May 26, 2024, 06:58 pm Eastern Time
FORT WORTH, Texas – Davis Riley shot an even-par 70 while playing in the final group Sunday with Scottie Scheffler and still won a subdued Colonial by 5 strokes over the world’s No. 1 player and Keegan Bradley for his first individual victory in the PGA. Route.
Riley finished at 14-under 266 after making a 6-foot par putt on the final hole. Bradley closed with a 67 and Scheffler shot 71 on a day in which he hit only seven of 14 fairways and did not birdie until the 13th hole.
After starting the final round with a 4-stroke lead, Riley gave up a stroke with a bogey on the second hole when he entered the right gross and then hit the bunker. But that was the closest Scheffler, or anyone else, would get, with wind gusts of 20 mph and higher all day.
The 27-year-old Riley’s only other victory on the PGA Tour came when he and Nick Hardy won the Zurich Classic team event in New Orleans last year. The Mississippi native’s victory at the historic Colonial, which had been completely restored since last year’s tournament, earned him $1.638 million, the winner’s traditional plaid jacket and a completely restored and modernized 1975 Stingray automobile.
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The final round was played on the same day Grayson Murray’s parents said their 30-year-old son took his own life on Saturday, a day after the two-time PGA Tour winner claimed illness when he withdrew from the event with remaining time. two holes. the second round of it. The family had urged PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan to continue play at the Charles Schwab Classic.
Bradley, who won twice last year, was 10 under after a 4-foot birdie on the 17th hole. But he missed a chance of similar length to save par on the 18th after his tee shot and approach They ended up in the right gross.
Collin Morikawa, the only player in the field to finish all four rounds under par, was fourth at 8 under after his closing 68.
Riley made a 27-foot birdie on the 229-yard par-3 No. 4 that is in the middle of the famous “Horrible Horseshoe,” which remains the most difficult three-hole stretch on the course. Scheffler bogeyed again and again on No. 5 after hitting the rough right that runs parallel to the Trinity River.
While Riley closed the front nine with a 9-foot birdie putt, he was 6 shots ahead of Scheffler.
Scheffler was playing near his home in Dallas a week after his arrest in the early morning darkness before his second round of the PGA Championship in Louisville, Kentucky, when police were investigating the death of a pedestrian and arrested (and (briefly jailed) Scheffler for failing to follow traffic directions.
After tying for eighth at Valhalla, Colonial earned his 11th top-10 finish in Scheffler’s 12 tournaments this year. Before the PGA Championship, he had taken three weeks off for the birth of his first child after back-to-back victories at the Masters and the RBC Heritage in Hilton Head.
It was Scheffler’s third consecutive top-three finish at Colonial, even after an opening 72 that was the first time this season he failed to break par in a first round. That also included his first triple bogey of the season, when his tee shot on the par-3 13th went into the pond in front of the green.
No. 13 was Scheffler’s first birdie on Sunday, but he was still 7 shots behind at the time. After Thursday’s triple, he had played 44 consecutive bogey-free holes, including rounds of 65 and 63, through Sunday’s Nos. 4 and 5.
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