Rory McIlroy claims landmark twentieth PGA Tour title with one-shot victory at The CJ Cup in Las Vegas

McIlroy turns into simply the thirty ninth participant in PGA Tour historical past to achieve 20 wins; 32-year-old carded a final-round 66 to complete a shot forward of Collin Morikawa and begin his 2021-22 PGA Tour season with a victory.

Rory McIlroy made a profitable begin to his PGA Tour season in Las Vegas

Rory McIlroy secured a historic twentieth PGA Tour title by holding off Collin Morikawa and Rickie Fowler to assert a one-stroke victory at The CJ Cup in Las Vegas.

The four-time main champion combined an eagle and 5 birdies with a lone bogey on his technique to a six-under 66 at The Summit Membership, seeing him finish the week on 25 beneath and make a profitable begin to his 2021-22 PGA Tour season.

Morikawa carded the bottom spherical of his PGA Tour profession and secured second spot with a ten-under 62, with in a single day chief Fowler three off the tempo in tied-third alongside Keith Mitchell after a final-round 71.

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Collin Morikawa displays on posting the bottom spherical of his PGA Tour profession to set the clubhouse goal at The CJ Cup in Las Vegas.

McIlroy began the ultimate day two off the tempo and went additional behind when Fowler fired his strategy on the first to tap-in vary, just for the Northern Irishman to roll in from ten ft on the second and choose up a shot on the par-five third.

A two-shot swing on the fourth noticed McIlroy make a three-putt bogey from 30 ft and Fowler publish a second birdie of the day, earlier than Fowler misplaced his in a single day benefit when he needed to take a penalty drop on the par-five sixth after which three-putted for a double-bogey seven.

McIlroy was making his first aggressive begin since Europe’s Ryder Cup defeat at Whistling Straits

McIlroy holed from 5 ft on the identical gap to hitch a logjam on the high of the leaderboard, with Morikawa additionally amongst these after racing into competition by birdieing seven of his opening 9 holes to achieve the flip in 29.

An eight-foot birdie on the eighth took McIlroy three beneath for his spherical and Morikawa briefly raised hopes of a doable ’59 spherical’ by holing from shut vary on the eleventh, as Fowler holed from 15 ft on the ninth however then three-putted from an identical distance to bogey the par-four subsequent.

McIlroy moved forward with a birdie on the twelfth and briefly went three clear when he holed a 35-foot eagle from off the 14th inexperienced, just for Morikawa to shut the hole again to at least one when he ended a run of pars by making a final-hole eagle of his personal.

Missed birdie alternatives on the fifteenth and seventeenth ensured McIlroy’s lead would stay a single stroke heading to the par-five final, the place he elected to put up and hit a wedge to fifteen ft earlier than signing off his victory with a two-putt par.

Former world No 1 Adam Scott birdied his remaining two holes to hitch Sam Burns, Aaron Smart and Talor Gooch in tied-fifth on 21 beneath, whereas Sungjae Im jumped into the highest 10 after closing his final-round 64 with 5 birdies in his final six holes.