Tournaments / 2013-2014
Northwestern Mutual World Challenge
2013-12-05 · Sherwood CC
- Winner
- Zach Johnson
- Winning score
- -13
- Field
- 18
- Field strength
- +1.083 SG
The 2013-2014 Northwestern Mutual World Challenge was played at Sherwood CC, starting 5 December 2013. Zach Johnson won at 13 under par (275). The winning card was 67, 68, 72 and 68, and the win paid $1,000,000. Tiger Woods finished second, and Bubba Watson and Matt Kuchar tied for third. 18 players started the event. The field averaged +1.083 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 18. Search finds any player in the field, including those who missed the cut.
- Zach Johnson
- Pos
- P1
- R1
- 67
- R2
- 68
- R3
- 72
- R4
- 68
- Total
- 275
- Tiger Woods
- Pos
- P2
- R1
- 71
- R2
- 62
- R3
- 72
- R4
- 70
- Total
- 275
- Bubba Watson
- Pos
- T3
- R1
- 70
- R2
- 70
- R3
- 69
- R4
- 70
- Total
- 279
- Matt Kuchar
- Pos
- T3
- R1
- 68
- R2
- 68
- R3
- 76
- R4
- 67
- Total
- 279
- Webb Simpson
- Pos
- 5
- R1
- 73
- R2
- 71
- R3
- 69
- R4
- 68
- Total
- 281
- Graeme McDowell
- Pos
- 6
- R1
- 72
- R2
- 67
- R3
- 75
- R4
- 69
- Total
- 283
- Ian Poulter
- Pos
- 7
- R1
- 76
- R2
- 67
- R3
- 73
- R4
- 69
- Total
- 285
- Jim Furyk
- Pos
- 8
- R1
- 72
- R2
- 69
- R3
- 74
- R4
- 71
- Total
- 286
- Bill Haas
- Pos
- T9
- R1
- 73
- R2
- 68
- R3
- 74
- R4
- 72
- Total
- 287
- Jason Day
- Pos
- T9
- R1
- 76
- R2
- 68
- R3
- 70
- R4
- 73
- Total
- 287
- Rory McIlroy
- Pos
- 11
- R1
- 73
- R2
- 77
- R3
- 68
- R4
- 70
- Total
- 288
- Hunter Mahan
- Pos
- 12
- R1
- 70
- R2
- 80
- R3
- 72
- R4
- 69
- Total
- 291
- Jason Dufner
- Pos
- T13
- R1
- 74
- R2
- 71
- R3
- 78
- R4
- 69
- Total
- 292
- Keegan Bradley
- Pos
- T13
- R1
- 75
- R2
- 68
- R3
- 75
- R4
- 74
- Total
- 292
- Steve Stricker
- Pos
- 15
- R1
- 75
- R2
- 74
- R3
- 74
- R4
- 72
- Total
- 295
- Jordan Spieth
- Pos
- T16
- R1
- 77
- R2
- 72
- R3
- 77
- R4
- 71
- Total
- 297
- Lee Westwood
- Pos
- T16
- R1
- 74
- R2
- 75
- R3
- 74
- R4
- 74
- Total
- 297
- Dustin Johnson
- Pos
- 18
- R1
- 74
- R2
- 79
- R3
- 72
- R4
- 74
- Total
- 299
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
- +0.176
- Top-9 hit rate
- 44%
- Top-10 avg model rank
- 9.4
Grade is this event’s percentile (12th) 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Tiger Woods | 1st | 2nd |
| Steve Stricker | 2nd | 15th |
| Matt Kuchar | 3rd | 3rd |
| Jim Furyk | 4th | 8th |
| Webb Simpson | 5th | 5th |
| Keegan Bradley | 6th | 13th |
| Rory McIlroy | 7th | 11th |
| Dustin Johnson | 8th | 18th |
| Jason Dufner | 9th | 13th |
| Jason Day | 10th | 9th |
Where it was most wrong
Largest gaps between rank and result, either direction.
| Player | Model | Finish |
|---|---|---|
| Steve Stricker | 2nd | 15th(+13) |
| Graeme McDowell | 17th | 6th(−11) |
| Dustin Johnson | 8th | 18th(+10) |
| Zach Johnson | 11th | 1st(−10) |
| Bubba Watson | 12th | 3rd(−9) |
| Ian Poulter | 15th | 7th(−8) |
| Keegan Bradley | 6th | 13th(+7) |
| Bill Haas | 16th | 9th(−7) |
| Jim Furyk | 4th | 8th(+4) |
| Rory McIlroy | 7th | 11th(+4) |
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 Sherwood CC in Thousand Oaks, California, 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.