Tournaments / 2014-2015
Wells Fargo Championship
2015-05-14 · Quail Hollow Club
- Winner
- Rory McIlroy
- Winning score
- -21
- Field
- 152
- Field strength
- +0.01 SG
The 2014-2015 Wells Fargo Championship was played at Quail Hollow Club, starting 14 May 2015. Rory McIlroy won at 21 under par (267), 7 strokes ahead of Patrick Rodgers. The winning card was 70, 67, 61 and 69, and the win paid $1,278,000. Patrick Rodgers and Webb Simpson tied for second. 152 players started the event. The field averaged +0.01 strokes gained per round against the tour baseline, with strokes-gained data covering 91% of the players. The full leaderboard below lists every player's finish position, round scores and total to par. Every figure on this page comes from the published final leaderboard for the event — nothing here is estimated or modelled.
Final leaderboard
Top 20 of 152. Search finds any player in the field, including those who missed the cut.
- Rory McIlroy
- Pos
- 1
- R1
- 70
- R2
- 67
- R3
- 61
- R4
- 69
- Total
- 267
- Patrick Rodgers
- Pos
- T2
- R1
- 68
- R2
- 68
- R3
- 70
- R4
- 68
- Total
- 274
- Webb Simpson
- Pos
- T2
- R1
- 67
- R2
- 67
- R3
- 68
- R4
- 72
- Total
- 274
- Gary Woodland
- Pos
- T4
- R1
- 70
- R2
- 71
- R3
- 68
- R4
- 67
- Total
- 276
- Phil Mickelson
- Pos
- T4
- R1
- 71
- R2
- 66
- R3
- 71
- R4
- 68
- Total
- 276
- Robert Streb
- Pos
- T4
- R1
- 65
- R2
- 69
- R3
- 71
- R4
- 71
- Total
- 276
- Geoff Ogilvy
- Pos
- T7
- R1
- 69
- R2
- 69
- R3
- 71
- R4
- 68
- Total
- 277
- Justin Thomas
- Pos
- T7
- R1
- 69
- R2
- 73
- R3
- 65
- R4
- 70
- Total
- 277
- Brendan Steele
- Pos
- T9
- R1
- 69
- R2
- 69
- R3
- 68
- R4
- 72
- Total
- 278
- Jason Bohn
- Pos
- T9
- R1
- 72
- R2
- 68
- R3
- 69
- R4
- 69
- Total
- 278
- Kevin Streelman
- Pos
- T9
- R1
- 69
- R2
- 71
- R3
- 70
- R4
- 68
- Total
- 278
- Shawn Stefani
- Pos
- T9
- R1
- 69
- R2
- 70
- R3
- 70
- R4
- 69
- Total
- 278
- Danny Lee
- Pos
- T13
- R1
- 71
- R2
- 69
- R3
- 69
- R4
- 70
- Total
- 279
- Jim Herman
- Pos
- T13
- R1
- 71
- R2
- 69
- R3
- 68
- R4
- 71
- Total
- 279
- Scott Brown
- Pos
- T13
- R1
- 71
- R2
- 68
- R3
- 69
- R4
- 71
- Total
- 279
- Boo Weekley
- Pos
- T16
- R1
- 71
- R2
- 70
- R3
- 67
- R4
- 72
- Total
- 280
- Kevin Chappell
- Pos
- T16
- R1
- 66
- R2
- 73
- R3
- 74
- R4
- 67
- Total
- 280
- Tony Finau
- Pos
- T16
- R1
- 73
- R2
- 67
- R3
- 70
- R4
- 70
- Total
- 280
- Carlos Ortiz
- Pos
- 19
- R1
- 70
- R2
- 71
- R3
- 66
- R4
- 74
- Total
- 281
- Chesson Hadley
- Pos
- T20
- R1
- 67
- R2
- 77
- R3
- 70
- R4
- 68
- Total
- 282
Model score
Backtest · reconstructedOur course-fit model re-run as it would have seen this week — using only data that existed before the first tee shot — then compared with how the 80 players actually finished. It was not published in advance, so this measures the model, not a call we made.
- Rank correlation
- +0.241
- Top-20 hit rate
- 45%
- Top-10 avg model rank
- 22.2
Grade is this event’s percentile (25th) against every other event we have scored — not an absolute pass mark. Rank correlation runs −1 to +1, where 0 is a coin flip and a full-field golf model landing near +0.35 is a genuine read.
Who the model liked
Its top 10, and where they finished.
| Player | Model | Finish |
|---|---|---|
| Rory McIlroy | 1st | 1st |
| Hideki Matsuyama | 2nd | 20th |
| Ryan Moore | 3rd | 47th |
| Henrik Stenson | 4th | 58th |
| Phil Mickelson | 5th | 4th |
| Bill Haas | 6th | 68th |
| Patrick Reed | 7th | 58th |
| Webb Simpson | 8th | 2nd |
| Russell Knox | 9th | 58th |
| Gary Woodland | 10th | 4th |
Where it was most wrong
Largest gaps between rank and result, either direction.
| Player | Model | Finish |
|---|---|---|
| Patrick Rodgers | 65th | 2nd(−63) |
| Geoff Ogilvy | 70th | 7th(−63) |
| Bill Haas | 6th | 68th(+62) |
| Jonathan Randolph | 79th | 20th(−59) |
| Freddie Jacobson | 24th | 79th(+55) |
| Henrik Stenson | 4th | 58th(+54) |
| Patrick Reed | 7th | 58th(+51) |
| Jim Herman | 63rd | 13th(−50) |
| Steven Alker | 78th | 28th(−50) |
| Russell Knox | 9th | 58th(+49) |
One known caveat. Player stats, form and course history are all restricted to what existed before this event. The course archetype is not — it is derived from the venue’s full history, including this edition. That flatters the model slightly and equally at every venue. How the model works.
This event in the model
OTIS ranks every field on how well each player's game matches the course, then prices their chances. Both are published in full and graded afterwards.
This week's modelProbabilities and the track recordHow the model works
The venue
This event was played at Quail Hollow Club in Charlotte, North Carolina, USA. The venue page carries its scorecard, hosting history and every other tour event played there.
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Where these numbers come from
Finishes, round scores and to-par figures are the published final leaderboard for this event. Nothing is estimated or interpolated — where no value was published, this page shows a gap rather than a guess. Full sourcing notes are on the methodology page, and every stat name is defined in the glossary.