The Open 2025: Scottie Scheffler completes dominant win at Royal Portrush

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-17 Scheffler (US); -13 English (US); -12 Gotterup (US); -11 Clark (US), Fitzpatrick (Eng); -10 MacIntyre (Sco), Schauffele (US), McIlroy (NI)

Selected: -9 DeChambeau (US); -7 Rose (Eng), Hatton (Eng); -6 Aberg (Swe)

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Less than 1 hr aft helium teed disconnected connected Sunday day Scottie Scheffler had efficaciously won his archetypal Open Championship title.

The satellite fig 1 was lone walking disconnected the 4th greenish but the crippled was already up. A starting four-shot vantage implicit the tract had grown to 7 astatine a sun-kissed Royal Portrush successful Northern Ireland.

A 3rd birdie of the round, connected the fifth, further underlined his dominance and the lone question near remaining was if helium would surpass Tiger Woods' modern grounds of an eight-shot win, achieved successful 2000 astatine St Andrews.

In the end, helium fell abbreviated of that but a 68 saw him triumph connected 17 nether par, 4 shots wide of chap American Harris English, who closed with a 66.

"I cognize I wasn't the instrumentality favourite truthful I admit you guys coming retired to support," said Scheffler referring to satellite fig 2 Rory McIlroy playing successful his homeland.

"Overall it was a truly amusive week to beryllium capable to play successful beforehand of specified a large crowd."

Last week's astonishment Scottish Open victor Chris Gotterup was 1 further backmost aft a 67, portion England's Matt Fitzpatrick, who hovered astir the apical of the leaderboard each week, birdied 2 of the past 3 to articulation Wyndham Clark (65) successful associated 4th connected 11 under.

Rory McIlroy looked affectional arsenic helium was welcomed connected to the last greenish similar the champion by thousands of adoring fans.

He tapped successful for a par that saw him decorativeness alongside Scotland's Robert MacIntyre and past year's victor Xander Schauffele connected 10 under.

The caller champion golfer of the twelvemonth though is Scheffler and fixed his caller dominance the comparisons with Woods are lone going to turn stronger.

This stat adds to that feeling. A full of 1,197 days elapsed betwixt Woods archetypal large triumph and his 4th (the 1997 Masters and 2000 Open). A full of 1,197 days person elapsed betwixt Scheffler's archetypal large triumph and his 4th (the 2022 Masters and 2025 Open).

It is simply a 2nd large rubric of the twelvemonth for Scheffler, aft winning May's US PGA Championship, and a 4th successful total, adding to his 2 Masters. He present lone needs the US Open to go the seventh subordinate to implicit the vocation Grand Slam.

Victory connected the Antrim seashore is the American's 2nd rubric extracurricular of his location country, aft besides claiming golden astatine past year's Olympics successful Paris, France.

It is not atrocious for a antheral who spoke astatine the commencement of the week astir however nonrecreational play was "not a fulfilling life" and questioned "the point" of pursuing victories with specified zeal.

There had been fanciful ideas that McIlroy, enjoying what has been a week-long thigh of honour successful his location country, would supply the fairytale ending.

Back competing successful his autochthonal Northern Ireland for the archetypal clip since winning the Masters to implicit the vocation Grand Slam, McIlroy, bounced on with a boisterous backing arsenic helium posted a 66 connected Saturday.

He needed different accelerated commencement connected Sunday if helium was to emulate his reeling successful of Scheffler from six backmost astatine the 2022 Tour Championship successful Atlanta.

Two birdies and a bogey successful his opening 5 holes was thing but. Scheffler meantime covered the aforesaid holes successful 3 nether par.

The thunderous ambiance that had welcomed McIlroy connected to the archetypal tee abruptly fell flat.

There was small situation from elsewhere.

Scheffler's playing spouse Li Haotong, who had conscionable 3 bogeys successful his archetypal 3 rounds, posted 2 successful his opening 4 holes. Matt Fitzpatrick mixed 2 bogeys with 3 birdies connected the beforehand nine.

And then.

Out of nowhere, Scheffler took 2 swipes to flight from a fairway bunker connected the eighth and recorded a treble bogey.

Meanwhile, up connected the ninth, Gotterup was knocking successful a birdie putt to get to 11 under. The pb was abruptly four.

But Scheffler returned to, arsenic McIlroy enactment it connected Saturday, "playing similar Scottie".

He fired to 4 feet for a bounceback birdie connected the ninth. A par astatine the next, coupled with Gotterup and Li bogeys saw the pb instrumentality to six. Game decidedly over.

Without Scheffler this would person been an Open for the ages.

The leaderboard pulsed successful the jostle for the insignificant places. American names came to the fore arsenic the Europeans mostly failed to radiance successful the past planetary lawsuit earlier September's Ryder Cup.

High finishes astatine majors gain large points arsenic the contention for 1 of the six automatic places successful each 12-strong squad heats up.

Two-time large victor Bryson DeChambeau closed with a 64 to scope 9 nether - though helium indispensable person been stewing implicit his opening seven-over 78 connected Thursday.

Wyndham Clark deed a 65 to adjacent connected 11 under, Gotterup a 67 for -12 and English divided the quality with a 66 to decorativeness a changeable amended inactive successful outright second. Defending champion Xander Schauffele was concisely successful a necktie for 2nd earlier finishing connected 10 under

MacIntyre, who didn't get the accelerated commencement helium needed, finished supremely well, with 4 birdies successful his last 7 holes to decorativeness level with McIlroy, portion Fitzpatrick catapulted supra them some with his precocious birdies to adhd immoderate European colour to a star-spangled leaderboard.

Of others apt to beryllium successful Europe's squad astatine Bethpage successful New York, Tyrrell Hatton holed thing arsenic helium finished backmost connected 7 under. That was the aforesaid people arsenic his chap Englishman Justin Rose. Sweden's Ludvig Aberg had a ruinous 8 connected the par-four 11th among 7 birdies successful a closing 70 that saw him decorativeness connected six under.