Patrick Cantlay defends BMW Championship title as Collin Morikawa data career-worst PGA Tour gap

"It will be somewhat completely different sort of a problem this yr, clearly, being two behind Scottie. He is performed loads of nice golf this yr, so I anticipate the identical. However it's a golf course I actually like, and I am trying ahead to the problem."

With the main duo tied heading into the closing two holes, an exhilarating climax noticed Cantlay's booming tee drive narrowly skip over a bunker and settle 63 yards from the opening.

"I believed hitting it on that line, it will for positive be in a bunker," Cantlay stated.

"Perhaps probably the greatest breaks I've gotten coming down the stretch, and if you get a break like that, it is advisable to pay it off, and fortuitously I did."

An outstanding strategy left the world No. 3 with a brief putt for birdie, and -- as Stallings parred -- Cantlay made no mistake to nudge forward.

Having narrowly dodged the sand on the penultimate gap, destiny caught up with Cantlay when his last tee shot dropped right into a bunker over 150 yards from the pin. However the 30-year-old responded with what he dubbed as one among his greatest pictures all week, slicing his exit shot onto the inexperienced.

Although a 48-foot birdie putt got here up simply quick to disclaim the American a fairytale end, Cantlay tapped dwelling for par to retain the crown he gained at Caves Valley in Maryland final yr.

The win marks Cantlay's second of the PGA Tour season following victory on the Zurich Traditional in April. It might properly have been extra had it not been for a trio of runner-up finishes on the WM Phoenix Open, RBC Heritage and the Rocket Mortgage Traditional, but Cantlay isn't hung up on near-misses.

"The factor I at all times remind myself of once I end second or I am shut is Jack Nicklaus had extra seconds in majors than he had wins," he stated.

"That stat will shock you contemplating he has probably the most majors ever. Nobody would ever say he could not shut or nobody would say that he wilted underneath stress, and but he had extra second locations than anyone else.

"You may't at all times management what different individuals round you do or the place you get the best bounce or the improper bounce. However placing your self in rivalry time after time after time, the bounces are going to go your approach and you will get your justifiable share of wins," he added.

Scheffler and Xander Schauffele led the chasing pack to complete 11-under, nevertheless it was a catastrophic last spherical for world No. 8 Collin Morikawa.

Having shot 65 on Saturday, the two-time main winner had regarded set for a robust end however noticed his hopes of a late cost dented by back-to-back bogeys on the third and fourth gap.

A birdie on the fifth noticed the 25-year-old soar to joint-sixth place, however catastrophe struck on the par-four eleventh gap when he four-putted for a double bogey.

But the nightmare was solely simply starting, as Morikawa subsequently despatched two pictures into the water guarding the inexperienced on the twelfth gap. A sequence of missed putts compounded the American's woes, as he lastly holed out for a 10-stroke quintuple bogey, the very best rating he has ever holed on the PGA Tour.

Morikawa closed with six straight pars to card an eight-over 79, ending tied for forty fourth. Regardless of his last spherical woes, the 2021 Open champion nonetheless certified for Thursday's Tour Championship, the place he'll begin because the Twentieth-ranked seed of the 30-player discipline.