PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. — The roar could be heard from a half-mile away just 16 minutes after the final group set out Sunday in the final round of The Players Championship.
It was loud enough to indicate something special had happened. The question was more “what” than “who.”
Moments later, Scottie Scheffler’s name appeared on the leaderboard, and he was on his way, adding another layer to his legend as the best in golf right now.
His 8-under-par 64 tied the record for best Sunday score by a winner at The Players Championship. His five-shot comeback matched another mark for the event. And he now stands alone as the only back-to-back champion in 50 years of the PGA Tour’s premier tournament.
“It’s tough enough to win one Players,” said Scheffler, who was coming off a five-shot victory a week earlier in the Arnold Palmer Invitational at Orlando’s Bay Hill Club. “So to have it back to back is extremely special. Yeah, really thankful.”