Tournaments / 2015-2016
Sanderson Farms Championship
2015-11-05 · The Country Club of Jackson
- Winner
- Peter Malnati
- Winning score
- -18
- Field
- 120
- Field strength
- -0.079 SG
The 2015-2016 Sanderson Farms Championship was played at The Country Club of Jackson, starting 5 November 2015. Peter Malnati won at 18 under par (270), 1 stroke ahead of David Toms. The winning card was 69, 66, 68 and 67, and the win paid $738,000. David Toms and William McGirt tied for second. 120 players started the event. The field averaged -0.079 strokes gained per round against the tour baseline, with strokes-gained data covering 62% 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 120. Search finds any player in the field, including those who missed the cut.
- Peter Malnati
- Pos
- 1
- R1
- 69
- R2
- 66
- R3
- 68
- R4
- 67
- Total
- 270
- David Toms
- Pos
- T2
- R1
- 67
- R2
- 69
- R3
- 66
- R4
- 69
- Total
- 271
- William McGirt
- Pos
- T2
- R1
- 71
- R2
- 66
- R3
- 66
- R4
- 68
- Total
- 271
- Aaron Baddeley
- Pos
- T4
- R1
- 64
- R2
- 73
- R3
- 67
- R4
- 68
- Total
- 272
- Bryce Molder
- Pos
- T4
- R1
- 64
- R2
- 69
- R3
- 70
- R4
- 69
- Total
- 272
- Jhonattan Vegas
- Pos
- T4
- R1
- 66
- R2
- 67
- R3
- 70
- R4
- 69
- Total
- 272
- Patton Kizzire
- Pos
- T4
- R1
- 67
- R2
- 69
- R3
- 66
- R4
- 70
- Total
- 272
- Roberto Castro
- Pos
- T4
- R1
- 62
- R2
- 67
- R3
- 75
- R4
- 68
- Total
- 272
- Brice Garnett
- Pos
- 9
- R1
- 68
- R2
- 68
- R3
- 68
- R4
- 69
- Total
- 273
- Andrew Loupe
- Pos
- T10
- R1
- 66
- R2
- 71
- R3
- 70
- R4
- 67
- Total
- 274
- D.J. Trahan
- Pos
- T10
- R1
- 67
- R2
- 67
- R3
- 69
- R4
- 71
- Total
- 274
- Jason Kokrak
- Pos
- T12
- R1
- 69
- R2
- 71
- R3
- 71
- R4
- 64
- Total
- 275
- Martin Flores
- Pos
- T12
- R1
- 67
- R2
- 72
- R3
- 67
- R4
- 69
- Total
- 275
- Tyler Aldridge
- Pos
- T12
- R1
- 71
- R2
- 67
- R3
- 68
- R4
- 69
- Total
- 275
- Brett Stegmaier
- Pos
- T15
- R1
- 68
- R2
- 69
- R3
- 70
- R4
- 69
- Total
- 276
- Cameron Percy
- Pos
- T15
- R1
- 68
- R2
- 70
- R3
- 68
- R4
- 70
- Total
- 276
- Gonzalo Fernandez-Castaño
- Pos
- T15
- R1
- 69
- R2
- 72
- R3
- 67
- R4
- 68
- Total
- 276
- Johnson Wagner
- Pos
- T15
- R1
- 69
- R2
- 69
- R3
- 69
- R4
- 69
- Total
- 276
- Michael Putnam
- Pos
- T15
- R1
- 69
- R2
- 70
- R3
- 70
- R4
- 67
- Total
- 276
- Andres Romero
- Pos
- T20
- R1
- 66
- R2
- 72
- R3
- 72
- R4
- 67
- Total
- 277
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 69 players actually finished. It was not published in advance, so this measures the model, not a call we made.
- Rank correlation
- +0.143
- Top-20 hit rate
- 40%
- Top-10 avg model rank
- 34.4
Grade is this event’s percentile (7th) 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Jason Bohn | 1st | 39th |
| Graham DeLaet | 2nd | 33rd |
| Vaughn Taylor | 3rd | 20th |
| William McGirt | 4th | 2nd |
| Jason Kokrak | 5th | 12th |
| Carl Pettersson | 6th | 39th |
| Ollie Schniederjans | 7th | 50th |
| David Toms | 8th | 2nd |
| Smylie Kaufman | 9th | 54th |
| K.J. Choi | 10th | 50th |
Where it was most wrong
Largest gaps between rank and result, either direction.
| Player | Model | Finish |
|---|---|---|
| Peter Malnati | 63rd | 1st(−62) |
| D.J. Trahan | 67th | 10th(−57) |
| Roberto Castro | 53rd | 4th(−49) |
| Michael Kim | 17th | 63rd(+46) |
| Tom Hoge | 24th | 70th(+46) |
| Derek Ernst | 66th | 20th(−46) |
| Smylie Kaufman | 9th | 54th(+45) |
| Bronson Burgoon | 65th | 20th(−45) |
| Ollie Schniederjans | 7th | 50th(+43) |
| Scott Langley | 18th | 61st(+43) |
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 The Country Club of Jackson in Jackson, Mississippi, USA. The venue page carries its scorecard, hosting history and every other tour event played there.
Common questions
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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.