Subdued week for Rory; surreal week for Scheffler; Schauffele’s clarity of mind; DeChambeau the YouTuber shines
when he started Sunday just two strokes off the lead. It would be harsh, though, to call the week a failure for Lowry in any respect. The Offaly man will be disappointed he did not put up a better challenge in the final round, but as it happened he would have had to shoot back-to-back Major record-equalling 62s to beat Xander Schauffele’s 21-under-par total, a feat unheard of in the history of golf.
McIlroy could hardly blame it on his performance, which followed a typical recent trend of a good but not great tournament the week after winning on the PGA Tour heading into a major. It was in Friday’s pedestrian round of 71 that McIlroy gave Schauffele what proved to be an unassailable lead, but there were sloppy shots mixed in all week, including two wedges into the water on Sunday. McIlroy finished the week with eight bogeys and a double bogey on an easy set-up.
McIlroy, faced with a similar decision last year at the US Open, laid up on the par five 14th hole to 125 yards instead of going for the green with a three-wood, and he is far from the best wedge player on tour. McIlroy missed the green from that distance, bogeyed and lost by one stroke. On such decisions are Major titles won.Schauffele is a well-deserving US PGA champion, and Bryson DeChambeau and Viktor Hovland excitingly pushed him all the way.
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