Scheffler cruises to victory at the Memorial

Final leaderboard for Memorial Tournament

-10 S Scheffler (US), -6 B Griffin (US), -5 Straka (Aus), -4 Taylor (Can)

Selected others: – 1 Spieth (US) Fowler (US), + 3 S Lowry (Irl), + 4 X Schauffele (US),

Scottie Scheffler, the world’s number one, won the Memorial Tournament in Columbus, Ohio by four shots.

Ben Griffin’s challenge faded on the back nine as the American shot a two-under-par 70 to defeat the American.

Griffin eagled the 15th and birdied the 16th to move just a few strokes away from Scheffler after bogeying on the 12 and 13th.

But he double-bogeyed the 17th to put pressure on his rival, who would go on to earn his third victory of his previous four.

Scheffler’s third major success came in May when he won the PGA Championship.

In his final round, he birdied on the seventh, eleven, and fifteenth holes, but only managed one shot when he bogied the 10th.