Scottie Scheffler warms up for Ryder Cup by winning for the 6th time this year

NAPA Calif AP What was looked upon as a Ryder Cup training camp for the American group turned into a typical week for Scottie Scheffler Scheffler desired to stay sharp ahead of the Sept - matches at Bethpage Black The world s No competitor looked every bit of that Sunday in the Procore Championship when he closed with a -under for a one-shot accomplishment over Ben Griffin It was his sixth PGA Tour title of the year Scheffler joined Tiger Woods Jack Nicklaus and Arnold Palmer as the only players since to win at least six times in consecutive seasons This was a week in which I was playing a new golf unit a golf program that was pretty challenging to play for the first time Scheffler mentioned Did a really good job of kind of staying in the tournament the first two days and then the last two I played particular really good golf in order to be in this position He made up an eight-shot deficit on Griffin on the weekend with rounds of - and finished at -under The accomplishment pushed his season total to just over million Silverado had its strongest field and largest gallery since the tournament moved to Napa in And it got quite a show under a blazing sun when Scheffler and Griffin went down to the wire until Griffin came up one putt short Griffin a two-time winner this year who will make his Ryder Cup debut at Bethpage Black had a -foot eagle putt for the win on the par- th hole He left that lag about feet short and the birdie putt to force a playoff caught the left lip He shot a I felt like I just wasn t quite as sharp from short range as I needed to be mentioned Griffin who has finished runner-up to Scheffler twice this year But I ll get to work this next week and hopefully make every single one of them at the Ryder Cup Scheffler was one of the players who earlier in the year targeted the Procore Championship as a good spot for the Ryder Cup gang to play so they could avoid the mistake of two years ago when all but two of them had a month off before the Rome matches Four of the Ryder Cup players finished among the top with U S Open champion J J Spaun finishing sixth and Cameron Young tying for ninth We floated the idea of doing a scouting trip to Bethpage or coming here and playing this event We felt it would be a little bit more valuable to get all the guys together here this week to play tournament golf in order to stay in shape Scheffler commented For me there s just a difference between practicing and playing at home and getting under the gun in a tournament But once the tournament started Scheffler was all about winning It was his th career accomplishment on the PGA Tour and now he heads to match play in the Ryder Cup against Europe which has had the upper hand in these matches the last three decades Lanto Griffin had as much pressure as anyone coming into the Fall portion of the schedule at No in the FedEx Cup in the first year of only players keeping full cards He delivered a to finish alone in third his best finish in nearly four years That moved him up to No in the standings with two months and at least five tournaments to go It s huge Griffin reported One of my goals this week was to give myself a chance I kind of wish Scottie wasn t here but I m sure the fans enjoyed it Scheffler started two shots behind and fell as several as four shots back early when Ben Griffin birdied the opening three holes But Griffin missed a -foot par putt on the fourth and went holes without making birdie Scheffler pecked away with four birdies through holes After a careless three-putt bogey from feet on the th he answered with two birdies on the par s to take the lead when Griffin struggled to get anything going Auburn junior Jackson Koivun the No amateur in the world who played in the final group was two shots behind with seven holes to play when he took a soft bogey on the par- th and then bogeyed the th when he went long of the green Koivun closed with a and tied for fourth with Emiliano Grillo It was Koivun s fourth consecutive finish at th of better on the PGA Tour and he gets in the Sanderson Farms Championship in three weeks unless the -year-old has other plans at school AP golf https apnews com hub golf Source