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Scheffler celebrates with caddie Ted Scott on the 18th green. AP Photo/Matt York/Alamy Stock Photo

World number one Scheffler wins golf season's second Major at PGA Championship

Scheffler, 28, clinched the third Major championship of his career with a five-shot win at Quail Hollow.

SCOTTIE SCHEFFLER CRUISED to his third Major title in the 107th US PGA Championship after Jon Rahm’s bid to win the third leg of a career grand slam imploded at Quail Hollow.

Scheffler overcame an early stumble to card a closing 71 and finish 11 under par, five shots ahead of Bryson DeChambeau, Harris English and Davis Riley.

The world number one is the 10th straight American winner of the US PGA and joins the late Seve Ballesteros as the only players since 1906 to win each of their first three majors by three or more shots.

Rahm held a share of the lead with seven holes to play, but the former Masters and US Open winner dropped five shots over the last three holes to slump to a nine-way tie for eighth – which included England’s Matt Fitzpatrick – seven shots behind Scheffler.

The Spaniard had wiped out his five-shot overnight deficit with a combination of three birdies in his first 11 holes and a front nine of 37 from Scheffler, only to run out of steam – and a little luck – on the closing stretch.

Rahm, who had largely struggled in the game’s biggest events since his shock move to LIV Golf, saw his birdie attempt on the 13th lip out before failing to take advantage of the driveable 14th after his tee shot took an unfortunate bounce into a greenside bunker.

Rahm then three-putted the 15th for par from just off the green and knew his challenge was likely over following a pulled drive on the next, the first hole of the so-called ‘Green Mile’.

“That’s f*****,” Rahm exclaimed as the ball disappeared into the rough and he was soon proved right, the resulting bogey and Scheffler’s birdie on the 14th giving the world number one some vital breathing space.

Scheffler also birdied the par-five 15th, two-putting from the same place where Rahm had taken three, before Rahm’s tee shots on both the 17th and 18th found a watery grave.

Scheffler had taken a three-shot lead over Sweden’s Alex Noren into the final round and found himself five clear after Noren dropped shots on the first and fourth.

Bogeys on the sixth and ninth allowed Rahm to move into a share of the lead on nine under par, but a birdie on the 10th gave Scheffler a lead he would not relinquish.

– Press Association

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    Mar 8th 2012, 12:26 PM

    Hopefully well be lucky

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    Mar 8th 2012, 12:40 PM

    We’re usually covered by a lovely heavy blanket of cloud when there’s celestial doings a transpiring. Hopefully it’ll clear and we can witness it.

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    Mar 8th 2012, 12:45 PM

    Again! But there is always clouds

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    Mar 8th 2012, 3:02 PM

    am flying into dublin at 10 tonight so i might get a glimps of something. Window seat on the right side of the plane please miss aerlingus person

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    Mar 8th 2012, 12:52 PM

    Nice blue skies in the south west at moment. Hopefully it will stay that way.

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    Mar 8th 2012, 3:05 PM

    Cloudy in the North West. Hopefully it’ll clear up by tonight

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    Mar 8th 2012, 5:07 PM

    Skies clearing in the east

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    Mar 8th 2012, 6:25 PM

    Lord divine jaysus! The other right miss aerlingus woman.. sick!

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    Mar 8th 2012, 11:47 PM

    Ended up getting into a seat on the right of the plane flying over the Irish sea at 9.30pm at 36,000 feet. Could just about see the north star but unfortunatly no northern lights. I give up!

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    Mar 8th 2012, 11:16 PM

    I’m lookin,but I ain’t seein!!!

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