Tournaments / 2020-2021
Wells Fargo Championship
2021-05-06 · Quail Hollow Club
- Winner
- Rory McIlroy
- Winning score
- -10
- Field
- 155
- Field strength
- +0.085 SG
The 2020-2021 Wells Fargo Championship was played at Quail Hollow Club, starting 6 May 2021. Rory McIlroy won at 10 under par (274), 1 stroke ahead of Abraham Ancer. The winning card was 72, 66, 68 and 68, and the win paid $1,458,000. Abraham Ancer finished second, and Keith Mitchell and Viktor Hovland tied for third. 155 players started the event. The field averaged +0.085 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 155. Search finds any player in the field, including those who missed the cut.
- Rory McIlroy
- Pos
- 1
- R1
- 72
- R2
- 66
- R3
- 68
- R4
- 68
- Total
- 274
- Abraham Ancer
- Pos
- 2
- R1
- 69
- R2
- 70
- R3
- 70
- R4
- 66
- Total
- 275
- Keith Mitchell
- Pos
- T3
- R1
- 67
- R2
- 71
- R3
- 66
- R4
- 72
- Total
- 276
- Viktor Hovland
- Pos
- T3
- R1
- 69
- R2
- 72
- R3
- 68
- R4
- 67
- Total
- 276
- Gary Woodland
- Pos
- 5
- R1
- 67
- R2
- 69
- R3
- 70
- R4
- 71
- Total
- 277
- Luke List
- Pos
- T6
- R1
- 67
- R2
- 72
- R3
- 68
- R4
- 72
- Total
- 279
- Matt Wallace
- Pos
- T6
- R1
- 69
- R2
- 67
- R3
- 73
- R4
- 70
- Total
- 279
- Patrick Reed
- Pos
- T6
- R1
- 71
- R2
- 69
- R3
- 69
- R4
- 70
- Total
- 279
- Aaron Wise
- Pos
- T9
- R1
- 72
- R2
- 71
- R3
- 68
- R4
- 69
- Total
- 280
- Bryson DeChambeau
- Pos
- T9
- R1
- 70
- R2
- 74
- R3
- 68
- R4
- 68
- Total
- 280
- Ben Martin
- Pos
- T11
- R1
- 69
- R2
- 71
- R3
- 72
- R4
- 69
- Total
- 281
- Satoshi Kodaira
- Pos
- T11
- R1
- 68
- R2
- 72
- R3
- 68
- R4
- 73
- Total
- 281
- Scott Piercy
- Pos
- T11
- R1
- 70
- R2
- 68
- R3
- 73
- R4
- 70
- Total
- 281
- Charl Schwartzel
- Pos
- T14
- R1
- 71
- R2
- 71
- R3
- 70
- R4
- 70
- Total
- 282
- Emiliano Grillo
- Pos
- T14
- R1
- 74
- R2
- 66
- R3
- 72
- R4
- 70
- Total
- 282
- Tommy Fleetwood
- Pos
- T14
- R1
- 67
- R2
- 75
- R3
- 70
- R4
- 70
- Total
- 282
- Xander Schauffele
- Pos
- T14
- R1
- 72
- R2
- 71
- R3
- 68
- R4
- 71
- Total
- 282
- Brian Harman
- Pos
- T18
- R1
- 68
- R2
- 72
- R3
- 73
- R4
- 70
- Total
- 283
- Bubba Watson
- Pos
- T18
- R1
- 70
- R2
- 69
- R3
- 71
- R4
- 73
- Total
- 283
- C.T. Pan
- Pos
- T18
- R1
- 74
- R2
- 69
- R3
- 72
- R4
- 68
- Total
- 283
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 77 players actually finished. It was not published in advance, so this measures the model, not a call we made.
- Rank correlation
- +0.430
- Top-20 hit rate
- 55%
- Top-10 avg model rank
- 20.4
Grade is this event’s percentile (81st) 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Justin Thomas | 1st | 26th |
| Bryson DeChambeau | 2nd | 9th |
| Rory McIlroy | 3rd | 1st |
| Xander Schauffele | 4th | 14th |
| Viktor Hovland | 5th | 3rd |
| Patrick Reed | 6th | 6th |
| Abraham Ancer | 7th | 2nd |
| Joaquin Niemann | 8th | 18th |
| Brian Harman | 9th | 18th |
| Russell Henley | 10th | 72nd |
Where it was most wrong
Largest gaps between rank and result, either direction.
| Player | Model | Finish |
|---|---|---|
| Satoshi Kodaira | 74th | 11th(−63) |
| Russell Henley | 10th | 72nd(+62) |
| Keith Mitchell | 62nd | 3rd(−59) |
| J.J. Spaun | 70th | 18th(−52) |
| Shane Lowry | 14th | 65th(+51) |
| Brendan Steele | 23rd | 70th(+47) |
| Ben Martin | 57th | 11th(−46) |
| Carlos Ortiz | 24th | 65th(+41) |
| C.T. Pan | 58th | 18th(−40) |
| Scott Piercy | 50th | 11th(−39) |
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.