{"id":254804,"date":"2026-07-27T00:21:53","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T00:21:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/27\/jackson-koivun-holds-off-scottie-scheffler-for-first-pga-win\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T00:21:53","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T00:21:53","slug":"jackson-koivun-holds-off-scottie-scheffler-for-first-pga-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/27\/jackson-koivun-holds-off-scottie-scheffler-for-first-pga-win\/","title":{"rendered":"Jackson Koivun holds off Scottie Scheffler for first PGA win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>PGA rookie Jackson Koivun won his first tour event on Sunday, holding off Scottie Scheffler to win the 3M Open by three strokes.<\/p>\n<p>Koivun shot 5-under in the final round to secure the win, and by doing so secured a rather historic win for himself and the tournament.<\/p>\n<h2>Jackson Koivun&#8217;s first PGA win comes in historic manner<\/h2>\n<p>With his 66, 5-under on Sunday, Koivun finished the tournament a whopping 25-under with a 259 total, setting a new tournament record.<\/p>\n<p>His multiple-stroke win was also a historic, as he becomes the youngest American to win any PGA event by multiple strokes since 20-year-old Ralph Guldahl at the Arizona Open by five shots in 1932.<\/p>\n<p>Koivun won the 3M Open at 21 years old.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/plain\" class=\"optanon-category-C0004\">\n    !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n    {if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n    n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\n    if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\n    n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n    t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n    s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script',\n    'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n    fbq('init', '1324276914788316');\n    fbq('track', 'PageView');\n  <\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/golf\/articles\/jackson_koivun_holds_off_scottie_scheffler_for_first_pga_win\/s1_13132_44104993\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PGA rookie Jackson Koivun won his first tour event on Sunday, holding off Scottie Scheffler to win the 3M Open by three strokes. Koivun shot 5-under in the final round to secure the win, and by doing so secured a rather historic win for himself and the tournament. Jackson Koivun&#8217;s first PGA win comes in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":254805,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6806],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-254804","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-gossip"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254804\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}