Viktor Hovland confined world number one Scottie Scheffler to his fourth runners-up finish of the season, winning the Travellers Championships golf tournament in the first playoff hole.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Norwegian made a 7-foot birdie putt on the first playoff hole and won the title after Scheffler missed a 4-foot birdie putt. Scheffler had made an 8-foot par in near darkness Sunday night to force the playoff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Both golfers found the middle of the fairway on the par-4 18th. Scheffler hit his approach to 4 feet as some 3,000 fans surrounding the green erupted in cheers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hovland responded, just as he did on the back nine Sunday when he made up a two-shot deficit, hitting his approach to 6 feet. His downhill birdie putt with a sharp left-to-right break barely caught the inside right of the cup.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Scheffler played his outside the left edge, with a little too much impact, and it rolled over the left edge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It was Hovland’s eighth victory on the Tour, with his last victory coming at last year’s Valspar Championship. The 28-year-old also the first Norwegian to win the title.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He is also the seventh international winner of the event and first since Russell Knox in 2016, which ends the longest active streak without an international winner on Tour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As for Scheffler, a 20-time Tour winner, it was his 14th<\/sup> runner-up finish.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Viktor Hovland confined world number one Scottie Scheffler to his fourth runners-up finish of the season, winning the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14332,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[58],"class_list":["post-14331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international","tag-golf"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t