{"id":3356,"date":"2022-12-05T14:10:48","date_gmt":"2022-12-05T14:10:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/hero-world-challenge-viktor-hovland-holds-off-scottie-scheffler-to-retain-title\/"},"modified":"2022-12-05T14:10:49","modified_gmt":"2022-12-05T14:10:49","slug":"hero-world-challenge-viktor-hovland-holds-off-scottie-scheffler-to-retain-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/hero-world-challenge-viktor-hovland-holds-off-scottie-scheffler-to-retain-title\/","title":{"rendered":"Hero World Challenge: Viktor Hovland holds off Scottie Scheffler to retain title"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Tournament host Tiger Woods (2006-07) and Viktor Hovland are the only players to win back-to-back titles at the Hero World Challenge<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n<\/thead>\n\n\n\n\n
-16<\/strong> V Hovland (Nor); <\/span>-14<\/strong> S Scheffler (US); <\/span>-12<\/strong> C Young (US); <\/span>-11<\/strong> X Schauffele (US); <\/span>-10 <\/strong>J Thomas (US); <\/span>-9<\/strong> C Morikawa (US); <\/span>-6<\/strong> T Finau (US);<\/span> -5 <\/strong>J Rahm (Spa), Sung-Jae Im (Kor)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Selected others: -1<\/strong> M Fitzpatrick (Eng); <\/span>+5<\/strong> S Lowry (Ire); <\/span>+7<\/strong> T Fleetwood (Eng)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Norway’s Viktor Hovland held his nerve to see off a spirited challenge from Scottie Scheffler and retain the Hero World Challenge title in the Bahamas.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Hovland was in danger of squandering a two-shot lead on the final hole but he salvaged an unlikely bogey.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Scheffler also bogeyed the 18th after his chip from a waste bunker caught the edge of the hole and ran 15 feet past.<\/span><\/p>\n

That left Hovland to celebrate an unexpectedly dramatic two-shot win on 16 under par, after a closing 69.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Ryder Cup player, 25, had a three-shot lead over Scheffler overnight but set up a nervy finish on Sunday’s final hole, pulling his second shot from an awkward lie on the edge of a bunker into the water before managing to get up and down for a bogey.<\/span><\/p>\n

“It’s freaking nerve-racking,” said Hovland. “I was leading by five I think after the turn and didn’t play all that great on the back nine but it was good enough. It made it a little bit exciting I guess.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Scheffler, who needed to win to reclaim top spot in the world rankings from Rory McIlroy, momentarily held a share of the lead when the Masters champion followed birdies on the second and fourth by chipping in for eagle on the sixth.<\/span><\/p>\n

However, playing partner Hovland holed from 20 feet on the same hole to edge back in front and Scheffler’s hopes looked to have disappeared with a bogey on the seventh and double bogey on the par-five ninth.<\/span><\/p>\n

Scheffler then kept the pressure on with four birdies on the back nine, which almost paid off on the 18th.<\/span><\/p>\n

Hovland joins tournament host Tiger Woods (2006-07) as the only players to win back-to-back titles in the limited-field event.<\/span><\/p>\n

“I’m just happy he didn’t play the last two years!” Hovland added. “To win his tournament is something very special.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Woods was due to return to action at Albany for the first time since <\/span>missing the cut in the Open Championship<\/span><\/a> in July, but <\/span>withdrew on Monday<\/span><\/a> because of plantar fasciitis in his right foot.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Tournament host Tiger Woods (2006-07) and Viktor Hovland are the only players to win back-to-back titles at the Hero World Challenge -16 V Hovland (Nor); -14 S Scheffler (US); -12 C Young (US); -11 X Schauffele (US); -10 J Thomas (US); -9 C Morikawa (US); -6 T Finau (US); -5 J Rahm (Spa), Sung-Jae Im […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3357,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3356"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3356"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3358,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3356\/revisions\/3358"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}