NEW YORK — Top-ranked Scottie Scheffler and Norway’s Viktor Hovland will meet in a playoff to decide the PGA Tour Travelers Championship after finishing deadlocked Sunday after 72 holes.
Scheffler sank a clutch par putt from just inside nine feet on the 18th hole to force a sudden-death playoff as both completed 72 holes on 21-under par 259 for 72 holes at TPC River Highlands in Cromwell, Connecticut.
“You see why he is the number one player in the world, making that putt on the last,” Hovland said. “I’m going to have to bring it tomorrow.”
Scheffler fired a two-under 68 in the final round while Hovland shot 69 after a late-afternoon storm halted play for 83 minutes to help force an extra day.
“It’s nice to be able to hole those putts, keep myself in the tournament,” Scheffler said.
“It’s more fun when you’re making the ones to win, but to keep yourself in it is also nice,” Scheffler added according to AFP.
American Collin Morikawa, who began the day nine strokes adrift, birdied the 18th hole in heavy rain to shoot a nine-under par 61 and finished third on 260.
England’s Matt Fitzpatrick was fourth on 261 after a closing 64 with Wyndham Clark, who won last week’s US Open, and fellow American Akshay Bhatia sharing fifth on 262.
Scheffler sank a four-foot birdie putt in a downpour at the par-five 13th to seize the lead on 21-under just before play was suspended.
Course workers pushed away puddled rain to make the final five holes playable for the last groups on the rain-softened course.
