Scottie Scheffler joins Tigers Woods, Jack Nicklaus in history books with dominant win at Players Championship

• Scottie Scheffler won the Players Championship by a whopping five strokes.
• Scheffler was in control all day, sinking five straight birdies in the middle of his final round to leave the competition in the dust.

Scottie Scheffler joined Tiger Woods and Jack Nicklaus in a bit of history on Sunday with his dominant win at the Players Championship.

As he lifted the trophy, Scheffler became just the third player in the history of golf to simultaneously hold the titles at both the Masters and the Players Championship.

At the Players, the biggest tournament golf has to offer outside of its four majors, Scheffler blew away the field, winning the tournament by a whopping five strokes and continuing one of the hottest streaks the sport has seen since Tiger Woods' heyday.

Scheffler entered Sunday's final round with a two-shot lead on the field, but his closest competitors on the leaderboard — Aussies Min Woo Lee and Cameron Davis — both faltered on Sunday. Meanwhile, Scheffler ran away with the win.

Scheffler was one-over on the day through his first seven holes, and when his tee shot found the rough on the par 3 No. 8, it looked as though it could be a turning point. At the time, Lee was still trailing by just two strokes.

But Scheffler found a bit of brilliance, chipping in from the rough for birdie.

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Lee took a bogey on the hole, and from there, Scheffler asserted total dominance, putting down four more birdies in a row to stretch his lead over the field to seven strokes by the time he walked off the 12th green.

Scheffler comfortably avoided the water on the treacherous No. 17 at TPC Sawgrass, and was able to play safe down the 18th hole to win the tournament.

He capped off the victory in style, sinking a stellar putt for par.

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Scheffler finished the weekend at -17, winning the tournament by five strokes. Tyrrell Hatton, who finished solo second at -12, needed to birdie seven of his last nine holes in order to get as close as he did to Scheffler.

Without Hatton's brilliant back nine, Scheffler would have beaten the entire field by seven strokes.

Scheffler's win came with some special company, as much of his family was in attendance to watch his final round.

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With the win, Scheffler retakes to No. 1 spot on the World Golf Ranking, and extends what has been a ridiculous run of play.

Already this year, Scheffler has defended his title at the Waste Management Phoenix Open, and now taken down the richest tournament on the PGA Tour, and the $4.5 million prize that comes with the win.

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Scheffler will head into the Masters in April as a favorite to win a second green jacket, and given the way he's playing, he has a great shot at becoming the first back-to-back Masters champion since Tiger Woods.