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Tournaments / 2017-2018

Genesis Open

2018-02-15 · The Riviera Country Club

Winner
Bubba Watson
Winning score
-12
Field
141
Field strength
+0.197 SG

The 2017-2018 Genesis Open was played at The Riviera Country Club, starting 15 February 2018. Bubba Watson won at 12 under par (272), 2 strokes ahead of Kevin Na. The winning card was 68, 70, 65 and 69, and the win paid $1,296,000. Kevin Na and Tony Finau tied for second. 141 players started the event. The field averaged +0.197 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 141. Search finds any player in the field, including those who missed the cut.

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

Cgrade
Rank correlation
+0.377
Top-20 hit rate
35%
Top-10 avg model rank
22.0

Grade is this event’s percentile (67th) 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.

PlayerModelFinish
Dustin Johnson1st16th
Jordan Spieth2nd9th
Paul Casey3rd49th
Chez Reavie4th73rd
Justin Thomas5th9th
Matt Kuchar6th26th
Phil Mickelson7th6th
Rory McIlroy8th20th
Patrick Cantlay9th4th
Pat Perez10th41st

Where it was most wrong

Largest gaps between rank and result, either direction.

PlayerModelFinish
Chez Reavie4th73rd(+69)
Derek Fathauer71st16th(−55)
Dominic Bozzelli76th26th(−50)
Charl Schwartzel20th68th(+48)
Scott Stallings52nd4th(−48)
Paul Casey3rd49th(+46)
Talor Gooch61st20th(−41)
Aaron Baddeley54th14th(−40)
Adam Scott14th53rd(+39)
Patrick Rodgers65th26th(−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 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 The Riviera Country Club in Pacific Palisades, California, USA. The venue page carries its scorecard, hosting history and every other tour event played there.

Common questions

Who won the Genesis Open in 2017-2018?

Bubba Watson won the 2017-2018 Genesis Open at The Riviera Country Club, finishing 12 under par.

Where was the 2017-2018 Genesis Open played?

The 2017-2018 Genesis Open was played at The Riviera Country Club, starting 15 February 2018.

What was the winning score at the 2017-2018 Genesis Open?

The winning score was 12 under par (272 strokes), posted by Bubba Watson.

How many players were in the Genesis Open field?

141 players started the 2017-2018 Genesis Open. 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.