Tournaments / 2018-2019

Genesis Open

2019-02-14 · The Riviera Country Club

Winner: J.B. Holmes
Winning score: -14
Field: 142
Field strength: +0.124 SG

The 2018-2019 Genesis Open was played at The Riviera Country Club, starting 14 February 2019. J.B. Holmes won at 14 under par (270), 1 stroke ahead of Justin Thomas. The winning card was 63, 69, 68 and 70, and the win paid $1,332,000. Justin Thomas finished second, and Si Woo Kim was third. 142 players started the event. The field averaged +0.124 strokes gained per round against the tour baseline, with strokes-gained data covering 89% 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 142. Search finds any player in the field, including those who missed the cut.


1	J.B. Holmes	63	69	68	70	270	-14
2	Justin Thomas	66	65	65	75	271	-13
3	Si Woo Kim	68	70	68	66	272	-12
T4	Marc Leishman	69	69	67	68	273	-11
T4	Rory McIlroy	72	63	69	69	273	-11
6	Charles Howell III	69	69	68	69	275	-9
T7	Adam Scott	66	65	69	76	276	-8
T7	Michael Thompson	69	64	73	70	276	-8
T9	Carlos Ortiz	67	72	69	69	277	-7
T9	Dustin Johnson	73	66	69	69	277	-7
T9	Hideki Matsuyama	71	69	70	67	277	-7
T9	Jon Rahm	67	70	69	71	277	-7
T9	Kelly Kraft	69	68	69	71	277	-7
T9	Vaughn Taylor	67	69	74	67	277	-7
T15	Beau Hossler	68	69	70	71	278	-6
T15	Bryson DeChambeau	70	68	69	71	278	-6
T15	Bubba Watson	70	66	69	73	278	-6
T15	Jonas Blixt	71	68	66	73	278	-6
T15	Luke List	71	66	73	68	278	-6
T15	Patrick Cantlay	68	71	70	69	278	-6

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

Bgrade

Rank correlation: +0.472
Top-20 hit rate: 60%
Top-10 avg model rank: 19.1

Grade is this event’s percentile (89th) 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	9th
Justin Thomas	2nd	2nd
Patrick Cantlay	3rd	15th
Rory McIlroy	4th	4th
Jordan Spieth	5th	51st
Tommy Fleetwood	6th	28th
Hideki Matsuyama	7th	9th
Tony Finau	8th	15th
Tiger Woods	9th	15th
Jon Rahm	10th	9th

Where it was most wrong

Largest gaps between rank and result, either direction.

Player	Model	Finish
Jonas Blixt	71st	15th(−56)
Adam Hadwin	20th	75th(+55)
Kelly Kraft	63rd	9th(−54)
Carlos Ortiz	61st	9th(−52)
Jordan Spieth	5th	51st(+46)
K.H. Lee	70th	25th(−45)
Kyle Jones	75th	33rd(−42)
Patrick Rodgers	54th	15th(−39)
J.B. Holmes	38th	1st(−37)
Si Woo Kim	40th	3rd(−37)

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 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 2018-2019?

J.B. Holmes won the 2018-2019 Genesis Open at The Riviera Country Club, finishing 14 under par.

Where was the 2018-2019 Genesis Open played?

The 2018-2019 Genesis Open was played at The Riviera Country Club, starting 14 February 2019.

What was the winning score at the 2018-2019 Genesis Open?

The winning score was 14 under par (270 strokes), posted by J.B. Holmes.

How many players were in the Genesis Open field?

142 players started the 2018-2019 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.