{"id":5816,"date":"2023-02-13T00:16:23","date_gmt":"2023-02-13T00:16:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/phoenix-open-scottie-scheffler-wins-by-two-shots-to-return-to-world-number-one\/"},"modified":"2023-02-13T00:16:25","modified_gmt":"2023-02-13T00:16:25","slug":"phoenix-open-scottie-scheffler-wins-by-two-shots-to-return-to-world-number-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/phoenix-open-scottie-scheffler-wins-by-two-shots-to-return-to-world-number-one\/","title":{"rendered":"Phoenix Open: Scottie Scheffler wins by two shots to return to world number one"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Scheffler hit a bogey-free final round<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n<\/thead>\n\n\n\n\n
-19<\/strong> S Scheffler (US); <\/span>-17<\/strong> N Taylor (Can); <\/span>-14<\/strong> J Rahm (Spa); <\/span>-13<\/strong> J Thomas (US); <\/span>-12<\/strong> J Day (Aus); <\/span>-11<\/strong> S Burns (US), S-J Im (Kor), J Spieth (US), T Hatton (Eng)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Selected others: -10<\/strong> R Fowler (US);<\/span> -7<\/strong> S Power (Ire); <\/span>-5<\/strong> M Fitzpatrick (Eng); <\/span>-4 <\/strong>R McIlroy (NI); <\/span>-2<\/strong> A Rai (Eng)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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American Scottie Scheffler regained the world number one ranking by successfully defending his Phoenix Open title with a two-shot win.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The 26-year-old Masters champion finished on 19 under par after carding a six-under 65 on the final round.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Canada’s Nick Taylor was second with Spain’s Jon Rahm a further three shots back.<\/span><\/p>\n

“I’m just proud with how I fought today, I didn’t have my best stuff,” Scheffler told CBS.<\/span><\/p>\n

“I grinded it out today, I wasn’t hitting it good off the tee, my irons weren’t as sharp, but I played a great round of golf today.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Scheffler replaces Rory McIlroy – who finished tied for 32nd on four-under – at the top of the world rankings, having previously held the number one spot for 30 weeks until October.<\/span><\/p>\n

He started the final round with a two-stroke lead but saw that halved immediately as both Taylor and Rahm birdied the first.<\/span><\/p>\n

He hit back with birdies on the second and third holes, while Rahm’s challenge faded with a bogey at eight.<\/span><\/p>\n

With six holes remaining, Taylor and Scheffler were tied for the lead before the American drained an eagle putt on the 13th to take outright control.<\/span><\/p>\n

Scheffler then holed a 15-foot clutch putt on the par-three 16th to preserve his advantage before a comfortable par on the last sealed his fifth title on the PGA Tour, and his first since his win at Augusta in April.<\/span><\/p>\n

He is the third player to successfully defend a PGA Tour title this season after McIlroy at the CJ Cup and Max Homa at the Fortinet Championship.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Across<\/span><\/span>\"Across<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n


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Scheffler hit a bogey-free final round -19 S Scheffler (US); -17 N Taylor (Can); -14 J Rahm (Spa); -13 J Thomas (US); -12 J Day (Aus); -11 S Burns (US), S-J Im (Kor), J Spieth (US), T Hatton (Eng) Selected others: -10 R Fowler (US); -7 S Power (Ire); -5 M Fitzpatrick (Eng); -4 R […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5817,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5816"}],"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=5816"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5818,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5816\/revisions\/5818"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}