England’s Matt Fitzpatrick beat world primary Scottie Scheffler in a play-off to win the RBC Heritage in South Carolina.
The 31-year-old carded a bogey 5 on the 18th when a par would have sealed victory, however he shortly overcame that disappointment to birdie the identical gap a couple of minutes later and declare his second PGA Tour title within the area of a month.
Fitzpatrick had began the ultimate spherical with a three-shot lead as he tried to comply with up his victory on the Valspar Championship in March.
The previous US Open champion performed his first 17 holes in two underneath par with out dropping a shot, however American Scheffler was in a position to shut the hole to 1 by the point they stood collectively on the 18th tee.
Each gamers failed to seek out the inexperienced in two on the final and whereas Scheffler made it up and down for par to finish a four-under spherical of 67, Fitzpatrick’s poor chip led to his first bogey of the day.
However Sheffield-born Fitzpatrick hit an excellent strategy on the primary play-off gap, earlier than nervelessly sinking his birdie putt to win.
This newest victory continues his scorching streak of kind, having additionally completed second ultimately month’s Gamers Championship.
And it meant Scheffler, 29, needed to be content material with a second consecutive second-place end, having completed as runner-up to Rory McIlroy ultimately week’s Masters.
Si-woo Kim of South Korea shot a final-round 68 to complete third on 16 underneath par, two pictures behind Fitzpatrick and Scheffler.
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