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Hero World Challenge

2025-12-04 · Albany GC

Winner
Hideki Matsuyama
Winning score
-22
Field
20
Field strength
+0.808 SG

The 2025 Hero World Challenge was played at Albany GC, starting 4 December 2025. Hideki Matsuyama won at 22 under par (266). The winning card was 68, 66, 68 and 64, and the win paid $1,000,000. Alex Noren finished second, and Sepp Straka was third. 20 players started the event. The field averaged +0.808 strokes gained per round against the tour baseline, with strokes-gained data covering 90% 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 20. 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 20 players actually finished. It was not published in advance, so this measures the model, not a call we made.

Bgrade
Rank correlation
+0.412
Top-10 hit rate
60%
Top-10 avg model rank
9.5

Grade is this event’s percentile (77th) 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
Scottie Scheffler1st4th
Sam Burns2nd11th
Corey Conners3rd7th
Keegan Bradley4th13th
J.J. Spaun5th4th
Robert MacIntyre6th12th
Hideki Matsuyama7th1st
Aaron Rai8th18th
Sepp Straka9th3rd
Harris English10th8th

Where it was most wrong

Largest gaps between rank and result, either direction.

PlayerModelFinish
Alex Noren13th2nd(−11)
Wyndham Clark19th8th(−11)
Aaron Rai8th18th(+10)
Justin Rose16th6th(−10)
Sam Burns2nd11th(+9)
Keegan Bradley4th13th(+9)
Robert MacIntyre6th12th(+6)
Hideki Matsuyama7th1st(−6)
Sepp Straka9th3rd(−6)
Jordan Spieth14th19th(+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 Albany GC in Albany, BAH. The venue page carries its scorecard, hosting history and every other tour event played there.

Common questions

Who won the Hero World Challenge in 2025?

Hideki Matsuyama won the 2025 Hero World Challenge at Albany GC, finishing 22 under par.

Where was the 2025 Hero World Challenge played?

The 2025 Hero World Challenge was played at Albany GC, starting 4 December 2025.

What was the winning score at the 2025 Hero World Challenge?

The winning score was 22 under par (266 strokes), posted by Hideki Matsuyama.

How many players were in the Hero World Challenge field?

20 players started the 2025 Hero World Challenge. 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.