Barracuda Championship R4

Barracuda Championship 2021 R4
August 05-08
Tahoe Mountain Club (Old Greenwood), Truckee, California
$3,500,000
Round 1, Round 2, Round 3

Estimated reading time: 7 minutes

South Africa’s Erik van Rooyen scored 16 points on the final day in the modified Stableford scoring system to win his first PGA Tour title in the Barracuda Championship with 50 points. He eagled the par-4 8th, fired six birdies and made a single bogey at the par-5 5th at Tahoe Mountain Club’s Old Greenwood Course.

Barracuda Championship 2021 R4

“It’s massive. It’s massive. It’s been a difficult sort of 18 months for me golf-wise. I haven’t been playing well. There’s been glimpses of it the last six months. But I haven’t been able to put four good rounds together. So I was well aware of the position I was in going into the playoffs [for the FedEx Cup], knowing that I’ve only got eight rounds left to make that cut.

“And to win here this week, I mean, under the conditions, you know, the pressure that I was under, I’m going to take so much confidence from this.”

Barracuda Championship 2021 R4

The tournament is the only event on the PGA Tour to use the modified Stableford scoring system where an albatross is worth 8 points, eagles are 5, birdies are worth 2 and pars score 0. A point is substracted for a bogey and double bogeys or worse cost 3 points.

Van Rooyen gains entry into next year’s PGA Championship but not to the Masters as the Championship was held opposite the WGC-FedEx St. Jude Invitational.

Barracuda Championship 2021 R4

Van Rooyen moves up to 78th in the FedExCup standings, well within the top 125 who will earn spots in the Playoff after next week’s Wyndham Championship.

“Obviously, this was, in my mind, kind of the next step for what I wanted to achieve. I’ve got big dreams and aspirations, and winning on the PGA Tour was certainly part of that. I’m really, really happy.

“I just stayed so patient. I saw that Andrew Putnam got off to a really, really quick start. He was 45 points pretty early on. And there’s really nothing I could do about that. I’ve got to put one foot in front of the next. And I did that. And then the eagle on eight was just a massive boost.”

Barracuda Championship 2021 R4

Putnam eagled the par-5 2nd, made four birdies and two bogeys to ckose with 11 points and finished second with a total of 45 points.

“It was a dream start, birdie-eagle-birdie-birdie, and then just kind of hit the brakes and stalled out a bit,” said Putnam. “And just didn’t get it to happen those last few holes.”

Scott Piercy finished third after a final round 11 points to close with a 44 total, one ahead of overnight leader Adam Schenk who scored five points in the final round.

“It was unfortunate I didn’t have my best stuff today,” said Schenk. “I didn’t play good enough to win. He made a lot of putts, didn’t really make many mistakes. And he just deserved it more than I did, for sure.”

Barracuda Championship 2021 R4

Pos.	Player	Round	R1	R2	R3	R4	Total
1	Erik van Rooyen	16	7	17	10	16	50
2	Andrew Putnam	11	10	15	9	11	45
3	Scott Piercy	11	10	15	8	11	44
4	Adam Schenk	5	8	19	11	5	43
5	Brandon Hagy	18	9	9	5	18	41
6	Roger Sloan	14	11	4	11	14	40
T7	Gary Woodland	12	2	14	10	12	38
T7	Joel Dahmen	5	16	10	7	5	38
T9	Vincent Whaley	8	7	9	12	8	36
T9	Sean O’Hair	7	1	11	17	7	36
T11	Lee Hodges	17	3	13	2	17	35
T11	Bo Van Pelt	8	3	15	9	8	35
T13	Patrick Rodgers	13	3	7	11	13	34
T13	Taylor Pendrith	4	3	13	14	4	34
T15	Austin Cook	19	1	12	1	19	33
T15	Greyson Sigg	11	2	8	12	11	33
T15	Harold Varner III	6	1	14	12	6	33
T18	Scott Stallings	10	4	8	10	10	32
T18	Maverick McNealy	5	9	9	9	5	32
T20	Joseph Bramlett	11	10	6	4	11	31
T20	Michael Thompson	8	12	5	6	8	31
T20	Scott Harrington	4	13	12	2	4	31
T23	John Huh	13	4	10	3	13	30
T23	Robby Shelton	10	7	5	8	10	30
T23	Ryan Brehm	8	3	13	6	8	30
T23	Aaron Baddeley	6	3	10	11	6	30
T27	Bill Haas	13	7	5	4	13	29
T27	Ben Taylor	E	3	19	7	E	29
T27	Emiliano Grillo	-2	12	17	2	-2	29
T30	Pat Perez	13	6	4	5	13	28
T30	Kevin Tway	10	3	7	8	10	28
T30	Branden Grace	7	6	8	7	7	28
T30	Nelson Ledesma	2	10	8	8	2	28
T34	Sahith Theegala	8	10	7	2	8	27
T34	Sam Ryder	7	5	12	3	7	27
T34	Mark Baldwin	7	8	7	5	7	27
T34	Brice Garnett	5	-1	15	8	5	27
T34	Greg Chalmers	E	9	6	12	E	27
T39	Mito Pereira	8	7	3	8	8	26
T39	Davis Thompson	7	8	6	5	7	26
T39	John Pak	2	10	12	2	2	26
42	Stephan Jaeger	2	14	3	6	2	25
T43	Nick Watney	8	8	3	5	8	24
T43	Mark Hubbard	7	10	3	4	7	24
T43	Tyler Duncan	5	5	9	5	5	24
T43	Chez Reavie	4	9	5	6	4	24
T47	Fabián Gómez	10	7	6	E	10	23
T47	Satoshi Kodaira	6	5	6	6	6	23
T49	MJ Daffue	10	8	3	1	10	22
T49	Doc Redman	4	5	7	6	4	22
T51	Andrew Landry	5	2	8	6	5	21
T51	Kris Ventura	3	7	6	5	3	21
T51	Troy Merritt	1	5	8	7	1	21
T54	Tom Lewis	8	1	11	E	8	20
T54	Paul Barjon	6	6	13	-5	6	20
T54	Thomas Pieters	3	3	9	5	3	20
T54	Chesson Hadley	2	5	5	8	2	20
T54	Michael Feagles	-1	4	8	9	-1	20
T59	Michael Gligic	4	7	3	5	4	19
T59	Bo Hoag	3	7	4	5	3	19
T59	Richy Werenski	1	8	11	-1	1	19
T59	Mark Anderson	E	10	7	2	E	19
T59	Jonathan Byrd	-1	1	11	8	-1	19
T64	Chris Baker	3	9	1	4	3	17
T64	Cameron Percy	E	5	13	-1	E	17
T66	Rhein Gibson	3	6	4	2	3	15
T66	Sebastian Cappelen	9	4	6	-4	9	15
T66	Chase Seiffert	2	2	9	2	2	15
69	Sangmoon Bae	-3	6	7	4	-3	14
70	Camilo Villegas	E	3	7	2	E	12
CUT	Ben Martin		5	4			9
CUT	Ryan Armour		-1	10			9
CUT	Russell Knox		7	2			9
CUT	Zack Sucher		5	4			9
CUT	Davis Riley		-2	11			9
CUT	Akshay Bhatia		6	3			9
CUT	Austin Eckroat		2	7			9
CUT	Kyle Stanley		4	5			9
CUT	D.J. Trahan		E	9			9
CUT	Dominic Bozzelli		E	9			9
CUT	Wes Roach		9	E			9
CUT	J.J. Spaun		5	3			8
CUT	J.J. Henry		E	8			8
CUT	Alex Cejka		4	4			8
CUT	Tyler McCumber		1	7			8
CUT	Xinjun Zhang		2	6			8
CUT	Adam Hadwin		2	6			8
CUT	Michael Kim		5	3			8
CUT	Josh Teater		E	8			8
CUT	Rafael Campos		-4	12			8
CUT	Matt Marshall		4	4			8
CUT	Padraig Harrington		3	4			7
CUT	Richard S. Johnson		1	6			7
CUT	Kevin Stadler		-2	9			7
CUT	Brian Gay		2	5			7
CUT	Michael Gellerman		4	3			7
CUT	Matt Every		4	3			7
CUT	Bronson Burgoon		4	3			7
CUT	Nate Lashley		5	2			7
CUT	Matt Kuchar		-3	10			7
CUT	Shawn Stefani		4	3			7
CUT	Wyndham Clark		3	4			7
CUT	John Senden		2	4			6
CUT	Nick Taylor		4	2			6
CUT	Rob Oppenheim		E	5			5
CUT	Rafa Cabrera Bello		4	1			5
CUT	Will Gordon		4	1			5
CUT	Justin Suh		1	4			5
CUT	Aaron Wise		-1	5			4
CUT	D.A. Points		3	1			4
CUT	Brian Stuard		5	-2			3
CUT	Brendan Steele		-3	6			3
CUT	Sam Saunders		3	E			3
CUT	John Greco		E	3			3
CUT	Tom Hoge		E	2			2
CUT	Luke Donald		1	1			2
CUT	David Lingmerth		-5	7			2
CUT	Scott Brown		-2	4			2
CUT	Martin Trainer		-5	7			2
CUT	Brandt Snedeker		-1	2			1
CUT	Charlie Beljan		3	-2			1
CUT	Johnson Wagner		3	-2			1
CUT	Beau Hossler		1	-1			E
CUT	Alex Beach		4	-5			-1
CUT	Sung Kang		-6	5			-1
CUT	Andres Romero		-5	3			-2
CUT	Derek Zachman		-1	-2			-3
CUT	John Daly		-9	4			-5
CUT	Ryan Moore		-3	-4			-7
CUT	Parker McLachlin		-7	-4			-11
WD	Vaughn Taylor		-4				E
DQ	Ricky Barnes		-2	-2			E