Final-Round Notes – Sunday, October 31, 2021
Weather: Mostly cloudy with scattered showers. High of 79. Wind SW 15-20 mph, gusting to 30 mph. Due to inclement weather, play was suspended at 12:07 p.m. and players were held in place before resuming at 12:18 p.m.
Final-Round Leaderboard
Lucas Herbert 70-65-65-69—269 (-15)
Patrick Reed 68-69-68-65—270 (-14)
Danny Lee 67-67-65-71—270 (-14)
Patrick Rodgers 68-64-69-70—271 (-13)
Things to Know
- Lucas Herbert picks up his first PGA TOUR victory in his 20th start
- The PGA TOUR rookie entered the final round trailing by four strokes; marks the third come-from-behind win at the event
- The Australian becomes the fourth international winner on the PGA TOUR in as many weeks
- World No. 24 Patrick Reed finishes T2 to record seventh runner-up on TOUR
- Playing on a Minor Medical Extension, Danny Lee secures conditional PGA TOUR status with a runner-up finish
- After holding the outright lead after the second and third rounds Taylor Pendrith shoots 5-over76 and finishes T5
- Three players finish T7 to become exempt for next week’s World Wide Technology Championship at Mayakoba: Davis Riley, Curtis Thompson and Vincent Whaley
- In the final start under his Major Medical Extension, Jim Knous earns enough FedExCup points to retain conditional PGA TOUR and full Korn Ferry Tour status
Lucas Herbert (Winner following the week)
Statistic | Lucas Herbert |
Age | 25 (December 5, 1995) |
OWGR | Projected 44 |
FedExCup | T5 |
Career PGA TOUR starts | 20 |
Career PGA TOUR wins | 1 |
Career PGA TOUR top-10s | 1 |
Starts at Butterfield Bermuda Championship | 1 |
Wins at Butterfield Bermuda Championship | 1 |
Top-10s at Butterfield Bermuda Championship | 1 |
- Picks up his first PGA TOUR victory in his 20th start; previous-best career finish: T18/2021 the Memorial Tournament presented by Workday
- At 25 years, 10 months, 26 days, becomes the youngest winner of the Butterfield Bermuda Championship
- Becomes the first player to pick up his first PGA TOUR victory at the Butterfield Bermuda Championship and first first-time winner of the season
- Records the third come-from-behind win at the event; entered the final round trailing Taylor Pendrith by four strokes and closed with a 2-under 69,
- Four-stokes marks largest come-from-behind win of the season (previous: 3/Sungjae Im/Shriners Children’s Open)
- Collects 500 FedExCup points and moves to T5 with Rory Mcllroy in the FedExCup standings; projected to move from No. 57 to within the top 45 in the Official World Golf Ranking
- Australian becomes the first international winner of the Butterfield Bermuda Championship
- Records the fourth win by an international player on the PGA TOUR in as many weeks (Sungjae Im/Korea/Shriners Children’s Open, Rory McIlroy/Northern Ireland/THE CJ CUP @ SUMMIT, Hideki Matsuyama/Japan/ZOZO CHAMPIONSHIP)
- With second European Tour title at the 2021 Dubai Duty Free Irish Open earlier this year, becomes the first Aussie since Adam Scott in 2008 (Qatar Masters, AT&T Byron Nelson) to win individual titles on both the European Tour and PGA TOUR in the same year
- Becomes the 10th PGA TOUR player to win on Halloween and first since 2004 (Vijay Singh/Valspar Championship)
- Earned PGA TOUR membership for this season via Korn Ferry Tour Finals, highlighted by a T4 finish at 2021 Albertsons Boise Open
Additional Notes
- The highest-ranked player in the field at No. 24 on the Official World Golf Ranking, Patrick Reed, closes with a 6-under 65 to finish T2 (-14) and record his seventh runner-up result on TOUR; marks best finish since fifth at 2021 the Memorial Tournament presented by Workday
- Playing in the final group, New Zealander Danny Lee (T2/-14) was in search of his first PGA TOUR win since the 2015 Greenbrier Classic; playing on a Minor Medical Extension secured conditional PGA TOUR status and has two tournaments remaining to earn 44 FedExCup points to regain full PGA TOUR status
- Patrick Rodgers (4th/-13) improves results with each start in Bermuda (MC/2019, T59/2020, 4th/2021); marks second top-10 finish of the season (T6/Fortinet Championship)
- Scott Stallings (T5/-12) started the day 14-strokes (T50) off the lead and recorded nine birdies en route to 9-under 62, the low round of the day and his lowest round in an individual stroke play event on TOUR since the 2017 Barbasol Championship (60/R3)
- PGA TOUR rookie Taylor Pendrith (T5/-12) held the outright lead after the second and third rounds before shooting a final-round 5-over 76; marks best finish of his TOUR career (previous: T11/2021 Barbasol Championship); week highlighted by matching the Butterfield Bermuda Championship 36-hole scoring record and tying the 54-hole tournament record
- With T7 (-11) results, Davis Riley, Curtis Thompson and Vincent Whaley post career-best results and earn a start in next week’s World Wide Technology Championship at Mayakoba
- Peter Malnati (T7/-11) earns his second top-25 finish of the season (T22/Sanderson Farms Championship)
- Defending champion Brian Gay finished T12 at 10-under; first player to record 100 putts or less in a tournament this season
- In the final start under his Major Medical Extension, Jim Knous (T56/-2) earns enough FedExCup points to retain conditional PGA TOUR and full Korn Ferry Tour status for the remainder of the season; entered the week needing 3.516 points (solo 67th) to do so and earned 5 points with the five-way T57
Course Statistics
Toughest Hole Easiest Hole
R1: Par-4 15th (4.531) Par-5 17th (4.469)
R2: Par-3 16th (3.407) Par-5 17th (4.260)
R3: Par-3 16th (3.280) Par-5 7th (4.400)
R4: Par-3 8th (3.347) Par-5 2nd (4.653)
Total: Par-3 16th (3.341) Par-5 17th (4.156)
Scoring Averages
Front 9 Back 9 Total Cumulative
R1: 36.496 36.168 72.664 ---
R2: 34.724 34.512 69.236 70.992
R3: 34.187 34.907 69.093 70.552
R4: 35.640 36.040 71.680 70.764
Bogey-free rounds
R1 (1): Chad Ramey (65)
R2 (9): Mark Hubbard (63), Max McGreevy (65), Camilo Villegas (65), Luke Donald (66), Alex Smalley (67), Christiaan Bezuidenhout (68), Matthew NeSmith (68), Andrew Novak (68), Olin Browne (69)
R3 (9): Ben Kohles (64), Brian Gay (64), Jonathan Byrd (65), Mito Pereira (65), Greyson Sigg (66), Brandon Wu (66), Stephan Jaeger (66), Justin Lower (67), Adam Svensson (68)
R4 (3): Scott Stallings (62), J.J. Spaun (68), Graeme McDowell (70)
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