Viktor Hovland blended 10 birdies with a lone bogey in a shocking final-round 61, setting the course file and incomes a two-shot win; Scottie Scheffler leads FedExCup standings after ending tied-second with Matt Fitzpatrick
By Ali Stafford
Final Up to date: 20/08/23 11:38pm
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Highlights of the ultimate spherical of the BMW Championship from the Olympia Fields Nation Membership in Illinois
Highlights of the ultimate spherical of the BMW Championship from the Olympia Fields Nation Membership in Illinois
Viktor Hovland produced a sensational back-nine birdie barrage to stun world No 1 Scottie Scheffler and declare a dramatic victory on the BMW Championship.
Hovland overturned a three-stroke deficit throughout a gripping remaining spherical at Olympia Fields Nation Membership, the place he fired seven birdies in a back-nine 28 to set the course file with an unbelievable nine-under 61.
The Norwegian ended the week on 17 below to register a second PGA Tour title of the season and fifth general, with the newest success additionally seeing him shut the hole on Scheffler on the prime of the FedExCup standings heading into the Tour Championship.
Scottie Scheffler will begin with a two-shot lead on the Tour Championship on Thursday
Scheffler held a minimum of a share of the lead for almost all of the day however noticed his hopes ended with a penultimate-hole bogey, with the American ending tied-second on 15 below with Matt Fitzpatrick and Rory McIlroy an additional three strokes again in fourth.
Particular Sunday on the PGA Tour
Scheffler missed a six-foot likelihood on the par-five first however edged forward when he transformed from 10 ft on the subsequent, with the world No 1 virtually holing his strategy into the third to arrange a tap-in birdie.
Fitzpatrick poured in from 20 ft to match his enjoying companion’s birdie and added one other from shut vary on the subsequent to tug degree, with each then firing tee pictures to inside six ft and choosing up pictures on the par-three sixth to maneuver to 14 below.
Matt Fitzpatrick ended the week on 15 below alongside Scheffler
Hovland – enjoying two teams forward – had birdied three of his opening 5 holes to briefly get inside one of many lead however then bogeyed the seventh, leading to him delivering 33, whereas enjoying companion McIlroy was an additional stroke again after ending his entrance 9 with a bogey.
Scheffler burned one other birdie alternative on the seventh and watched Fitzpatrick produce a exceptional up and down from the sand to save lots of par on the eighth, just for the Englishman to bogey the ninth and fall one behind on the flip.
Scottie Scheffler was chasing a 3rd victory of the season on the PGA Tour
Fitzpatrick transformed from 12 ft to hitch Scheffler in birdieing the tenth and briefly moved again tied for the lead when the American bogeyed the par-four subsequent, whereas Hovland charged into competition by beginning his again 9 with three consecutive birdies.
Hovland responded to a missed birdie likelihood on the thirteenth by making a tap-in birdie on the subsequent to briefly make it a three-way tie, just for Scheffler to roll in from 15 ft and 25 ft over his subsequent two holes to card back-to-back birdies and go two clear.
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Watch the very best pictures from Viktor Hovland’s sensible final-round 61 as he triumphed on the BMW Championship
Watch the very best pictures from Viktor Hovland’s sensible final-round 61 as he triumphed on the BMW Championship
Fitzpatrick recovered from bogeying the 14th by birdieing his subsequent two holes to get again inside one, as Hovland took benefit of the par-five fifteenth and added to his birdie tally on the par-four seventeenth to tug again alongside Scheffler on 16 below.
Scheffler needed to accept a par on the fifteenth and squandered a glance from six ft after a superb tee shot on the sixteenth, which noticed him fall behind for the primary time when Hovland capped off an unbelievable again 9 by slotting in an eight-foot birdie on the final to set the clubhouse goal.
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Viktor Hovland was ecstatic after capturing 61 to win the BMW Championship by two pictures
Viktor Hovland was ecstatic after capturing 61 to win the BMW Championship by two pictures
Hovland’s lead doubled when Scheffler inexplicably carded a three-putt bogey on the seventeenth, with victory safe when neither Scheffler or Fitzpatrick may gap their second pictures into the final and each settled for closing pars.
McIlroy birdied three of his final 5 holes to submit a four-under 66 and take fourth, with Open champion Brian Harman and midway chief Max Homa an additional shot again in tied-fifth.
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Hovland: My greatest spherical ever!
Requested the place that spherical ranked in his profession, Hovland advised Sky Sports activities: “It needs to be primary. I bear in mind enjoying a reasonably particular spherical of golf my first 12 months on Tour, I shot seven below at Torrey Pines when it was hailing and windy and raining and that is in all probability the very best I’ve ever struck it all through a spherical.
“However to shoot 61 and shoot 28 on the again 9 at this golf course and below the circumstances, I’ve nothing that beats that.”
Viktor Hovland is now second within the FedExCup standings
Hovland, who began the day three off the lead, added: “I used to be pondering if I submit a rating like I did yesterday (65) I may a minimum of have an opportunity, but it surely’s laborious when you may have so many guys in entrance of you which can be actually good and enjoying superior. Catching warmth on the again 9 was what I needed to do.”
What’s subsequent?
The PGA Tour season reaches its climax on Thursday on the Tour Championship, the place solely the highest 30 within the FedExCup standings get to characteristic and gamers are given a strokes-based benefit based mostly on their place.
Scheffler will begin with a two-shot lead over Hovland and McIlroy will start on seven below in third spot, whereas Jon Rahm begins in fourth forward of Lucas Glover.
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