Xander Schauffele, who did the PGA Championship-Open Championship double last year, summed up the general mood at Royal Portrush when he said that Scottie Scheffler’s incredible run caught everyone off guard.

Scheffler entered the final round with a four-stroke lead and never wavered, finishing at 17-under par. Harris English placed second at 13-under, while McIlroy delivered a strong showing of his own, finishing tied for seventh at 10-under par.

Scottie Scheffler captured The Open Championship, moving himself one major win short of completing golf's career grand slam.

Praise is coming in from across the golf world for Champion Golfer of the Year Scottie Scheffler, but none higher than from his peers.

Scheffler will go off with Haotong Li on Sunday. Li went 2-under in the third round to play his way into the final group, where he'll be the first player from China to be in the last pairing in the final day of a major in history. Matt Fitzpatrick is alone in third at 9-under.

With a vice-like grip on the game, Scottie Scheffler's Open victory shows how he has become the most dominant men's golfer since Tiger Woods.

Scheffler has won each of his four major titles by at least three strokes, the only player in the modern era to accomplish that feat.

Tiger Woods used to do this: suck out the atmosphere and spit out the opposition. If there was any doubt that big-time male golf is in the midst of the Scottie Scheffler-era then there surely is not any more.

Scottie Scheffler backs up No. 1 ranking, wins Masters for ... All he needed to complete the career Grand Slam was to match the best final round in Masters history and get some help from Scheffler.

With a victory, Scheffler would be just the fourth player in golf history to win the Masters, PGA and Open all before age 30.

Scottie Scheffler's latest major, a thorough four-stroke win at the Open Championship, is another reminder that he's mastered golf like few have.