Tournaments / 2013

BMW Championship

2013-09-12 · Conway Farms GC

Winner: Zach Johnson
Winning score: -16
Field: 71
Field strength: +0.668 SG

The 2013 BMW Championship was played at Conway Farms GC, starting 12 September 2013. Zach Johnson won at 16 under par (268), 2 strokes ahead of Nick Watney. The winning card was 64, 70, 69 and 65, and the win paid $1,440,000. Nick Watney finished second, and Jim Furyk was third. 71 players started the event. The field averaged +0.668 strokes gained per round against the tour baseline. 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 71. Search finds any player in the field, including those who missed the cut.


1	Zach Johnson	64	70	69	65	268	-16
2	Nick Watney	67	69	70	64	270	-14
3	Jim Furyk	72	59	69	71	271	-13
T4	Hunter Mahan	68	73	65	67	273	-11
T4	Jason Day	71	66	70	66	273	-11
T4	Luke Donald	70	70	67	66	273	-11
T4	Steve Stricker	66	71	64	72	273	-11
T8	Brandt Snedeker	63	68	71	72	274	-10
T8	Charl Schwartzel	66	70	69	69	274	-10
T8	Matt Jones	69	71	67	67	274	-10
T11	Jimmy Walker	72	65	70	68	275	-9
T11	Rory Sabbatini	69	71	66	69	275	-9
T11	Ryan Moore	67	69	69	70	275	-9
T11	Tiger Woods	66	72	66	71	275	-9
15	Roberto Castro	68	69	71	68	276	-8
T16	Jordan Spieth	71	65	73	68	277	-7
T16	Keegan Bradley	74	67	70	66	277	-7
T18	Billy Horschel	73	69	71	66	279	-5
T18	Brendon de Jonge	71	68	70	70	279	-5
T18	Gary Woodland	68	72	71	68	279	-5

Model score

Backtest · reconstructed

Our 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 70 players actually finished. It was not published in advance, so this measures the model, not a call we made.

Bgrade

Rank correlation: +0.413
Top-20 hit rate: 50%
Top-10 avg model rank: 19.6

Grade is this event’s percentile (77th) 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
Tiger Woods	1st	11th
Steve Stricker	2nd	4th
Justin Rose	3rd	33rd
Matt Kuchar	4th	24th
Rory McIlroy	5th	59th
Jason Dufner	6th	54th
Jim Furyk	7th	3rd
Adam Scott	8th	28th
Luke Donald	9th	4th
Sergio Garcia	10th	18th

Where it was most wrong

Largest gaps between rank and result, either direction.

Player	Model	Finish
Rory McIlroy	5th	59th(+54)
Lee Westwood	15th	67th(+52)
Jason Dufner	6th	54th(+48)
Gary Woodland	66th	18th(−48)
Dustin Johnson	18th	62nd(+44)
Rory Sabbatini	55th	11th(−44)
Matt Jones	50th	8th(−42)
David Lynn	59th	23rd(−36)
John Merrick	52nd	18th(−34)
Graeme McDowell	26th	57th(+31)

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 model Probabilities and the track record How the model works

The venue

This event was played at Conway Farms GC in Lake Forest, Illinois, USA. The venue page carries its scorecard, hosting history and every other tour event played there.

Common questions

Who won the BMW Championship in 2013?

Zach Johnson won the 2013 BMW Championship at Conway Farms GC, finishing 16 under par.

Where was the 2013 BMW Championship played?

The 2013 BMW Championship was played at Conway Farms GC, starting 12 September 2013.

What was the winning score at the 2013 BMW Championship?

The winning score was 16 under par (268 strokes), posted by Zach Johnson.

How many players were in the BMW Championship field?

71 players started the 2013 BMW Championship. Every one of them appears on the leaderboard below.

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.