Xander Schauffele has delivered one of the British Open's great finishing rounds to tame blustery Royal Troon and annex his second major triumph of the year in consummate fashion.
In racing out of the pack on Sunday to win comfortably with a superb six-under par round of 65 and add the 152nd Open to the PGA crown he won just as dazzlingly at Valhalla in May, Schauffele joined the greatest of them all, Jack Nicklaus, with his landmark performance.
The 30-year-old Californian became the first player to win two majors with closing rounds of 65 in the same year, with only the 'Golden Bear' Nicklaus himself ever having previously achieved the feat, but that came over his whole career.
