Davis Riley clinched his first particular person PGA Tour title on the Charles Schwab Problem when Scotty Scheffler did not mount a cost on the ultimate day.
Riley, who received the Zurich Traditional with Nick Hardy final yr, took a four-shot lead into the ultimate spherical at Colonial and shot a 70 to complete at 14 underneath par, 5 photographs forward of Scheffler and Keegan Bradley.
World No.1 Scheffler was 4 photographs again in second firstly of the day, however there was no severe challenger within the last spherical because the 27-year-old Riley responded with birdies on every of his 4 bogeys to increase his result in six photographs. regardless of of and of degree of which exceeds the primary 9.
“I knew it was going to be powerful as we speak,” Riley stated. “Clearly it is a very powerful golf course and while you’ve acquired the world primary respiration down your neck, it should be powerful till the final gap.
“I am happy with how I simply stayed in it, battled by way of some early adversity, simply hung in there and performed actually good golf happening the stretch and was actually excited and happy with myself.”
Searching for his fifth win of the season, Scheffler was three over par by way of the primary 10 holes earlier than birdieing the thirteenth and seventeenth in a last spherical of 71.
However he could not shut the hole on Riley, whose lead reached seven strokes after Riley’s birdie on the eleventh.
Scotty Scheffler was unable to problem Davis Riley within the last spherical at Colonial
Bradley stayed inside three photographs of bogey on the ultimate gap, the place he made par in every of the primary three rounds, giving Riley a four-over lead with three holes to play. Maverick McNeely (66) was the one participant to beat Bradley within the last spherical, however completed solely tied for seventeenth.
Regardless of Riley’s breakthrough, only a day after the dying of PGA Tour golfer Grayson Murray, who was entered and withdrew within the second spherical, the match additionally had a somber tone.
On Sunday, golfers and caddies wore purple and black ribbons on their caps or shirts in reminiscence of Murray, who usually wore the colours of his hometown NHL crew, the Carolina Hurricanes, throughout Sunday rounds.
His dad and mom launched an announcement revealing the reason for dying, expressing their disappointment and thanking golfers, the Tour and others for his or her help.
“It is a very unhappy day within the golf world,” Riley stated. “My coronary heart simply goes out to him and his household. At present was undoubtedly just a little additional.”
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