Scottie Scheffler’s shot looked like one that Hollywood would have concocted for a movie.
But the wild 82-foot chip shot for birdie on the 17th hole Sunday during the final round of the BMW Championship was not the result of a scripted moment, and it helped propel Scheffler to his fifth PGA Tour title of the year.
Scheffler had hit a shot that went left of the green and landed in the rough, setting up the impressive moment right after at Caves Valley Golf Club in Owings Mills, Md.
He chipped the ball short of the pin and then watched as it rolled without any sign of stopping before falling into the cup.
It came at a crucial time with Robert MacIntyre pulling within one shot of the lead going into the 17th hole.
“It looked good when it landed, looked good when it was rolling, and it was nice to see that one go in,” Scheffler said about the shot.
Scheffler (15-under) closed with a 3-under 67 for a two-shot victory after starting the day trailing MacIntyre by four shots.
The moment on 17th hole certainly had golf fans captivated as they watched the shot go in and even NFL star Patrick Mahomes was left shocked.
“Scottie is crazy man,” he wrote on X with five crying laughing emojis.
Another sports icon also chimed in via social media.
“Scheffler so damn COLD out there!!” NBA superstar LeBron James wrote on x.
“Crazy ZONE he’s in currently!” James added in another post.
“That was insane Scottie Scheffler,” Knicks star Josh Hart commented on X.
Scheffler, a four-time major winner, has now won 12 PGA Tour events over the last two years and a gold medal at the Olympics last summer, and he is the first golfer since Tiger Woods to win five or more events during a PGA Tour season in consecutive years.
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