Taylor Moore won Valspar Championship as Fleetwood misses out

• Fleetwood, playing in his 112th PGA Tour tournament.
• He was one stroke behind overnight leader Adam Schenk headed into the final round.
• Moore closed with a four-under-par 67 to finish 10 under.

Taylor Moore won the Valspar Tournament, denying Tommy Fleetwood his first PGA Tour championship.

Fleetwood, playing in his 112th PGA Tour tournament, was one stroke behind overnight leader Adam Schenk headed into the final round in Florida.

The 32-year-old had a one-under-par round of 70, but American Moore closed with a four-under-par 67 to finish 10 under and record his first PGA Tour victory.

Schenk’s 41-foot putt to force a play-off ricocheted off the lip.

He sunk his bogey putt to finish one stroke behind Moore, with Jordan Spieth and Tommy Fleetwood tying for third a shot farther back.

Moore, making his 46th PGA Tour appearance, waited with bated breath to see if anyone could match his score after taking the clubhouse lead with a great round that included five birdies and one bogey.

“It still hasn’t hit me,” Moore, 29, told NBC. “I was just in competition mode and just watching the men finish, maybe in a play-off, maybe not, and it’s so great.

“It’s so amazing, it’s what I work for and I’m extremely excited not just for me but for everyone around me. It’s an exciting time.”

Fleetwood, who has finished second on the PGA Tour four times, surged into a tie for first with a birdie on the par-five 11th.

But at the Innisbrook Resort in Palm Harbor, a bogey on the 14th hole, which came after he needed two shots to escape a greenside bunker, basically put an end to his chances of winning.

American Schenk entered the final hole on 10 under par and had either the sole or shared lead after each day.

After hitting a poor drive that left the ball close to the base of a tree, Schenk, a right-handed golfer, executed a fantastic left-handed stroke with his club head turned upside down to give himself a chance to save par.

His putt, which he made after nailing his approach shot to 41 feet, ricocheted agonizingly away from the pin after hitting it with a little too much speed.

Prior to hitting the water on the 16th, Spieth was also tied for the lead. He was able to salvage a bogey to remain in the running.

But after missing a chance to force a play-off from six feet at the following hole, he three-putted the final hole.

Sam Burns, who was going for his third straight victory in the competition, shot a final-round 67 and came in sixth on five under.

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