The final man into the sphere on the BMW Championship was No. 1 on the leaderboard when it was all mentioned and performed on Sunday.
Keegan Bradley shot a final-round even-par 72 at Fort Pines Golf Membership to win his seventh profession PGA Tour title on Sunday in Fort Rock, Colo. Sam Burns closed in 7-under 65, the low spherical of the day, to complete second together with Ludvig Aberg (71) and Adam Scott (72), one stroke again.
“Oh, man, I used to be shaking over that final putt,” Bradley mentioned. “We did it. It was a battle all day.”
Bradley known as final Sunday’s remaining spherical of the FedEx St. Jude Championship “one of many hardest afternoons of my PGA Tour profession,” after sneaking into the BMW’s area because the fiftieth and remaining participant to qualify for the second leg of the playoffs.
“It simply reveals you why you need to grind it out each week since you by no means know the way quick it could possibly change,” he mentioned. “I needed to have a variety of magical issues occur for me to only play on this event, and after I acquired right here, I used to be so grateful simply to be right here. I performed with an actual sense of calm all week, which isn’t the norm for me.” He added: “Now I’m going to Atlanta with an opportunity to win the FedExCup. I can’t consider it.”
Bradley, who received the BMW in 2018, took the title for the second time, and received for the primary time along with his father, Mark, a PGA skilled in attendance.
Bradley opened with 66 to take the lead and trailed Scott by three strokes on the halfway level after a 68. Bradley shot a roller-coaster trip 2-under 70 on Saturday with eight birdies blended with six bogeys. He sank a 9-foot birdie putt at 18 and pumped his fist as he grabbed the 54-hole lead.
On Sunday, he wedged from 94 yards to three toes on the first for a birdie however misplaced his solo lead as Scott tied him with an eagle. However Scott, who was trying to finish greater than a four-year winless stretch, made three bogeys in a row starting on the 10thto present Bradley as huge as a three-stroke cushion. Bradley reeled off 13 straight pars till making a bogey at No. 15. Along with his lead reduce to 1, Bradley lofted his second shot from 227 yards over the entrance inexperienced facet bunker on the par-5 seventeenth to 16 toes and made birdie.
“I used to be a bit jacked up,” Bradley mentioned of his 5-iron. “Top-of-the-line pictures of my life.”
He made a three-putt bogey on the final but it surely was immaterial. He completed with a 72-hole combination of 12-under 276, and vaulted to fourth within the playoffs heading into subsequent week’s Tour Championship.
Bradley, who was named the 2025 U.S. Ryder Cup captain in July, added intrigue to the concept he might be the primary American enjoying captain since Arnold Palmer in 1963.
“To be named Ryder Cup captain and nonetheless be a full-time participant is unusual. I don’t know anybody is aware of how one can deal with this case,” Bradley mentioned. “So I’m doing one of the best I can. The one factor I can hold doing is play my finest golf and possibly play my method on to a few of these groups.”
Bradley, who was lately named an assistant captain for the U.S. Presidents Cup group in September, additionally made a convincing case for certainly one of six captain’s picks. Requested if the Ryder Cup captain is likely to be enjoying within the Presidents Cup subsequent month, he mentioned, “I don’t know, I don’t know, jeez, I don’t know.”
Within the event inside a event, Bradley, Scott, Tommy Fleetwood and Chris Kirk moved into the highest 30 within the season-long FedEx Cup factors standings and superior to the FedEx Cup finale subsequent week in Atlanta at East Lake Golf Membership. In doing so, Brian Harman, Jason Day, Davis Thompson and Denny McCarthy have been bumped out and their playoffs are over. Justin Thomas was the Bubble Boy at No. 30, edging Harman by 30 factors.
World No. 1 Scottie Scheffler shot 72 on Sunday and completed T-33 however held on to the highest spot within the FedEx Cup, which suggests he’ll begin at 10 beneath in subsequent week’s staggered begin, for the third straight 12 months.
“Scottie beginning forward,” Burns mentioned. “He doesn’t want any extra assist than how good he already is.”