Scheffler Catches Macintyre To Win Bmw Championship

BMW Championship, Caves Valley GC, Maryland

-15 S Scheffler (US); -13 R MacIntyre (Sco), -11 M McNealy (US) -10 T Fleetwood (Eng), S Burns (US); -8 H Hall (Eng)

Selected others: -7 V Hovland (Nor); -3 R McIlroy (NI); -1 M Fitzpatrick (Eng); +1 S Lowry (Ire)

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Scottie Scheffler reeled successful overnight leader Robert MacIntyre to triumph nan BMW Championship, taking advantage of nan Scot's shaky commencement successful Maryland.

The world number 1 began nan last time 4 shots down but was successful beforehand by nan seventh spread and vanished 2 clear, chipping successful astatine nan 17th during a rollercoaster climax of frayed nerves.

MacIntyre opened pinch back-to-back bogeys and dropped a further changeable astatine nan fifth. Another changeable would spell earlier a solitary birdie connected nan third-last green.

Struggling to find nan fairways astatine Caves Valley, nan chance of a 3rd PGA Tour triumph for nan left-hander slipped distant arsenic Open champion Scheffler showed his mettle and people - contempt a fewer uncharacteristic slips connected his measurement to a three-under-par 67, taking him to 15 nether for nan week.

MacIntyre, runner-up astatine nan US Open and tied for seventh astatine nan Open, had been 16 nether aft rounds of 62, 64 and 68, but came location successful 73 for nan runner-up spot, 2 shots up of Maverick McNealy.

There was a glimmer of dream for MacIntyre erstwhile he moved to wrong a changeable aft nan 12th, Scheffler missing a regular par putt.

But nan Scotsman overhit an 8 robust disconnected nan tee astatine nan 13th to miss nan greenish and a 4th bogey soon followed, only for Scheffler to make a messiness of nan next.

At nan 15th, nan American rolled successful a birdie aft watching MacIntyre miss his effort but nan roles were past reversed astatine nan 16th.

Scheffler saved his champion for nan 17th, chipping successful from nan greenside to nonstop nan partisan crowd chaotic and springiness himself breathing abstraction for an 18th PGA Tour success.

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