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American Xander Schauffele took the gold medal in the Tokyo Olympics golf while Chinese Taipei's Pan Cheng Tsung took bronze after a thrilling seven-way play-off.
The sudden death knock-out for third included Team Ireland's Rory McIlroy, Team GB's Paul Casey, British Open winner Collin Morikawa and home favourite and recent Masters champion Hideki Matsuyama.
It was agony for the other six golfers in the play-off, who effectively all tie for fourth place at the Olympics and go home without medals. Slovakian Rory Sabbatini took silver.
Xander Schauffele won the men's individual golf gold medal at the Tokyo Olympics on Sunday
Chinese Taipei's Pan Cheng Tsung took the bronze medal after winning a thrilling play-off
Team Ireland's Rory McIlroy was one of seven golfers to go into the play-off for a bronze medal
Schauffele is congratulated on the 18th by Paul Casey, who dropped out first in the play-off
Schauffele, 27, has never before won a Major, though he has come close after finishing second in both the Masters and the British Open. He is the first American Olympic golf champion since Charles Sands in 1900.
The play-off, with all seven golfers representing a different country, was a nail-biter. There has never been a seven-player play-off in the history of the PGA Tour, let alone at the Olympics.
The first four play-off golfers - USA's Morikawa, Chinese Taipei's Pan, Chile's Mito Pereira and Colombia's Juan Sebastian
