable — Scheffler had a five-shot lead with three holes to play when the ultimate spherical, delayed 2 1/2 hours due to storms Sunday afternoon, was suspended by darkness. It is beginning to really feel that method at any time when he performs.
Scheffler now has received 4 of his final 5 begins, the exception a runner-up end within the Houston Open when he misinterpret a 5-foot birdie putt that may have compelled a playoff.
He thought-about this one of many harder wins as a result of it adopted the Masters.
“Coming off the excessive final week to going into right here, not likely with a ton of vitality, not likely with a ton of prep work,” Scheffler mentioned. “I feel it is underrated how tough it’s to do the stuff that Tiger was doing, and win like each single week. It takes loads out of you emotionally and bodily, particularly main championships.”
Seems he had loads left within the tank.
Scheffler now has 40 consecutive rounds at par or higher, a streak that started at East Lake within the Tour Championship final August. His place at No. 1 on the planet is so nice that he grew to become the primary participant since Woods to crack the 15-point common mark.
“It’s totally spectacular,” Patrick Cantlay mentioned. “He is performed nice for some time now — quite a few years — and it looks as if he’s enjoying the very best golf of his life proper now.”
The one competitors Monday morning was for second place.
The storms introduced chilly climate and a powerful wind. Scheffler missed the 18th inexperienced to the suitable, chipped safely to 18 ft and two-putted for bogey. That ended his streak of 68 consecutive holes with no worse than a par.
“I hit driver, 3-wood into there,” Scheffler mentioned. “So I’ll depend that as a par for myself.”
Sahith Theegala birdied the sixteenth gap, saved par from a bunker on the par-3 seventeenth and closed with a par for a 68 to complete alone in second, a distinction of $666,667 than if he had completed in a three-way tie for second.
“Regardless that I completed second, I felt like I used to be by no means actually in it to win there. Scottie was simply up to now forward,” Theegala mentioned.
Cantlay (68) and U.S. Open champion Wyndham Clark, who completed his 65 on Sunday earlier than the storms, tied for third.
Scheffler completed at 19-under 265 and earned $3.2 million. That brings his season complete to just about $18.7 million in simply 10 tournaments.
The excellent news for the remainder of the PGA Tour: Scheffler will not present up once more till the PGA Championship the third week in Might. He headed again residence to Dallas, the place his spouse his anticipating their first little one someday subsequent week.
Scheffler was staked to a one-shot lead beginning the ultimate spherical and chipped in for eagle on the second gap. Earlier than lengthy, he had a four-shot lead and by no means confirmed any indicators of coming again.
“I received off to a very good begin yesterday and type of simply saved it going from there,” he mentioned.
The week wasn’t the smoothest begin for Scheffler, who was six photographs behind after a gap spherical that included a shank from the bunker on the third gap for a double bogey. He did not drop one other shot the remainder of the week till it now not mattered.
About the one factor that went incorrect for Scheffler was the celebration. His caddie, Ted Scott, went for an elevated chest pump and Scheffler simply laughed at him with out shifting.
About 400 spectators ready alongside the 18th fairway have been allowed to fill a nook of the grandstands as Scheffler approached. He turned and waved his cap towards them after tapping in his closing stroke of one other masterpiece.
Such is Scheffler’s dominance that his final seven victories have come towards fields that had a minimum of eight of the highest 10 gamers on the planet.
The final participant to run off a stretch like this — 4 wins and a runner-up — was Woods on the finish of 2007. Woods then received his first three PGA Tour begins (and one on the European Tour) to start out 2008.
Scheffler now has 10 titles on the PGA Tour in a span of 51 tournaments relationship to his first victory within the 2022 Phoenix Open.
“It doesn’t get boring,” Scheffler mentioned. “I feel hitting a extremely well-struck golf shot near the pin is like an addicting feeling.”
