McIlroy’s 19th PGA Tour Triumph In Near 200th Start – All The Facts & Figures

 

 

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Final-Round Leaderboard

Rory McIlroy                      72-66-68-68—274 (-10)

Abraham Ancer                  69-70-70-66—275 (-9)
Viktor Hovland                  69-72-68-67—276 (-8)
Keith Mitchell                    67-71-66-72—276 (-8)

Gary Woodland                 67-69-70-71—277 (-7)

Things to Know

  • Rory McIlroy wins 19th career TOUR title and first in more than a year (1 year, 6 months, 6 days)
  • McIlroy wins the Wells Fargo Championship for the third time (2010, 2015, 2021)
  • Third-round leader Keith Mitchell finishes T3 after holding a 54-hole lead/co-lead for the first time
  • In search of maiden TOUR title, Abraham Ancer records his fourth career runner-up in his 115th start
  • After losing the FedExCup lead to Justin Thomas following last week’s Valspar Championship, Bryson DeChambeau returns to the No. 1 spot in the FedExCup standings with a T9 finish.

About Rory McIlroy (with the win)

Category

Rory McIlroy

Age

32 (5/4/1989)

FedExCup

17

OWGR

7

Starts at Wells Fargo

10

Wins at Wells Fargo

3

Top-10s at Wells Fargo

8

Career PGA TOUR starts

196

Career PGA TOUR wins

19

Career PGA TOUR top-10s

93

PGA TOUR starts in 2020-21

13

PGA TOUR wins in 2020-21

1

PGA TOUR top-10s in 2020-21

5

Rory McIlroy (1st/-10)

  • Wins 19th title in his 196th career start and first since the 2019 WGC-HSBC Champions at the age of 32 years, 5 days
  • With 19 wins, moves to T39 on the all-time PGA TOUR wins list tied with Ben Crenshaw, Ernie Els, Doug Ford, Hubert Green, Tom Kite and Bill Mehlhorn
  • Entered the final round trailing by two strokes; marks 10th come-from-behind win
  • Marks first win of the season and fifth top-10; entered the week with missed cuts in last two stroke-play events
  • Collects 500 FedExCup points to move from 51st to No. 17
  • Earned maiden PGA TOUR win at the 2010 Wells Fargo Championship
  • Led the field in Scrambling (14 of 18), the sixth time in his career he led that category in an event (most recent: 2018 Arnold Palmer Invitational presented by Mastercard/Won)
  • Hit 19 of 56 fairways; prior to 2021, no winner of the Wells Fargo Championship had hit fewer than 26 fairways
  • Ranked 2nd in Driving Distance (322.7) and 3rd in Strokes Gained: Putting (6.945), the second Wells Fargo Championship winner to rank inside the top-four in both categories en route to a win (other: J.B. Holmes/2014)
  • Wins the Wells Fargo Championship for the third time (2010, 2015, 2021), the first time he has won an event more than twice

McIlroy’s Wells Fargo Championship wins

54-Hole Position/Margin

Margin of Victory

2010

T7/4 strokes back

Won by 4

2015

1st/led by 4

Won by 7 (tournament record)

2021

T2/2 strokes back

Won by 1

 

McIlroy Multiple Wins at PGA TOUR Events

# of wins

Tournament

Seasons

3

Wells Fargo Championship

2010, 2015, 2021

2

TOUR Championship

2016, 2019

2

Dell Technologies Championship

2012, 2016

2

PGA Championship

2012, 2014

Additional Player Notes

  • With rounds of 69-70-70-66, Abraham Ancer (2nd) has 13 straight par-or-better rounds, the best current streak on TOUR
  • Third-round leader Keith Mitchell closes with a 1-over 72 to finish T3, his best finish since his lone TOUR title at the 2019 Honda Classic
  • Viktor Hovland finishes T3 for the second consecutive week (Valspar Championship/T3); marks sixth top-five in 16th start of the season
  • First-round leader Phil Mickelson followed an opening 64 with rounds of 75-76-76 to finish 69th; has yet to finish inside the top 10 in 14 starts this season
  • After entering the week having failed to break par in his last six rounds on TOUR, Gary Woodland (5th) posts four rounds at par or better (67-69-70-71)
  • Corey Conners aced the par-3 6th, his third career hole-in-one on TOUR and second of the season; two players have recorded two aces in the 2020-21 season: Corey Conners (Wells Fargo Championship, Masters Tournament) and Denny McCarthy (RBC Heritage, THE PLAYERS Championship)

Course Statistics

Toughest Hole                                  Easiest Hole

R1:         Par-4 18th (4.316)                              Par-5 15th (4.568)

R2:         Par-4 18th (4.519)                              Par-5 7th (4.545)

R3:         Par-4 18th (4.701)                              Par-5 10th (4.519)

R4:         Par-4 18th (4.364)                              Par-5 7th (4.987)

Scoring Averages                                           

              Front 9                 Back 9                  Total                    Cumulative

R1:         35.645                  36.200                  71.845                  —

R2:         35.961                  36.981                  72.942                  72.393

R3:         35.416                  36.351                  71.766                  72.267
R4:         35.364                  36.844                  72.208                  72.257

Bogey-free rounds

R1 (2): Keegan Bradley (66), Peter Malnati (67)

R2 (0): None

R3 (2): Keith Mitchell (66), Kyle Stanley (68)

R4 (2): Abraham Ancer (66), Viktor Hovland (67)



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