Tournaments / 2018-2019
BMW Championship
2019-08-15 · Medinah CC (No. 3)
- Winner
- Justin Thomas
- Winning score
- -25
- Field
- 70
- Field strength
- +0.714 SG
The 2018-2019 BMW Championship was played at Medinah CC (No. 3), starting 15 August 2019. Justin Thomas won at 25 under par (263), 3 strokes ahead of Patrick Cantlay. The winning card was 65, 69, 61 and 68, and the win paid $1,665,000. Patrick Cantlay finished second, and Hideki Matsuyama was third. 70 players started the event. The field averaged +0.714 strokes gained per round against the tour baseline, with strokes-gained data covering 96% 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 70. Search finds any player in the field, including those who missed the cut.
- Justin Thomas
- Pos
- 1
- R1
- 65
- R2
- 69
- R3
- 61
- R4
- 68
- Total
- 263
- Patrick Cantlay
- Pos
- 2
- R1
- 66
- R2
- 67
- R3
- 68
- R4
- 65
- Total
- 266
- Hideki Matsuyama
- Pos
- 3
- R1
- 69
- R2
- 63
- R3
- 73
- R4
- 63
- Total
- 268
- Tony Finau
- Pos
- 4
- R1
- 67
- R2
- 66
- R3
- 68
- R4
- 69
- Total
- 270
- Brandt Snedeker
- Pos
- T5
- R1
- 66
- R2
- 71
- R3
- 67
- R4
- 68
- Total
- 272
- Jon Rahm
- Pos
- T5
- R1
- 68
- R2
- 69
- R3
- 66
- R4
- 69
- Total
- 272
- Corey Conners
- Pos
- T7
- R1
- 69
- R2
- 66
- R3
- 69
- R4
- 69
- Total
- 273
- Lucas Glover
- Pos
- T7
- R1
- 66
- R2
- 69
- R3
- 69
- R4
- 69
- Total
- 273
- Adam Scott
- Pos
- T9
- R1
- 67
- R2
- 71
- R3
- 69
- R4
- 67
- Total
- 274
- Kevin Kisner
- Pos
- T9
- R1
- 68
- R2
- 68
- R3
- 69
- R4
- 69
- Total
- 274
- Kevin Tway
- Pos
- T11
- R1
- 69
- R2
- 67
- R3
- 70
- R4
- 69
- Total
- 275
- Louis Oosthuizen
- Pos
- T11
- R1
- 70
- R2
- 69
- R3
- 68
- R4
- 68
- Total
- 275
- Rickie Fowler
- Pos
- T11
- R1
- 67
- R2
- 70
- R3
- 68
- R4
- 70
- Total
- 275
- Sungjae Im
- Pos
- T11
- R1
- 70
- R2
- 72
- R3
- 66
- R4
- 67
- Total
- 275
- Tommy Fleetwood
- Pos
- T11
- R1
- 70
- R2
- 66
- R3
- 70
- R4
- 69
- Total
- 275
- J.T. Poston
- Pos
- T16
- R1
- 68
- R2
- 74
- R3
- 66
- R4
- 68
- Total
- 276
- Rory Sabbatini
- Pos
- T16
- R1
- 67
- R2
- 68
- R3
- 67
- R4
- 74
- Total
- 276
- Vaughn Taylor
- Pos
- T16
- R1
- 73
- R2
- 70
- R3
- 67
- R4
- 66
- Total
- 276
- Jason Kokrak
- Pos
- T19
- R1
- 65
- R2
- 73
- R3
- 70
- R4
- 69
- Total
- 277
- Marc Leishman
- Pos
- T19
- R1
- 72
- R2
- 71
- R3
- 67
- R4
- 67
- Total
- 277
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
- +0.368
- Top-20 hit rate
- 50%
- Top-10 avg model rank
- 23.7
Grade is this event’s percentile (64th) 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Dustin Johnson | 1st | 57th |
| Justin Rose | 2nd | 52nd |
| Rory McIlroy | 3rd | 19th |
| Justin Thomas | 4th | 1st |
| Patrick Cantlay | 5th | 2nd |
| Brooks Koepka | 6th | 24th |
| Webb Simpson | 7th | 24th |
| Jon Rahm | 8th | 5th |
| Rickie Fowler | 9th | 11th |
| Tommy Fleetwood | 10th | 11th |
Where it was most wrong
Largest gaps between rank and result, either direction.
| Player | Model | Finish |
|---|---|---|
| Dustin Johnson | 1st | 57th(+56) |
| Corey Conners | 60th | 7th(−53) |
| Kevin Tway | 64th | 11th(−53) |
| Justin Rose | 2nd | 52nd(+50) |
| Kevin Kisner | 47th | 9th(−38) |
| Francesco Molinari | 24th | 61st(+37) |
| J.T. Poston | 52nd | 16th(−36) |
| Jason Day | 17th | 52nd(+35) |
| Brandt Snedeker | 40th | 5th(−35) |
| Si Woo Kim | 62nd | 28th(−34) |
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 Medinah CC (No. 3) in Chicago, Illinois, 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.