Xander Schauffele won the PGA Championship on Sunday after holding off a rampant Bryson DeChambeau at Valhalla Golf Club.
Schauffele needed to sink the final hole in four shots or less after DeChambeau hit seven birdies during a bogey-free final round to set a score of 20-under. The Olympic champion did just that to clinch his maiden major championship at the age of 30.
DeChambeau, who had been preparing for a potential play-off with Schauffele, was one of the first people to congratulate the newest major champion after his triumph. Schauffele's 21-under effort is the lowest winning score to par in a men's major championship.
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Heading into the final round, Schauffele and Collin Morikawa shared a one-shot lead. Yet the likes of DeChambeau, Shane Lowry, Viktor Hovland and Justin Rose were in hot pursuit.
World No.1 Scottie Scheffler's challenge faded after a disappointing 73 on Saturday - his worst round for 266 days - but he responded with a superb 65 on Sunday. Scheffler finished the tournament on 13-under, one shot ahead of a battling Rory McIlroy.
Scheffler's final round suggested there were plenty of opportunities to score on Sunday. DeChambeau got the memo.
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The 2020 US Open champion shot a stunning 64 to reach 20-under, with his last putt slowly - but surely - rolling into the pocket for a birdie. That left Hovland, who had also reached the final green on 19-under, needing to repeat DeChambeau's heroics.
The Norwegian ended up three-putting the last to finish on 18-under for the tournament, enough for third place. Hovland wasn't the only man to see his challenge fade in the glorious Kentucky sunshine, as Morikawa could only post a score of 71.
Rose played admirably, rolling back the years to shoot 64, but 14-under was never going to be enough to win. Lowry's putter was boiling hot on Saturday - as he shot the joint-lowest round (62) in major history - but his 70 wasn't enough on Sunday.
Schauffele is the fourth person to win the PGA Championship at Valhalla. Mark Brooks first achieved the feat in 1996 before Tiger Woods followed suit four years later. McIlroy won his fourth and most recent major at Valhalla back in 2014.
It's Schauffele's eighth win on the PGA Tour and first since claiming the Scottish Open in 2022. The victory was made sweeter by the fact that he missed out on victory seven days ago at the Wells Fargo Championship when McIlroy produced a stunning round of 65 to snatch the win. This Sunday in Kentucky, it was Schauffele's time to shoot 65.