Scheffler secures 6th win in Ryder Cup tune-up

NAPA, Calif. -- Scottie Scheffler wanted to enactment crisp up of the Ryder Cup and the world's No. 1 subordinate looked each spot of that Sunday, closing with a 5-under 67 to triumph the Procore Championship for his sixth PGA Tour triumph of the year.

Scheffler made up a two-shot shortage connected Ryder Cup teammate Ben Griffin, who was poised to unit a playoff until helium three-putted the par-5 18th from 60 feet for par to decorativeness 1 behind.

Griffin, who started the last circular with 3 consecutive birdies, changeable a 70. He had a birdie putt from 5 feet connected the 18th that caught the near borderline and spun away. It was the 2nd clip this twelvemonth helium has finished runner-up to the world's No. 1 player.

Scheffler was 1 of the players who earlier successful the twelvemonth targeted the Procore Championship arsenic a bully spot for the Ryder Cup squad to play truthful they could debar the mistake of 2 years agone erstwhile each but 2 of them had a period disconnected earlier the Rome matches.

But erstwhile the tourney started, Scheffler was each astir winning.

"I cognize I was going to person to person different bully day," said Scheffler, who made up 8 shots connected Griffin implicit the play with a 64-67 finish. "I'm fortunate to beryllium the victor this week."

It was his 19th vocation triumph connected the PGA Tour, and present helium heads to lucifer play successful the Ryder Cup against Europe, which has had the precocious manus successful these matches the past 3 decades.

Lanto Griffin had arsenic overmuch unit arsenic anyone, coming into the Fall information of the docket astatine No. 142 successful the FedEx Cup successful the archetypal twelvemonth of lone 100 players keeping afloat cards.

He delivered a 65 to decorativeness unsocial successful third, his champion decorativeness successful astir 4 years. That moved him up to No. 100 successful the standings with 2 months and astatine slightest 5 tournaments to go.

"It's huge," Griffin said. "One of my goals this week was to springiness myself a chance. ... I benignant of privation Scottie wasn't here, but I'm definite the fans enjoyed it."

There were plentifulness of fans, the largest assemblage Silverado has seen since the tourney moved to vino state successful 2014. And astir of them were with Scheffler, who joined Tiger Woods arsenic the lone players to person astatine slightest six wins successful back-to-back seasons successful the past 40 years.

Scheffler started 2 shots down and fell arsenic galore arsenic 4 shots backmost aboriginal earlier pecking distant with 4 birdies connected the opening 10 holes.

After a careless three-putt bogey from 15 feet connected the 11th, helium answered with 2 birdies connected the par 5s to instrumentality the pb erstwhile Griffin struggled to get thing going.

But Griffin, who has 2 authoritative PGA Tour titles successful this breakthrough season, had his chances. He holed a 15-foot birdie putt connected the par-5 15th and burned the borderline with 2 agelong birdie putts connected the adjacent 2 holes. He was connected the borderline of the green, 60 feet distant for an eagle putt, 2 putts needed for a playoff, and couldn't get it done.

Auburn inferior Jackson Koivun, the No. 1 amateur successful the satellite who played successful the last group, was 2 shots down with 7 holes to play erstwhile helium took a brushed bogey connected the par-5 12th and past bogeyed the 13th erstwhile helium went agelong of the green.

Koivun closed with a 71 and tied for 4th with Emiliano Grillo (66). It was Koivun's 4th consecutive decorativeness astatine 11th of amended connected the PGA Tour, and helium gets successful the Sanderson Farms Championship successful 3 weeks unless the 20-year-old has different plans astatine school.

The tourney had its strongest tract with the each but 2 players from the U.S. Ryder Cup squad playing up of the Sept. 26-28 matches astatine Bethpage Black. U.S. skipper Keegan Bradley was astatine Silverado done Friday, and the PGA of America rented a mansion for them to conscionable during the week, a Ryder Cup squad country amidst the vineyards.

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