Tournaments / 2014-2015
PGA Championship
2015-08-13 · Whistling Straits
- Winner
- Jason Day
- Winning score
- -20
- Field
- 156
- Field strength
- +0.545 SG
The 2014-2015 PGA Championship was played at Whistling Straits, starting 13 August 2015. Jason Day won at 20 under par (268), 3 strokes ahead of Jordan Spieth. The winning card was 68, 67, 66 and 67, and the win paid $1,800,000. Jordan Spieth finished second, and Branden Grace was third. 156 players started the event. The field averaged +0.545 strokes gained per round against the tour baseline, with strokes-gained data covering 57% 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 156. Search finds any player in the field, including those who missed the cut.
- Jason Day
- Pos
- 1
- R1
- 68
- R2
- 67
- R3
- 66
- R4
- 67
- Total
- 268
- Jordan Spieth
- Pos
- 2
- R1
- 71
- R2
- 67
- R3
- 65
- R4
- 68
- Total
- 271
- Branden Grace
- Pos
- 3
- R1
- 71
- R2
- 69
- R3
- 64
- R4
- 69
- Total
- 273
- Justin Rose
- Pos
- 4
- R1
- 69
- R2
- 67
- R3
- 68
- R4
- 70
- Total
- 274
- Anirban Lahiri
- Pos
- T5
- R1
- 70
- R2
- 67
- R3
- 70
- R4
- 68
- Total
- 275
- Brooks Koepka
- Pos
- T5
- R1
- 73
- R2
- 69
- R3
- 67
- R4
- 66
- Total
- 275
- Dustin Johnson
- Pos
- T7
- R1
- 66
- R2
- 73
- R3
- 68
- R4
- 69
- Total
- 276
- George Coetzee
- Pos
- T7
- R1
- 74
- R2
- 65
- R3
- 70
- R4
- 67
- Total
- 276
- Matt Kuchar
- Pos
- T7
- R1
- 68
- R2
- 72
- R3
- 68
- R4
- 68
- Total
- 276
- Robert Streb
- Pos
- T10
- R1
- 70
- R2
- 73
- R3
- 67
- R4
- 67
- Total
- 277
- Tony Finau
- Pos
- T10
- R1
- 71
- R2
- 66
- R3
- 69
- R4
- 71
- Total
- 277
- Brandt Snedeker
- Pos
- T12
- R1
- 71
- R2
- 70
- R3
- 68
- R4
- 69
- Total
- 278
- Brendan Steele
- Pos
- T12
- R1
- 69
- R2
- 69
- R3
- 73
- R4
- 67
- Total
- 278
- David Lingmerth
- Pos
- T12
- R1
- 67
- R2
- 70
- R3
- 75
- R4
- 66
- Total
- 278
- Martin Kaymer
- Pos
- T12
- R1
- 70
- R2
- 70
- R3
- 65
- R4
- 73
- Total
- 278
- Russell Henley
- Pos
- T12
- R1
- 68
- R2
- 71
- R3
- 70
- R4
- 69
- Total
- 278
- Rory McIlroy
- Pos
- 17
- R1
- 71
- R2
- 71
- R3
- 68
- R4
- 69
- Total
- 279
- Justin Thomas
- Pos
- T18
- R1
- 72
- R2
- 70
- R3
- 68
- R4
- 70
- Total
- 280
- Phil Mickelson
- Pos
- T18
- R1
- 72
- R2
- 73
- R3
- 66
- R4
- 69
- Total
- 280
- Victor Dubuisson
- Pos
- T18
- R1
- 76
- R2
- 70
- R3
- 67
- R4
- 67
- Total
- 280
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 77 players actually finished. It was not published in advance, so this measures the model, not a call we made.
- Rank correlation
- +0.405
- Top-20 hit rate
- 40%
- Top-10 avg model rank
- 25.7
Grade is this event’s percentile (74th) 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Rory McIlroy | 1st | 17th |
| Jim Furyk | 2nd | 30th |
| Justin Rose | 3rd | 4th |
| Sergio Garcia | 4th | 54th |
| Hideki Matsuyama | 5th | 37th |
| Jordan Spieth | 6th | 2nd |
| Jason Day | 7th | 1st |
| Bubba Watson | 8th | 21st |
| Henrik Stenson | 9th | 25th |
| Dustin Johnson | 10th | 7th |
Where it was most wrong
Largest gaps between rank and result, either direction.
| Player | Model | Finish |
|---|---|---|
| Anirban Lahiri | 71st | 5th(−66) |
| George Coetzee | 72nd | 7th(−65) |
| Sergio Garcia | 4th | 54th(+50) |
| Bill Haas | 15th | 65th(+50) |
| Tyrrell Hatton | 74th | 25th(−49) |
| Keegan Bradley | 14th | 61st(+47) |
| Hiroshi Iwata | 68th | 21st(−47) |
| Victor Dubuisson | 61st | 18th(−43) |
| David Lingmerth | 53rd | 12th(−41) |
| Branden Grace | 41st | 3rd(−38) |
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 Whistling Straits in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, 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.