Scottie Scheffler shines again at the Players Championship in the 'best hour of golf all year'

Yahoo Sports’ Jay Busbee explains why the final round of the Players Championship on Sunday was must-see tv and discusses movement by the PGA Tour and LIV Golf to get all of its players back on the same course.

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JAY BUSBEE: If we get a few more Sundays like we just had at the PLAYERS Championship, all is going to be just fine in the world of golf. You had the defending British Open champion. You had the defending US Open champion. And you had the defending Olympic gold medalist at the top of the leaderboard.

And they all got caught and passed by the world's number one ranked golfer and the defending PLAYERS Champion, and that would be Scottie Scheffler. Scheffler put on an absolute clinic on Sunday, catching three of the game's best and taking home his second straight PLAYERS Championship. He's only-- he's the first person ever to do that. And even so, even as well as he played, Wyndham Clark, Brian Harman, and Xander Schauffele all stood on the tee at 18 with a chance to birdie and force a playoff.

All three of them missed, most agonizingly, Wyndham Clark whose ball went into the cup and popped right back out again. It was the greatest hour of golf we've had all year. It was dramatic. It was tense. It was exactly what the sport needed.

The only thing that would have made it better, if some of the LIV players like Jon Rahm and Brooks Koepka had been in the mix. That didn't happen, obviously, but there are signs that might happen sometime in the not too distant future. At his press conference on Thursday, PGA TOUR commissioner Jay Monahan indicated that there is movement in an agreement between the PGA TOUR and the Saudi Arabia Public Investment Fund which funds LIV Golf. And this week, players from the PGA TOUR-- player representatives-- are scheduled to meet with Saudi officials to see if they can start to work toward an agreement.

Now, what does this mean for you, the fan? Short term, not very much, but long term, the hope is that we'll be able to get all of the world's best players back on the same course at the same time, more than just four times a year. That is the goal. It's still a long way off, but hopefully, it's drawing ever nearer. I'm not going to say that if that happens, it would make all of these last two years worth it, but it would certainly be welcome.

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