CROMWELL, Conn. — Scottie Scheffler had to wait out a climate protest on the 18th green and Tom Kim’s tying birdie on the last hole of regulation.
Those events only delayed what seems to be inevitable on the PGA Tour this season: the best golfer in the world walking off with the trophy.
Shrugging off a protest that interrupted the tournament on the 72nd hole while the leaders were lining up their putts, Scheffler won the Travelers Championship on the first extra hole on Sunday for his sixth win of the year, the most in one season on the PGA Tour since Tiger Woods had six in 2009.
“When something like that happens, you don’t really know what’s happening. So it can kind of rattle you a little bit,” said Scheffler, whose reign at No. 1 in the Official World Golf Ranking shows no signs of stopping.
“That can be a stressful situation, and you would hate for the tournament to end on something weird happening because of a situation like that. Tom and I both tried to calm each other down so we could give it our best shot there on 18.”