Cameron Smith claimed the biggest win of his career as a Players Championship that featured storm delays and near freezing temperatures concluded in warm sunshine at TPC Sawgrass on Monday.
He becomes the fifth Australian to win the PGA Tour's flagship event and takes home $3.6m, the largest prize in golf.
Smith holed 10 birdies in a six-under-par 66 to win on 13 under, one ahead of India's Anirban Lahiri in Florida.
England's Paul Casey pushed Smith as he carded a 69 to end third on 11 under.
It was a terrific battle between the pair with Smith holing four consecutive birdie putts to race clear of the field and a fifth came at his sixth hole to get to 12 under.
But the momentum started to shift on the par-four seventh as Casey rolled in his first birdie putt to get within two as Smith bogeyed.
And the lead was eradicated on the par-five ninth, with Smith carding a third successive bogey, while Casey again birdied as both started the back nine on nine under.
Elsewhere, pressure was coming from American Keegan Bradley, who had four birdies from the ninth to get to 10 under, while round-three leader Anirban Lahiri was also on that mark after seven holes.
A double bogey on the par-three eighth looked ruinous for Lahiri but the Indian, ranked 322 in the world hit back with an eagle on the 11th to get right back in the hunt on 11 under.
Smith was on another birdie run though, holing four in succession from the 10th to get to 13 under and put daylight between himself and the field.
Casey was hanging in there, with birdies on the 11th and 12th to get to 11 under but he could not find any more birdies in the final six holes.
Smith further extended his lead with a terrific birdie on the iconic par-three 17th, although he later admitted he didn't mean to aim at the pin.
And, despite putting his second shot in the water as he bogeyed the last, the world number 10 had done enough.
More to follow.
