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The Spaniard, who bogeyed the first, picked up five shots in four holes to overhaul Collin Morikawa, who stumbled with three bogeys on the back nine.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\nMorikawa, who led the field by six heading into the final round, closed with a one-under 72 to end on 25 under.<\/span><\/p>\n“I needed to play good and he needed to make a couple mistakes,” said Rahm.<\/span><\/p>\n“If you told me at the beginning of the round, after that bogey, I was going to do what I did I don’t know if I would have believed you.”<\/span><\/p>\nIt was a third win in six starts for Rahm – after winning in Spain and Dubai late in 2022 – and an eighth PGA Tour title. He also collected $2.7m from the $15m (\u00a311.8m) purse at Kapalua. <\/span><\/p>\nThe Tournament of Champions, which had a limited field of 39 players, was the first of 13 events that have an ‘elevated’ status on this year’s PGA Tour schedule, giving them increased prize money and a demand on the top players to compete.<\/span><\/p>\nRahm’s round started badly. The 28-year-old missed a seven-foot par putt on the first to fall eight shots behind Morikawa but had five birdies in his next eight holes to improve to 21 under par after nine. <\/span><\/p>\nHowever, Morikawa also had a solid front nine, with three birdies taking his score to 27 under at the turn.<\/span><\/p>\nRahm, the 2021 US Open winner, then had three successive birdies from the 12th before carding an eagle three at the par-five 15th to move within one of the lead.<\/span><\/p>\nMoments later he was joint leader, benefiting from Morikawa thinning a bunker shot across the 14th green and dropping his first shot of the tournament. <\/span><\/p>\n“At that point I got in the thick of things and never did I think that going into my third shot on 17 I was going to have a one-shot lead,” said Rahm, who missed the green with his second shot on his penultimate hole.<\/span><\/p>\n“That’s when I had to change a bit of the mindset of chasing and needing birdies to, ‘let’s get this up-and-down, hopefully birdie 18 and give ourselves the best chance’.”<\/span><\/p>\nRahm led because Morikawa dropped another shot on the 15th. He duffed a simple chip and then missed a seven-foot putt for par.<\/span><\/p>\nAnd his short game let him down again on the par-four 16th after a superb drive left him with a 55-yard pitch for his second. He misjudged the spin on his ball and it ended up 70 feet from the hole and he could only three-putt from there.<\/span><\/p>\nRahm suddenly led by two and picked up another birdie on the 648-yard par-five last hole after finding the green in two shots and two-putting from 65 feet.<\/span><\/p>\nMorikawa also completed the final hole in four shots but his birdie proved scant consolation with Rahm completing the biggest comeback victory in the tournament’s history.<\/span><\/p>\n“You work so hard and you give yourself these opportunities,” said the 2021 Open Championship winner, who matched the PGA Tour record held by seven other players of squandering a six-shot lead in the final round. <\/span><\/p>\n“I just made three poor swings, really, at the wrong times. It’s never a good time to put a poor swing on it, but sometimes it works out and these never worked out.<\/span><\/p>\n“I don’t know what I’m going to learn from this week, but it just didn’t seem like it was that far off. It really wasn’t. Yeah, it sucks.”<\/span><\/p>\nFellow Americans Tom Hoge (64) and Max Homa (66) were joint third on 23 under.<\/span><\/p>\nEngland’s US Open champion Matt Fitzpatrick ended alongside Masters winner Scottie Scheffler – who could have returned to world number one with a higher finish this week – on 21 under after both carded three-under-par 70s.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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