Jon Rahm overcomes Collin Morikawa's big lead to win Sentry TOC 2023 09:54, 09/01/2023

Collin Morikawa started the final round with a six-stroke advantage over Scottie Scheffler -  J.J. Spaun - Matt Fitzpatrick, who shared second place. Jon Rahm was in third position with seven strokes behind Morikawa.

In the first holes, Morikawa seemed to have secured the championship when he recorded 3 birdies in a row on holes 1-4-6 with a score of -27. However, he failed to keep up his form and repeatedly made bogey mistakes on holes 14-15-16 and fell behind with -24. The birdie on the last 18 hole only helped Morikawa finish in second place with a record of -25 strokes.

Meanwhile, the Spaniard got a bogey on the first hole. But Rahm suddenly accelerated when he recorded a series of 9 birdies on holes 2-4-5-6-9-12-13-14-18 and an eagle on hole 15. He finished with a record of 63 - 10 brings the total score to -27, surpassing Morikawa to take the throne at the first elevated event of 2023 season.

The defending champion also wowed spectators with his impressive putting streak, especially a 15th-hole putt when the ball was 11 feet from the pin that earned him precious eagle points.

This is the eighth PGA Tour title of Jon Rahm's career. The 28-year-old golfer's last victory was at the 2022 Mexican Open. Being crowned Sentry TOC 2023 champion, Rahm brought in $ 2.7 million in prize money, nearly double that of Cameron Smith winning in the 2022 season.

Tom Hoge has the final round hit 64 strokes (-9) climb to T3 (-23) with Max Homa (66 strokes). Rising Korean superstar Tom Kim on T5 (-22). Toni Finau climbed 6 places to T7 with a total of negative 21. Scottie Scheffler had the opportunity to regain the throne from Rory McIlroy on the OWGR chart. However, the final day of 70 strokes (-3) made him fall to T7 (-21) with Toni Finau and missed the opportunity.