Tournaments / 2017-2018
CareerBuilder Challenge
2018-01-18 · Pete Dye Stadium Course
- Winner
- Jon Rahm
- Winning score
- -22
- Field
- 155
- Field strength
- -0.011 SG
The 2017-2018 CareerBuilder Challenge was played at Pete Dye Stadium Course, starting 18 January 2018. Jon Rahm won at 22 under par (266). The winning card was 62, 67, 70 and 67, and the win paid $1,062,000. Andrew Landry finished second, and Adam Hadwin, John Huh and Martin Piller tied for third. 155 players started the event. The field averaged -0.011 strokes gained per round against the tour baseline, with strokes-gained data covering 85% 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 155. Search finds any player in the field, including those who missed the cut.
- Jon Rahm
- Pos
- P1
- R1
- 62
- R2
- 67
- R3
- 70
- R4
- 67
- Total
- 266
- Andrew Landry
- Pos
- P2
- R1
- 63
- R2
- 65
- R3
- 70
- R4
- 68
- Total
- 266
- Adam Hadwin
- Pos
- T3
- R1
- 66
- R2
- 67
- R3
- 67
- R4
- 68
- Total
- 268
- John Huh
- Pos
- T3
- R1
- 68
- R2
- 69
- R3
- 65
- R4
- 66
- Total
- 268
- Martin Piller
- Pos
- T3
- R1
- 64
- R2
- 67
- R3
- 67
- R4
- 70
- Total
- 268
- Kevin Chappell
- Pos
- T6
- R1
- 71
- R2
- 64
- R3
- 67
- R4
- 67
- Total
- 269
- Scott Piercy
- Pos
- T6
- R1
- 68
- R2
- 65
- R3
- 66
- R4
- 70
- Total
- 269
- Brandon Harkins
- Pos
- T8
- R1
- 64
- R2
- 68
- R3
- 68
- R4
- 70
- Total
- 270
- Jason Kokrak
- Pos
- T8
- R1
- 63
- R2
- 67
- R3
- 71
- R4
- 69
- Total
- 270
- Sam Saunders
- Pos
- T8
- R1
- 70
- R2
- 67
- R3
- 69
- R4
- 64
- Total
- 270
- Harris English
- Pos
- T11
- R1
- 67
- R2
- 68
- R3
- 70
- R4
- 66
- Total
- 271
- Jhonattan Vegas
- Pos
- T11
- R1
- 65
- R2
- 69
- R3
- 68
- R4
- 69
- Total
- 271
- Seamus Power
- Pos
- T11
- R1
- 70
- R2
- 66
- R3
- 65
- R4
- 70
- Total
- 271
- Austin Cook
- Pos
- T14
- R1
- 63
- R2
- 70
- R3
- 64
- R4
- 75
- Total
- 272
- Bud Cauley
- Pos
- T14
- R1
- 67
- R2
- 68
- R3
- 71
- R4
- 66
- Total
- 272
- Grayson Murray
- Pos
- T14
- R1
- 65
- R2
- 68
- R3
- 67
- R4
- 72
- Total
- 272
- Aaron Wise
- Pos
- T17
- R1
- 64
- R2
- 69
- R3
- 72
- R4
- 68
- Total
- 273
- Andrew Putnam
- Pos
- T17
- R1
- 69
- R2
- 66
- R3
- 69
- R4
- 69
- Total
- 273
- Peter Uihlein
- Pos
- T17
- R1
- 70
- R2
- 64
- R3
- 70
- R4
- 69
- Total
- 273
- Beau Hossler
- Pos
- T20
- R1
- 64
- R2
- 69
- R3
- 73
- R4
- 68
- Total
- 274
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 77 players actually finished. It was not published in advance, so this measures the model, not a call we made.
- Rank correlation
- +0.329
- Top-20 hit rate
- 35%
- Top-10 avg model rank
- 33.3
Grade is this event’s percentile (52nd) 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Chez Reavie | 1st | 36th |
| Webb Simpson | 2nd | 36th |
| Brian Harman | 3rd | 20th |
| Lucas Glover | 4th | 29th |
| Jon Rahm | 5th | 1st |
| Kevin Kisner | 6th | 50th |
| Zach Johnson | 7th | 20th |
| Jason Dufner | 8th | 36th |
| Brendan Steele | 9th | 20th |
| Bud Cauley | 10th | 14th |
Where it was most wrong
Largest gaps between rank and result, either direction.
| Player | Model | Finish |
|---|---|---|
| Martin Piller | 65th | 3rd(−62) |
| Ben Silverman | 27th | 77th(+50) |
| Andrew Putnam | 63rd | 17th(−46) |
| Tom Lovelady | 75th | 29th(−46) |
| Kevin Kisner | 6th | 50th(+44) |
| David Lingmerth | 13th | 57th(+44) |
| John Huh | 47th | 3rd(−44) |
| Nate Lashley | 71st | 29th(−42) |
| Harris English | 52nd | 11th(−41) |
| Sung Kang | 23rd | 63rd(+40) |
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 Pete Dye Stadium Course in La Quinta, California, 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.