Sam Burns clinched the fifth win of his PGA Tour career and a cheque for $3.5 million when he beat Cameron Young 6&5 in the final of the WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play in Texas.

World golf will get to see Rory McIlroy and Scottie Scheffler go head to head in the WGC-Dell Technologies Championship but it will be for third place after they lost 2-up leads and fell in extra holes in their semi-finals at Austin Country Club.

Shane Lowry crashed out at the round robin stage for the seventh year in a row as Seamus Power kept his hopes alive of making the last 16 in the WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play.

Rory McIlroy could not win the US Open yesterday but he didn’t lose it as he produced a sensational short game display down the stretch and battled his way to a three-over 73 that left him just three shots behind Will Zalatoris and Matt Fitzpatrick at The Country Club.

Shane Lowry holed over 100 feet of putts and fired his eighth sub-par score in his last 10 rounds to go into the final day of the Valspar Championship just three shots outside the top 10.

Sam Burns gave his PGA Tour career the gloss finish it lacked when he captured the Valspar Championship and his maiden PGA Tour win at Innisbrook.

Shane Lowry shot his sixth successive round in the sixties to go into the final round of the Houston Open just five shots off the lead.