Scheffler equals record for most wins in a year

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-25 S Scheffler (US); -19 T Kim (Kor); -18 J Thomas (US); -15 A Bhatia (US); -14 K Bradley (US); -12 L Aberg (Swe); -11 R MacIntyre (Sco)

Selected others: -4 A Rai (Eng); Level W Clark (US); +1 J Day (Aus)

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Scottie Scheffler deed a sensational nine-under 63 arsenic helium capped a dominating twelvemonth by retaining the Hero World Challenge with a six-shot winning margin.

The satellite fig one, who won the Masters and Olympic golden successful 2024, claimed a record-equalling ninth rubric of the twelvemonth with a bogey-free circular to triumph connected 25 under.

The triumph means helium has won an unthinkable 42.9% of the 21 tournaments helium has played successful 2024.

"[That was] precise satisfying," helium said aft tying Tiger Woods (2000) and Vijay Singh (2004) for the astir wins successful a azygous play since 1950, though this lawsuit and the Olympics are not PGA Tour competitions.

"I did a batch of bully worldly connected the course, played a truly coagulated circular of golf.

"[It] feels bully to instrumentality a small interruption and travel backmost and proceed to play immoderate beauteous coagulated golf."

Scheffler, who had not competed successful a strokeplay lawsuit since winning the PGA Tour Championship successful August, joined Woods (2006-2007) and Norway's Viktor Hovland (2021-2022) arsenic the lone back-to-back winners of the 20-man invitational lawsuit astatine Albany Golf Club successful the Bahamas.

Scheffler, 28, birdied 3 of the archetypal 4 holes and 4 of the last six arsenic helium romped to victory.

South Korea's Tom Kim, who deed a 68, was a distant 2nd portion overnight person Justin Thomas ended a changeable further backmost successful third.

Thomas, who remains without a triumph since claiming the 2022 US PGA Championship closed with a one-under 71.

The 31-year-old followed birdies astatine the archetypal and 4th holes with bogeys astatine the par-three 2nd and fifth.

That allowed Scheffler, who holed an eight-foot birdie astatine the opening hole, a tap-in birdie astatine the par-five 3rd and a stunning birdie putt from conscionable wrong 50 feet astatine the fourth, to instrumentality a pb helium would not relinquish.

"It has been a large twelvemonth and a amusive year," added Scheffler.

"I person had a small spot of clip to reflect, but I americium not truly definite however to measure it. It has conscionable been beauteous surreal, a batch of amusive and I americium conscionable truly grateful."