Shane Lowry missed out on victory on the Truist Championship as his European Ryder Cup team-mate Sepp Straka claimed the title.
The 2 gamers went into the ultimate spherical within the joint lead on 14 below and it was Austrian Straka who emerged with victory after a closing spherical 68 put him on 16 below.
Irishman Lowry went spherical in level-par 70, two late bogeys leaving him tied for second with Justin Thomas on the Philadelphia Cricket Membership’s Wissahickon Course.
A key second came about on the sixteenth when each Straka and Lowry had been on 16 below. Lowry missed a five-foot putt and bogeyed the opening, whereas Straka managed a par to steer by one shot with two holes remaining.
Straka stored maintain of his result in declare his fourth PGA Tour victory, whereas a dejected Lowry three-putted the 18th gap to complete two photographs adrift of the winner, together with American Thomas.
“I hit plenty of actually good photographs and made plenty of errors. I hung in there,” mentioned Straka.
“I had a two-shot lead [after the ninth hole] and made two bogeys on the subsequent two holes to lose it, however I stored the identical angle and mentality all through the spherical.”
England’s Tommy Fleetwood birdied the final in recording a 65, together with Individuals Patrick Cantlay and Jacob Bridgeman, as all of them completed on 12 below for a tie of fourth.
Defending champion Rory McIlroy, a four-time winner of the occasion when held at Quail Hole, the venue for subsequent week’s US PGA Championship, completed on 10 below after a gentle spherical of 68 that includes 16 pars.
“I believed on the greens was good regardless that I did not gap plenty of putts at this time,” mentioned McIlroy. “My strategy play received just a little higher because the week went on, I simply have to hit a number of extra fairways.
“I really feel with subsequent week and the tee photographs I’ve to hit there, it’s going to arrange higher for me.
“I am wanting ahead to attending to Quail Hole and seeing some extra acquainted visuals.”
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