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2021 World Championships-Workday Championship at The Concession (20 th of 50 events in the PGA TOUR )

Bradenton, February 25-28, 2021 Purse: $10,500,000 ($1,820,000) The Concession /Yards: 36-36—72/7,564 FedExCup Points: 550 (winner)

Final-Round Notes – Sunday, February 28, 2021

Weather : Mostly sunny, with a high of 88. Wind SSW at 10-20 mph.

Final-Round Leaderboard 70-64-67-69—270 (-18) 71-69-66-67—273 (-15) 67-66-70-70—273 (-15) 67-67-69-70—273 (-15) 69-70-67-68—274 (-14)

Things to Know • Collin Morikawa wins fourth PGA TOUR title, carrying a 54-hole lead/co-lead onto victory for the first time • Morikawa joins as the only players to win a major and WGC before turning 25 • Viktor Hovland moves to No. 2 in the FedExCup, 38 points behind leader • No player has won multiple tournaments through 20 weeks, the longest streak to start a season since 1994 ( won his second tournament in the 21 st week of the season) • Scottie Scheffler finishes highest among the five players in the field who competed at the 2015 NCAA Division I Men’s Championship at The Concession Golf Club • Seven bogey-free rounds recorded during the week, but none in the final round

Champion (after the week) Category Collin Morikawa Age 24 (February 6, 199 7) FedExCup 14 OWGR Projected No. 4 Starts at WGC-Workday 2 Wins at WGC -Workday 1 Top -10s at WGC -Workday 1 Career PGA TOUR starts 41 Career PGA TOUR wins 4 Career PGA TOUR top-10s 13 PGA TOUR starts in 2020 -21 9 PGA TOUR wins in 2020 -21 1 PGA TOUR top -10s in 2020 -21 3

• Wins fourth PGA TOUR title in his 41 st TOUR start at the age of 24 years, 22 days (2019 Barracuda Championship, 2020 Workday Charity Open, 2020 PGA Championship, 2021 -Workday Championship at The Concession) • Joins Tiger Woods as the only player to win a major and WGC before turning 25 • Four PGA TOUR wins is the most by a player currently under 25 • Seventh player to win four (or more) PGA TOUR events, including a major championship, under the age of 25 (Tiger Woods, , , Rory McIlroy, , ) • Wins 550 FedExCup points and moves to No. 14 in the FedExCup; marks his 10 th career week inside the top 15 of the FedExCup standings • Secures the win after holding his second 54-hole lead/co-lead on TOUR (2019 /T2) • Becomes 12 th 54-hole leader/co-leader at WGC-Workday Championship to win (since 1999) and eighth third-round leader/co-leader to win on TOUR in 2020-21 • Third WGC appearance this week (Won/2021 Workday Championship, T42/2020 Workday Championship, T20/2020 FedEx St. Jude Invitational); becomes eighth player to win first World Golf Championships title in three or fewer WGC starts (most recent: /2015 HSBC Champions) • First American player to win in the state of Florida since 2019 (); previous five winners in Florida: , Sungjae Im, , Rory McIlroy, • Three top-10s in nine starts this season (Won/Workday Championship, T7/, T7/Sentry Tournament of Champions) • Made 27 birdies, most of any player in the field; most birdies in a WGC stroke-play event is 29, by three players (Scott McCarron/2002 Workday Championship/6th , /2013 HSBC Champions/T8, /2016 HSBC Champions/Won,) • Led the field in Strokes Gained: Approach The Green (9.544) and Strokes Gained: to Green (12.526)

Miscellaneous Notes • Two-time TOUR winner Viktor Hovland (T2/-15), the only player to start birdie-birdie in the final round, moves to No. 2 in the FedExCup, 38 points behind leader Patrick Cantlay; was attempting to become first player since (2016 The Honda Classic) to make a quadruple bogey en route to a PGA TOUR victory; marks his second WGC start (T59/2020 FedEx St. Jude Invitational) • 36-hole leader Brooks Koepka (T2/-15) was looking to become first multiple winner this season (2021 Waste Management ); no player has won multiple tournaments through 20 weeks, the longest streak to start a season since 1994 (Nick Price won his second tournament in the 21 st week of the season) • 2014 FedExCup champion Billy Horschel (T2/-15) came up short in his search for his first individual stroke-play title since the 2017 AT&T ; now owns three top-10s in 19 WGC appearances (T2/2021 Workday Championship, T9/2020 Workday Championship, T9/2019 FedEx St. Jude Invitational) • Scottie Scheffler (5th /-14) finishes highest among the five players in the field who competed at the 2015 NCAA Division I Men’s Championship at The Concession Golf Club: Bryson DeChambeau (T22/-6), (T28/-5), (T32/-4), (T39/-1) • Rory McIlroy ’s (T6/-12) bid to join as the second player to win all four World Golf Championships titles in his career faded after a front-nine 37; played the front nine even for the week and the back nine 12-under • Defending champion (T9/-11) came up short in his attempt to win the WGC-Workday Championship at a different course for the third time (2014/Trump National Doral, 2020/Club de Golf Chapultepec) • (T11/-10), who sat T2 through 36 holes, followed a Saturday 77 with a Sunday 67 • (14 th /-9) entered the week searching for his career-best fourth consecutive top-10 in a standard stroke- play event on TOUR; had recorded three in a row on two previous occasions, most recent: 2 nd /2018 , T4/2018 WGC-Dell Technologies , T8/2018 BMW Championship • (T15/-8) chipped in for eagle at the par-5 17 th before holing a birdie putt from 82 feet, 7 inches, his longest putt of his career, en route to a 6-under 66, the low round of the day; marks his fifth final-round of 66 or better in his last eight starts • Hideki Matsuyama ’s (T15/-8) TOUR-leading streak of 225 holes without a three-putt came to an end at hole No. 5 when he missed from 6 feet, 1 inch • With a pair of eagles (Nos. 3 and 12), Bryson DeChambeau (T22/-6) records two eagles in a round for the second time this season (R2/Shriners Hospitals for Children Open) • Xander Schauffele (T39/-1) ended his streak of 16 consecutive top-25 results on the PGA TOUR; since 1990, only two players have longer streaks in this category (Tiger Woods/four times, most: 38, Rory McIlroy/17) • World No. 1 and reigning FedExCup champion Dustin Johnson (T54/+5) posts a 6-over 78 and his first finish outside the top-12 on TOUR since withdrawing from the 2020 3M Open following a first-round 78

Course Statistics Toughest Hole Easiest Hole R1: Par-4 5th (4.264) Par-5 17 th (4.500) R2: Par-3 14 th (3.268) Par-5 3 rd (4.465) R3: Par-4 2 nd (4.324) Par-5 17 th (4.549) R4: Par-4 2 nd (4.451) Par-5 3 rd (4.493) Week: Par-3 14 th (3.256) Par-5 3 rd (4.561)

Scoring Averages Front 9 Back 9 Total Cumulative R1: 36.139 35.847 71.986 -- R2: 35.662 35.225 70.887 71.441 R3: 35.958 35.239 71.197 71.360 R4: 36.563 35.845 72.408 71.621

Bogey-free rounds R1 (2): (66), (70) R2 (2): Yuki Inamori (68), (69) R3 (3): (68), (69), (70) R4 (0): None