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Wells Fargo Championship

2017-05-04 · Eagle Point Golf Club

Winner
Brian Harman
Winning score
-10
Field
152
Field strength
+0.014 SG

The 2016-2017 Wells Fargo Championship was played at Eagle Point Golf Club, starting 4 May 2017. Brian Harman won at 10 under par (278), 1 stroke ahead of Dustin Johnson. The winning card was 71, 69, 70 and 68, and the win paid $1,350,000. Dustin Johnson and Pat Perez tied for second. 152 players started the event. The field averaged +0.014 strokes gained per round against the tour baseline, with strokes-gained data covering 83% 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 152. Search finds any player in the field, including those who missed the cut.

Model score

Backtest · reconstructed

Our 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 79 players actually finished. It was not published in advance, so this measures the model, not a call we made.

Dgrade
Rank correlation
+0.251
Top-20 hit rate
40%
Top-10 avg model rank
33.0

Grade is this event’s percentile (39th) 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.

PlayerModelFinish
Paul Casey1st12th
Dustin Johnson2nd2nd
Phil Mickelson2nd18th
Adam Scott4th36th
Daniel Berger5th36th
Patrick Reed6th12th
J.B. Holmes7th36th
Francesco Molinari8th24th
Pat Perez9th2nd
Zach Johnson10th18th

Where it was most wrong

Largest gaps between rank and result, either direction.

PlayerModelFinish
Kevin Tway67th5th(62)
Chris Kirk13th71st(+58)
Jonathan Randolph63rd8th(55)
Byeong Hun An55th8th(47)
Xander Schauffele71st24th(47)
Brett Drewitt78th31st(47)
Mark Anderson69th24th(45)
Morgan Hoffmann56th12th(44)
Brandon Hagy62nd18th(44)
Jason Kokrak24th66th(+42)

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 Eagle Point Golf Club in Wilmington, 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 2016-2017?

Brian Harman won the 2016-2017 Wells Fargo Championship at Eagle Point Golf Club, finishing 10 under par.

Where was the 2016-2017 Wells Fargo Championship played?

The 2016-2017 Wells Fargo Championship was played at Eagle Point Golf Club, starting 4 May 2017.

What was the winning score at the 2016-2017 Wells Fargo Championship?

The winning score was 10 under par (278 strokes), posted by Brian Harman.

How many players were in the Wells Fargo Championship field?

152 players started the 2016-2017 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.