Twenty-eight! Eight threes and one four — that was the remarkable back nine that Viktor Hovland shot on his way to a course record to come from behind and clinch an astonishing victory at the BMW Championship in Illinois on Sunday.

Hovland shot 10 birdies – including seven across the last nine holes – to card an unprecedented nine-under 61 and edge Mathew Fitzpatrick and Scottie Scheffler by two strokes at -17. The 25-year-old had begun the day three shots off the lead, only to shoot the lowest round of his career – and the lowest by a winner on the PGA Tour this season – to clinch his fifth PGA Tour triumph and $3.6 million in prize money.

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