Scottie Scheffler celebrates after sinking a parr putt on the 18th hold to win the Memorial on Sunday in Dublin, Ohio. Sue Ogrocki/Associated Press

DUBLIN, Ohio — Scottie Scheffler had more stress than he wanted Sunday at the Memorial and got the victory everyone has come to expect.

On a Muirfield Village course so demanding that only six players broke par, Scheffler had his highest final round in nearly two years at 2-over 74, but it was just enough to hold off Collin Morikawa and win for the fifth time this year.

Scheffler, who started the final round four shots ahead, never lost the lead. He never felt safe, either, particularly on a back nine where saving par felt like hard work.

That’s what it took on the 18th hole. He was leading Morikawa by one shot, and both hit approach shots that bounced hard and high off the green and into the rough. Both chipped to about 5 feet. Scheffler buried his par putt, and the force of his fist pump to celebrate showed how tough this day was on him, and practically everybody.

Making the day even more special was the handshake with tournament host Jack Nicklaus, and cradling month-old son Bennett.

“This is a tough place to close out,” Scheffler said. “It was a fun test of golf. I like when it gets this hard. I didn’t do a whole lot great today, but I did enough.”

Just barely.

Morikawa, who played in the final group of both majors this year, holed a 30-foot birdie putt on the par-3 12th hole and stayed on Scheffler’s heels the rest of the way. He shot 71, the only one from the final 13 groups to break par.

Adam Hadwin was right there with them until closing with three straight bogeys for a 74 to finish alone in third.

Scheffler finished at 8-under 280 and won $4 million from this signature event and its $20 million purse. That pushes him over $24 million for the year, breaking the PGA Tour season earnings record that he set last year in this era of rising purses.

He also become the first player since Tom Watson in 1980 to have won five times on the PGA Tour before the U.S. Open.

That’s next week at Pinehurst No. 2, and Scheffler will go to the U.S. Open as a huge favorite. This was his 11th consecutive top-10 result.

Morikawa picked up $2.2 million and now has a big cushion as he tries to sew up the fourth spot for the Americans going to Paris this summer for the Olympics.

Linnea Strom hits a drive Sunday during the final round of the ShopRite LPGA Classic in Galloway, N.J. Strom rallied from a seven-stroke deficit by shooting an 11-under 60. Chris Szagola/Associated Press

LPGA: Linnea Strom shot a tournament-record 11-under 60 on Sunday to overcome a seven-stroke deficit and win the ShopRite LPGA Classic in Galloway, New Jersey by a shot for her first LPGA Tour title.

After making the cut on the number Saturday, Strom teed off at 8:20 a.m. – three hours, 40 minutes before the final group – on the Bay Course at Seaview Resort.

Strom had an eagle and nine birdies to get to 14-under 199. The 27-year-old Swede birdied the last three holes and four of the last five.

She had the lowest final-round score by a winner in LPGA Tour history and matched the second-lowest score overall. Annika Sorenstam set the record with a 59 in the second round of the 2001 Standard Register PING. The previous best final round for a winner was a 61 by Inbee Park in the 2014 Manulife Financial LPGA Classic.

Strom, who started the day tied for 52nd, pulled off the biggest comeback by position on the tour since 1984. The previous largest comeback by position since 1984 was Ayako Okamoto, from a tie for 23rd at the 1987 Lady Keystone Open.

Megan Khang and Ayaka Furue of Japan tied for second. Khang closed with a 66, and Furue shot 65. Atthaya Thitikul of Thailand was 12 under after a 65.

EUROPEAN TOUR: Linn Grant of Sweden chipped in for birdie on the final hole to repeat her landmark feat by winning the Scandinavian Mixed in Helsingborg, Sweden, her second time winning an official European tour event.

It was a stunning hometown win for Grant, who started the final round 11 shots behind but closed with a 7-under 65 for a one-shot victory over Sebastian Soderberg and Calum Hill.

Soderberg missed a 15-inch putt that would have forced a playoff.

Grant also won the mixed tournament two years ago. It is co-sanctioned by the European tour and the Ladies European Tour, with men and women playing the same course for the same trophy and same purse. The women play a shorter set of tees.

Soderberg had a shocker of a final round, closing with a double bogey for a 77. Hill birdied three of his last six holes for a 69.

CHAMPIONS TOUR: Ernie Els won for the second straight week, prevailing at the American Family Insurance Championship in Madison, Wisconsin, when tournament host Steve Stricker missed a 2 1/2-foot putt on the first hole of a playoff.

Els and defending champion Stricker each shot 3-under 69 in windy conditions to finish at 12-under 204.

LIV: Carlos Ortiz closed with a 5-under 67 to beat Adrian Meronk by a stroke at LIV Golf Houston for his first victory on the Saudi-funded league.