It’s time to start taking this Sepp Straka character a lot more seriously. Not that you would ever dismiss a player ranked 17th in the world, but Straka is entering a different stratosphere after his two-stroke victory Sunday in the $20 million Truist Championship in Flourtown,

Straka was rock-solid down the stretch in holding off Shane Lowry to win the PGA Tour Signature Event and the chunk of 700 FedEx Cup points that went with it.

Two red-hot, 220-plus-pound ball strikers trying to earn a signature win for their biggest PGA Tour victories in years at Philadelphia Cricket Club. Shane Lowry? He blinked first, bogeying the 16th hole with an approach into an awkward green-side hill.