All Article Properties:
{
"access_control": false,
"status": "publish",
"objectType": "Article",
"id": "2725900",
"signature": "Article:2725900",
"url": "https://staging.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025-05-19-scheffler-underlines-no-1-status-with-pga-championship-title-for-third-career-major/",
"shorturl": "https://staging.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2725900",
"slug": "scheffler-underlines-no-1-status-with-pga-championship-title-for-third-career-major",
"contentType": {
"id": "1",
"name": "Article",
"slug": "article"
},
"views": 0,
"comments": 0,
"preview_limit": null,
"excludedFromGoogleSearchEngine": 0,
"title": "Scheffler underlines No 1 status with PGA Championship title for third career Major",
"firstPublished": "2025-05-19 11:43:55",
"lastUpdate": "2025-05-19 11:43:58",
"categories": [
{
"id": "30",
"name": "Sport",
"signature": "Category:30",
"slug": "sport",
"typeId": {
"typeId": "1",
"name": "Daily Maverick",
"slug": "",
"includeInIssue": "0",
"shortened_domain": "",
"stylesheetClass": "",
"domain": "staging.dailymaverick.co.za",
"articleUrlPrefix": "",
"access_groups": "[]",
"locale": "",
"preview_limit": null
},
"parentId": null,
"parent": [],
"image": "",
"cover": "",
"logo": "",
"paid": "0",
"objectType": "Category",
"url": "https://staging.dailymaverick.co.za/category/sport/",
"cssCode": "",
"template": "default",
"tagline": "",
"link_param": null,
"description": "",
"metaDescription": "",
"order": "0",
"pageId": null,
"articlesCount": null,
"allowComments": "1",
"accessType": "freecount",
"status": "1",
"children": [],
"cached": true
}
],
"content_length": 6506,
"contents": "<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Scottie Scheffler was put to the test at the PGA Championship on Sunday but stood tall in the face of adversity as he corrected swing issues in time to hold off a spirited effort by Spaniard Jon Rahm for a runaway victory and third career Major title.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">World No 1 Scheffler began the day with a seemingly comfortable three-shot lead but what many felt was an inevitable victory turned into a back-nine tussle as the world No 1 golfer struggled off the tee early and Rahm mounted a charge.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But like a true champion, the unflappable Scheffler did not panic and found his stride on the homeward stretch while Rahm, playing two groups ahead, endured a stunning collapse that robbed the final holes of any drama.</span>\r\n\r\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2725800\" src=\"https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/13059754-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1650\" /> <em>Scottie Scheffler of the US holds the Wanamaker Trophy after winning the 2025 PGA Championship golf tournament at the Quail Hollow Club in Charlotte, North Carolina, USA, on 18 May 2025. (Photo: EPA-EFE/Erik S. Lesser)</em></p>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“Finishing off a major championship is always difficult, and I did a good job of staying patient on the front nine,” said Scheffler. “I didn’t have my best stuff, but I kept myself in it, and I stepped up on the back nine and had a really good nine holes. That’s about it.”</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Scheffler made two key birdies midway through the back nine to regain control just as Rahm was falling apart and went on to card an even-par 71 that left him at 11 under on the week at the year’s second Major.</span>\r\n\r\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2725798\" src=\"https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/13059557-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1730\" /> <em>Jon Rahm of Spain hits an approach shot on the 9th hole during the final round of the 2025 PGA Championship. (Photo: EPA-EFE/Erik S. Lesser)</em></p>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">His five-stroke win is the largest at the PGA Championship since Rory McIlroy won by eight in 2012.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ryder Cup hopeful Harris English, who began his day 11 shots adrift, shot a 65 that was the low round of the day and finished in a distant share of second place alongside fellow Americans Bryson DeChambeau (70) and Davis Riley (72).</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Twice major champion Rahm (73) gave Scheffler a scare early on the back nine but came apart in stunning fashion with five dropped shots over his final three holes to slide back into a share of eighth place.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“Pretty fresh wound right now,” said Rahm. “Am I embarrassed a little bit about how I finished today? Yeah. But I just need to get over it, get over myself. It’s not the end of the world.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“It’s not like I’m a doctor or a first responder, where somebody if they have a bad day, truly bad things happen. I’ll get over it. I’ll move on. Again, there’s a lot more positive than negative to think about this week.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“But there’s been a lot of good happening this week and a lot of positive feelings to take for the rest of the year.”</span>\r\n<h4><b>‘Little unlucky’</b></h4>\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rahm, who began the day five shots back of the lead and playing two groups ahead of Scheffler, took a while to get going in the final round but found his groove right in time to set up some back-nine drama at Quail Hollow Club.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Spaniard joined Scheffler atop the leaderboard when, at the par-four 11th, he made his third birdie over a four-hole stretch, but Scheffler reclaimed the outright lead with a nine-foot birdie at the 10th moments later.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rahm nearly answered right back but his perfectly paced 19-foot birdie attempt at the par-three 13th curled around and out of the cup before going on to misread birdie putts at the next two holes, followed by his brutal closing stretch.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Scheffler added birdies at 14 and 15, and then saw his lead suddenly balloon to five over JT Poston when Rahm made a double-bogey at the par-three 17</span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">th</span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> where he blasted his tee shot into the water.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">US Open champion DeChambeau, who finished runner-up at last year’s PGA Championship, was driving the ball and giving himself chances but struggled on the greens.</span>\r\n\r\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2725792\" src=\"https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/13052189-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1625\" height=\"2560\" /> <em>Rory McIlroy of Northern Ireland chips onto the green of the ninth hole during the second round of the 2025 PGA Championship golf tournament at the Quail Hollow Club. (Photo: EPA-EFE/Erik S. Lesser)</em></p>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“I felt like I had the game to win this week, and the golf course suited me pretty well; missed a few putts coming down the stretch and got a little unlucky in this great game of golf,” said DeChambeau.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“It was a good fight, good battle, take a lot from it. It’s just burning a bigger fire in my belly.”</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Swede Alex Noren, playing alongside Scheffler and alone in second place to start the day, stayed in the mix until his round unravelled with a trio of bogeys early on the back nine.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">McIlroy, who made the cut on the number in his first Major since completing the career Grand Slam at last month’s Masters, went out with the early starters and shot a one-over-par 72 to finish in a share of 47th place.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Defending champion Xander Schauffele also started early and finished the week at one under after a closing 68 during which he drained a 46-foot eagle chip at the par-four eighth hole.</span>\r\n<h4><b>Mum McIlroy</b></h4>\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rory McIlroy left the PGA Championship without a single word to the media on Sunday, leaving the golf world none the wiser as to the details of the reported failure of his driver to pass a conforming test earlier in the week.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was the first time veteran British and Irish reporters could remember McIlroy remaining silent after all four rounds at a tournament.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">His body language did the talking as he trudged with apparent frustration around undulating Quail Hollow en route to a one-over-par 72 on a sparkling, sun-splashed late morning and early afternoon.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">McIlroy departed the premises within minutes of signing for a three-over 287 total, stopping only for a few quick words in the parking lot with his regular European Ryder Cup teammate Jon Rahm, who had yet to begin the final round.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was a far cry from the emotional scenes only five weeks ago when McIlroy secured the career Grand Slam by winning the Masters at Augusta National.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">SiriusXM PGA Tour Radio first reported on Friday that McIlroy had been forced to switch to a different driver after his favourite TaylorMade weapon was deemed non-conforming in a test conducted on Tuesday.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The US Golf Association routinely tests driver heads randomly at PGA Tour events and major championships to determine whether their spring-like effect is conforming.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Spring-like effect refers to the elasticity of the clubface which allows it to spring back upon impact with the ball, much like a trampoline.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A driver that is conforming one week could be non-conforming the next, due to minute changes in the clubface as a result of the wear and tear of hitting balls. </span><b>Reuters/DM</b>",
"teaser": "Scheffler underlines No 1 status with PGA Championship title for third career Major",
"externalUrl": "",
"sponsor": null,
"authors": [
{
"id": "177",
"name": "Reuters",
"image": "https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/wp-content/uploads/4744.Reuters-Logo-1.jpg",
"url": "https://staging.dailymaverick.co.za/author/reuters/",
"editorialName": "reuters",
"department": "",
"name_latin": ""
}
],
"description": "",
"keywords": [
{
"type": "Keyword",
"data": {
"keywordId": "6178",
"name": "Sports",
"url": "https://staging.dailymaverick.co.za/keyword/sports/",
"slug": "sports",
"description": "",
"articlesCount": 0,
"replacedWith": null,
"display_name": "Sports",
"translations": null
}
},
{
"type": "Keyword",
"data": {
"keywordId": "9530",
"name": "Golf",
"url": "https://staging.dailymaverick.co.za/keyword/golf/",
"slug": "golf",
"description": "",
"articlesCount": 0,
"replacedWith": null,
"display_name": "Golf",
"translations": null
}
},
{
"type": "Keyword",
"data": {
"keywordId": "15040",
"name": "Rory McIlroy",
"url": "https://staging.dailymaverick.co.za/keyword/rory-mcilroy/",
"slug": "rory-mcilroy",
"description": "",
"articlesCount": 0,
"replacedWith": null,
"display_name": "Rory McIlroy",
"translations": null
}
},
{
"type": "Keyword",
"data": {
"keywordId": "15048",
"name": "PGA Championship",
"url": "https://staging.dailymaverick.co.za/keyword/pga-championship/",
"slug": "pga-championship",
"description": "",
"articlesCount": 0,
"replacedWith": null,
"display_name": "PGA Championship",
"translations": null
}
},
{
"type": "Keyword",
"data": {
"keywordId": "49120",
"name": "sport",
"url": "https://staging.dailymaverick.co.za/keyword/sport/",
"slug": "sport",
"description": "",
"articlesCount": 0,
"replacedWith": null,
"display_name": "sport",
"translations": null
}
},
{
"type": "Keyword",
"data": {
"keywordId": "112581",
"name": "Bryson DeChambeau",
"url": "https://staging.dailymaverick.co.za/keyword/bryson-dechambeau/",
"slug": "bryson-dechambeau",
"description": "",
"articlesCount": 0,
"replacedWith": null,
"display_name": "Bryson DeChambeau",
"translations": null
}
},
{
"type": "Keyword",
"data": {
"keywordId": "372219",
"name": "Scottie Scheffler",
"url": "https://staging.dailymaverick.co.za/keyword/scottie-scheffler/",
"slug": "scottie-scheffler",
"description": "",
"articlesCount": 0,
"replacedWith": null,
"display_name": "Scottie Scheffler",
"translations": null
}
},
{
"type": "Keyword",
"data": {
"keywordId": "397387",
"name": "Jon Rahm",
"url": "https://staging.dailymaverick.co.za/keyword/jon-rahm/",
"slug": "jon-rahm",
"description": "",
"articlesCount": 0,
"replacedWith": null,
"display_name": "Jon Rahm",
"translations": null
}
}
],
"short_summary": null,
"source": null,
"related": [],
"options": [],
"attachments": [
{
"id": "79184",
"name": "Rory McIlroy of Northern Ireland chips onto the green of the ninth hole during the second round of the 2025 PGA Championship golf tournament at the Quail Hollow Club in Charlotte, North Carolina, USA, 16 May 2025. EPA-EFE/ERIK S. LESSER",
"description": "<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Scottie Scheffler was put to the test at the PGA Championship on Sunday but stood tall in the face of adversity as he corrected swing issues in time to hold off a spirited effort by Spaniard Jon Rahm for a runaway victory and third career Major title.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">World No 1 Scheffler began the day with a seemingly comfortable three-shot lead but what many felt was an inevitable victory turned into a back-nine tussle as the world No 1 golfer struggled off the tee early and Rahm mounted a charge.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But like a true champion, the unflappable Scheffler did not panic and found his stride on the homeward stretch while Rahm, playing two groups ahead, endured a stunning collapse that robbed the final holes of any drama.</span>\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_2725800\" align=\"alignnone\" width=\"2560\"]<img class=\"size-full wp-image-2725800\" src=\"https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/13059754-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1650\" /> <em>Scottie Scheffler of the US holds the Wanamaker Trophy after winning the 2025 PGA Championship golf tournament at the Quail Hollow Club in Charlotte, North Carolina, USA, on 18 May 2025. (Photo: EPA-EFE/Erik S. Lesser)</em>[/caption]\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“Finishing off a major championship is always difficult, and I did a good job of staying patient on the front nine,” said Scheffler. “I didn’t have my best stuff, but I kept myself in it, and I stepped up on the back nine and had a really good nine holes. That’s about it.”</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Scheffler made two key birdies midway through the back nine to regain control just as Rahm was falling apart and went on to card an even-par 71 that left him at 11 under on the week at the year’s second Major.</span>\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_2725798\" align=\"alignnone\" width=\"2560\"]<img class=\"size-full wp-image-2725798\" src=\"https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/13059557-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1730\" /> <em>Jon Rahm of Spain hits an approach shot on the 9th hole during the final round of the 2025 PGA Championship. (Photo: EPA-EFE/Erik S. Lesser)</em>[/caption]\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">His five-stroke win is the largest at the PGA Championship since Rory McIlroy won by eight in 2012.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ryder Cup hopeful Harris English, who began his day 11 shots adrift, shot a 65 that was the low round of the day and finished in a distant share of second place alongside fellow Americans Bryson DeChambeau (70) and Davis Riley (72).</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Twice major champion Rahm (73) gave Scheffler a scare early on the back nine but came apart in stunning fashion with five dropped shots over his final three holes to slide back into a share of eighth place.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“Pretty fresh wound right now,” said Rahm. “Am I embarrassed a little bit about how I finished today? Yeah. But I just need to get over it, get over myself. It’s not the end of the world.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“It’s not like I’m a doctor or a first responder, where somebody if they have a bad day, truly bad things happen. I’ll get over it. I’ll move on. Again, there’s a lot more positive than negative to think about this week.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“But there’s been a lot of good happening this week and a lot of positive feelings to take for the rest of the year.”</span>\r\n<h4><b>‘Little unlucky’</b></h4>\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rahm, who began the day five shots back of the lead and playing two groups ahead of Scheffler, took a while to get going in the final round but found his groove right in time to set up some back-nine drama at Quail Hollow Club.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Spaniard joined Scheffler atop the leaderboard when, at the par-four 11th, he made his third birdie over a four-hole stretch, but Scheffler reclaimed the outright lead with a nine-foot birdie at the 10th moments later.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rahm nearly answered right back but his perfectly paced 19-foot birdie attempt at the par-three 13th curled around and out of the cup before going on to misread birdie putts at the next two holes, followed by his brutal closing stretch.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Scheffler added birdies at 14 and 15, and then saw his lead suddenly balloon to five over JT Poston when Rahm made a double-bogey at the par-three 17</span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">th</span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> where he blasted his tee shot into the water.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">US Open champion DeChambeau, who finished runner-up at last year’s PGA Championship, was driving the ball and giving himself chances but struggled on the greens.</span>\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_2725792\" align=\"alignnone\" width=\"1625\"]<img class=\"size-full wp-image-2725792\" src=\"https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/13052189-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1625\" height=\"2560\" /> <em>Rory McIlroy of Northern Ireland chips onto the green of the ninth hole during the second round of the 2025 PGA Championship golf tournament at the Quail Hollow Club. (Photo: EPA-EFE/Erik S. Lesser)</em>[/caption]\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“I felt like I had the game to win this week, and the golf course suited me pretty well; missed a few putts coming down the stretch and got a little unlucky in this great game of golf,” said DeChambeau.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“It was a good fight, good battle, take a lot from it. It’s just burning a bigger fire in my belly.”</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Swede Alex Noren, playing alongside Scheffler and alone in second place to start the day, stayed in the mix until his round unravelled with a trio of bogeys early on the back nine.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">McIlroy, who made the cut on the number in his first Major since completing the career Grand Slam at last month’s Masters, went out with the early starters and shot a one-over-par 72 to finish in a share of 47th place.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Defending champion Xander Schauffele also started early and finished the week at one under after a closing 68 during which he drained a 46-foot eagle chip at the par-four eighth hole.</span>\r\n<h4><b>Mum McIlroy</b></h4>\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rory McIlroy left the PGA Championship without a single word to the media on Sunday, leaving the golf world none the wiser as to the details of the reported failure of his driver to pass a conforming test earlier in the week.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was the first time veteran British and Irish reporters could remember McIlroy remaining silent after all four rounds at a tournament.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">His body language did the talking as he trudged with apparent frustration around undulating Quail Hollow en route to a one-over-par 72 on a sparkling, sun-splashed late morning and early afternoon.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">McIlroy departed the premises within minutes of signing for a three-over 287 total, stopping only for a few quick words in the parking lot with his regular European Ryder Cup teammate Jon Rahm, who had yet to begin the final round.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was a far cry from the emotional scenes only five weeks ago when McIlroy secured the career Grand Slam by winning the Masters at Augusta National.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">SiriusXM PGA Tour Radio first reported on Friday that McIlroy had been forced to switch to a different driver after his favourite TaylorMade weapon was deemed non-conforming in a test conducted on Tuesday.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The US Golf Association routinely tests driver heads randomly at PGA Tour events and major championships to determine whether their spring-like effect is conforming.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Spring-like effect refers to the elasticity of the clubface which allows it to spring back upon impact with the ball, much like a trampoline.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A driver that is conforming one week could be non-conforming the next, due to minute changes in the clubface as a result of the wear and tear of hitting balls. </span><b>Reuters/DM</b>",
"focal": "50% 50%",
"width": 0,
"height": 0,
"url": "https://dmcdn.whitebeard.net/dailymaverick/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/13059743.jpg",
"transforms": [
{
"x": "200",
"y": "100",
"url": "https://dmcdn.whitebeard.net/i/Tes8YDbmXFHE_kBHkHSQecB--6U=/200x100/smart/filters:strip_exif()/file/dailymaverick/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/13059743.jpg"
},
{
"x": "450",
"y": "0",
"url": "https://dmcdn.whitebeard.net/i/Kiu8PSL2rvdlQCWkK3_dQX9pz1E=/450x0/smart/file/dailymaverick/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/13059743.jpg"
},
{
"x": "800",
"y": "0",
"url": "https://dmcdn.whitebeard.net/i/PidOFN6mdftulvUI15OYCndfVXo=/800x0/smart/filters:strip_exif()/file/dailymaverick/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/13059743.jpg"
},
{
"x": "1200",
"y": "0",
"url": "https://dmcdn.whitebeard.net/i/aBp3uo1DlYet-nKuAMRa9AFuPSU=/1200x0/smart/filters:strip_exif()/file/dailymaverick/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/13059743.jpg"
},
{
"x": "1600",
"y": "0",
"url": "https://dmcdn.whitebeard.net/i/M1vSZrCqi8Dh8nStpufWcIZ3IBw=/1600x0/smart/filters:strip_exif()/file/dailymaverick/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/13059743.jpg"
}
],
"url_thumbnail": "https://dmcdn.whitebeard.net/i/Tes8YDbmXFHE_kBHkHSQecB--6U=/200x100/smart/filters:strip_exif()/file/dailymaverick/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/13059743.jpg",
"url_medium": "https://dmcdn.whitebeard.net/i/Kiu8PSL2rvdlQCWkK3_dQX9pz1E=/450x0/smart/file/dailymaverick/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/13059743.jpg",
"url_large": "https://dmcdn.whitebeard.net/i/PidOFN6mdftulvUI15OYCndfVXo=/800x0/smart/filters:strip_exif()/file/dailymaverick/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/13059743.jpg",
"url_xl": "https://dmcdn.whitebeard.net/i/aBp3uo1DlYet-nKuAMRa9AFuPSU=/1200x0/smart/filters:strip_exif()/file/dailymaverick/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/13059743.jpg",
"url_xxl": "https://dmcdn.whitebeard.net/i/M1vSZrCqi8Dh8nStpufWcIZ3IBw=/1600x0/smart/filters:strip_exif()/file/dailymaverick/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/13059743.jpg",
"type": "image"
}
],
"summary": "World number one Scottie Scheffler won the PGA Championship by five shots over fellow Americans Bryson DeChambeau, Harris English and Davis Riley at Quail Hollow Club on Sunday.",
"template_type": null,
"dm_custom_section_label": null,
"elements": [],
"seo": {
"search_title": "Scheffler underlines No 1 status with PGA Championship title for third career Major",
"search_description": "<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Scottie Scheffler was put to the test at the PGA Championship on Sunday but stood tall in the face of adversity as he corrected swing issues in time to hold off a spiri",
"social_title": "Scheffler underlines No 1 status with PGA Championship title for third career Major",
"social_description": "<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Scottie Scheffler was put to the test at the PGA Championship on Sunday but stood tall in the face of adversity as he corrected swing issues in time to hold off a spiri",
"social_image": ""
},
"cached": true,
"access_allowed": true
} 
Scottie Scheffler of the US holds the Wanamaker Trophy after winning the 2025 PGA Championship golf tournament at the Quail Hollow Club in Charlotte, North Carolina, USA, on 18 May 2025. (Photo: EPA-EFE/Erik S. Lesser)
Jon Rahm of Spain hits an approach shot on the 9th hole during the final round of the 2025 PGA Championship. (Photo: EPA-EFE/Erik S. Lesser)
Rory McIlroy of Northern Ireland chips onto the green of the ninth hole during the second round of the 2025 PGA Championship golf tournament at the Quail Hollow Club. (Photo: EPA-EFE/Erik S. Lesser)