Hideki Matsuyama saw a five-shot lead evaporate in four holes before two closing birdies earned him a nervy two-shot win in the FedEx St. Jude Championship.
The event forms part of the PGA Tour's season-ending Playoffs, with only the top 50 in the overall standings advancing to the BMW Championship next week and assured of getting into all the $20m signature events next year. England's Justin Rose was one of those unfortunate to miss out, sitting 55th, after a closing round of 71 saw him finish six under for the week and in a tie for 22nd at TPC Southwind in Memphis.
Jude leaderboard, Matsuyama finished 17 under, two strokes better off than Schauffele and Viktor Hovland despite an almighty scare down the back nine. Matsuyama carried a five-stroke lead into Sunday - the largest 54-hole advantage of his career - but he faltered down the stretch. After playing his first 11 holes two under, he endured a bogey, par, bogey, double-bogey stretch from holes 12 through 15, allowing Schauffele and Hovland to briefly pass him.
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