Tournaments / 2017-2018
Sony Open in Hawaii
2018-01-11 · Waialae Country Club
- Winner
- Patton Kizzire
- Winning score
- -17
- Field
- 139
- Field strength
- +0.006 SG
The 2017-2018 Sony Open in Hawaii was played at Waialae Country Club, starting 11 January 2018. Patton Kizzire won at 17 under par (263). The winning card was 67, 64, 64 and 68, and the win paid $1,116,000. James Hahn finished second, and Tom Hoge was third. 139 players started the event. The field averaged +0.006 strokes gained per round against the tour baseline, with strokes-gained data covering 87% 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 139. Search finds any player in the field, including those who missed the cut.
- Patton Kizzire
- Pos
- P1
- R1
- 67
- R2
- 64
- R3
- 64
- R4
- 68
- Total
- 263
- James Hahn
- Pos
- P2
- R1
- 67
- R2
- 69
- R3
- 65
- R4
- 62
- Total
- 263
- Tom Hoge
- Pos
- 3
- R1
- 65
- R2
- 65
- R3
- 64
- R4
- 70
- Total
- 264
- Brian Harman
- Pos
- T4
- R1
- 64
- R2
- 63
- R3
- 68
- R4
- 70
- Total
- 265
- Brian Stuard
- Pos
- T4
- R1
- 67
- R2
- 66
- R3
- 67
- R4
- 65
- Total
- 265
- Webb Simpson
- Pos
- T4
- R1
- 67
- R2
- 70
- R3
- 63
- R4
- 65
- Total
- 265
- Ben Martin
- Pos
- T7
- R1
- 69
- R2
- 66
- R3
- 66
- R4
- 65
- Total
- 266
- Gary Woodland
- Pos
- T7
- R1
- 67
- R2
- 67
- R3
- 68
- R4
- 64
- Total
- 266
- Ollie Schniederjans
- Pos
- T7
- R1
- 66
- R2
- 65
- R3
- 67
- R4
- 68
- Total
- 266
- Chris Kirk
- Pos
- T10
- R1
- 63
- R2
- 67
- R3
- 67
- R4
- 70
- Total
- 267
- Kyle Stanley
- Pos
- T10
- R1
- 64
- R2
- 67
- R3
- 65
- R4
- 71
- Total
- 267
- Russell Knox
- Pos
- T10
- R1
- 69
- R2
- 64
- R3
- 65
- R4
- 69
- Total
- 267
- Ryan Blaum
- Pos
- T10
- R1
- 66
- R2
- 68
- R3
- 68
- R4
- 65
- Total
- 267
- Daniel Berger
- Pos
- T14
- R1
- 67
- R2
- 68
- R3
- 69
- R4
- 64
- Total
- 268
- Jerry Kelly
- Pos
- T14
- R1
- 66
- R2
- 67
- R3
- 69
- R4
- 66
- Total
- 268
- Justin Thomas
- Pos
- T14
- R1
- 67
- R2
- 67
- R3
- 66
- R4
- 68
- Total
- 268
- Zach Johnson
- Pos
- T14
- R1
- 63
- R2
- 67
- R3
- 71
- R4
- 67
- Total
- 268
- Austin Cook
- Pos
- T18
- R1
- 67
- R2
- 71
- R3
- 65
- R4
- 66
- Total
- 269
- Cameron Smith
- Pos
- T18
- R1
- 66
- R2
- 67
- R3
- 66
- R4
- 70
- Total
- 269
- Chez Reavie
- Pos
- T18
- R1
- 68
- R2
- 69
- R3
- 65
- R4
- 67
- Total
- 269
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 74 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
- 25.5
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Jordan Spieth | 1st | 18th |
| Justin Thomas | 2nd | 14th |
| Webb Simpson | 3rd | 4th |
| Chez Reavie | 4th | 18th |
| Marc Leishman | 5th | 47th |
| Daniel Berger | 6th | 14th |
| Zach Johnson | 7th | 14th |
| Kevin Kisner | 8th | 25th |
| Gary Woodland | 9th | 7th |
| Brian Harman | 10th | 4th |
Where it was most wrong
Largest gaps between rank and result, either direction.
| Player | Model | Finish |
|---|---|---|
| Vaughn Taylor | 25th | 76th(+51) |
| Tom Hoge | 50th | 3rd(−47) |
| Ryan Blaum | 56th | 10th(−46) |
| Keith Mitchell | 69th | 25th(−44) |
| Marc Leishman | 5th | 47th(+42) |
| Patton Kizzire | 41st | 1st(−40) |
| William McGirt | 26th | 65th(+39) |
| Kevin Tway | 31st | 69th(+38) |
| Talor Gooch | 53rd | 18th(−35) |
| Nicholas Lindheim | 67th | 32nd(−35) |
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.