Scottie Scheffler won the Olympic gold medal in a dramatic final day at Le Golf National.
Gavin Cooney reports from Le Golf National, Paris THIS WAS THE day golf broke its Olympic mould while Rory McIlroy remained frozen painfully in his.
Scheffler won with a bogey-free round of 62, with six of his nine birdies coming on the back nine. Rahm stood on the 11th tee with a four-shot lead, but then went bogey-bogey-par-double to unfathomably drop out of the medal positions. He finished tied fifth with McIlroy. As is generally customary from the tee, McIlroy was the last to take his second shot into the green. First McIlroy watched Nicolai Hojgaard and Hideki Matsuyama take their shots, and then took out his wedge.
Remaining aggressive down the stretch was the painful lesson of his near-misses at the 2022 Open and 2023 US Open, but in Paris it cost him a second-straight bronze medal playoff.“I feel I’ve been golf’s nearly man for the last three years”, he said. “I want that tide to turn, and go from the nearly man back to winning golf tournaments.
Tommy Fleetwood led the challenge, and birdied 16 to tie Scheffler for the lead. But when he went left off the 17th tee, he couldn’t find the green and made birdie. A closing par on 18 meant he had to settle for silver.
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