Final-Round Notes - 2021 Barracuda Championship

Final-Round Notes – Sunday, August 8, 2021

 

Weather: Hazy. High of 85. Wind SW 8-14 mph.

 

Final-Round Leaderboard

Erik van Rooyen                 +7/+17/+10/+16 – (+50)

Andrew Putnam                 +10/+15/+9/+11 – (+45)

Scott Piercy                        +10/+15/+8/+11 – (+44)

Adam Schenk                     +8/+19/+11/+5 – (+43)

 

Things to Know

• Erik van Rooyen earns first PGA TOUR victory to become the sixth consecutive first-time winner of the Barracuda Championship
• Score of +50 marks the best winning total in Barracuda Championship history since 2012 when Modified Stableford introduced
• With the win van Rooyen becomes the third player from South Africa to win on TOUR this season
• 2018 Barracuda Championship winner Andrew Putnam collects his third career runner-up finish
• Three past Barracuda Championship winners finish T7 or better (Putnam, Scott Piercy, Gary Woodland)

 

Scoring

The Barracuda Championship is employing the Modified Stableford scoring format, the first PGA TOUR event to use the format since The International in 2006. Players are allocated points based on the number of strokes taken at each hole with the goal of achieving the highest overall score.

 

Score                                                 Points

Albatross                                          +8

Eagle                                                 +5

Birdie                                                +2

Par                                                      0

Bogey                                                -1

Double bogey or worse                    -3

 

Leader (following the week)

Player	Erik van Rooyen
Age	31 (2/21/1990)
FedExCup	78
OWGR	Top 80
PGA TOUR starts	41
PGA TOUR wins	1
PGA TOUR top-10s	5
Starts in 2020-21	23
Wins in 2020-21	1
Top-10s in 2020-21	3
Barracuda starts	1
Wins at Barracuda	1
Top-10s at Barracuda	1

 

Erik van Rooyen (+50/1st)

• Earned his first career PGA TOUR win in his 41^st start at 31 years, 5 months, 18 days
• Records the best winning total (+50) in Barracuda Championship history since 2012 when Modified Stableford introduced (previous: +49 points/Geoff Ogilvy/2014)
• Becomes the sixth consecutive first-time winner of the Barracuda Championship (TOUR’s longest active streak)
• Becomes the first player since Collin Morikawa (2019) to win the Barracuda Championship in their debut
• Collects 300 FedExCup points and moves to No. 78 in the FedExCup standings; took 376 points to qualify for the FedExCup Playoffs in 2019 (last full regular season), 659 for BMW Championship and 1254 for the TOUR Championship
• Marks the third player from South Africa to win on TOUR this season (Branden Grace/Puerto Rico Open, Garrick Higgo/Palmetto Championship at Congaree); last time three different players from South Africa won during the same season was in 2010 (Tim Clark, Erie Els, Louis Oosthuizen)
• Becomes the 10th first-time winner this season
• Entered the final round four points back; the last 54-hole leader/co-leader to go on to win was Phil Mickelson at the 2021 PGA Championship
• Previous-best finish on TOUR was T3 at the 2020 Mexico Championship
• The first-year member on the PGA TOUR moves from No. 139 in the FedExCup to No. 78

 

Additional Notes

• Andrew Putnam (+45/2^nd) notched 11 points in opening three holes, highlighted by an eagle on No. 2 en route to runner-up finish; marks best finish on TOUR since 2019 Sony Open in Hawaii (2^nd)
• In his fifth tournament start and first since winning the event in 2011, Scott Piercy (+44/3^rd) posted his first top-10 finish since 2020 Waste Management Phoenix Open (T6)
• 54-hole leader Adam Schenk (+43/4^th) matches his career-best finish on TOUR (T4/2021 John Deere Classic); collects second top-20 at the event (MC/2018, T12/2020, 4th/2021)
• 2013 Barracuda Championship winner Gary Woodland (+38/T7) closed with a bogey-free +12 to collect his third top-10 finish in as many starts at the event (Won/2013, 2nd/2016, T7/2021)
• Defending champion Richy Werenski finished T59; last player to successfully defend his title at Barracuda Championship was Vaughn Taylor (2005)

 

Bogey-free rounds

R1 (2): Joel Dahmen (+16), Andrew Putnam (+10)

R2 (12): Adam Schenk (+19), Ben Taylor (+19), Emiliano Grillo (+17), Andrew Putnam (+15), Austin Cook (+12), Sean O'Hair (+11), Ryan Armour (+10), John Huh (+10), Troy Merritt (+8), Sebastian Cappelen (+6), Satoshi Kodaira (+6), Russell Knox (+2)

R3 (4): Greg Chalmers (+12), Harold Varner III (+12), Robby Shelton (+8), Satoshi Kodaira (+6)

R4 (2): Gary Woodland (+12), Scott Piercy (+11)