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Washington Post
12-05-2025
- Sport
- Washington Post
Straka outduels Lowry to win Truist Championship at Philly Cricket for 2nd victory of the season
FLOURTOWN, Pa. — Sepp Straka knew early on that precision at Philadelphia Cricket Club was the key to the Truist Championship. Now, the Austrian and the oldest country club in the United States are linked forever. Straka seized the lead with a par on the 16th hole and shot a 2-under 68, outdueling Shane Lowry on Sunday for his second victory of the season.
Washington Post
12-05-2025
- Sport
- Washington Post
Sepp Straka wins Truist Championship. Jeeno Thitikul takes Mizuho Americas Open
FLOURTOWN, Pa. — Sepp Straka seized the lead with a par on the 16th hole and shot 2-under 68, outdueling Shane Lowry on Sunday in the final round of the Truist Championship at Philadelphia Cricket Club for his second victory of the season. Lowry missed the green on the par-3 16th and failed to convert a 6-foot par putt to fall one shot behind. He also missed a 22-foot birdie chance on the 17. Trailing by one shot, he gunned his 28-foot birdie putt some 8 feet by the hole and three-putted for bogey on the 18th for a 70.
Yahoo
11-05-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Straka outduels Lowry to win Truist Championship at Philly Cricket
FLOURTOWN, Pa. (AP) — Sepp Straka seized the lead with a par on the 16th hole and shot a 2-under 68, outdueling Shane Lowry on Sunday in the final round of the Truist Championship at Philadelphia Cricket Club for his second victory of the season. After Lowry missed the green with his tee shot at the 212-yard, par-3 16th, Straka hit to approximately 30 feet. Lowry chipped out of the heavy rough but failed to convert a 6-foot par putt, falling a shot behind. Lowry missed a potential tying 22-footer for birdie at the lengthy par-4 17th and after driving into trouble at the stout 514-yard, par-4 closing hole, he finished with a three-putt bogey. A tense back-nine duel between the two had an anticlimactic ending as Straka made a no-pressure, two-putt par and joined Rory McIlroy (three victories) as a multiple winner on tour this season. The Austrian who played college golf at Georgia also won The American Express in January and now has four career wins. The Truist was another miss for Lowry, whose last PGA Tour victory was the 2019 British Open. He won the European tour's BMW PGA Championship in 2022. Lowry's even-par 70 left him in a tie for second with Justin Thomas (67), who made a late run at the leaders. Patrick Cantlay (65), Jacob Bridgeman (65) and Tommy Fleetwood 65) finished tied for fourth at 12 under. Corey Conners of Listowel, Ont., finished in a four-way tie for 11th at 9 under. Nick Taylor and Adam Hadwin, both of Abbotsford, B.C., were tied for 17th and 60th, respectively. McIlroy, the defending champion and four-time event winner at Quail Hollow, its usual venue, never really got going and closed with a 2-under 68. Playing in his first individual tournament since completing the career Grand Slam at the Masters, McIlroy shot 68 and was in a group in seventh place at 10 under. McIlroy now heads to his beloved Quail Hollow in Charlotte, North Carolina, for next week's PGA Championship, the year's second major. Prime scoring conditions returned to Philly Cricket's Wissahickon Course for the first time since the opening round. After a rainy and chilly second round and a blustery third, Thomas, who was trying to win consecutive starts after taking the RBC Heritage last month, was the only real pursuer in the sixth signature event of the PGA Tour season. Ultimately, it came down to the third-round leaders. Straka built a two-stroke lead after the first nine holes, but it wasn't easy. Lowry broke their tie with a 12-foot birdie putt at the first to get to 15 under. Both took advantage at the par-5 fifth. Lowry made birdie to get to 16 under and Straka trumped his playing partner with a 20-foot eagle putt to forge another tie. The par-3 eighth proved vexing for Lowry, who missed the green with his tee shot, left his chip short and two-putted. Straka seized the opportunity, draining a 15-foot birdie putt to go one stroke up before following with another lengthy putt at No. 9, a 28-footer to reach 17 under. Straka's lead was gone after two holes on the back nine after consecutive bogeys. After neither capitalized on the 95-yard 14th, the shortest par 3 on tour — excluding majors — in the Shotlink era dating to 1983, Lowry nearly chipped in for eagle at the par-5 15th and settled for birdie. Straka matched that with a birdie from 6 feet and moved in front to stay at the next hole. Thomas nearly caught the leaders twice. He missed potential lead-tying birdie putts from 14 feet on the 12th and from 3 feet on the 15th. Andrew Novak, who teamed with Ben Griffin to win last month's team event at the Zurich Classic, had Sunday's low round with a 6-under 64 and finished tied for 17th. Sahith Theegala withdrew before the start of the final round, citing a neck injury. Nearly to a man, the pros spoke fondly of the Wissahickon course in the tour's return to golf-starved Philadelphia. The century-old course boasted large crowds throughout the week, resulting in the event's fan shop selling out of merchandise on Saturday and being shuttered for the final round. ___ AP golf: Bob Lentz, The Associated Press
CNA
11-05-2025
- Sport
- CNA
Rory McIlroy 'in a good place' ahead of PGA, nods to 'relentless' fans
FLOURTOWN, Pa. - With all due respect to the Zurich Classic of New Orleans, the PGA Tour's lone team event, the Truist Championship was Rory McIlroy's first real test of golf since winning the Masters. The five-time major winner tied for seventh at 10 under par at the Philadelphia Cricket Club, six shots off Sepp Straka's winning score. McIlroy said entering the week that he was "excited to get back to being a golfer" and figure out where his game is at entering the second major of the year, the PGA Championship. Consider that task complete. "I think I'm in a good place," the Northern Irishman said Sunday. "I didn't feel like I played all that well this week, I still finished seventh. Even my - what I feel is my bad golf, I'm still there or thereabouts. "A couple little improvements and little tweaks, especially going to a place I love like Quail Hollow, and I feel like I'm in a really good spot." McIlroy shot in red figures all week, capped by Sunday's 2-under 68 with 16 pars and two birdies. He did not make a bogey or worse over his final 28 holes of the tournament, but thought he missed several chances to climb the leaderboard. "Overall I felt like I got a little better as the week went on, played good," McIlroy said. "As you said, bogey-free. I wish I'd made a few more birdies. I've got a better gauge of where my game is standing here right now than I did at the start of the week. It was a good week for that. "I wish I had gotten myself into contention a little bit more, but it was a good week, especially looking ahead to next week." McIlroy birdied the first hole Sunday but had to scramble for pars the rest of the front nine, mainly due to wayward drives. He hit only five fairways in regulation out of 14, following a surprising 3-for-14 performance on Saturday. McIlroy theorized that wide-open fairways at the club's Wissahickon Course may have actually thrown him off. "I sort of struggled with this in Houston as well, whenever we get these big, wide-open golf courses where there's not a ton of definition," he said. "I think I would have hit more fairways if it had been tree lined. I felt like I drove it a little better on the back nine today, which was good." He won't have to worry about course fit at the PGA Championship. Quail Hollow Club usually hosts the Truist Championship (formerly called the Wells Fargo Championship). McIlroy has won at Quail Hollow four times, including last year. His fans were out in full force weeks after his historic Masters win. McIlroy was the most popular player on the property all week, and children screamed for his autograph as he concluded his media duties. "They're very enthusiastic," McIlroy said of the Philadelphia fans. "They're loud. They're relentless in terms of like ... I must have heard my name a million times this week."
Reuters
11-05-2025
- Sport
- Reuters
Rory McIlroy 'in a good place' ahead of PGA, nods to 'relentless' fans
May 11 - FLOURTOWN, Pa. - With all due respect to the Zurich Classic of New Orleans, the PGA Tour's lone team event, the Truist Championship was Rory McIlroy's first real test of golf since winning the Masters. The five-time major winner tied for seventh at 10 under par at the Philadelphia Cricket Club, six shots off Sepp Straka's winning score. McIlroy said entering the week that he was "excited to get back to being a golfer" and figure out where his game is at entering the second major of the year, the PGA Championship. Consider that task complete. "I think I'm in a good place," the Northern Irishman said Sunday. "I didn't feel like I played all that well this week, I still finished seventh. Even my -- what I feel is my bad golf, I'm still there or thereabouts. "A couple little improvements and little tweaks, especially going to a place I love like Quail Hollow, and I feel like I'm in a really good spot." McIlroy shot in red figures all week, capped by Sunday's 2-under 68 with 16 pars and two birdies. He did not make a bogey or worse over his final 28 holes of the tournament, but thought he missed several chances to climb the leaderboard. "Overall I felt like I got a little better as the week went on, played good," McIlroy said. "As you said, bogey-free. I wish I'd made a few more birdies. I've got a better gauge of where my game is standing here right now than I did at the start of the week. It was a good week for that. "I wish I had gotten myself into contention a little bit more, but it was a good week, especially looking ahead to next week." McIlroy birdied the first hole Sunday but had to scramble for pars the rest of the front nine, mainly due to wayward drives. He hit only five fairways in regulation out of 14, following a surprising 3-for-14 performance on Saturday. McIlroy theorized that wide-open fairways at the club's Wissahickon Course may have actually thrown him off. "I sort of struggled with this in Houston as well, whenever we get these big, wide-open golf courses where there's not a ton of definition," he said. "I think I would have hit more fairways if it had been tree lined. I felt like I drove it a little better on the back nine today, which was good." He won't have to worry about course fit at the PGA Championship. Quail Hollow Club usually hosts the Truist Championship (formerly called the Wells Fargo Championship). McIlroy has won at Quail Hollow four times, including last year. His fans were out in full force weeks after his historic Masters win. McIlroy was the most popular player on the property all week, and children screamed for his autograph as he concluded his media duties. "They're very enthusiastic," McIlroy said of the Philadelphia fans. "They're loud. They're relentless in terms of like ... I must have heard my name a million times this week." --Adam Zielonka, Field Level Media
