Tour Championship: Rory McIlroy wins PGA title
Rory McIlroy's bird shot from 137 yards at 16 was his longest opening out on the PGA Visit in three years
Visit Title last round leaderboard
- 12 R McIlroy (NI),R Moore (US), K Chappell (US); - 9 P Casey (Eng); - 6 H Matsuyama (Jpn); - 5 D Johnson (US), J Thomas (US); - 4 A Scott (Aus)
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Rory McIlroy won a play-off to seal triumph in the Visit Title and take the $10m (£7.7m) FedEx Container prize.
The Northern Irishman, 27, came in a birdie from 15 feet to push out Ryan Moore on the fourth play-off gap to win the $1.5m (£1.15m) competition.
The world number three's triumph was sufficient to see him beat US Open champion Dustin Johnson to the FedEx Glass, the PGA Visit's season-long focuses race.
Johnson completed seven shots off the lead at East Lake Golf Club in Atlanta.
McIlroy and Moore hit last cycle 64s to set up a three-path play-off with Moore's kindred American Kevin Chappell, who posted a 66.
McIlroy, will's identity some portion of Europe's Ryder Glass group at Hazeltine one weekend from now, said he had been resolved not to let the FedEx Container prize influence his way to deal with the last round of the season-finishing competition.
"All I needed to do was focus on winning the Visit Title," said McIlroy, who additionally won the Deutsche Bank Title three weeks prior.
"I couldn't control what any other person did. I expected to turn out over here and play a better than average round of golf. I simply needed to go out and play the way I have been playing.
"I feel my diversion is truly meeting up at the ideal time, and two wins in the last three feels truly pleasant."
McIlroy was three shots off the lead with three openings to play yet a 137-yard falcon at the sixteenth started his fightback.
A birdie at 18, after a chip from a fortification to inside two feet, closed his place in the play.
Both McIlroy and Moore birdied the principal play-off opening at 18, yet the Ulsterman was unfortunate to see his falcon putt hit the lip taking after a splendid second shot to inside six feet.
With Chappell wiped out, McIlroy and Moore each took standard following a second outing down the eighteenth, and on the third play-off opening at 15, preceding McIlroy birdied the sixteenth to win the tenth version of the FedEx Container. 
Visit Title last round leaderboard
- 12 R McIlroy (NI),R Moore (US), K Chappell (US); - 9 P Casey (Eng); - 6 H Matsuyama (Jpn); - 5 D Johnson (US), J Thomas (US); - 4 A Scott (Aus)
Full leaderboard
Rory McIlroy won a play-off to seal triumph in the Visit Title and take the $10m (£7.7m) FedEx Container prize.
The Northern Irishman, 27, came in a birdie from 15 feet to push out Ryan Moore on the fourth play-off gap to win the $1.5m (£1.15m) competition.
The world number three's triumph was sufficient to see him beat US Open champion Dustin Johnson to the FedEx Glass, the PGA Visit's season-long focuses race.
Johnson completed seven shots off the lead at East Lake Golf Club in Atlanta.
McIlroy and Moore hit last cycle 64s to set up a three-path play-off with Moore's kindred American Kevin Chappell, who posted a 66.
McIlroy, will's identity some portion of Europe's Ryder Glass group at Hazeltine one weekend from now, said he had been resolved not to let the FedEx Container prize influence his way to deal with the last round of the season-finishing competition.
"All I needed to do was focus on winning the Visit Title," said McIlroy, who additionally won the Deutsche Bank Title three weeks prior.
"I couldn't control what any other person did. I expected to turn out over here and play a better than average round of golf. I simply needed to go out and play the way I have been playing.
"I feel my diversion is truly meeting up at the ideal time, and two wins in the last three feels truly pleasant."
McIlroy was three shots off the lead with three openings to play yet a 137-yard falcon at the sixteenth started his fightback.
A birdie at 18, after a chip from a fortification to inside two feet, closed his place in the play.
Both McIlroy and Moore birdied the principal play-off opening at 18, yet the Ulsterman was unfortunate to see his falcon putt hit the lip taking after a splendid second shot to inside six feet.
With Chappell wiped out, McIlroy and Moore each took standard following a second outing down the eighteenth, and on the third play-off opening at 15, preceding McIlroy birdied the sixteenth to win the tenth version of the FedEx Container.
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