Wells Fargo Championship 2016: Leaderboard Scores, Prize-Money Payouts

Past Wells Fargo Championship winner Rickie Fowler held the 2016 tournament's 54-hole lead but collapsed in Sunday's final round at Quail Hollow Club in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Superstars Rory McIlroy and Phil Mickelson both fired off rounds of six-under 66 to create some early drama, but the last man standing was James Hahn.

A Sunday score of 70 got Hahn to nine under overall. Roberto Castro matched that total with a round of 71 to force a playoff, which Hahn prevailed in with a par on the first sudden-death hole.

Below is a listing of the top performers and the prize money they earned from a sizable $7.3 million purse:

Pos.	Player	Scores	To Par	Prize Money
1	James Hahn*	70-71-68-70	-9	$1,314,000
2	Roberto Castro	71-66-71-71	-9	$788,400
3	Justin Rose	70-70-69-71	-8	$496,400
T4	Phil Mickelson	69-70-76-66	-7	$287,438
T4	Rory McIlroy	73-69-73-66	-7	$287,438
T4	Andrew Loupe	65-71-74-71	-7	$287,438
T4	Rickie Fowler	71-68-68-74	-7	$287,438
8	Lucas Glover	71-70-70-71	-6	$226,300
T9	Danny Lee	72-71-73-67	-5	$204,400
T9	Fabian Gomez	75-69-69-70	-5	$204,400

The trio of Hahn, Castro and Justin Rose were jockeying for position on the back nine, but it wasn't the most inspiring battle down the stretch. All three of the top finishers played their last nine holes at level par or worse.

Castro bogeyed Nos. 16 and 17 and came to the par-four closing hole needing a par to get into a playoff with Hahn, who'd dropped a shot at the last with a three-putt. In pursuit of his maiden PGA Tour victory, Castro nearly carded a third straight bogey but drained a steely par putt to move on:

Unfortunately, he did bogey the 18th in the playoff because of a wayward drive that found the watery creek left of the fairway. Castro's next shot wound up in a spectator's shoe:

Hopefully, he can reflect on and laugh at that someday, especially since he got up and down for a five, but those blunders allowed Hahn to notch his second win on tour with a routine two-putt par.

ESPN's Jason Sobel had a suitable reaction to Hahn's out-of-nowhere triumph:

The shot of the day, in retrospect, had to be Hahn's remarkable eagle at the par-five seventh, which proved to be huge in light of how difficult the finish was for those in contention:

To circle back to the payouts, thanks to a barrage of birdies on their final-round scorecards, McIlroy and Mickelson earned themselves some money over the final 18 holes.

But while Mickelson was a little too far out to have a shot at the win, the Northern Irishman had a chance to go far lower than he ultimately did.

McIlroy birdied four of five holes from Nos. 7 through 11 and burned the edge on birdie bids at the next two. He then drove the par-four 14th green and left his left-to-right eagle putt from below the hole short and low, settling for a two-putt birdie.

After failing to birdie the par-five 15th, McIlroy took out some frustration on the next tee, clobbering a 388-yard drive that incited the following reaction from No Laying Up:

A subsequent lob wedge to three feet got McIlroy to seven under for the day. He followed with a nice up-and-down par at the par-three 17th, leaving himself a chance to post a good number at the 72nd hole.

Unfortunately, McIlroy pulled too much club for his approach to the last green from the fairway, airmailing the putting surface and ultimately struggling for bogey.

Mickelson's short-game mastery was on display as he started a string of three straight birdies at the 14th with a magnificent long putt from well off the green:

Fowler has to be disappointed with how he handled the overnight lead in Charlotte, but he can take solace in the fact that he had a fine overall performance ahead of a title defense at this week's Players Championship starting Thursday.

In a career-defining triumph last year, Fowler won in a playoff at TPC Sawgrass in what's often labeled as golf's fifth major. The 27-year-old is among the best in the world not to have won a major, but the floodgates could open for Fowler soon enough, especially with a strong defense in his next start.

But with both Mickelson and McIlroy on a roll entering a big event, they ought to present formidable competition to Fowler as he seeks to become the first back-to-back Players champion.

Post-Round Reaction

Hahn had to take some time to gather himself while discussing how he leaned on his support system to battle through the adversity of eight straight prior missed cuts, as the PGA Tour showed:

Ryan Lavner of Golf Channel logged the key quote from Hahn's post-playoff interview:

Instead of being deflated after the defeat—on the precipice of what could've been a career-changing win—Castro chose to be optimistic after his third top-10 finish of the season.

"I'm really excited," he said, per Sobel.

McIlroy spoke about how the end of his round unfolded as he pursued his third Wells Fargo Championship and a successful title defense.

"I had two great putts at (Nos.) 12 and 13 that didn't drop. I needed to stay aggressive at (No.) 14, that (his drive) was one of the best shots I hit all week," he said, per Golf Channel's Rex Hoggard. "There were three good chances to maybe make up a couple of shots and didn't quite do it."

McIlroy also discussed his bogey on No. 18, per Hoggard: "The second shot on (No.) 18, I was in between clubs and tried to play the shot that I felt had the best chance to get it close and make three and paid the price by not making a good swing."