Tournaments / 2013-2014

Sony Open in Hawaii

2014-01-09 · Waialae Country Club

Winner: Jimmy Walker
Winning score: -17
Field: 135
Field strength: +0.048 SG

The 2013-2014 Sony Open in Hawaii was played at Waialae Country Club, starting 9 January 2014. Jimmy Walker won at 17 under par (263), 1 stroke ahead of Chris Kirk. The winning card was 66, 67, 67 and 63, and the win paid $1,008,000. Chris Kirk finished second, and Jerry Kelly was third. 135 players started the event. The field averaged +0.048 strokes gained per round against the tour baseline, with strokes-gained data covering 79% 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 135. Search finds any player in the field, including those who missed the cut.


1	Jimmy Walker	66	67	67	63	263	-17
2	Chris Kirk	64	69	65	66	264	-16
3	Jerry Kelly	67	67	66	65	265	-15
4	Harris English	66	66	67	67	266	-14
5	Marc Leishman	67	64	71	65	267	-13
6	Brian Stuard	65	65	71	67	268	-12
7	Jeff Overton	68	68	65	68	269	-11
T8	Adam Scott	67	66	71	66	270	-10
T8	Charles Howell III	71	67	66	66	270	-10
T8	Hideto Tanihara	66	65	70	69	270	-10
T8	Hudson Swafford	70	64	69	67	270	-10
T8	Kevin Na	70	67	67	66	270	-10
T8	Matt Every	69	65	69	67	270	-10
T8	Matt Kuchar	68	68	68	66	270	-10
T8	Pat Perez	68	67	66	69	270	-10
T8	Retief Goosen	66	69	66	69	270	-10
T8	Ryan Palmer	65	70	67	68	270	-10
T8	Will Wilcox	69	66	64	71	270	-10
T8	Zach Johnson	68	67	66	69	270	-10
T20	Brendon Todd	70	66	66	69	271	-9

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

Agrade

Rank correlation: +0.478
Top-20 hit rate: 65%
Top-10 avg model rank: 10.4

Grade is this event’s percentile (90th) 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
Matt Kuchar	1st	8th
Adam Scott	2nd	8th
Chris Kirk	3rd	2nd
Zach Johnson	4th	8th
Jason Dufner	5th	29th
Brendon de Jonge	6th	51st
K.J. Choi	7th	20th
Charles Howell III	8th	8th
Jimmy Walker	9th	1st
Chris Stroud	10th	20th

Where it was most wrong

Largest gaps between rank and result, either direction.

Player	Model	Finish
John Huh	14th	72nd(+58)
Hudson Swafford	63rd	8th(−55)
Hideto Tanihara	60th	8th(−52)
Ryuji Imada	72nd	20th(−52)
Will Wilcox	55th	8th(−47)
Robert Allenby	66th	20th(−46)
Brendon de Jonge	6th	51st(+45)
Ken Duke	28th	72nd(+44)
John Senden	18th	61st(+43)
John Daly	74th	32nd(−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 model Probabilities and the track record How the model works

The venue

This event was played at Waialae Country Club in Honolulu, Hawaii, USA. The venue page carries its scorecard, hosting history and every other tour event played there.

Common questions

Who won the Sony Open in Hawaii in 2013-2014?

Jimmy Walker won the 2013-2014 Sony Open in Hawaii at Waialae Country Club, finishing 17 under par.

Where was the 2013-2014 Sony Open in Hawaii played?

The 2013-2014 Sony Open in Hawaii was played at Waialae Country Club, starting 9 January 2014.

What was the winning score at the 2013-2014 Sony Open in Hawaii?

The winning score was 17 under par (263 strokes), posted by Jimmy Walker.

How many players were in the Sony Open in Hawaii field?

135 players started the 2013-2014 Sony Open in Hawaii. 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.