Tournaments / 2017-2018
Safeway Open
2017-10-05 · Silverado Resort (North Course)
- Winner
- Brendan Steele
- Winning score
- -15
- Field
- 139
- Field strength
- -0.022 SG
The 2017-2018 Safeway Open was played at Silverado Resort (North Course), starting 5 October 2017. Brendan Steele won at 15 under par (273), 2 strokes ahead of Tony Finau. The winning card was 65, 67, 72 and 69, and the win paid $1,116,000. Tony Finau finished second, and Chesson Hadley and Phil Mickelson tied for third. 139 players started the event. The field averaged -0.022 strokes gained per round against the tour baseline, with strokes-gained data covering 83% 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 139. Search finds any player in the field, including those who missed the cut.
- Brendan Steele
- Pos
- 1
- R1
- 65
- R2
- 67
- R3
- 72
- R4
- 69
- Total
- 273
- Tony Finau
- Pos
- 2
- R1
- 70
- R2
- 65
- R3
- 71
- R4
- 69
- Total
- 275
- Chesson Hadley
- Pos
- T3
- R1
- 72
- R2
- 61
- R3
- 70
- R4
- 73
- Total
- 276
- Phil Mickelson
- Pos
- T3
- R1
- 69
- R2
- 69
- R3
- 68
- R4
- 70
- Total
- 276
- Graham DeLaet
- Pos
- T5
- R1
- 69
- R2
- 67
- R3
- 69
- R4
- 72
- Total
- 277
- Tyler Duncan
- Pos
- T5
- R1
- 65
- R2
- 66
- R3
- 71
- R4
- 75
- Total
- 277
- Andrew Landry
- Pos
- T7
- R1
- 71
- R2
- 69
- R3
- 69
- R4
- 69
- Total
- 278
- Bud Cauley
- Pos
- T7
- R1
- 69
- R2
- 69
- R3
- 66
- R4
- 74
- Total
- 278
- Brandon Harkins
- Pos
- T9
- R1
- 72
- R2
- 70
- R3
- 69
- R4
- 68
- Total
- 279
- Grayson Murray
- Pos
- T9
- R1
- 70
- R2
- 69
- R3
- 71
- R4
- 69
- Total
- 279
- Nick Taylor
- Pos
- T9
- R1
- 71
- R2
- 68
- R3
- 68
- R4
- 72
- Total
- 279
- Tyrone Van Aswegen
- Pos
- T9
- R1
- 71
- R2
- 67
- R3
- 72
- R4
- 69
- Total
- 279
- Chez Reavie
- Pos
- T13
- R1
- 67
- R2
- 70
- R3
- 72
- R4
- 71
- Total
- 280
- Hunter Mahan
- Pos
- T13
- R1
- 70
- R2
- 68
- R3
- 72
- R4
- 70
- Total
- 280
- Kevin Streelman
- Pos
- T13
- R1
- 69
- R2
- 68
- R3
- 72
- R4
- 71
- Total
- 280
- Zach Johnson
- Pos
- T13
- R1
- 68
- R2
- 72
- R3
- 69
- R4
- 71
- Total
- 280
- Ben Martin
- Pos
- T17
- R1
- 74
- R2
- 66
- R3
- 68
- R4
- 73
- Total
- 281
- Bill Haas
- Pos
- T17
- R1
- 72
- R2
- 65
- R3
- 69
- R4
- 75
- Total
- 281
- Brice Garnett
- Pos
- T17
- R1
- 73
- R2
- 68
- R3
- 69
- R4
- 71
- Total
- 281
- Bronson Burgoon
- Pos
- T17
- R1
- 70
- R2
- 68
- R3
- 69
- R4
- 74
- Total
- 281
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 75 players actually finished. It was not published in advance, so this measures the model, not a call we made.
- Rank correlation
- +0.338
- Top-20 hit rate
- 60%
- Top-10 avg model rank
- 25.9
Grade is this event’s percentile (57th) 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Phil Mickelson | 1st | 3rd |
| Kevin Na | 2nd | 37th |
| Lucas Glover | 3rd | 30th |
| Webb Simpson | 4th | 17th |
| Ryan Moore | 5th | 17th |
| Chez Reavie | 6th | 13th |
| Zach Johnson | 7th | 13th |
| Bill Haas | 8th | 17th |
| Tony Finau | 9th | 2nd |
| Brendan Steele | 10th | 1st |
Where it was most wrong
Largest gaps between rank and result, either direction.
| Player | Model | Finish |
|---|---|---|
| Chad Campbell | 15th | 68th(+53) |
| Hunter Mahan | 66th | 13th(−53) |
| Tyler Duncan | 57th | 5th(−52) |
| Chesson Hadley | 54th | 3rd(−51) |
| Brice Garnett | 67th | 17th(−50) |
| Robert Garrigus | 18th | 65th(+47) |
| Corey Conners | 75th | 30th(−45) |
| Bronson Burgoon | 61st | 17th(−44) |
| Smylie Kaufman | 32nd | 75th(+43) |
| Brandon Harkins | 51st | 9th(−42) |
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 Silverado Resort (North Course) in Napa, 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.