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Sony Open in Hawaii

2022-01-13 · Waialae Country Club

Winner
Hideki Matsuyama
Winning score
-23
Field
137
Field strength
+0.048 SG

The 2021-2022 Sony Open in Hawaii was played at Waialae Country Club, starting 13 January 2022. Hideki Matsuyama won at 23 under par (257). The winning card was 66, 65, 63 and 63, and the win paid $1,350,000. Russell Henley finished second, and Kevin Kisner and Seamus Power tied for third. 137 players started the event. The field averaged +0.048 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 137. Search finds any player in the field, including those who missed the cut.

Model score

Backtest · reconstructed

Our 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 65 players actually finished. It was not published in advance, so this measures the model, not a call we made.

Cgrade
Rank correlation
+0.292
Top-20 hit rate
45%
Top-10 avg model rank
23.8

Grade is this event’s percentile (40th) 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.

PlayerModelFinish
Corey Conners1st11th
Webb Simpson2nd61st
Russell Henley3rd2nd
Hideki Matsuyama4th1st
Kevin Na5th20th
Harris English6th55th
Seamus Power7th3rd
Talor Gooch8th27th
Billy Horschel9th36th
Chris Kirk10th27th

Where it was most wrong

Largest gaps between rank and result, either direction.

PlayerModelFinish
Webb Simpson2nd61st(+59)
Haotong Li64th12th(−52)
Harris English6th55th(+49)
Adam Svensson50th7th(−43)
Satoshi Kodaira54th12th(−42)
Joseph Bramlett61st20th(−41)
Brendon Todd12th48th(+36)
Si Woo Kim19th55th(+36)
Brian Harman15th48th(+33)
Luke Donald60th27th(−33)

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.

Common questions

Who won the Sony Open in Hawaii in 2021-2022?

Hideki Matsuyama won the 2021-2022 Sony Open in Hawaii at Waialae Country Club, finishing 23 under par.

Where was the 2021-2022 Sony Open in Hawaii played?

The 2021-2022 Sony Open in Hawaii was played at Waialae Country Club, starting 13 January 2022.

What was the winning score at the 2021-2022 Sony Open in Hawaii?

The winning score was 23 under par (257 strokes), posted by Hideki Matsuyama.

How many players were in the Sony Open in Hawaii field?

137 players started the 2021-2022 Sony Open in Hawaii. Every one of them appears on the leaderboard below.

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.