2021 The American Express (15th of 50 events in the 2019-20 PGA TOUR Season) La Quinta, California January 18-24, 2021 FedExCup points: 500 (winner) PGA WEST PETE DYE STADIUM COURSE Par/Yards: 36-36—72/7,147 Purse: $6,700,000 PGA WEST NICKLAUS TOURNAMENT COURSE Par/Yards: 36-36—72/7,181 Final-Round Notes – Sunday, January 24, 2021 Weather: Mostly sunny. High of 64. Wind NW 7-14 mph. Note: PGA WEST Pete Dye Stadium Course for third and final rounds Final-Round Leaderboard Si Woo Kim 66-68-67-64—265 (-23) SC-NT Patrick Cantlay 69-71-65-61—266 (-22) NT-SC Cameron Davis 68-70-66-64—268 (-20) NT-SC Tony Finau 68-66-67-68—269 (-19) SC-NT Things to know • Si Woo Kim posts 8-under 64 to win by one stroke over Patrick Cantlay after going bogey free in three rounds on the PGA WEST Pete Dye Stadium Course, including his final 36 holes • Kim collects his third career PGA TOUR victory and first since THE PLAYERS Championship 2017, a span of 1,352 days • Patrick Cantlay beats the course record by two strokes with an 11-under 61 and ties the best score in relation to par in the final two rounds of a 72-hole event on TOUR (18-under) • Cameron Davis secures his best career PGA TOUR finish with a bogey-free 8-under 64 • 54-hole co-leader Tony Finau opens with two birdies but cards a 4-under 68 in search of his second PGA TOUR victory • Defending champion Andrew Landry finished T64 at 1-under Si Woo Kim following The American Express Category Si Woo Kim Age 25 (6/28/1995) Country Korea FedExCup 9 OWGR Top 50 Starts at The American Express 4 Top-10s at The American Express 2 Career PGA TOUR starts 164 Career PGA TOUR wins 3 Career PGA TOUR top-10s 20 PGA TOUR starts in 2020-21 9 PGA TOUR wins in 2020-21 1 PGA TOUR top-10s in 2020-21 2 • Posted a bogey-free 8-under 64 that included a birdie on the par-3 17th hole from 18 feet, 11 inches that gave him a one-stroke lead heading to the 72nd hole • Bogey-free in three rounds on the Stadium Course this week, including his final 36 holes • Moved from 69th to 9th in the FedExCup standings with the victory, marking his first week ranked inside the top 10 in the FedExCup standings in his career • Converted his second of four 54-hole lead/co-leads on TOUR (2016 Wyndham Championship/1st, 2019 Valero Texas Open/T4, 2020 Wyndham Championship/T3, 2021 The American Express/1st) • First victory on TOUR since the 2017 PLAYERS Championship, a span of 1,352 days • Second victory on a Pete Dye course (THE PLAYERS Stadium Course at TPC Sawgrass) • Records second top-10 in nine starts this season after only recording one top-10 in 24 starts during 2019-20 season • Victory comes in his 164th start at the age of 25 years, 6 months, 27 days • Cumulative stats: 41/56 fairways, 59/72 greens, 109 putts Patrick Cantlay (-22/2nd) • Course-record, bogey-free 11-under 61 at the Stadium Course, besting a 9-under 63 set by amateur Charles Reiter in 2019 • Second-lowest round in his TOUR career (60/2011 Travelers Championship) • 18-under in his final 36 holes, tying the best score in relation to par in the final two rounds of a 72-hole event on TOUR (Rocco Mediate/2003 Sentry TOC); eclipsed his previous best mark of 14-under in the final two rounds (2018 Shriners Hospitals/2nd) • 20 birdies in the final two rounds is the most in a 72-hole non-major event on the PGA TOUR (19/Kevin Chappell/2013 The American Express) • Career-high 11 birdies in the final round • Made 151 feet, 10 inches of putts in the Final Round, his most feet of putts made in a round of his TOUR career • Sat T56 and seven strokes back after 36 holes before carding weekend rounds of 65-61 • Entered the week as the highest-ranked player in the field (World No. 10) • Third career start at The American Express and second top-10 (2019/T9) Miscellaneous notes • Cameron Davis (-20/3rd) posted eight birdies in the final round for a bogey-free 8-under 64 and secured his best career PGA TOUR finish (previous: T6/Sanderson Farms Championship); 2017 Australian Open winner notched his second top-10 of the season and fourth in his 57th career TOUR start • In his eighth final pairing/grouping since his victory at the 2016 Puerto Rico Open, Tony Finau (-19/4th) birdied his first two holes to open with a two-stroke lead but played his next 16 holes in just 2-under; marks his 35th top-10 on TOUR since his lone victory • Michael Thompson (-15/T5) carded a 6-under 30 on the front nine and at one point held a share of the lead before making triple-bogey 6 on the par-3 13th; nine birdies tied a career high in a final round on TOUR • 2020 The American Express runner-up Abraham Ancer (-15/T5) rebounded from a 1-over 73 in round three with a 6-under 66 in the final round; birdied his final three holes to finish inside the top 10 for the second consecutive year • 54-hole co-leader Max Homa (-11/T21) closed with a 4-over 76 • Defending champion Andrew Landry (-1/T64) finished with a 2-over 74 in the final round Bogey-free rounds R1 (9): Byeong Hun An (65/NT), Si Woo Kim (66/SC), Sam Ryder (67/NT), Ben Martin (67/SC), Michael Thompson (67/NT), Adam Schenk (68/NT), Richy Werenski (69/NT), Joel Dahmen (69/SC), C.T. Pan (70/SC) R2 (15): Sungjae Im (65/SC), Nick Taylor (66/SC), Abraham Ancer (65/NT), Emiliano Grillo (66/SC), Doug Ghim (68/NT), Brendan Steele (68/SC), Paul Casey (65/NT), Richy Werenski (68/SC), Matt Jones (68/NT), Adam Hadwin (66/NT), Jimmy Walker (70/NT), Brian Stuard (65/NT), Chase Seiffert (67/NT), Scott Stallings (67/SC), Phil Mickelson (72/SC) R3 (6): Russell Knox (64), Si Woo Kim (67), Paul Casey (68), Michael Thompson (68), Francesco Molinari (69), Zach Johnson (71) R4 (5): Si Woo Kim (64), Patrick Cantlay (61), Cameron Davis (64), Henrik Norlander (66), Chris Kirk (68) Scoring averages Front 9 Back 9 Total Cumulative SC/R1 35.538 35.513 71.051 - NT/R1 35.513 34.872 70.385 - Front 9 Back 9 Total Cumulative SC/R2 35.667 35.333 71.000 71.032 NT/R2 35.936 35.577 71.513 70.949 SC/R3 34.915 35.592 70.507 70.868 SC/R4 35.000 35.620 70.620 70.798 .