Tournaments / 2015-2016
Wells Fargo Championship
2016-05-05 · Quail Hollow Club
- Winner
- James Hahn
- Winning score
- -9
- Field
- 153
- Field strength
- +0.066 SG
The 2015-2016 Wells Fargo Championship was played at Quail Hollow Club, starting 5 May 2016. James Hahn won at 9 under par (279). The winning card was 70, 71, 68 and 70, and the win paid $1,314,000. Roberto Castro finished second, and Justin Rose was third. 153 players started the event. The field averaged +0.066 strokes gained per round against the tour baseline, with strokes-gained data covering 89% 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 PGA Tour's published final leaderboard for the event — nothing here is estimated or modelled.
Final leaderboard
Top 20 of 153. Search finds any player in the field, including those who missed the cut.
- James Hahn
- Pos
- P1
- R1
- 70
- R2
- 71
- R3
- 68
- R4
- 70
- Total
- 279
- Roberto Castro
- Pos
- P2
- R1
- 71
- R2
- 66
- R3
- 71
- R4
- 71
- Total
- 279
- Justin Rose
- Pos
- 3
- R1
- 70
- R2
- 70
- R3
- 69
- R4
- 71
- Total
- 280
- Andrew Loupe
- Pos
- T4
- R1
- 65
- R2
- 71
- R3
- 74
- R4
- 71
- Total
- 281
- Phil Mickelson
- Pos
- T4
- R1
- 69
- R2
- 70
- R3
- 76
- R4
- 66
- Total
- 281
- Rickie Fowler
- Pos
- T4
- R1
- 71
- R2
- 68
- R3
- 68
- R4
- 74
- Total
- 281
- Rory McIlroy
- Pos
- T4
- R1
- 73
- R2
- 69
- R3
- 73
- R4
- 66
- Total
- 281
- Lucas Glover
- Pos
- 8
- R1
- 71
- R2
- 70
- R3
- 70
- R4
- 71
- Total
- 282
- Danny Lee
- Pos
- T9
- R1
- 72
- R2
- 71
- R3
- 73
- R4
- 67
- Total
- 283
- Fabián Gómez
- Pos
- T9
- R1
- 75
- R2
- 69
- R3
- 69
- R4
- 70
- Total
- 283
- Chesson Hadley
- Pos
- T11
- R1
- 71
- R2
- 67
- R3
- 76
- R4
- 70
- Total
- 284
- Hideki Matsuyama
- Pos
- T11
- R1
- 74
- R2
- 71
- R3
- 70
- R4
- 69
- Total
- 284
- Tim Wilkinson
- Pos
- T11
- R1
- 68
- R2
- 73
- R3
- 70
- R4
- 73
- Total
- 284
- Brendan Steele
- Pos
- T14
- R1
- 71
- R2
- 70
- R3
- 72
- R4
- 72
- Total
- 285
- Daniel Summerhays
- Pos
- T14
- R1
- 69
- R2
- 75
- R3
- 71
- R4
- 70
- Total
- 285
- Retief Goosen
- Pos
- T14
- R1
- 69
- R2
- 72
- R3
- 71
- R4
- 73
- Total
- 285
- Adam Scott
- Pos
- T17
- R1
- 73
- R2
- 70
- R3
- 72
- R4
- 71
- Total
- 286
- Daniel Berger
- Pos
- T17
- R1
- 68
- R2
- 71
- R3
- 74
- R4
- 73
- Total
- 286
- David Lingmerth
- Pos
- T17
- R1
- 71
- R2
- 71
- R3
- 76
- R4
- 68
- Total
- 286
- Francesco Molinari
- Pos
- T17
- R1
- 72
- R2
- 70
- R3
- 73
- R4
- 71
- Total
- 286
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 78 players actually finished. It was not published in advance, so this measures the model, not a call we made.
- Rank correlation
- +0.368
- Top-20 hit rate
- 60%
- Top-10 avg model rank
- 25.0
Grade is this event’s percentile (75th) 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 | 4th |
| Justin Rose | 2nd | 3rd |
| Hideki Matsuyama | 3rd | 11th |
| Rickie Fowler | 4th | 4th |
| Robert Streb | 5th | 28th |
| Phil Mickelson | 6th | 4th |
| Paul Casey | 7th | 41st |
| Brendan Steele | 8th | 14th |
| J.B. Holmes | 9th | 53rd |
| Kevin Chappell | 10th | 41st |
Where it was most wrong
Largest gaps between rank and result, either direction.
| Player | Model | Finish |
|---|---|---|
| Luke Donald | 12th | 71st(+59) |
| Graham DeLaet | 20th | 77th(+57) |
| Tim Wilkinson | 68th | 11th(−57) |
| Andrew Loupe | 56th | 4th(−52) |
| Fabián Gómez | 61st | 9th(−52) |
| Chesson Hadley | 62nd | 11th(−51) |
| James Hahn | 49th | 1st(−48) |
| Dawie van der Walt | 76th | 28th(−48) |
| J.B. Holmes | 9th | 53rd(+44) |
| Harold Varner III | 67th | 24th(−43) |
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.
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.
Common questions
Who won the Wells Fargo Championship in 2015-2016?
- James Hahn won the 2015-2016 Wells Fargo Championship at Quail Hollow Club, finishing 9 under par.
Where was the 2015-2016 Wells Fargo Championship played?
- The 2015-2016 Wells Fargo Championship was played at Quail Hollow Club, starting 5 May 2016.
What was the winning score at the 2015-2016 Wells Fargo Championship?
- The winning score was 9 under par (279 strokes), posted by James Hahn.
How many players were in the Wells Fargo Championship field?
- 153 players started the 2015-2016 Wells Fargo Championship. Every one of them appears on the leaderboard below.
Where these numbers come from
Finishes, round scores and to-par figures are the PGA Tour's own published final leaderboard for this event. Nothing is estimated or interpolated — where the tour published no value, 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.