Weather: Sunny with a high of 73. Wind SW 4-8 mph.

 Final-Round Leaderboard

The eagle lands from 97 feet. 🦅@BKoepka‘s winning moment was a beauty. 😍 pic.twitter.com/4jRosLxCzR

— PGA TOUR (@PGATOUR) February 8, 2021

Things to Know

• Brooks Koepka picks up his eighth TOUR victory in his 145^th start
• Koepka, who claimed his first PGA TOUR win at the 2015 Waste Management Phoenix Open, becomes the 16^th multiple winner of the event
• Kyoung-Hoon Lee finishes a career-best runner-up in his 70^th TOUR start
• Xander Schauffele has the most runner-up finishes (10) of any player since the start of the 2017-18 season
• Third-round co-leader Jordan Spieth finishes T4 following a 1-over 72
• 53-year-old Steve Stricker finishes T4 after hitting all 18 greens in regulation for just the third time in his career
• Andrew Putnam becomes the second player this season who failed to win after posting no bogeys for 72 holes
• Defending champion Webb Simpson finishes T42

 About Brooks Koepka (following the week)

Brooks Koepka (1^st/-19)

• Picks up his eighth PGA TOUR victory in his 145^th start at the age of 30 years, 9 months, 4 days
• With wins in 2015 and 2021, becomes the 16^th multiple winner of the Waste Management Phoenix Open
• Collects 500 points and moves from No. 73 to No. 12 in the FedExCup standings
• Picks up his first win since the 2019 World Golf Championships-FedEx St. Jude Invitational
• Played the final six holes (Nos. 13-18) in 15-under this week
• Had two eagles in the final round (Nos. 3 and 17); becomes the first winner at TPC Scottsdale to eagle the par-4 17^th hole during the final round (holed out from off the green from 97’ 5”)
• Earns his third top-10 finish of the season and snaps a streak of three straight missed cuts
• Entered final round trailing the leaders by five strokes; becomes the third player in the last 34 years to come from five or more shots down in the final round to win the event (2012/Kyle Stanley/8, 1988/Sandy Lyle/7)

Miscellaneous Notes

• In search of his first career TOUR win in his 70^th start, Kyoung-Hoon Lee earned a career-best runner-up finish
• 54-hole co-leader Xander Schauffele posted a final-round even-par 71 to finish T2, his fourth top-20 finish in as many starts at the Waste Management Phoenix Open (2021/T2, 2020/T16, 2019/T10, 2018/T17); has failed to win on four occasions with the 54-hole lead/co-lead; has the most runner-up finishes (10) of any player since the start of the 2017-18 season, including three this season
• 2020 Vivint Houston Open winner Carlos Ortiz (T4) picked up his third top-10 finish of the season, equaling his career-high from the previous two seasons; 64 equaled his career-best final-round score
• Steve Stricker, who turns 54 later this month, finished T4 in attempt to break Sam Snead’s record as the oldest player to win a TOUR event (52 years, 10 months, 8 days/1965 Wyndham Championship); first top-10 showing since the 2017 John Deere Classic (T5); hit all 18 green in regulation during the final round, just the third time he has performed the feat in 1,710 rounds on TOUR
• In search of his first win since The Open Championship in 2017, 54-hole co-leader Jordan Spieth carded a final-round 1-over 72 to finish T4; is now 9 of 17 when holding the 54-hole lead/co-lead

• Andrew Putnam (T7) became the second player this season without a bogey through 72 holes who failed to win (Mark Anderson/2020 Safeway Open)

• Following back-to-back third-place finishes in the event in 2019 and 2020, Justin Thomas finished T13
• In tournament debut, Rory McIlroy closed with a 7-under 64 to finish T13
• Jon Rahm (T13) has finished no worse than T16 (2017) in six starts at the Waste Management Phoenix Open
• Defending champion Webb Simpson finished T42 in bid to become event’s first repeat winner since Hideki Matsuyama (2016, 2017)

Course Statistics

Toughest Hole                     Easiest Hole        

R1: Par-4 11^th (4.341)         Par-5 13^th (4.515)

R2: Par-4 11^th (4.106)         Par-5 3^rd (4.500)

R3: Par-4 11^th (4.152)       Par-5 13^th (4.273)

R4: Par-4 11^th (4.364)       Par-5 15^th (4.455)

Total: Par-4 11^th (4.235)     Par-5 13^th (4.480)

Scoring Averages at TPC Scottsdale:

Front 9                 Back 9                  Total                    Cumulative

R1:         34.568                  35.795                  70.364                  —

R2:         34.364                  34.773                  69.136                  69.750

R3:        34.227                   34.621                  68.848                 69.570

R4:         34.152                  34.727                   68.879                 69.455

Bogey-free rounds:

R1 (7): Matthew NeSmith (63), Mark Hubbard (63), Nate Lashley (64), Adam Hadwin (67), Andrew Putnam (67),

Ryan Armour (68), Cameron Champ (68)

R2 (14): Xander Schauffele (64), Webb Simpson (65), Si Woo Kim (66), Davis Riley (66), James Hahn (67), Bo Van Pelt, (67) Gary Woodland (67), Nick Hardy (67), Luke List (67), Hideki Matsuyama (67), Adam Long (68), Andrew Putnam (69), Nick Taylor (70)

R3 (8): Jordan Spieth (61), Louis Oosthuizen (63), Justin Thomas (64), Will Zalatoris (64), Brendon Todd (65), James Hahn (66), Henrik Norlander (67), Andrew Putnam (67)

R4 (4): Andrew Putnam (65), Sungjae Im (65), Bo Hoag (66), Mark Hubbard (67)