He shot a final-round 4-under-par 66 on Sunday in Memphis, Tennessee, and pulled away to win the tournament by eight strokes and extend his lead in the FedEx Cup playoffs. I’m close.’ It feels good to be answering some different questions at the end of this week.” Scheffler is the world number one, but this marked his first victory since January. It was the tournament’s second-largest margin of victory in the past 30 years and the largest winning gap at TPC Southwind.
That’s a good compensation if you’re going to try to have success out here.” None of the other contenders made much of a push on Sunday as Scheffler’s lead expanded from two strokes to five by midway through the round. Scheffler, who secured his 21st all-time victory on the tour, poured it on with birdies on the 11th, 13th and 16th holes. The next stop in the playoffs is in St Louis, Missouri, for this coming week’s BMW Championship, which Scheffler won last year.
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