Scottie Scheffler caps dominant Byron Nelson win with record-tying 72-hole rating

[ad_1] Scottie Scheffler capped a dominant victory on the CJ Cup Byron Nelson with the bottom 72-hole rating in PGA Tour historical past.

Scheffler fired an 8-under 63 on Sunday at TPC Craig Ranch to complete at 31-under 253, tying the low 72-hole mark, first recorded by Justin Thomas on the 2017 Sony Open and once more by Ludvig Aberg on the 2023 RSM Traditional.

After going birdie-bogey on Nos. 2 and three, Scheffler rattled off 4 straight birdies after which capped his entrance 9 with a 20-foot eagle make on the par-5 ninth. He birdies Nos. 11, 14 and 15, too, all from inside 8 toes to succeed in 32 underneath.

A flubbed chip that rolled again to his toes on the par-3 seventeenth led to bogey, and Scheffler closed with par on the par-5 ending gap, in any other case he would’ve shot 252.

Hideki Matsuyama gained The Sentry earlier this 12 months at 35 underneath, a PGA Tour file for relation to par. Scheffler is now the ninth member of the 30-under membership, although solely the second participant who didn’t accomplish the feat at Kapalua.

Here's a have a look at the bottom 72-hole scores in relation to par in PGA Tour historical past (since 1983), together with Hideki Matsuyama’s 35-under profitable rating on the 2025 Sentry.

Scheffler’s low-scoring week, which included a best-ball rating of 17-under 54 over 4 days, got here on the heels of final 12 months’s $15 million renovation to the TPC structure led by former main winner Lanny Wadkins.

“The gamers love a very good, stable check of golf; they don’t need it to be a placing contest,” Wadkins stated. “They need it to be one thing to check each little bit of their capability from driving within the fairway and high quality iron play and every thing else that goes into capturing a spherical of golf. They need that, and that’s what we intend to offer them.”

Wadkins added throughout final week’s look on Golf Channel’s Golf At this time that he’d be “shocked” if the profitable rating was decrease than 15 underneath.

Properly, Scheffler obliterated that.

Erik van Rooyen completed second, eight photographs behind. Third-place Sam Stevens was 11 again and Jordan Spieth, solo fourth, misplaced by 12.

That is Scheffler’s first official PGA Tour victory since final June’s Vacationers Championship. He’s extra just lately gained the Olympics and Hero World Problem.