The 34-year-old bogeyed his first gap of the day and needed to accept par on the following 10, but it surely regarded as if he might lastly declare his maiden PGA win as he produced a run of three birdies in 4 holes from the twelfth.

“I am getting shut, that is the great facet of it,” mentioned Fleetwood. “On the again 9, I managed to get myself forward, performed some actually good golf, putted rather well.

“Justin and JJ have completed nice there and I simply did not do sufficient.

“I am clearly upset. I used to be proper in there with an opportunity, and it is laborious.”

Fleetwood has the very best PGA Tour earnings with out a victory, along with his runner-up end to Keegan Bradley on the Vacationers Championship in June taking him previous $31.4m (£23.3m).

He has now had six top-five finishes this season and 29 on the US tour – 11 greater than another participant with out a win over the previous 40 years, forward of Brett Quigley with 18.

Rose grew to become the primary participant in his 40s to win on Tour this season, claiming his first title for the reason that Pebble Seashore Professional-Am in February 2023.

He trailed by one shot in a single day and had a combined spherical till a run of 4 straight birdies from the 14th.

Rose nearly made it 5 on the final, which might have secured victory with no need a play-off, however his putt was fractionally astray, that means he completed with a three-under 67.

US Open champion Spaun hit a five-under 65 within the third spherical and the world quantity eight repeated the feat to safe his play-off spot after birdies on the sixteenth and seventeenth.

“That was an incredible final 90 minutes,” mentioned Rose. “I by no means stopped believing. I performed unbelievable golf coming down the stretch. I had a lot enjoyable with it.

“Once I deliver my finest I do know I am ok to play, to compete, and now to win towards the very best gamers on the planet.

“It is a very gratifying day for me and plenty of laborious work coming to fruition.

“I really feel like there may very well be a superb run of golf [for me] nonetheless. I am unable to let my age turn out to be an excessive amount of of a narrative however at present is big for me.”

The highest 50 gamers within the FedEx Cup standings after Sunday’s spherical now advance to subsequent week’s BMW Championship – the second of the PGA Tour’s three play-off tournaments.