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Sony Open in Hawaii

2025-01-09 · Waialae Country Club

Winner
Nick Taylor
Winning score
-16
Field
138
Field strength
+0.038 SG

The 2025 Sony Open in Hawaii was played at Waialae Country Club, starting 9 January 2025. Nick Taylor won at 16 under par (264). The winning card was 66, 68, 65 and 65, and the win paid $1,566,000. Nico Echavarria finished second, and J.J. Spaun and Stephan Jaeger tied for third. 138 players started the event. The field averaged +0.038 strokes gained per round against the tour baseline, with strokes-gained data covering 91% 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 138. 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 76 players actually finished. It was not published in advance, so this measures the model, not a call we made.

Dgrade
Rank correlation
+0.205
Top-20 hit rate
30%
Top-10 avg model rank
30.7

Grade is this event’s percentile (17th) 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
Russell Henley1st10th
Hideki Matsuyama2nd16th
Keegan Bradley3rd6th
Taylor Pendrith4th45th
Tom Kim5th65th
Ben Griffin6th45th
Brian Harman7th21st
Denny McCarthy8th16th
Sahith Theegala9th37th
Maverick McNealy10th45th

Where it was most wrong

Largest gaps between rank and result, either direction.

PlayerModelFinish
Jackson Suber71st6th(−65)
Doug Ghim11th72nd(+61)
Tom Kim5th65th(+60)
Adam Schenk58th6th(−52)
Nick Dunlap56th10th(−46)
Jesper Svensson55th10th(−45)
Webb Simpson60th16th(−44)
Ben Silverman26th69th(+43)
Taylor Pendrith4th45th(+41)
Nick Taylor42nd1st(−41)

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 2025?

Nick Taylor won the 2025 Sony Open in Hawaii at Waialae Country Club, finishing 16 under par.

Where was the 2025 Sony Open in Hawaii played?

The 2025 Sony Open in Hawaii was played at Waialae Country Club, starting 9 January 2025.

What was the winning score at the 2025 Sony Open in Hawaii?

The winning score was 16 under par (264 strokes), posted by Nick Taylor.

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

138 players started the 2025 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.