Tournaments / 2014-2015

Sony Open in Hawaii

2015-01-15 · Waialae Country Club

Winner: Jimmy Walker
Winning score: -23
Field: 138
Field strength: +0.092 SG

The 2014-2015 Sony Open in Hawaii was played at Waialae Country Club, starting 15 January 2015. Jimmy Walker won at 23 under par (257), 9 strokes ahead of Scott Piercy. The winning card was 66, 66, 62 and 63, and the win paid $1,008,000. Scott Piercy finished second, and Gary Woodland, Harris English and Matt Kuchar tied for third. 138 players started the event. The field averaged +0.092 strokes gained per round against the tour baseline, with strokes-gained data covering 89% 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 138. Search finds any player in the field, including those who missed the cut.


1	Jimmy Walker	66	66	62	63	257	-23
2	Scott Piercy	67	67	66	66	266	-14
T3	Gary Woodland	70	65	65	67	267	-13
T3	Harris English	66	69	65	67	267	-13
T3	Matt Kuchar	65	63	68	71	267	-13
T6	Brian Davis	66	70	65	67	268	-12
T6	Jerry Kelly	73	62	67	66	268	-12
T6	Justin Thomas	67	61	70	70	268	-12
T6	Max Homa	69	67	63	69	268	-12
T6	Rory Sabbatini	64	67	74	63	268	-12
T6	Shawn Stefani	69	66	65	68	268	-12
T6	Zac Blair	71	66	64	67	268	-12
T13	Brian Harman	66	67	64	72	269	-11
T13	Daniel Berger	68	66	68	67	269	-11
T13	Russell Knox	66	65	69	69	269	-11
T13	Webb Simpson	62	66	72	69	269	-11
T17	Colt Knost	70	68	66	66	270	-10
T17	Daniel Summerhays	66	67	67	70	270	-10
T17	Jason Day	65	69	68	68	270	-10
T17	Jason Kokrak	67	69	64	70	270	-10

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

Dgrade

Rank correlation: +0.274
Top-20 hit rate: 45%
Top-10 avg model rank: 26.5

Grade is this event’s percentile (35th) 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	3rd
Zach Johnson	2nd	64th
Chris Kirk	3rd	26th
Kevin Na	4th	64th
Hideki Matsuyama	5th	78th
Jason Day	6th	17th
Jimmy Walker	7th	1st
Webb Simpson	8th	13th
Ryan Palmer	9th	17th
Marc Leishman	10th	37th

Where it was most wrong

Largest gaps between rank and result, either direction.

Player	Model	Finish
Hideki Matsuyama	5th	78th(+73)
John Senden	16th	83rd(+67)
Max Homa	72nd	6th(−66)
Zach Johnson	2nd	64th(+62)
Brian Davis	67th	6th(−61)
Kevin Na	4th	64th(+60)
Colt Knost	76th	17th(−59)
James Hahn	79th	26th(−53)
Hyung-Sung Kim	83rd	30th(−53)
George McNeill	22nd	71st(+49)

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 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 2014-2015?

Jimmy Walker won the 2014-2015 Sony Open in Hawaii at Waialae Country Club, finishing 23 under par.

Where was the 2014-2015 Sony Open in Hawaii played?

The 2014-2015 Sony Open in Hawaii was played at Waialae Country Club, starting 15 January 2015.

What was the winning score at the 2014-2015 Sony Open in Hawaii?

The winning score was 23 under par (257 strokes), posted by Jimmy Walker.

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

138 players started the 2014-2015 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.