Scottie Scheffler made it four wins in five starts with a rain-delayed victory at the RBC Heritage.
FINAL LEADERBOARD
The Masters champion returned to Hilton Head on Monday morning holding a five-stroke lead with three holes to play after a storm halted proceedings on Sunday.
Scheffler dropped a shot at the last but still finished on 20-under to complete a four-shot victory over fellow American Sahith Theegala.
Seamus Power returned on Monday to finish his last hole, which he parred for a one-over 72. That left the Waterford man in a tied for 12th on 11-under-par - his best finish of the year.
Rory McIlroy carded a final-round 74 to slip down to a tie for 33rd on seven-under.
Scheffler is the first player to win a PGA Tour event the week after claiming the Green Jacket since Bernhard Langer in 1985 and the first to win four times in five starts on the US-based circuit since Tiger Woods in 2007-08.
Each of Scheffler's last seven wins have come with at least eight of the world's top 10 in the field and he is the third player in the last 30 years - after Woods and Vijay Singh - to win or finish runner-up in five consecutive starts on the PGA Tour.
"I do have fairly high expectations for myself and when I show up at tournaments, I try to do my best."
"I was able to go home for a couple days and celebrate," Scheffler said.
"I didn't really put much thought into it. I had committed to playing the tournament here, it was part of the plan, so we stuck to the plan.
"I talked about it at the beginning of the week - I didn't show up here just to have some sort of ceremony and have people tell me congratulations. I came here with a purpose, got off to a slow start but after that played some really nice golf.
"I do have fairly high expectations for myself and when I show up at tournaments, I try to do my best.
"I've talked a lot about kind of the preparation and what it takes for me to show up on a first tee ready to go, and I feel like I've been putting in the work and been playing some good golf, and it's nice to be seeing some results for that with wins.
"On the course, I think the last month or so I've been as good mentally as I have in a long time and I think that's why I am seeing some of the results.
"This week could be a good example of starting off and looking at the leaderboard on Thursday and everybody is just making birdie after birdie and I'm sitting there over par and I've had a shank on the day.
"I just did my best to stay patient and wait until I got hot.
"Had a nice finish to the round on Thursday and then had a really solid Friday where I felt like I played better than I scored, and then I had Saturday where I just played some really good golf."
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