DUBLIN, Ohio-Steve Stricker finally found the winning formula at the monument on Sunday.

Stricker, who had never in the top 10 in his 11 previous visits to Muirfield village was finished, a great head start on the front nine and then was based on his silky putting stroke hang for two clutch of PARs for a one-shot victory.

He closed with a 4-under 68, lagging by 20 feet for a two putt bogey on the 18-hole. By then, was the hard work of. Saved twice by bunkers to the 16 holes, make putts 15 feet and seven feet up to the last hole with a two-shot lead go Stricker par.

Matt Kuchar and Brandt Jobe closed with a 65, for the second to.

Stricker moved to no. 4 in the world and is the highest-ranked Americans for the first time in his career.

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