Tournaments / 2022-2023

Sony Open in Hawaii

2023-01-12 · Waialae Country Club

Winner: Si Woo Kim
Winning score: -18
Field: 137
Field strength: +0.006 SG

The 2022-2023 Sony Open in Hawaii was played at Waialae Country Club, starting 12 January 2023. Si Woo Kim won at 18 under par (262), 1 stroke ahead of Hayden Buckley. The winning card was 67, 67, 64 and 64, and the win paid $1,422,000. Hayden Buckley finished second, and Chris Kirk was third. 137 players started the event. The field averaged +0.006 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.


1	Si Woo Kim	67	67	64	64	262	-18
2	Hayden Buckley	67	64	64	68	263	-17
3	Chris Kirk	64	65	68	68	265	-15
T4	Andrew Putnam	70	66	62	68	266	-14
T4	Ben Taylor	66	66	65	69	266	-14
T4	David Lipsky	65	66	66	69	266	-14
T7	Aaron Baddeley	67	70	65	65	267	-13
T7	Matt Kuchar	70	67	64	66	267	-13
T7	Maverick McNealy	66	67	67	67	267	-13
T7	Nate Lashley	69	65	65	68	267	-13
T7	Nick Taylor	70	68	62	67	267	-13
T12	Andrew Novak	66	70	67	65	268	-12
T12	Austin Eckroat	66	66	68	68	268	-12
T12	Ben Griffin	65	68	67	68	268	-12
T12	Byeong Hun An	70	65	66	67	268	-12
T12	Corey Conners	69	66	68	65	268	-12
T12	J.J. Spaun	66	64	71	67	268	-12
T12	Nico Echavarria	69	69	65	65	268	-12
T12	S.H. Kim	65	67	68	68	268	-12
T12	Taylor Montgomery	64	66	70	68	268	-12

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

Cgrade

Rank correlation: +0.319
Top-20 hit rate: 40%
Top-10 avg model rank: 22.3

Grade is this event’s percentile (48th) 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
Corey Conners	1st	12th
Russell Henley	2nd	32nd
Hideki Matsuyama	3rd	48th
Brian Harman	4th	32nd
Tom Hoge	5th	41st
Cam Davis	6th	32nd
Matt Kuchar	7th	7th
Maverick McNealy	8th	7th
Adam Scott	9th	21st
Taylor Montgomery	10th	12th

Where it was most wrong

Largest gaps between rank and result, either direction.

Player	Model	Finish
Nico Echavarria	70th	12th(−58)
Kurt Kitayama	18th	73rd(+55)
Harris English	23rd	73rd(+50)
Andrew Novak	60th	12th(−48)
Russell Knox	20th	67th(+47)
Hideki Matsuyama	3rd	48th(+45)
Austin Eckroat	57th	12th(−45)
Carl Yuan	64th	21st(−43)
Byeong Hun An	53rd	12th(−41)
Patton Kizzire	38th	76th(+38)

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 model Probabilities and the track record How 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 2022-2023?

Si Woo Kim won the 2022-2023 Sony Open in Hawaii at Waialae Country Club, finishing 18 under par.

Where was the 2022-2023 Sony Open in Hawaii played?

The 2022-2023 Sony Open in Hawaii was played at Waialae Country Club, starting 12 January 2023.

What was the winning score at the 2022-2023 Sony Open in Hawaii?

The winning score was 18 under par (262 strokes), posted by Si Woo Kim.

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

137 players started the 2022-2023 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.