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Tournaments / 2015-2016

RBC Heritage

2016-04-14 · Harbour Town Golf Links

Winner
Branden Grace
Winning score
-9
Field
131
Field strength
+0.103 SG

The 2015-2016 RBC Heritage was played at Harbour Town Golf Links, starting 14 April 2016. Branden Grace won at 9 under par (275), 2 strokes ahead of Luke Donald. The winning card was 66, 74, 69 and 66, and the win paid $1,062,000. Luke Donald and Russell Knox tied for second. 131 players started the event. The field averaged +0.103 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 131. 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 82 players actually finished. It was not published in advance, so this measures the model, not a call we made.

Dgrade
Rank correlation
+0.289
Top-20 hit rate
35%
Top-10 avg model rank
27.5

Grade is this event’s percentile (39th) 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
Justin Thomas1st75th
Matt Kuchar2nd9th
Jason Day3rd23rd
Kevin Na4th4th
Zach Johnson5th33rd
Bill Haas6th14th
Kevin Kisner7th69th
Russell Knox8th2nd
Jason Bohn9th69th
Webb Simpson10th66th

Where it was most wrong

Largest gaps between rank and result, either direction.

PlayerModelFinish
Justin Thomas1st75th(+74)
Whee Kim78th6th(−72)
Ricky Barnes76th9th(−67)
Tyler Aldridge81st14th(−67)
Kevin Kisner7th69th(+62)
Ernie Els75th14th(−61)
Jason Bohn9th69th(+60)
Ryan Palmer11th71st(+60)
Webb Simpson10th66th(+56)
Bryce Molder51st6th(−45)

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 Harbour Town Golf Links in Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, USA. The venue page carries its scorecard, hosting history and every other tour event played there.

Common questions

Who won the RBC Heritage in 2015-2016?

Branden Grace won the 2015-2016 RBC Heritage at Harbour Town Golf Links, finishing 9 under par.

Where was the 2015-2016 RBC Heritage played?

The 2015-2016 RBC Heritage was played at Harbour Town Golf Links, starting 14 April 2016.

What was the winning score at the 2015-2016 RBC Heritage?

The winning score was 9 under par (275 strokes), posted by Branden Grace.

How many players were in the RBC Heritage field?

131 players started the 2015-2016 RBC Heritage. 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.