Sunday, August 15, 2021

Final-Round Notes - 2021 Wyndham Championship

Final-Round Notes – Sunday, August 15, 2021

 

Weather: Cloudy. High of 83. Wind E 4-8 mph. Due to anticipated thunderstorms, final-round tee times were moved to 7-9:12 a.m. ET in threesomes off Nos. 1 and 10. Due to wet course conditions, preferred lies were in effect.

 

Final Leaderboard                 Scores                                                 Updated playoff records (official events)

Kevin Kisner                             65-68-66-66—265 (-15)*                      1-5

Kevin Na                                    68-64-67-66—265 (-15)                      1-4

Branden Grace                        66-69-64-66—265 (-15)                         0-1

Si Woo Kim                               66-68-67-64—265 (-15)                       0-3

Adam Scott                               66-70-64-65—265 (-15)                       3-1

Roger Sloan                              71-64-64-66—265 (-15)                       0-1

Webb Simpson                        65-65-70-66—266 (-14)

Kevin Streelman                     66-66-68-66—266 (-14)

Russell Henley                         62-64-69-71—266 (-14)

 

*won with a birdie (3) on the second playoff hole (No. 18); all six players made par (4) on the first extra hole (No. 18)

 

Things to Know

  • Kevin Kisner wins the Wyndham Championship in a six-man playoff, earning his fourth PGA TOUR title and first via a playoff (was previously 0-5)
  • Six players ties the PGA TOUR record for most in a playoff (1994 AT&T Byron Nelson, 2001 The Genesis Invitational)
  • Three players entered the week outside the top 125 and moved in to qualify for the FedExCup Playoffs (Roger Sloan, Scott Piercy, Chesson Hadley)
  • Players moving out of the top 125: Ryan Armour (MC), Patrick Rodgers (MC), Bo Hoag (MC) 
  • Justin Rose made bogey on the 18th hole and would have qualified for the FedExCup Playoffs with a par; at No. 126 in the FedExCup standings, Rose will miss the Playoffs for the first time in the FedExCup era (2007-present)
  • Russell Henley held a multiple-stroke lead after each of the first three rounds and missed the playoff by one stroke after a bogey at No. 18

 

Kevin Kisner (Winner/-15*)

Category

With the victory

Age

37 (2/15/1984)

FedExCup

No. 29

OWGR

No. 34 (projected)

PGA TOUR starts

255

PGA TOUR wins

4

PGA TOUR top-10s

41

Starts in 2020-21

24

Wins in 2020-21

1

Top-10s in 2020-21

4

Wyndham Championship starts

7

Wins at Wyndham Championship

1

Top-10s at Wyndham Championship 

4

 

  • Wins the Wyndham Championship in a six-man playoff with a birdie on the second extra hole (No. 18)
  • PGA TOUR wins (4): 2015 The RSM Classic, 2017 Charles Schwab Challenge, 2019 WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play, 2021 Wyndham Championship
  • Victory comes in his 255th career start at the age of 37 years, 6 months
  • Entered the week 0-5 in playoffs (2015 RBC Heritage, 2015 THE PLAYERS Championship, 2015 Greenbrier Classic, 2017 Zurich Classic of New Orleans/with partner Scott Brown, 2020 The RSM Classic)
  • Moves from No. 69 to No. 29 in the FedExCup standings, qualifying for the FedExCup Playoffs for the eighth consecutive season
  • Has qualified for the TOUR Championship in five of the last six seasons, with a career-best finish of No. 9 in the FedExCup standings in 2019
  • Top-10 finishes in four of his last five starts at the Wyndham Championship (T8/2014, T10/2016, T42/2017, T3/2020, Won/2021) and has yet to miss a cut in seven starts

 

Most players in a sudden-death playoff

PGA TOUR history

No.

Tournament

Participants

6

2021 Wyndham Championship

Kevin Kisner def. 

Kevin Na, Branden Grace, Si Woo Kim, Adam Scott, Roger Sloan

6

2001 The Genesis Invitational

Robert Allenby def.

Brandel Chamblee, Dennis Paulson, Jeff Sluman, Bob Tway, Toshi Izawa

6

1994 AT&T Byron Nelson

Neal Lancaster def. 

Tom Byrum, David Edwards, Yoshinori Mizumaki, David Ogrin, Mark Carnevale

 

FedExCup Playoffs notes

  • Three players entered the week outside the top 125 in the FedExCup standings and went on to qualify for the FedExCup Playoffs

Player

Finish

Entering

Current

Roger Sloan

P2

131

92

Scott Piercy

T15

126

116

Chesson Hadley

T15

132

125

 

  • Three players entered the week inside the top 125 in the FedExCup standings and failed to qualify for the FedExCup Playoffs

Player

Finish

Entering

Current

Ryan Armour

MC

122

127

Patrick Rodgers

MC

123

128

Bo Hoag

MC

125

129

 

  • Six players have now qualified for the FedExCup Playoffs in each season since the inception of the FedExCup in 2007, with three missing for the first time in 2021

Player

Wyndham result

FedExCup rank

Charley Hoffman

DNP

32

Phil Mickelson

DNP

58

Bubba Watson

T46

71

Adam Scott

P2

82

Brandt Snedeker

MC

100

Matt Kuchar

T29

120

Justin Rose

T10

126

Charles Howell III

DNP

139

Ryan Moore

MC

144

 

  • Other notable players to miss the FedExCup Playoffs include Rickie Fowler (134), Tommy Fleetwood (137), Francesco Molinari (142)

 

Runners-up (-15)

  • Kevin Na was in search of his second victory of the season, with the first coming at the Sony Open in Hawaii; Na moves to No. 24 in the FedExCup standings and has qualified for the TOUR Championship seven times in his career
  • Branden Grace stood T32 after two rounds before carding scores of 64-66 to advance to the playoff, including a 28-foot, 5-inch birdie putt at the 18th hole in the final round; Grace, who won earlier this season at the Puerto Rico Open, moves to No. 42 in the FedExCup standings
  • 2016 Wyndham Championship winner Si Woo Kim, one of three players in the playoff that won earlier this season (The American Express), carded a final-round 64 to get into the playoff; Kim falls to 0-3 in his career in playoffs
  • Adam Scott missed a 4-foot, 3-inch birdie putt on the first extra hole that would have won the tournament; Scott now has two top-10s since winning The Genesis Invitational in 2020
  • Roger Sloan entered the week No. 131 in the FedExCup standings and was one of three players to move into the top 125 (No. 92); P2 marks his second runner-up on TOUR (first: 2019 Puerto Rico Open)

 

Russell Henley (T7/-14)

  • Held the outright lead after each of the first three rounds before carding a 1-over 71 in the final round; missed a 3-foot, 11-inch par putt at the 18th hole to advance to the playoff
  • Players holding the outright lead after each of the first three rounds of a tournament this season are now 0-for-4 converting to victory (Sam Burns/The Genesis Invitational, Louis Oosthuizen/The Open Championship, Harris English/World Golf Championships-FedEx St. Jude Invitational, Henley/Wyndham Championship); last wire-to-wire winner on TOUR: Nick Taylor, 2020 AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am
  • Updated records with 18-, 36- and 54-hole lead/co-lead
    • 18: 1-for-6 (1-for-2 this season): T3/Sentry Tournament of Champions, T25/2017 THE NORTHERN TRUST, T25/2018 U.S. Open, T8/2020 THE NORTHERN TRUST, T13/2021 U.S. Open, T7/2021 Wyndham Championship
    • 36: 2-for-6 (1-for-2 this season): Won/2013 Sony Open in Hawaii, T4/2014 The RSM Classic, T3/2015 Sentry Tournament of Champions, T11/2016 Travelers Championship, T13/2021 U.S. Open, T7/2021 Wyndham Championship 
    • 54: 2-for-5 (1-for-3 this season): Won/2013 Sony Open in Hawaii, T2/2014 Dell Technologies Championship, T3/2020 THE CJ CUP @ SHADOW CREEK, T13/2021 U.S. Open, T7/2021 Wyndham Championship

 

Miscellaneous Notes

  • Will Zalatoris (T29) finishes the season with 1,296 non-member FedExCup points and is the only non-member to finish the season with as many or more non-member points as No. 125 in the FedExCup standings; Zalatoris will be a full-time PGA TOUR member at the start of the 2021-22 season
  • Chesson Hadley, who enters the FedExCup Playoffs at No. 125 in the FedExCup standings, recorded a career-low nine-hole score with a 29 on his first nine (started on No. 10), including the first hole-in-one of his career (No. 16, 160 yards, 9-iron); with the hole-in-one, 1 million Wyndham Rewards points were donated to Birdies for Backpacks and Hadley received 1 million Wyndham Rewards points

 

Course Statistics

Toughest Hole                        Easiest Hole

R1:        Par-4 14th (4.212)                   Par-5 15th (4.410)

R2:        Par-4 14th (4.346)                   Par-5 15th (4.583)

R3:        Par-4 14th (4.446)                   Par-5 5th (4.216)

R4:        Par-4 14th (4.378)                   Par-5 15th (4.432)

Week:    Par-4 14th (4.322)                   Par-5 5th (4.220)

 

Scoring Averages

                  Front 9                     Back 9                     Total                        Cumulative

R1:            33.814                      34.538                      68.353                      --

R2:            34.212                      35.429                      69.641                      68.997

R3:            33.784                      35.473                      69.257                      69.047

R4:            33.730                      34.270                      68.00                        68.878

 

Bogey-free rounds

R1 (10): Russell Henley (62), Ted Potter, Jr. (64), Michael Gligic (65), Tyler McCumber (65), Erik van Rooyen (65), Sungjae Im (66), Luke List (66), Ben Martin (67), Kevin Tway (66), Matthew Wolff (69)

R2 (6): Tyler Duncan (62), Mackenzie Hughes (63), Rory Sabbatini (64), Alex Smalley (64), Scott Piercy (66), Mito Pereira (67)

R3 (7): Roger Sloan (64), Brendon Todd (65), Will Zalatoris (65), C.T. Pan (66), Tyler McCumber (66), Sungjae Im (67), Anirban Lahiri (67)

R4 (3): Si Woo Kim (64), Brian Stuard (65), Seamus Power (68)

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