South Korean was in position to shoot 59<\/a> but bogeyed the final hole. Kim, who started the final round with a two-stroke lead, shot 65 to finish 27 under.<\/p>\n\u201cI look at Pebble, it was amazing, but that one, I was so close to shooting 59. At that golf course, that would have been just epic,\u201d Clark said after his fourth PGA Tour win. \u201cThis one, really 59 wasn\u2019t necessarily in the cards. I\u2019m just really proud of myself that I didn\u2019t waver and I didn\u2019t sit back and just try to hit to 20 feet and kind of leak my way in there. I was still very aggressive.\u201d<\/p>\n
Despite the addition of bunkers and significant changes to the contour of the greens on the Lanny Wadkins-led redesign, Clark was just one shot off Scheffler\u2019s winning score of a year ago. Scheffler\u2019s 31 under tied the tour\u2019s 72-hole scoring record of 253.<\/p>\n
\u201cI felt pretty comfortable, but I knew I had to put the pedal to the metal and keep making birdies,\u201d Clark said. \u201cI made more than I thought I was going to make, that\u2019s for sure.\u201d<\/p>\n
Clark went in front for the first time in the final round with an eagle at the par-5 12th and twice took two-shot leads with clutch birdie putts over the final four holes.<\/p>\n
The 32-year-old had an emphatic first pump after his 45-foot birdie putt at the par-3 15th. Clark was a little more reserved, but pumping a fist nonetheless after another birdie 2, this one at the No. 17 stadium hole.<\/p>\n
A few minutes after Clark\u2019s long putt at 15, Kim was a shot behind when his 44-footer on the same hole slid by the right side of the cup. The deficit was two when Kim couldn\u2019t match Clark\u2019s birdie at 17.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think if I keep knocking on the door, something\u2019s coming,\u201d said Kim, a four-time tour winner looking for his first victory since 2023 at Waialae. \u201cI think it\u2019s pretty much best play golf I\u2019ve ever had. I\u2019m a little frustrated, but nothing I can do. Wyndham played so good.\u201d<\/p>\n
Scheffler, who matched Kim\u2019s 65 and was 25 under, briefly was tied for the lead on Saturday, but never caught Kim \u2014 his partner in the final pairing \u2014 or Clark one group ahead after the second hole in the final round.<\/p>\n
The four-time major winner was two shots behind Kim and Clark at the short par-4 sixth when his second shot hit the pin and spun away after it bounced, ending up 54 feet away. Scheffler settled for par on a hole Kim and Clark birdied.<\/p>\n
Jackson Suber was a career-best fourth, shooting 63 to finish 23 under. Keith Mitchell shot 64 and was a stroke back in fifth.<\/p>\n
Brooks Koepka, still looking for his first win since rejoining the PGA Tour from LIV Golf, shot 68.<\/p>\n
Jordan Spieth, the other hometown favorite alongside Scheffler, bounced back with a 66 and finished 15 under a day after fading from contention with a 73.<\/p>\n
Scheffler almost became the only PGA Tour player since at least 1983 to go an entire tournament without a score of 5 or higher. That ended with his par 5 on 12, when he went bunker to bunker with his first two shots and missed a 12-foot birdie putt. It was his only 5.<\/p>\n
\u201cNo,\u201d Scheffler said when asked if he was aware. \u201cBut you know around this place, what did Wyndham finish out, around 30 under? If you\u2019re going to play 30 under, you can\u2019t be making too many 5s.\u201d<\/p>\n
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