Tournaments / 2014-2015
Hero World Challenge
2014-12-04 · Isleworth G&CC
- Winner
- Jordan Spieth
- Winning score
- -26
- Field
- 18
- Field strength
- +1.243 SG
The 2014-2015 Hero World Challenge was played at Isleworth G&CC, starting 4 December 2014. Jordan Spieth won at 26 under par (262), 10 strokes ahead of Henrik Stenson. The winning card was 66, 67, 63 and 66, and the win paid $1,000,000. Henrik Stenson finished second, and Keegan Bradley and Patrick Reed tied for third. 18 players started the event. The field averaged +1.243 strokes gained per round against the tour baseline, with strokes-gained data covering 83% 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 18. Search finds any player in the field, including those who missed the cut.
- Jordan Spieth
- Pos
- 1
- R1
- 66
- R2
- 67
- R3
- 63
- R4
- 66
- Total
- 262
- Henrik Stenson
- Pos
- 2
- R1
- 67
- R2
- 68
- R3
- 68
- R4
- 69
- Total
- 272
- Keegan Bradley
- Pos
- T3
- R1
- 72
- R2
- 66
- R3
- 65
- R4
- 70
- Total
- 273
- Patrick Reed
- Pos
- T3
- R1
- 73
- R2
- 63
- R3
- 69
- R4
- 68
- Total
- 273
- Jason Day
- Pos
- 5
- R1
- 71
- R2
- 67
- R3
- 70
- R4
- 66
- Total
- 274
- Justin Rose
- Pos
- T6
- R1
- 72
- R2
- 64
- R3
- 70
- R4
- 71
- Total
- 277
- Rickie Fowler
- Pos
- T6
- R1
- 67
- R2
- 70
- R3
- 72
- R4
- 68
- Total
- 277
- Billy Horschel
- Pos
- T8
- R1
- 73
- R2
- 72
- R3
- 67
- R4
- 67
- Total
- 279
- Matt Kuchar
- Pos
- T8
- R1
- 69
- R2
- 70
- R3
- 70
- R4
- 70
- Total
- 279
- Zach Johnson
- Pos
- T8
- R1
- 67
- R2
- 71
- R3
- 72
- R4
- 69
- Total
- 279
- Bubba Watson
- Pos
- T11
- R1
- 69
- R2
- 68
- R3
- 72
- R4
- 71
- Total
- 280
- Graeme McDowell
- Pos
- T11
- R1
- 68
- R2
- 73
- R3
- 68
- R4
- 71
- Total
- 280
- Hideki Matsuyama
- Pos
- 13
- R1
- 68
- R2
- 73
- R3
- 71
- R4
- 69
- Total
- 281
- Steve Stricker
- Pos
- 14
- R1
- 67
- R2
- 73
- R3
- 74
- R4
- 69
- Total
- 283
- Jimmy Walker
- Pos
- 15
- R1
- 68
- R2
- 69
- R3
- 75
- R4
- 72
- Total
- 284
- Chris Kirk
- Pos
- 16
- R1
- 70
- R2
- 68
- R3
- 74
- R4
- 73
- Total
- 285
- Hunter Mahan
- Pos
- T17
- R1
- 71
- R2
- 71
- R3
- 71
- R4
- 75
- Total
- 288
- Tiger Woods
- Pos
- T17
- R1
- 77
- R2
- 70
- R3
- 69
- R4
- 72
- Total
- 288
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 18 players actually finished. It was not published in advance, so this measures the model, not a call we made.
- Rank correlation
- +0.214
- Top-9 hit rate
- 67%
- Top-10 avg model rank
- 8.9
Grade is this event’s percentile (19th) 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 | 6th |
| Matt Kuchar | 2nd | 8th |
| Henrik Stenson | 3rd | 2nd |
| Jason Day | 4th | 5th |
| Bubba Watson | 5th | 11th |
| Steve Stricker | 6th | 14th |
| Rickie Fowler | 7th | 6th |
| Graeme McDowell | 8th | 11th |
| Jordan Spieth | 9th | 1st |
| Tiger Woods | 10th | 17th |
Where it was most wrong
Largest gaps between rank and result, either direction.
| Player | Model | Finish |
|---|---|---|
| Patrick Reed | 18th | 3rd(−15) |
| Keegan Bradley | 13th | 3rd(−10) |
| Billy Horschel | 17th | 8th(−9) |
| Steve Stricker | 6th | 14th(+8) |
| Jordan Spieth | 9th | 1st(−8) |
| Tiger Woods | 10th | 17th(+7) |
| Zach Johnson | 15th | 8th(−7) |
| Matt Kuchar | 2nd | 8th(+6) |
| Bubba Watson | 5th | 11th(+6) |
| Justin Rose | 1st | 6th(+5) |
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 Isleworth G&CC in Windermere, Florida, 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.