Tournaments / 2017-2018

Sanderson Farms Championship

2017-10-26 · The Country Club of Jackson

Winner: Ryan Armour
Winning score: -19
Field: 123
Field strength: -0.102 SG

The 2017-2018 Sanderson Farms Championship was played at The Country Club of Jackson, starting 26 October 2017. Ryan Armour won at 19 under par (269), 5 strokes ahead of Chesson Hadley. The winning card was 66, 68, 67 and 68, and the win paid $774,000. Chesson Hadley finished second, and Jonathan Randolph was third. 123 players started the event. The field averaged -0.102 strokes gained per round against the tour baseline, with strokes-gained data covering 67% 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 123. Search finds any player in the field, including those who missed the cut.


1	Ryan Armour	66	68	67	68	269	-19
2	Chesson Hadley	68	70	68	68	274	-14
3	Jonathan Randolph	69	69	71	67	276	-12
T4	Brian Stuard	67	70	71	70	278	-10
T4	Smylie Kaufman	67	72	71	68	278	-10
T7	Ben Silverman	68	70	69	72	279	-9
T7	Jason Kokrak	69	70	73	67	279	-9
T7	Nicholas Lindheim	70	67	72	70	279	-9
T10	Beau Hossler	69	69	69	73	280	-8
T10	Derek Fathauer	67	71	73	69	280	-8
T10	Kevin Streelman	71	69	71	69	280	-8
T10	Patton Kizzire	71	72	69	68	280	-8
T10	Ricky Barnes	69	70	75	66	280	-8
T10	Shawn Stefani	72	71	67	70	280	-8
T10	Vaughn Taylor	70	66	71	73	280	-8
17	Wyndham Clark	66	71	75	69	281	-7
T18	Brandon Hagy	71	71	72	68	282	-6
T18	Brian Gay	72	69	68	73	282	-6
T18	Hunter Mahan	70	71	69	72	282	-6
T18	Rob Oppenheim	70	71	70	71	282	-6

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 73 players actually finished. It was not published in advance, so this measures the model, not a call we made.

Dgrade

Rank correlation: +0.202
Top-20 hit rate: 35%
Top-10 avg model rank: 26.4

Grade is this event’s percentile (17th) 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 Kokrak	1st	7th
Kevin Streelman	2nd	10th
William McGirt	3rd	25th
Ben Martin	4th	59th
Andrew Landry	5th	59th
David Hearn	6th	59th
Vaughn Taylor	7th	10th
Chris Kirk	8th	34th
Aaron Baddeley	9th	30th
Sam Burns	10th	43rd

Where it was most wrong

Largest gaps between rank and result, either direction.

Player	Model	Finish
Nicholas Lindheim	72nd	7th(−65)
Daniel Summerhays	14th	72nd(+58)
Ben Martin	4th	59th(+55)
Andrew Landry	5th	59th(+54)
David Hearn	6th	59th(+53)
Fabián Gómez	21st	72nd(+51)
Beau Hossler	57th	10th(−47)
Wyndham Clark	63rd	17th(−46)
Jonathan Randolph	46th	3rd(−43)
Derek Fathauer	50th	10th(−40)

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.

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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

Who won the Sanderson Farms Championship in 2017-2018?

Ryan Armour won the 2017-2018 Sanderson Farms Championship at The Country Club of Jackson, finishing 19 under par.

Where was the 2017-2018 Sanderson Farms Championship played?

The 2017-2018 Sanderson Farms Championship was played at The Country Club of Jackson, starting 26 October 2017.

What was the winning score at the 2017-2018 Sanderson Farms Championship?

The winning score was 19 under par (269 strokes), posted by Ryan Armour.

How many players were in the Sanderson Farms Championship field?

123 players started the 2017-2018 Sanderson Farms Championship. 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.