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Tournaments / 2016-2017

Masters Tournament

2017-04-06 · Augusta National Golf Club

Winner
Sergio Garcia
Winning score
-9
Field
93
Field strength
+0.637 SG

The 2016-2017 Masters Tournament was played at Augusta National Golf Club, starting 6 April 2017. Sergio Garcia won at 9 under par (279). The winning card was 71, 69, 70 and 69, and the win paid $1,980,000. Justin Rose finished second, and Charl Schwartzel was third. 93 players started the event. The field averaged +0.637 strokes gained per round against the tour baseline, with strokes-gained data covering 65% 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 93. 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 53 players actually finished. It was not published in advance, so this measures the model, not a call we made.

Bgrade
Rank correlation
+0.448
Top-20 hit rate
45%
Top-10 avg model rank
18.1

Grade is this event’s percentile (85th) 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
Rory McIlroy1st7th
Jordan Spieth2nd11th
Jason Day3rd22nd
Rickie Fowler4th11th
Justin Rose5th2nd
Hideki Matsuyama6th11th
Adam Scott7th9th
Paul Casey8th6th
Phil Mickelson9th22nd
Sergio Garcia10th1st

Where it was most wrong

Largest gaps between rank and result, either direction.

PlayerModelFinish
Kevin Chappell43rd7th(−36)
Thomas Pieters36th4th(−32)
Fred Couples49th18th(−31)
J.B. Holmes20th50th(+30)
Marc Leishman15th43rd(+28)
Charl Schwartzel30th3rd(−27)
Lee Westwood44th18th(−26)
Ross Fisher17th41st(+24)
Louis Oosthuizen18th41st(+23)
Emiliano Grillo29th51st(+22)

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 Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta, Georgia, USA. The venue page carries its scorecard, hosting history and every other tour event played there.

Common questions

Who won the Masters Tournament in 2016-2017?

Sergio Garcia won the 2016-2017 Masters Tournament at Augusta National Golf Club, finishing 9 under par.

Where was the 2016-2017 Masters Tournament played?

The 2016-2017 Masters Tournament was played at Augusta National Golf Club, starting 6 April 2017.

What was the winning score at the 2016-2017 Masters Tournament?

The winning score was 9 under par (279 strokes), posted by Sergio Garcia.

How many players were in the Masters Tournament field?

93 players started the 2016-2017 Masters Tournament. 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.