Tournaments / 2015-2016
Sony Open in Hawaii
2016-01-14 · Waialae Country Club
- Winner
- Fabián Gómez
- Winning score
- -20
- Field
- 138
- Field strength
- +0.053 SG
The 2015-2016 Sony Open in Hawaii was played at Waialae Country Club, starting 14 January 2016. Fabián Gómez won at 20 under par (260). The winning card was 69, 64, 65 and 62, and the win paid $1,044,000. Brandt Snedeker finished second, and Zac Blair was third. 138 players started the event. The field averaged +0.053 strokes gained per round against the tour baseline, with strokes-gained data covering 86% 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.
- Fabián Gómez
- Pos
- P1
- R1
- 69
- R2
- 64
- R3
- 65
- R4
- 62
- Total
- 260
- Brandt Snedeker
- Pos
- P2
- R1
- 63
- R2
- 65
- R3
- 66
- R4
- 66
- Total
- 260
- Zac Blair
- Pos
- 3
- R1
- 65
- R2
- 65
- R3
- 64
- R4
- 67
- Total
- 261
- Si Woo Kim
- Pos
- 4
- R1
- 64
- R2
- 67
- R3
- 65
- R4
- 68
- Total
- 264
- Greg Owen
- Pos
- T5
- R1
- 69
- R2
- 65
- R3
- 67
- R4
- 64
- Total
- 265
- Kevin Kisner
- Pos
- T5
- R1
- 63
- R2
- 66
- R3
- 66
- R4
- 70
- Total
- 265
- Graham DeLaet
- Pos
- T7
- R1
- 73
- R2
- 62
- R3
- 65
- R4
- 66
- Total
- 266
- Jamie Lovemark
- Pos
- T7
- R1
- 67
- R2
- 69
- R3
- 65
- R4
- 65
- Total
- 266
- Hudson Swafford
- Pos
- T9
- R1
- 66
- R2
- 69
- R3
- 65
- R4
- 67
- Total
- 267
- Jason Dufner
- Pos
- T9
- R1
- 67
- R2
- 67
- R3
- 65
- R4
- 68
- Total
- 267
- Jerry Kelly
- Pos
- T9
- R1
- 65
- R2
- 66
- R3
- 69
- R4
- 67
- Total
- 267
- Zach Johnson
- Pos
- T9
- R1
- 64
- R2
- 66
- R3
- 70
- R4
- 67
- Total
- 267
- Brian Harman
- Pos
- T13
- R1
- 68
- R2
- 69
- R3
- 66
- R4
- 65
- Total
- 268
- Charles Howell III
- Pos
- T13
- R1
- 64
- R2
- 69
- R3
- 67
- R4
- 68
- Total
- 268
- Daniel Summerhays
- Pos
- T13
- R1
- 67
- R2
- 65
- R3
- 70
- R4
- 66
- Total
- 268
- David Lingmerth
- Pos
- T13
- R1
- 65
- R2
- 71
- R3
- 68
- R4
- 64
- Total
- 268
- Gary Woodland
- Pos
- T13
- R1
- 66
- R2
- 67
- R3
- 66
- R4
- 69
- Total
- 268
- Harold Varner III
- Pos
- T13
- R1
- 69
- R2
- 68
- R3
- 66
- R4
- 65
- Total
- 268
- Jimmy Walker
- Pos
- T13
- R1
- 69
- R2
- 68
- R3
- 65
- R4
- 66
- Total
- 268
- Kyle Stanley
- Pos
- T13
- R1
- 68
- R2
- 66
- R3
- 70
- R4
- 64
- Total
- 268
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 85 players actually finished. It was not published in advance, so this measures the model, not a call we made.
- Rank correlation
- +0.410
- Top-20 hit rate
- 55%
- Top-10 avg model rank
- 31.6
Grade is this event’s percentile (76th) 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 | 13th |
| Zach Johnson | 2nd | 9th |
| Jimmy Walker | 3rd | 13th |
| Ryan Palmer | 4th | 13th |
| Kevin Na | 5th | 28th |
| Francesco Molinari | 6th | 33rd |
| Adam Scott | 7th | 56th |
| Danny Lee | 8th | 33rd |
| Steve Stricker | 9th | 64th |
| Brandt Snedeker | 10th | 2nd |
Where it was most wrong
Largest gaps between rank and result, either direction.
| Player | Model | Finish |
|---|---|---|
| Greg Owen | 69th | 5th(−64) |
| Tim Clark | 74th | 13th(−61) |
| Steve Stricker | 9th | 64th(+55) |
| Kyle Stanley | 68th | 13th(−55) |
| Fabián Gómez | 54th | 1st(−53) |
| Jim Herman | 34th | 84th(+50) |
| Robert Garrigus | 83rd | 33rd(−50) |
| Adam Scott | 7th | 56th(+49) |
| Tony Finau | 15th | 64th(+49) |
| David Hearn | 26th | 75th(+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.
This week's modelProbabilities and the track recordHow 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.
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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.