Tournaments / 2020-2021
Sony Open in Hawaii
2021-01-14 · Waialae Country Club
- Winner
- Kevin Na
- Winning score
- -21
- Field
- 140
- Field strength
- +0.007 SG
The 2020-2021 Sony Open in Hawaii was played at Waialae Country Club, starting 14 January 2021. Kevin Na won at 21 under par (259), 1 stroke ahead of Chris Kirk. The winning card was 67, 66, 61 and 65, and the win paid $1,188,000. Chris Kirk and Joaquin Niemann tied for second. 140 players started the event. The field averaged +0.007 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 140. Search finds any player in the field, including those who missed the cut.
- Kevin Na
- Pos
- 1
- R1
- 67
- R2
- 66
- R3
- 61
- R4
- 65
- Total
- 259
- Chris Kirk
- Pos
- T2
- R1
- 65
- R2
- 65
- R3
- 65
- R4
- 65
- Total
- 260
- Joaquin Niemann
- Pos
- T2
- R1
- 62
- R2
- 69
- R3
- 63
- R4
- 66
- Total
- 260
- Brendan Steele
- Pos
- T4
- R1
- 65
- R2
- 66
- R3
- 61
- R4
- 69
- Total
- 261
- Marc Leishman
- Pos
- T4
- R1
- 66
- R2
- 65
- R3
- 65
- R4
- 65
- Total
- 261
- Webb Simpson
- Pos
- T4
- R1
- 65
- R2
- 65
- R3
- 67
- R4
- 64
- Total
- 261
- Billy Horschel
- Pos
- T7
- R1
- 65
- R2
- 66
- R3
- 66
- R4
- 65
- Total
- 262
- Collin Morikawa
- Pos
- T7
- R1
- 66
- R2
- 65
- R3
- 67
- R4
- 64
- Total
- 262
- Daniel Berger
- Pos
- T7
- R1
- 64
- R2
- 68
- R3
- 64
- R4
- 66
- Total
- 262
- Patton Kizzire
- Pos
- T7
- R1
- 64
- R2
- 69
- R3
- 65
- R4
- 64
- Total
- 262
- Matt Jones
- Pos
- T11
- R1
- 69
- R2
- 67
- R3
- 63
- R4
- 64
- Total
- 263
- Nick Taylor
- Pos
- T11
- R1
- 66
- R2
- 62
- R3
- 68
- R4
- 67
- Total
- 263
- Russell Henley
- Pos
- T11
- R1
- 66
- R2
- 64
- R3
- 65
- R4
- 68
- Total
- 263
- Carlos Ortiz
- Pos
- T14
- R1
- 66
- R2
- 67
- R3
- 67
- R4
- 64
- Total
- 264
- Charley Hoffman
- Pos
- T14
- R1
- 66
- R2
- 65
- R3
- 64
- R4
- 69
- Total
- 264
- Keith Mitchell
- Pos
- T14
- R1
- 71
- R2
- 62
- R3
- 63
- R4
- 68
- Total
- 264
- Nick Hardy
- Pos
- T14
- R1
- 69
- R2
- 63
- R3
- 66
- R4
- 66
- Total
- 264
- Peter Malnati
- Pos
- T14
- R1
- 62
- R2
- 69
- R3
- 64
- R4
- 69
- Total
- 264
- Charles Howell III
- Pos
- T19
- R1
- 67
- R2
- 68
- R3
- 66
- R4
- 64
- Total
- 265
- Hideki Matsuyama
- Pos
- T19
- R1
- 66
- R2
- 65
- R3
- 66
- R4
- 68
- Total
- 265
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 73 players actually finished. It was not published in advance, so this measures the model, not a call we made.
- Rank correlation
- +0.218
- Top-20 hit rate
- 35%
- Top-10 avg model rank
- 23.4
Grade is this event’s percentile (20th) 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 | 4th |
| Daniel Berger | 2nd | 7th |
| Russell Henley | 3rd | 11th |
| Collin Morikawa | 4th | 7th |
| Harris English | 5th | 32nd |
| Hideki Matsuyama | 6th | 19th |
| Sungjae Im | 7th | 56th |
| Kevin Kisner | 8th | 32nd |
| Adam Scott | 9th | 41st |
| Brendon Todd | 10th | 41st |
Where it was most wrong
Largest gaps between rank and result, either direction.
| Player | Model | Finish |
|---|---|---|
| Marc Leishman | 54th | 4th(−50) |
| Sungjae Im | 7th | 56th(+49) |
| Nick Hardy | 63rd | 14th(−49) |
| Sebastián Muñoz | 17th | 65th(+48) |
| Cameron Smith | 15th | 62nd(+46) |
| Zach Johnson | 15th | 62nd(+46) |
| Kramer Hickok | 64th | 19th(−45) |
| Brian Harman | 12th | 56th(+44) |
| Keith Mitchell | 58th | 14th(−44) |
| Jerry Kelly | 30th | 73rd(+43) |
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.