Tournaments / 2019-2020
The American Express
2020-01-16 · Pete Dye Stadium Course
- Winner
- Andrew Landry
- Winning score
- -26
- Field
- 155
- Field strength
- -0.048 SG
The 2019-2020 The American Express was played at Pete Dye Stadium Course, starting 16 January 2020. Andrew Landry won at 26 under par (262), 2 strokes ahead of Abraham Ancer. The winning card was 66, 64, 65 and 67, and the win paid $1,206,000. Abraham Ancer finished second, and Scottie Scheffler was third. 155 players started the event. The field averaged -0.048 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 155. Search finds any player in the field, including those who missed the cut.
- Andrew Landry
- Pos
- 1
- R1
- 66
- R2
- 64
- R3
- 65
- R4
- 67
- Total
- 262
- Abraham Ancer
- Pos
- 2
- R1
- 68
- R2
- 67
- R3
- 66
- R4
- 63
- Total
- 264
- Scottie Scheffler
- Pos
- 3
- R1
- 65
- R2
- 64
- R3
- 66
- R4
- 70
- Total
- 265
- Bud Cauley
- Pos
- T4
- R1
- 68
- R2
- 64
- R3
- 71
- R4
- 65
- Total
- 268
- Sepp Straka
- Pos
- T4
- R1
- 69
- R2
- 65
- R3
- 68
- R4
- 66
- Total
- 268
- Ryan Moore
- Pos
- T6
- R1
- 68
- R2
- 65
- R3
- 67
- R4
- 69
- Total
- 269
- Sam Burns
- Pos
- T6
- R1
- 71
- R2
- 68
- R3
- 67
- R4
- 63
- Total
- 269
- Sebastian Cappelen
- Pos
- T6
- R1
- 67
- R2
- 70
- R3
- 64
- R4
- 68
- Total
- 269
- Tom Hoge
- Pos
- T6
- R1
- 66
- R2
- 70
- R3
- 66
- R4
- 67
- Total
- 269
- Andrew Putnam
- Pos
- T10
- R1
- 67
- R2
- 69
- R3
- 65
- R4
- 69
- Total
- 270
- Grayson Murray
- Pos
- T10
- R1
- 64
- R2
- 71
- R3
- 69
- R4
- 66
- Total
- 270
- Rickie Fowler
- Pos
- T10
- R1
- 65
- R2
- 64
- R3
- 70
- R4
- 71
- Total
- 270
- Sungjae Im
- Pos
- T10
- R1
- 67
- R2
- 66
- R3
- 69
- R4
- 68
- Total
- 270
- Adam Schenk
- Pos
- T14
- R1
- 66
- R2
- 69
- R3
- 68
- R4
- 68
- Total
- 271
- Alex Noren
- Pos
- T14
- R1
- 67
- R2
- 67
- R3
- 68
- R4
- 69
- Total
- 271
- Tony Finau
- Pos
- T14
- R1
- 69
- R2
- 62
- R3
- 71
- R4
- 69
- Total
- 271
- Hank Lebioda
- Pos
- T17
- R1
- 65
- R2
- 71
- R3
- 66
- R4
- 70
- Total
- 272
- Kevin Na
- Pos
- T17
- R1
- 69
- R2
- 67
- R3
- 69
- R4
- 67
- Total
- 272
- Matt NeSmith
- Pos
- T17
- R1
- 68
- R2
- 68
- R3
- 70
- R4
- 66
- Total
- 272
- Talor Gooch
- Pos
- T17
- R1
- 69
- R2
- 71
- R3
- 64
- R4
- 68
- Total
- 272
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 74 players actually finished. It was not published in advance, so this measures the model, not a call we made.
- Rank correlation
- +0.191
- Top-20 hit rate
- 45%
- Top-10 avg model rank
- 32.8
Grade is this event’s percentile (14th) 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Sungjae Im | 1st | 10th |
| Paul Casey | 2nd | 21st |
| Rickie Fowler | 3rd | 10th |
| Vaughn Taylor | 4th | 43rd |
| Abraham Ancer | 5th | 2nd |
| Rory Sabbatini | 6th | 48th |
| Russell Knox | 7th | 37th |
| Denny McCarthy | 8th | 48th |
| Tony Finau | 9th | 14th |
| J.T. Poston | 10th | 37th |
Where it was most wrong
Largest gaps between rank and result, either direction.
| Player | Model | Finish |
|---|---|---|
| Sebastian Cappelen | 72nd | 6th(−66) |
| Grayson Murray | 68th | 10th(−58) |
| Sam Burns | 58th | 6th(−52) |
| Michael Gligic | 73rd | 21st(−52) |
| Tom Hoge | 55th | 6th(−49) |
| Andrew Landry | 49th | 1st(−48) |
| Brian Stuard | 25th | 72nd(+47) |
| K.H. Lee | 66th | 21st(−45) |
| D.J. Trahan | 24th | 68th(+44) |
| Sepp Straka | 47th | 4th(−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 Pete Dye Stadium Course in La Quinta, California, 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.