Charlotte, N.C. (AP) - Jon Rahm appears on the verge of doing something hardly expected - overcame five-stroke deficit on the final day of a big championship, beating Scottie Scheffler.

Then it collapsed.

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In the 11th hole fight to tie No. 1 Scheffler against a birdie, Rahm turned the end of Scheffler's victory into an entertaining nine games in the PGA Championship, for at least some time. However, the two-time major champion missed a birdie putt on the 14th and 15th holes and hooked the drive on 16th and 18th and hit the last three holes on 5-point par, causing him to try to handle his own ideas after the round.

"I'm a little embarrassed about the ending today? Yes," Ram said. "But I just have to overcome it, overcome myself. It's not the end of the world. It's not like I'm a doctor or an emergency worker, if someone is having a bad life, they're not doing well, and something bad really happens. I'll overcome it. I'll keep going."

The Spanish star tied for eighth place with a 2-point 73 win on Sunday, eight shots behind Scheffler.

An hour ago, this was an unimaginable result for Ram.

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"The last three holes, it's hard to swallow right now," Ram said. "Especially knowing that 16 isn't the narrowest fairway in the world. That bunker is playing the game. You're lucky you have the shooting. It's not a terrible swing, but it's bad enough to put me in a real difficult situation."

But Ram said in hindsight, he felt the game start slipping away on the 14th hole.

On an 85-degree day, Rahm was wearing a pink hat and wearing a pink hat and he wanted to be the seventh player, winning seventh place in the PGA championship, trailing five or more shots to the final round.

He blasted his tee on the 14th hole of 340 yards, with rectangular green on it, but no flagpole tracking backwards, but a bounce on the bunker. He hit 10 feet from the beach, still hoping to save the birdie, but misread his birdie putt and had to settle down.

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He misread another birdie putt at the age of 15 and got another par.

His bird brutal momentum on 8, 10 and 11 has disappeared, and his confidence seems to have shaken.

He had the wrong drive in the 16- and 18-year-olds and broke into double bogey in the last two holes.

"I think it's a little nervous," Ram said. "It's impossible to point out accurately now. I'll go back to what happened. I feel like I'm in a hurry. I don't think the process is bad."

Ram was disappointed with his wife's long hug.

He said he might look at it differently when he had time to reflect on the week.

Of the 15 holes, he said it was the most fun he's ever enjoyed on the golf course in some time. And, he played his own quarrel on the last day of the Big Championship for the first time since leaving the PGA Tour in December 2023.

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"Again, there are a lot more considerations to consider this week than negative," Ram said. "I'm really happy that I put myself in the position and hope to learn from it and open up in the United States. ... I think this is the first time I've won a major that I haven't completed to win a Grand Slam master. The only thing I think I've been in the Grand Slam on Sunday and I'm able to finish it."

"It's a very different situation," he added.

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