Tournaments / 2026
Bank of Utah Championship
2026-10-01 · Black Desert Resort
- Winner
- Austin Smotherman
- Winning score
- -26
- Field
- 113
- Field strength
- -0.129 SG
The 2026 Bank of Utah Championship was played at Black Desert Resort, starting 1 October 2026. Austin Smotherman won at 26 under par (258), 2 strokes ahead of Doug Ghim. The winning card was 63, 62, 65 and 68, and the win paid $1,080,000. Doug Ghim finished second, and David Ford and Trace Crowe tied for third. 113 players started the event. The field averaged -0.129 strokes gained per round against the tour baseline, with strokes-gained data covering 81% of the players. The full leaderboard below lists every player's finish position, round scores and total to par. Every figure on this page comes from the published final leaderboard for the event — nothing here is estimated or modelled.
Final leaderboard
Top 20 of 113. Search finds any player in the field, including those who missed the cut.
- Austin Smotherman
- Pos
- 1
- R1
- 63
- R2
- 62
- R3
- 65
- R4
- 68
- Total
- 258
- Doug Ghim
- Pos
- 2
- R1
- 65
- R2
- 62
- R3
- 64
- R4
- 69
- Total
- 260
- David Ford
- Pos
- T3
- R1
- 65
- R2
- 67
- R3
- 65
- R4
- 64
- Total
- 261
- Trace Crowe
- Pos
- T3
- R1
- 66
- R2
- 65
- R3
- 64
- R4
- 66
- Total
- 261
- Ben James
- Pos
- T5
- R1
- 65
- R2
- 66
- R3
- 64
- R4
- 67
- Total
- 262
- Kevin Streelman
- Pos
- T5
- R1
- 63
- R2
- 64
- R3
- 68
- R4
- 67
- Total
- 262
- Luke Clanton
- Pos
- T7
- R1
- 67
- R2
- 69
- R3
- 65
- R4
- 62
- Total
- 263
- Steven Fisk
- Pos
- T7
- R1
- 63
- R2
- 66
- R3
- 67
- R4
- 67
- Total
- 263
- Johnny Keefer
- Pos
- T10
- R1
- 67
- R2
- 67
- R3
- 62
- R4
- 69
- Total
- 265
- Neal Shipley
- Pos
- T10
- R1
- 67
- R2
- 63
- R3
- 67
- R4
- 68
- Total
- 265
- Rico Hoey
- Pos
- T10
- R1
- 64
- R2
- 69
- R3
- 65
- R4
- 67
- Total
- 265
- A.J. Ewart
- Pos
- T13
- R1
- 65
- R2
- 67
- R3
- 65
- R4
- 69
- Total
- 266
- Alejandro Tosti
- Pos
- T13
- R1
- 66
- R2
- 69
- R3
- 67
- R4
- 64
- Total
- 266
- Ben Kohles
- Pos
- T13
- R1
- 66
- R2
- 67
- R3
- 66
- R4
- 67
- Total
- 266
- Billy Horschel
- Pos
- T13
- R1
- 66
- R2
- 67
- R3
- 68
- R4
- 65
- Total
- 266
- Harry Hall
- Pos
- T13
- R1
- 67
- R2
- 68
- R3
- 66
- R4
- 65
- Total
- 266
- Lee Hodges
- Pos
- T13
- R1
- 67
- R2
- 68
- R3
- 67
- R4
- 64
- Total
- 266
- Michael Brennan
- Pos
- T13
- R1
- 64
- R2
- 66
- R3
- 71
- R4
- 65
- Total
- 266
- Zach Bauchou
- Pos
- T13
- R1
- 62
- R2
- 69
- R3
- 69
- R4
- 66
- Total
- 266
- Chris Kirk
- Pos
- T21
- R1
- 68
- R2
- 63
- R3
- 66
- R4
- 70
- Total
- 267
Model score
Backtest · reconstructedOur course-fit model re-run as it would have seen this week — using only data that existed before the first tee shot — then compared with how the 69 players actually finished. It was not published in advance, so this measures the model, not a call we made.
- Rank correlation
- +0.160
- Top-20 hit rate
- 45%
- Top-10 avg model rank
- 33.1
Grade is this event’s percentile (9th) against every other event we have scored — not an absolute pass mark. Rank correlation runs −1 to +1, where 0 is a coin flip and a full-field golf model landing near +0.35 is a genuine read.
Who the model liked
Its top 10, and where they finished.
| Player | Model | Finish |
|---|---|---|
| Kevin Yu | 1st | 32nd |
| Harry Hall | 2nd | 13th |
| Michael Brennan | 3rd | 13th |
| Ben Kohles | 4th | 13th |
| Nick Taylor | 5th | 53rd |
| Doug Ghim | 6th | 2nd |
| Jackson Koivun | 7th | 65th |
| Davis Thompson | 8th | 62nd |
| Ben James | 9th | 5th |
| Eric Cole | 10th | 65th |
Where it was most wrong
Largest gaps between rank and result, either direction.
| Player | Model | Finish |
|---|---|---|
| Jackson Koivun | 7th | 65th(+58) |
| Eric Cole | 10th | 65th(+55) |
| Davis Thompson | 8th | 62nd(+54) |
| Alejandro Tosti | 65th | 13th(−52) |
| Trace Crowe | 54th | 3rd(−51) |
| Nick Taylor | 5th | 53rd(+48) |
| David Ford | 49th | 3rd(−46) |
| Luke Clanton | 52nd | 7th(−45) |
| Marco Penge | 25th | 68th(+43) |
| Neal Shipley | 53rd | 10th(−43) |
One known caveat. Player stats, form and course history are all restricted to what existed before this event. The course archetype is not — it is derived from the venue’s full history, including this edition. That flatters the model slightly and equally at every venue. How the model works.
This event in the model
OTIS published a course-fit ranking for this field before the event started. It is stored exactly as it was published and never rewritten, so it can be read against the finishing order above.
The model published for this eventThis week's modelProbabilities and the track recordHow the model works
The venue
This event was played at Black Desert Resort in Ivins, Utah, USA. The venue page carries its scorecard, hosting history and every other tour event played there.
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Where these numbers come from
Finishes, round scores and to-par figures are the published final leaderboard for this event. Nothing is estimated or interpolated — where no value was published, this page shows a gap rather than a guess. Full sourcing notes are on the methodology page, and every stat name is defined in the glossary.