Tournaments / 2019-2020
Sony Open in Hawaii
2020-01-09 · Waialae Country Club
- Winner
- Cameron Smith
- Winning score
- -11
- Field
- 137
- Field strength
- -0.038 SG
The 2019-2020 Sony Open in Hawaii was played at Waialae Country Club, starting 9 January 2020. Cameron Smith won at 11 under par (269). The winning card was 70, 65, 66 and 68, and the win paid $1,188,000. Brendan Steele finished second, and Webb Simpson was third. 137 players started the event. The field averaged -0.038 strokes gained per round against the tour baseline, with strokes-gained data covering 88% 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 137. Search finds any player in the field, including those who missed the cut.
- Cameron Smith
- Pos
- P1
- R1
- 70
- R2
- 65
- R3
- 66
- R4
- 68
- Total
- 269
- Brendan Steele
- Pos
- P2
- R1
- 68
- R2
- 66
- R3
- 64
- R4
- 71
- Total
- 269
- Webb Simpson
- Pos
- 3
- R1
- 71
- R2
- 66
- R3
- 66
- R4
- 67
- Total
- 270
- Graeme McDowell
- Pos
- T4
- R1
- 71
- R2
- 69
- R3
- 67
- R4
- 64
- Total
- 271
- Kevin Kisner
- Pos
- T4
- R1
- 69
- R2
- 69
- R3
- 64
- R4
- 69
- Total
- 271
- Ryan Palmer
- Pos
- T4
- R1
- 67
- R2
- 68
- R3
- 68
- R4
- 68
- Total
- 271
- Lanto Griffin
- Pos
- T7
- R1
- 71
- R2
- 69
- R3
- 68
- R4
- 64
- Total
- 272
- Ted Potter, Jr.
- Pos
- T7
- R1
- 67
- R2
- 69
- R3
- 70
- R4
- 66
- Total
- 272
- Bo Hoag
- Pos
- T9
- R1
- 70
- R2
- 65
- R3
- 69
- R4
- 69
- Total
- 273
- Cam Davis
- Pos
- T9
- R1
- 68
- R2
- 66
- R3
- 71
- R4
- 68
- Total
- 273
- Henrik Norlander
- Pos
- T9
- R1
- 71
- R2
- 66
- R3
- 68
- R4
- 68
- Total
- 273
- Brandt Snedeker
- Pos
- T12
- R1
- 72
- R2
- 67
- R3
- 69
- R4
- 66
- Total
- 274
- Charles Howell III
- Pos
- T12
- R1
- 72
- R2
- 67
- R3
- 66
- R4
- 69
- Total
- 274
- Corey Conners
- Pos
- T12
- R1
- 68
- R2
- 71
- R3
- 69
- R4
- 66
- Total
- 274
- Hideki Matsuyama
- Pos
- T12
- R1
- 74
- R2
- 67
- R3
- 67
- R4
- 66
- Total
- 274
- Joel Dahmen
- Pos
- T12
- R1
- 74
- R2
- 66
- R3
- 68
- R4
- 66
- Total
- 274
- Keegan Bradley
- Pos
- T12
- R1
- 69
- R2
- 66
- R3
- 69
- R4
- 70
- Total
- 274
- Peter Malnati
- Pos
- T12
- R1
- 72
- R2
- 66
- R3
- 68
- R4
- 68
- Total
- 274
- Tom Hoge
- Pos
- T12
- R1
- 71
- R2
- 68
- R3
- 67
- R4
- 68
- Total
- 274
- Vaughn Taylor
- Pos
- T12
- R1
- 75
- R2
- 66
- R3
- 66
- R4
- 67
- Total
- 274
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 66 players actually finished. It was not published in advance, so this measures the model, not a call we made.
- Rank correlation
- +0.311
- Top-20 hit rate
- 40%
- Top-10 avg model rank
- 30.4
Grade is this event’s percentile (46th) 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Webb Simpson | 1st | 3rd |
| Sungjae Im | 2nd | 21st |
| Hideki Matsuyama | 3rd | 12th |
| Charles Howell III | 4th | 12th |
| Joaquin Niemann | 5th | 57th |
| Brandt Snedeker | 6th | 12th |
| Abraham Ancer | 7th | 38th |
| Rory Sabbatini | 8th | 21st |
| Russell Knox | 9th | 32nd |
| Collin Morikawa | 10th | 21st |
Where it was most wrong
Largest gaps between rank and result, either direction.
| Player | Model | Finish |
|---|---|---|
| Ted Potter, Jr. | 60th | 7th(−53) |
| Joaquin Niemann | 5th | 57th(+52) |
| Cam Davis | 58th | 9th(−49) |
| Andrew Putnam | 13th | 57th(+44) |
| Brendan Steele | 46th | 2nd(−44) |
| Mark Anderson | 61st | 21st(−40) |
| Bo Hoag | 48th | 9th(−39) |
| Tom Hoge | 49th | 12th(−37) |
| Carlos Ortiz | 18th | 53rd(+35) |
| Peter Malnati | 44th | 12th(−32) |
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.