Scottie Scheffler caps dominant year with FedEx Cup title and $25m payday
“Right after 8, it felt like anyone’s game,” Morikawa said. “I knew he wasn’t just going to come backwards and I still had to make a lot of birdies. … It’s those little momentum shifts, that if I make one birdie in those last three holes I’m three back, four back. It’s like you’re still there, but five shots is a lot, and you need a lot of special things to happen.“
But Morikawa converted three birdies in his final six holes and clinched his best Tour Championship finish in five trips. He also finished with the lowest 72-hole score of the week, 22-under-par 262, and would have won if not for the staggered start.
“I knew that was kind of the goal for the week, right, to come out on top on this kind of fake leaderboard and see how things played out,” Morikawa said. “Ultimately Scottie was second or third on that leaderboard, so it didn’t really help my case.“
Sahith Theegala capped off his best career showing at a FedEx Cup playoff event, holding onto third place at 24 under thanks to a final-round 64.
Georgia native Russell Henley went 5 under over his final six holes, culminating with a pitch-in eagle at the par-5 18th, to shoot the round of the week at 9-under 62 and please the home crowd. Henley finished the week 19 under, tied for fourth with Xander Schauffele (68) and Australia’s Adam Scott (67).