2021 Wells Fargo Championship (32nd of 50 events in the 2020-21 PGA TOUR Season) Charlotte, North Carolina May 6-9, 2021 FedExCup Points: 500 (winner) Quail Hollow Club Par/Yards: 35-36—71/7,521 Purse: $8,100,000 ($1,458,000 winner) Final-Round Notes – Sunday, May 9, 2021 Weather: Partly Cloudy. High of 81. Wind SSW 12-15 mph with gusts of 30 mph. 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) .