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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 19^th 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 115^th 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)

Rory McIlroy (1^st/-10)

• Wins 19^th title in his 196^th 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 10^th 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 51^st 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 2^nd in Driving Distance (322.7) and 3^rd 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

McIlroy Multiple Wins at PGA TOUR Events

Additional Player Notes

• With rounds of 69-70-70-66, Abraham Ancer (2^nd) 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 16^th start of the season
• First-round leader Phil Mickelson followed an opening 64 with rounds of 75-76-76 to finish 69^th; 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 (5^th) posts four rounds at par or better (67-69-70-71)
• Corey Conners aced the par-3 6^th, 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 18^th (4.316)                              Par-5 15^th (4.568)

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

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

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