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In the final round of the 2021 Wells Fargo Championship, Rory McIlroy carded a 3-under 68 to get to 10 under par and win his 19th PGA TOUR title, his third at Quail Hollow.

A complete list of the golf equipment Rory McIlroy used to win the PGA Tour's 2021 Wells Fargo Championship.

Alex Cejka has joined Jordan Spieth, Hideki Matsuyama, Lydia Ko and Mike Weir in ending prolonged victory droughts.

Rory McIlroy snapped an 18-month US PGA victory drought on Sunday, overcoming a tense last-hole dilemma to win his third Wells Fargo Championship by one stroke.

Rory McIlroy found his comfort zone at Quail Hollow and left with a trophy he badly needed. McIlroy closed with a 3-under 68 and made it tough on himself at the end Sunday, driving into the hazard left of the 18th fairway and needing two putts from 45 feet for a one-shot victory in the Wells Fargo Championship. What mattered was ending 18 months since his last victory in the HSBC Champions in Shanghai, along with finding a strong semblance of his game as he prepares to return to Kiawah Island for the PGA Championship.

With a big comeback and an even bigger putt, Alex Cejka ensured he won't have to wait or play his way into events for a while. Cejka won the Regions Tradition on Sunday in only his third PGA Tour Champions start, beating defending champion Steve Stricker with a birdie on the first hole of a playoff to earn a full exemption for the next two seasons. A childhood refugee from communist Czechlosovokia (now the Czech Republic), the 50-year-old Cejka made a 10-foot birdie putt on No. 18 and Stricker missed an 8-footer with a chance to extend the playoff at Greystone Golf & Country Club.

Rory McIlroy earned his first win in 553 days on Sunday in the Wells Fargo Championship, ending the second-longest winless drought of his career.

Quail Hollow would always have held a special place in the Rory McIlroy story anyway, but now the North Carolina layout surely deserves a chapter all of its very own after this dramatic turnaround. At the course where he first broke his US duck 11 years ago, McIlroy returned for another emotional win that could well go on to hold as much resonance. With a 68 - and a huge fright on the 18th - McIlroy fended off a high quality and, at stages, tightly packed PGA Tour leaderboard to lift his first title in 19 months. He arrived here at 15th in the world - his lowest ranking since 2009 - and on the back of two missed cuts at the Players and the Masters. But he left that worrying mediocrity behind, with a 10-under total one-shot success over Mexican Abraham Ancer that hauls him back up into the world's top 10. And with the USPGA taking place next week at a course where he also has a back story - McIlroy won the same major by eight shots the last time it was held at Kiawah Island in 2012 - everything seems possible for the Northern Irishman again. Could a hat-trick of Quail Hollow crowns be followed by a third Wanamaker Trophy, as he finally ends his seven-year majorless run? For now, that question can wait as McIlroy celebrates his 28th professional win, yet his first as a dad. Cheered on all the way by a passionate crowd who cared not a jot about nationality, McIlroy plainly relished performing again in a rowdy arena. McIlroy hated playing in the sterile environs of the behind-closed-doors era.

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Rory McIlroy won the Wells Fargo Championship for the third time in his career and, with it, nearly $1.5 million.

Phil Mickelson opened with a 64 at the Wells Fargo Championship, but stumbled through rounds of 75-76-76 over the next three days.

Rory McIlroy found his comfort zone at Quail Hollow and left with a trophy he badly needed.

It remains to be seen how PGA Tour shores up the two principal vulnerabilities that the upstart golf leagues have exposed.

Great Britain & Ireland has an opportunity to stage a rally on foreign soil at storied Seminole Golf Club.

After an unnecessary trip home on Friday, Bryson DeChambeau's return to Quail Hollow paid off this weekend.

There has been one hole-in-one on a par 4 in PGA Tour history. Richy Werenski nearly made it two on Sunday.

With the NCAA postseason approaching, Cardinal players thrilled to be back on campus after a year of COVID-19 craziness.

A closing birdie and a long wait for a weather delay lead Jutanugarn to her first victory in her homeland at Honda LPGA Thailand.

Angus Flanagan and Ben Schmidt earned a late half-point in foursomes and Great Britain and Ireland enter Sunday singles down just a single point.

Ariya Jutanugarn shot a 9-under-par 63 in the final round to win the LPGA Thailand by one stroke on Sunday and become the first home winner of the tournament in 14 years. Jutanugarn's overall total of 22 under 266 just edged out her fellow Thai Atthaya Thitikul, 18, who missed a four-foot birdie putt at the last to force a playoff. Jutanugarn's unblemished round included nine birdies and went some way to making up for her collapse in 2013 when she blew a two-shot lead on the 18th hole with a triple bogey that handed victory to South Korea's Inbee Park.

There were times last year when Ariya Jutanugarn felt like quitting the game. But she persevered and is a winner again.

Ireland's Mark Power comes from a talented golf family, and if GB&I can win the Walker Cup on Sunday, Power will follow in his mom's footsteps.

So many variables are in the mix at the Walker Cup, not the least of which is a stomach bug, that Sunday's finale proves to be a thrill.

Bryson DeChambeau shot a third-round 68 on Saturday in the third round of the Wells Fargo Championship, but that's not the story he'll tell about this day years from now. Instead, he'll talk about how he had to fly from Dallas back to Charlotte, N.C., to play the round at Quail Hollow Golf Club. "We did a lot of scrambling last night to get back," DeChambeau, 27, said.

After sitting the morning session due to illness, Team USA's Pierceson Coody rallied from a 2-down deficit to earn a big scalp in downing Alex Fitzpatrick of GB&I.

From tee times to TV and streaming info, here's everything you need to know about Sunday's final round of the Wells Fargo Championship.

As a stomach virus ripped through Walker Cup, forcing four alternates to play, a feisty Great Britain and Ireland team is hanging tough.

Keith Mitchell leads Rory McIlroy and a trio of players trying to end victory droughts on Sunday at the PGA Tour's Wells Fargo Championship.

Looking to defend his 2019 title, Steve Stricker is again leading the way after Saturday's third round at the Regions Tradition.

Defending champion Steve Stricker made a long eagle putt on the final hole for 7-under 65 and the third-round lead Saturday in the Regions Tradition, the first of five PGA Tour Champions majors. Stricker moved a stroke ahead of Alex Cejka with the eagle that got him to 14-under 202 at Greystone Golf & Country Club. Stricker, who won the Alabama major the last time it was held in 2019, raised his fist toward the fans just an instant before the eagle putt dropped in on the closing par 5.

The Americans lead 7-5 after Day 1 of the 48th Walker Cup, but the visiting GB&I side feels like it's more of a dead heat.

William Mouw stepped in for an ill Tyler Strafaci at the last minute and helped the U.S. to a 7-5 lead midway through the 48th Walker Cup.

Tyler Strafaci withdrew from his Walker Cup match on Saturday after becoming sick on driving range with a stomach virus.

USA's Mac Meissner and GB&I's Jake Bolton both were called into active duty as illness sidelined players during the first Walker Cup session

Given his history at Quail Hollow, Scott Stallings had no intention of playing this week. His statistician changed his mind.

Cole Hammer is one of only three returners for the U.S. Walker Cup team at Seminole, and he's already delivered in a big way.

Butch Harmon helped Gary Woodland go from a disaster in Tampa to a possible title in Charlotte.

"I learned my lesson," said Bryson DeChambeau on his 1,000-mile commute to make his Wells Fargo Championship third-round tee time.

Bryson DeChambeau is known as “the Scientist� because of his academic approach to the game and so certain was the former quantum physics student of the accuracy of his sums, that he departed this Wells Fargo Championship in North Carolina on Friday certain he had missed the cut. Yet when his private jet touched down in his hometown of Dallas, he realised – shock, horror – that his calculations had been wrong. In the three hours he had spent in the air, the wind had created havoc on the Quail Hollow leaderboard. “So yesterday I made triple bogey on the seventh [his 16th] and even though I chipped in at the eighth, I finished with a 74 on two over and thought there’s no way, I’m in 90th with 65 making it,� DeChambeau said. “But by the time I landed I was in 64th or 63rd and I’m like ‘whoops!’ � Surely the aircraft could have performed a hasty about-turn. “I hoped so, but the problem was that the crew had done their hours, so we had to get a new crew and although we tried we couldn’t work it out, so had to leave it until the early hours,� DeChambeau explained. “I went to bed at 8pm, was up at 1am and I left Dallas at 2.45am, I got here at 6.20am, drove the 30 minutes to the course, put on my clothes in the locker room and headed out. I did get a workout in my gym last night, though.� Well, of course he did, and the exhaustion was worth it as the 27-year-old shot a 68 to move to one under. However, at one stage it seemed as if DeChambeau would take emphatic advantage of his unexpected Saturday tee-time, but he double-bogeyed the 18th.

Keith Mitchell straightened out his putter and delivered big tee shots Saturday that carried him to a 6-under 66 and a two-shot lead.

Just when it appeared the U.S. was going to take a healthy lead, Great Britain-Ireland rallied to earn a tie on Saturday morning.

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With teammates battling illness, a pair of alternates stepped up for their respective sides on Day 1 of the Walker Cup foursomes.

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Bryson DeChambeau flew home to Dallas after thinking he missed the cut. He had to fly back early Saturday morning to play Round 3.

Seventy-seven players made the cut and will play the weekend at the Wells Fargo Championship. Here's the when and where on TV and tee times.

Steve Stricker finished Friday with a birdie on the final hole to push into a four-way tie for the lead at Greystone Golf and Country Club.

After Friday's second round of the Wells Fargo Championship, the cut it landed on +2, and that meant some big names heading home.

A stomach virus will keep three U.S. players and three Great Britain and Ireland players on the sidelines Saturday morning at Seminole Golf Club.

A stomach bug is traveling through both teams at the Walker Cup at Seminole Golf Club, but play will go on.