Who Wins The Wells Fargo?

With a final-round 68, McIlroy finished at 10-under 274 for a one-shot victory over Abraham Ancer.

Mitchell finished two back in a tie with Viktor Hovland. It was the first tournament McIlroy’s won three times. It was his 19th PGA Tour title and 27th worldwide.

McIlroy was clearly moved as he saluted his mother, Rose, and wife and daughter shortly after his winning putt dropped.

“For it to be Erica’s first Mother’s Day and for her to be here with Poppy, really, really cool,” he said.

“It was hard for me not to think of that coming down the last few holes and how cool that would be to see them at the back of the 18th green, but I had more pressing issues at the time, so it was pretty easy to get it out of my head. Really cool for them to be here and to be able to celebrate today.”

McIlroy also was very appreciative of the roars returning to golf. After he finished play on the 18th hole, he was serenaded with loud chants of, “Rory! Rory! Rory!”

“It felt like a long time since I won. It just feels awesome,” he said. “There’s been a lot of hard work. I’ve put my head down, I haven’t really looked too much in either direction, I’ve just tried to do what I need to do.

For a couple of months there, all that hard work seemed like it was not really getting anywhere, wasn’t providing me with much.

There’s a clear betting and FRACAS favorite in the field: Rory McIlroy. He’s the defending champion in the event, though last year’s victory came at Quail Hollow.

TPC Potomac is not a particularly good or bad course for him, but if he’s accurate off the tee he could hold a huge advantage over the field with his distance. He’s got almost a 1 in 10 chance of defending his title this week.