Rory melroy's wait for an elusive fifth major goes on after finishing in a tie for 12th at the spga championship at Valhalla with American Xander schaul winning his first major title the holywood native was one of the pre-tournament favorites after winning this previous to starts at the Zurich Classic of New Orleans with Shane Lowry and the Wells Fargo Championship melroy overhauled chafful last Sunday for his 26th p GA tour title but he was left to Ru a costly six hole stretch on Saturday which left him with too much ground to make up after shooting 66 on the opening day starting his final round seven shots off the lead which was shed by schaul and colen morawa at 15 underpar mroy finished with a four underpar round of 68 which included seven birdies but he also found the water twice on 13 and 15 m Roy who filed for divorce from his wife Erica ahead of the tournament insisted he would take positives from the year's second major I obviously started the week well and then I've obviously played decent over the weekend mroy told Sky Sports that six ho stretch on the back nine yesterday not being able to haull any putts I'll probably Ru that then the 71 on Friday as well was obviously not what I was looking for obviously put myself to far back overall I am playing solid game is in good shape and I've got a week off and then another busy stretch coming up maoy Falls to third in the world rankings with chafful moving ahead of him with Scotty schuffler rallying to shoot a 65 on Sunday to finish in a tie for eighth on an eventual week that saw the world number one arrested and released ahead of his second round on Friday mroy pocketed 359,000 $43 for his week's work while Shane Lowry who moved into contention for his second major with a stunning 61 on Saturday finished tied sixth with Justin Rose and won $639,500