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Tiger Woods at the trophy presentation Sunday in the PGA Tour’s Hero World Challenge. It just wasn’t the winner anyone imagined. Not even Viktor Hovland thought it was realistic he could rally from six shots behind Collin Morikawa, the steady hand who was poised to reach No. 1 in the Official World Golf Ranking with a victory. Instead, the Norwegian did the unthinkable in a final round at Albany Golf Club that was pure chaos. He looked up from a greenside bunker on the ninth hole and saw Morikawa sliding fast with a pair of double bogeys. Hovland seized on the opportunity with back-to-back eagles and closed with a pair of bogeys he could afford for a 6-under 66 and a one-shot victory at 18-under 270 over

Scottie Scheffler (66). “I didn’t think a win was going to be very possible,” Hovland said. “But I know this course is tricky. You can make birdies, but it’s easy to make bogeys and doubles. If I put a good score up there, you never know what’s going to happen.” Sam Burns (69) and Patrick Reed (69) shared third at 15 under, and Morikawa dropped to fifth alongside Justin Thomas (64) at 14 under.