Tournaments / 2018-2019
Barbasol Championship
2019-07-18 · Keene Trace Golf Club (Champion Trace)
- Winner
- Jim Herman
- Winning score
- -26
- Field
- 117
- Field strength
- -0.241 SG
The 2018-2019 Barbasol Championship was played at Keene Trace Golf Club (Champion Trace), starting 18 July 2019. Jim Herman won at 26 under par (262), 1 stroke ahead of Kelly Kraft. The winning card was 65, 65, 62 and 70, and the win paid $630,000. Kelly Kraft finished second, and Sepp Straka was third. 117 players started the event. The field averaged -0.241 strokes gained per round against the tour baseline, with strokes-gained data covering 60% 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 117. Search finds any player in the field, including those who missed the cut.
- Jim Herman
- Pos
- 1
- R1
- 65
- R2
- 65
- R3
- 62
- R4
- 70
- Total
- 262
- Kelly Kraft
- Pos
- 2
- R1
- 65
- R2
- 67
- R3
- 61
- R4
- 70
- Total
- 263
- Sepp Straka
- Pos
- 3
- R1
- 68
- R2
- 68
- R3
- 63
- R4
- 66
- Total
- 265
- Austin Cook
- Pos
- T4
- R1
- 67
- R2
- 66
- R3
- 63
- R4
- 70
- Total
- 266
- Matt Jones
- Pos
- T4
- R1
- 66
- R2
- 70
- R3
- 67
- R4
- 63
- Total
- 266
- D.J. Trahan
- Pos
- T6
- R1
- 65
- R2
- 67
- R3
- 69
- R4
- 66
- Total
- 267
- Josh Teater
- Pos
- T6
- R1
- 65
- R2
- 70
- R3
- 64
- R4
- 68
- Total
- 267
- Martin Laird
- Pos
- T6
- R1
- 68
- R2
- 66
- R3
- 70
- R4
- 63
- Total
- 267
- Dominic Bozzelli
- Pos
- T9
- R1
- 67
- R2
- 68
- R3
- 65
- R4
- 68
- Total
- 268
- Sebastián Muñoz
- Pos
- T9
- R1
- 65
- R2
- 68
- R3
- 66
- R4
- 69
- Total
- 268
- Bill Haas
- Pos
- T11
- R1
- 65
- R2
- 66
- R3
- 65
- R4
- 73
- Total
- 269
- Cam Davis
- Pos
- T11
- R1
- 67
- R2
- 69
- R3
- 69
- R4
- 64
- Total
- 269
- Denny McCarthy
- Pos
- T11
- R1
- 67
- R2
- 69
- R3
- 67
- R4
- 66
- Total
- 269
- José de Jesús Rodríguez
- Pos
- T11
- R1
- 68
- R2
- 65
- R3
- 69
- R4
- 67
- Total
- 269
- Kyle Jones
- Pos
- T15
- R1
- 67
- R2
- 71
- R3
- 65
- R4
- 67
- Total
- 270
- Nick Taylor
- Pos
- T15
- R1
- 63
- R2
- 72
- R3
- 69
- R4
- 66
- Total
- 270
- Ryan Blaum
- Pos
- T15
- R1
- 68
- R2
- 70
- R3
- 65
- R4
- 67
- Total
- 270
- Adam Schenk
- Pos
- T18
- R1
- 70
- R2
- 66
- R3
- 70
- R4
- 65
- Total
- 271
- Anders Albertson
- Pos
- T18
- R1
- 66
- R2
- 70
- R3
- 67
- R4
- 68
- Total
- 271
- Brice Garnett
- Pos
- T18
- R1
- 69
- R2
- 67
- R3
- 68
- R4
- 67
- Total
- 271
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 76 players actually finished. It was not published in advance, so this measures the model, not a call we made.
- Rank correlation
- +0.267
- Top-20 hit rate
- 45%
- Top-10 avg model rank
- 26.3
Grade is this event’s percentile (31st) 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 |
|---|---|---|
| J.T. Poston | 1st | 29th |
| Peter Malnati | 2nd | 73rd |
| Johnson Wagner | 3rd | 79th |
| Martin Laird | 4th | 6th |
| Denny McCarthy | 5th | 11th |
| Nick Taylor | 6th | 15th |
| Jhonattan Vegas | 7th | 64th |
| Ryan Armour | 8th | 53rd |
| Matt Jones | 9th | 4th |
| Austin Cook | 10th | 4th |
Where it was most wrong
Largest gaps between rank and result, either direction.
| Player | Model | Finish |
|---|---|---|
| Johnson Wagner | 3rd | 79th(+76) |
| Peter Malnati | 2nd | 73rd(+71) |
| Jim Herman | 61st | 1st(−60) |
| Jhonattan Vegas | 7th | 64th(+57) |
| Hank Lebioda | 13th | 70th(+57) |
| Kyle Jones | 70th | 15th(−55) |
| Sam Saunders | 23rd | 77th(+54) |
| José de Jesús Rodríguez | 59th | 11th(−48) |
| Anders Albertson | 65th | 18th(−47) |
| Ryan Armour | 8th | 53rd(+45) |
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 ranks every field on how well each player's game matches the course, then prices their chances. Both are published in full and graded afterwards.
This week's modelProbabilities and the track recordHow the model works
The venue
This event was played at Keene Trace Golf Club (Champion Trace) in Nicholasville, Kentucky, USA. The venue page carries its scorecard, hosting history and every other tour event played there.
Common questions
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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.