Rory McIlroy, JJ Spaun to playoffs on Monday

Rory McIlroy has 73 feet of green in front of him and he needs to fall down on two putts. McIlroy scored 4 18 in a stadium class at TPC Sawgrass, and was in a stalemate with JJ Spaun at the age of 12, in the group behind him.

One of the two players is almost certain to win the player title, PGA Tour’s Marquee event, and brought back a $4.5 million championship check.

But first, McIlroy had to start two shots from 73 feet. Otherwise, it’s Spaun’s loss. The lag putt left him 4 feet to clear out – we’ve learned, no guarantee from this distance – but when McIlroy knocked down the 4 feet ball, all the pressure was given to the man behind him.

Spaun found the pine straw from the T-shirt, found the green at close range, and had a 31-foot victory. No dice. He is very short.

After 72 holes, the winner of the 2025 player championship will be decided on Monday’s playoffs. McIlroy and Spaun will return to TPC Sawgrass on Monday to compete in the three-hole total playoffs at 9 a.m. Monday.

One of them will win.

On the one hand, Spaun, 34, won his second PGA Tour in his 228th career. The other is McIlroy, who is looking for his The second start – Ranked 28 overall.

McIlroy (68) and Spaun (72) ended with a Under-12 match, with the other three under-10.

The playoffs will begin Sunday night, but the final round was postponed for four hours due to afternoon thunderstorms.

The self-proclaimed traveler Spaun entered the 54-hole lead with a 54-hole lead. Bud Cauley is under 11 Lucas Glover and Alex Smalley are under 9, and three (including McIlroy) are under 8.

Of these seven players, Glover won the U.S. Open, and of course, McIlroy has a Hall of Fame resume (27 PGA Tour champions and four Grand Slams), but the other five combined have only five professional tour victories, four of which are from Akshay Bhatia and Corey Conners (two each).

It must be McIlroy’s game, right? Or to win?

He performed well at the gate. Brad Faxon, an analyst who works with McIlroy, said Sunday’s range warm-up was one of the best he’d seen from him. McIlroy then quickly birded and drove the second place away.

Of course, everyone on the field noticed – the most dangerous player in the game is deadly with only 30 minutes of the game. McIlroy chuckled seventh place, but got it back with the bird at 8 o’clock.

Through nine holes, McIlroy and Spaun tied under No. 11, led by one by Bhatia, Hoge, Walker and Cauley by two leading. A large group of people under the age of seven, but it seems that the winner will be the six mentioned above.

When the final group started their last nine games, wind and rain began to pour in, as McIlroy took the solo lead with 12 points – rolling on the 11-foot player to the birdie’s par 11-hole.

Bragging after 1:15 pm and recovering at 5:15 pm

McIlroy wasted very little time. McIlroy returned to his entry from 91 yards four hours after he drove away at 12 o’clock. He rotated it back 14 feet and rolled in the second consecutive birdie. Meanwhile, Spaun is behind him, a mess and eventually makes a bogey.

The lead was three, but McIlroy missed the fairway at the 14-year-old fairway and made the birdies in the group Spaun behind him. McIlroy then missed a birdie within 6 feet within 15 feet, which would give him more room to breathe.

McIlroy also missed the 12 and 14 feet of birds on 16 and 17, respectively, while Spaun was only his birdie among 16-shot 16 birds, which was 12-place with McIlroy. After Spaun scored two-shot par on the 17, McIlroy looked from the 18th tee as he walked on the green ahead.

McIlroy won his two shots, which meant the birdie would win. Spaun hit his putt on a nice line, but just so bad.

It was a long day on Sunday at TPC Sawgrass, an early start, delayed by four hours, late. But there are more golf on Monday. We have a player champion crown.