Tournaments / 2016-2017
Sony Open in Hawaii
2017-01-12 · Waialae Country Club
- Winner
- Justin Thomas
- Winning score
- -27
- Field
- 141
- Field strength
- +0.083 SG
The 2016-2017 Sony Open in Hawaii was played at Waialae Country Club, starting 12 January 2017. Justin Thomas won at 27 under par (253), 7 strokes ahead of Justin Rose. The winning card was 59, 64, 65 and 65, and the win paid $1,080,000. Justin Rose finished second, and Jordan Spieth was third. 141 players started the event. The field averaged +0.083 strokes gained per round against the tour baseline, with strokes-gained data covering 85% 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 141. Search finds any player in the field, including those who missed the cut.
- Justin Thomas
- Pos
- 1
- R1
- 59
- R2
- 64
- R3
- 65
- R4
- 65
- Total
- 253
- Justin Rose
- Pos
- 2
- R1
- 66
- R2
- 64
- R3
- 66
- R4
- 64
- Total
- 260
- Jordan Spieth
- Pos
- 3
- R1
- 65
- R2
- 67
- R3
- 66
- R4
- 63
- Total
- 261
- Jamie Lovemark
- Pos
- T4
- R1
- 64
- R2
- 68
- R3
- 65
- R4
- 65
- Total
- 262
- Kevin Kisner
- Pos
- T4
- R1
- 70
- R2
- 67
- R3
- 60
- R4
- 65
- Total
- 262
- Gary Woodland
- Pos
- T6
- R1
- 64
- R2
- 64
- R3
- 68
- R4
- 67
- Total
- 263
- Zach Johnson
- Pos
- T6
- R1
- 69
- R2
- 61
- R3
- 65
- R4
- 68
- Total
- 263
- Charles Howell III
- Pos
- T8
- R1
- 65
- R2
- 66
- R3
- 68
- R4
- 65
- Total
- 264
- Chez Reavie
- Pos
- T8
- R1
- 67
- R2
- 67
- R3
- 69
- R4
- 61
- Total
- 264
- Jim Herman
- Pos
- 10
- R1
- 66
- R2
- 67
- R3
- 67
- R4
- 65
- Total
- 265
- Russell Knox
- Pos
- T11
- R1
- 64
- R2
- 67
- R3
- 66
- R4
- 69
- Total
- 266
- Sean O'Hair
- Pos
- T11
- R1
- 66
- R2
- 69
- R3
- 67
- R4
- 64
- Total
- 266
- Bill Haas
- Pos
- T13
- R1
- 67
- R2
- 66
- R3
- 67
- R4
- 67
- Total
- 267
- Branden Grace
- Pos
- T13
- R1
- 67
- R2
- 68
- R3
- 65
- R4
- 67
- Total
- 267
- Brian Gay
- Pos
- T13
- R1
- 69
- R2
- 64
- R3
- 67
- R4
- 67
- Total
- 267
- Hudson Swafford
- Pos
- T13
- R1
- 62
- R2
- 68
- R3
- 66
- R4
- 71
- Total
- 267
- Luke List
- Pos
- T13
- R1
- 67
- R2
- 64
- R3
- 69
- R4
- 67
- Total
- 267
- Russell Henley
- Pos
- T13
- R1
- 64
- R2
- 67
- R3
- 68
- R4
- 68
- Total
- 267
- Webb Simpson
- Pos
- T13
- R1
- 66
- R2
- 65
- R3
- 69
- R4
- 67
- Total
- 267
- Billy Hurley III
- Pos
- T20
- R1
- 64
- R2
- 68
- R3
- 68
- R4
- 68
- 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 80 players actually finished. It was not published in advance, so this measures the model, not a call we made.
- Rank correlation
- +0.488
- Top-20 hit rate
- 65%
- Top-10 avg model rank
- 14.3
Grade is this event’s percentile (92nd) 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Russell Knox | 1st | 11th |
| Hideki Matsuyama | 2nd | 27th |
| Jordan Spieth | 3rd | 3rd |
| Justin Thomas | 4th | 1st |
| Daniel Berger | 5th | 45th |
| Gary Woodland | 6th | 6th |
| Justin Rose | 7th | 2nd |
| Kevin Na | 8th | 36th |
| Zach Johnson | 9th | 6th |
| Bill Haas | 10th | 13th |
Where it was most wrong
Largest gaps between rank and result, either direction.
| Player | Model | Finish |
|---|---|---|
| Pat Perez | 12th | 69th(+57) |
| Brian Gay | 69th | 13th(−56) |
| Billy Horschel | 15th | 68th(+53) |
| Ollie Schniederjans | 78th | 27th(−51) |
| Chad Campbell | 24th | 74th(+50) |
| Peter Malnati | 75th | 27th(−48) |
| Ryan Blaum | 28th | 74th(+46) |
| Michael Thompson | 64th | 20th(−44) |
| Hideto Tanihara | 70th | 27th(−43) |
| Scott Piercy | 16th | 57th(+41) |
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.