Tournaments / 2026
Biltmore Championship Asheville
2026-09-17 · The Cliffs at Walnut Cove
- Winner
- Jacob Bridgeman
- Winning score
- -26
- Field
- 123
- Field strength
- -0.123 SG
The 2026 Biltmore Championship Asheville was played at The Cliffs at Walnut Cove, starting 17 September 2026. Jacob Bridgeman won at 26 under par (258), 2 strokes ahead of Ben James. The winning card was 66, 67, 64 and 61, and the win paid $900,000. Ben James finished second, and Neal Shipley and Ricky Castillo tied for third. 123 players started the event. The field averaged -0.123 strokes gained per round against the tour baseline, with strokes-gained data covering 74% 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 123. Search finds any player in the field, including those who missed the cut.
- Jacob Bridgeman
- Pos
- 1
- R1
- 66
- R2
- 67
- R3
- 64
- R4
- 61
- Total
- 258
- Ben James
- Pos
- 2
- R1
- 67
- R2
- 67
- R3
- 65
- R4
- 61
- Total
- 260
- Neal Shipley
- Pos
- T3
- R1
- 65
- R2
- 62
- R3
- 65
- R4
- 69
- Total
- 261
- Ricky Castillo
- Pos
- T3
- R1
- 69
- R2
- 62
- R3
- 65
- R4
- 65
- Total
- 261
- J.T. Poston
- Pos
- T5
- R1
- 68
- R2
- 66
- R3
- 69
- R4
- 60
- Total
- 263
- Jackson Koivun
- Pos
- T5
- R1
- 68
- R2
- 67
- R3
- 63
- R4
- 65
- Total
- 263
- Johnny Keefer
- Pos
- T7
- R1
- 67
- R2
- 70
- R3
- 62
- R4
- 65
- Total
- 264
- Seamus Power
- Pos
- T7
- R1
- 66
- R2
- 67
- R3
- 65
- R4
- 66
- Total
- 264
- Zecheng Dou
- Pos
- T7
- R1
- 67
- R2
- 67
- R3
- 65
- R4
- 65
- Total
- 264
- Chris Kirk
- Pos
- T10
- R1
- 65
- R2
- 69
- R3
- 66
- R4
- 65
- Total
- 265
- Haotong Li
- Pos
- T10
- R1
- 70
- R2
- 67
- R3
- 61
- R4
- 67
- Total
- 265
- John VanDerLaan
- Pos
- T10
- R1
- 68
- R2
- 66
- R3
- 65
- R4
- 66
- Total
- 265
- Marco Penge
- Pos
- T10
- R1
- 68
- R2
- 66
- R3
- 64
- R4
- 67
- Total
- 265
- Max Greyserman
- Pos
- T10
- R1
- 64
- R2
- 67
- R3
- 66
- R4
- 68
- Total
- 265
- Ben Kohles
- Pos
- T15
- R1
- 65
- R2
- 63
- R3
- 65
- R4
- 73
- Total
- 266
- Jackson Suber
- Pos
- T15
- R1
- 65
- R2
- 68
- R3
- 67
- R4
- 66
- Total
- 266
- Andrew Novak
- Pos
- T17
- R1
- 68
- R2
- 70
- R3
- 63
- R4
- 66
- Total
- 267
- Austin Smotherman
- Pos
- T17
- R1
- 66
- R2
- 68
- R3
- 68
- R4
- 65
- Total
- 267
- Doug Ghim
- Pos
- T17
- R1
- 71
- R2
- 68
- R3
- 66
- R4
- 62
- Total
- 267
- Peter Malnati
- Pos
- T17
- R1
- 65
- R2
- 71
- R3
- 67
- R4
- 64
- 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 74 players actually finished. It was not published in advance, so this measures the model, not a call we made.
- Rank correlation
- +0.385
- Top-20 hit rate
- 50%
- Top-10 avg model rank
- 21.3
Grade is this event’s percentile (69th) 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Corey Conners | 1st | 43rd |
| Jacob Bridgeman | 2nd | 1st |
| Kevin Yu | 3rd | 24th |
| Doug Ghim | 4th | 17th |
| Ben Kohles | 5th | 15th |
| J.T. Poston | 6th | 5th |
| Nick Taylor | 7th | 57th |
| Michael Kim | 8th | 24th |
| Jackson Koivun | 9th | 5th |
| Eric Cole | 10th | 24th |
Where it was most wrong
Largest gaps between rank and result, either direction.
| Player | Model | Finish |
|---|---|---|
| John VanDerLaan | 68th | 10th(−58) |
| Andrew Putnam | 12th | 66th(+54) |
| Peter Malnati | 71st | 17th(−54) |
| Neal Shipley | 56th | 3rd(−53) |
| Nick Taylor | 7th | 57th(+50) |
| Pierceson Coody | 13th | 57th(+44) |
| Corey Conners | 1st | 43rd(+42) |
| Lucas Glover | 29th | 70th(+41) |
| Haotong Li | 51st | 10th(−41) |
| Jeremy Paul | 72nd | 33rd(−39) |
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 The Cliffs at Walnut Cove in Asheville, North Carolina, 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.