Tournaments / 2018-2019
Desert Classic
2019-01-17 · Pete Dye Stadium Course
- Winner
- Adam Long
- Winning score
- -26
- Field
- 155
- Field strength
- +0.022 SG
The 2018-2019 Desert Classic was played at Pete Dye Stadium Course, starting 17 January 2019. Adam Long won at 26 under par (262), 1 stroke ahead of Adam Hadwin. The winning card was 63, 71, 63 and 65, and the win paid $1,062,000. Adam Hadwin and Phil Mickelson tied for second. 155 players started the event. The field averaged +0.022 strokes gained per round against the tour baseline, with strokes-gained data covering 81% 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.
- Adam Long
- Pos
- 1
- R1
- 63
- R2
- 71
- R3
- 63
- R4
- 65
- Total
- 262
- Adam Hadwin
- Pos
- T2
- R1
- 65
- R2
- 66
- R3
- 65
- R4
- 67
- Total
- 263
- Phil Mickelson
- Pos
- T2
- R1
- 60
- R2
- 68
- R3
- 66
- R4
- 69
- Total
- 263
- Talor Gooch
- Pos
- 4
- R1
- 67
- R2
- 67
- R3
- 66
- R4
- 64
- Total
- 264
- Dominic Bozzelli
- Pos
- 5
- R1
- 67
- R2
- 69
- R3
- 64
- R4
- 66
- Total
- 266
- Jon Rahm
- Pos
- 6
- R1
- 66
- R2
- 66
- R3
- 68
- R4
- 67
- Total
- 267
- J.T. Poston
- Pos
- T7
- R1
- 68
- R2
- 68
- R3
- 64
- R4
- 69
- Total
- 269
- Vaughn Taylor
- Pos
- T7
- R1
- 68
- R2
- 66
- R3
- 69
- R4
- 66
- Total
- 269
- Michael Thompson
- Pos
- T9
- R1
- 68
- R2
- 66
- R3
- 65
- R4
- 71
- Total
- 270
- Patrick Cantlay
- Pos
- T9
- R1
- 67
- R2
- 66
- R3
- 66
- R4
- 71
- Total
- 270
- Sean O'Hair
- Pos
- T9
- R1
- 66
- R2
- 67
- R3
- 68
- R4
- 69
- Total
- 270
- Daniel Berger
- Pos
- T12
- R1
- 67
- R2
- 67
- R3
- 69
- R4
- 68
- Total
- 271
- Lucas Glover
- Pos
- T12
- R1
- 68
- R2
- 68
- R3
- 68
- R4
- 67
- Total
- 271
- Nate Lashley
- Pos
- T12
- R1
- 72
- R2
- 68
- R3
- 66
- R4
- 65
- Total
- 271
- Roger Sloan
- Pos
- T12
- R1
- 70
- R2
- 68
- R3
- 68
- R4
- 65
- Total
- 271
- Scott Langley
- Pos
- T12
- R1
- 70
- R2
- 65
- R3
- 66
- R4
- 70
- Total
- 271
- Sungjae Im
- Pos
- T12
- R1
- 71
- R2
- 65
- R3
- 64
- R4
- 71
- Total
- 271
- Aaron Baddeley
- Pos
- T18
- R1
- 71
- R2
- 68
- R3
- 68
- R4
- 65
- Total
- 272
- Abraham Ancer
- Pos
- T18
- R1
- 66
- R2
- 67
- R3
- 73
- R4
- 66
- Total
- 272
- Adam Svensson
- Pos
- T18
- R1
- 66
- R2
- 68
- R3
- 69
- R4
- 69
- Total
- 272
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 73 players actually finished. It was not published in advance, so this measures the model, not a call we made.
- Rank correlation
- +0.204
- Top-20 hit rate
- 45%
- Top-10 avg model rank
- 30.5
Grade is this event’s percentile (17th) 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Justin Rose | 1st | 34th |
| Patrick Cantlay | 2nd | 9th |
| Phil Mickelson | 3rd | 2nd |
| Zach Johnson | 4th | 28th |
| Jon Rahm | 5th | 6th |
| Charles Howell III | 6th | 34th |
| Chez Reavie | 7th | 28th |
| Daniel Berger | 8th | 12th |
| Andrew Putnam | 9th | 34th |
| Adam Hadwin | 10th | 2nd |
Where it was most wrong
Largest gaps between rank and result, either direction.
| Player | Model | Finish |
|---|---|---|
| Adam Long | 71st | 1st(−70) |
| Roger Sloan | 63rd | 12th(−51) |
| Steve Marino | 67th | 18th(−49) |
| Wyndham Clark | 66th | 18th(−48) |
| Dominic Bozzelli | 50th | 5th(−45) |
| Talor Gooch | 48th | 4th(−44) |
| Sean O'Hair | 52nd | 9th(−43) |
| Kevin Kisner | 15th | 57th(+42) |
| Michael Thompson | 51st | 9th(−42) |
| Adam Svensson | 59th | 18th(−41) |
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.