Tournaments / 2020-2021
The American Express
2021-01-21 · Pete Dye Stadium Course
- Winner
- Si Woo Kim
- Winning score
- -23
- Field
- 154
- Field strength
- -0.038 SG
The 2020-2021 The American Express was played at Pete Dye Stadium Course, starting 21 January 2021. Si Woo Kim won at 23 under par (265), 1 stroke ahead of Patrick Cantlay. The winning card was 66, 68, 67 and 64, and the win paid $1,206,000. Patrick Cantlay finished second, and Cam Davis was third. 154 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 PGA Tour's published final leaderboard for the event — nothing here is estimated or modelled.
Final leaderboard
Top 20 of 154. Search finds any player in the field, including those who missed the cut.
- Si Woo Kim
- Pos
- 1
- R1
- 66
- R2
- 68
- R3
- 67
- R4
- 64
- Total
- 265
- Patrick Cantlay
- Pos
- 2
- R1
- 69
- R2
- 71
- R3
- 65
- R4
- 61
- Total
- 266
- Cam Davis
- Pos
- 3
- R1
- 68
- R2
- 70
- R3
- 66
- R4
- 64
- Total
- 268
- Tony Finau
- Pos
- 4
- R1
- 68
- R2
- 66
- R3
- 67
- R4
- 68
- Total
- 269
- Abraham Ancer
- Pos
- T5
- R1
- 69
- R2
- 65
- R3
- 73
- R4
- 66
- Total
- 273
- Doug Ghim
- Pos
- T5
- R1
- 67
- R2
- 68
- R3
- 69
- R4
- 69
- Total
- 273
- Michael Thompson
- Pos
- T5
- R1
- 67
- R2
- 72
- R3
- 68
- R4
- 66
- Total
- 273
- Brian Harman
- Pos
- T8
- R1
- 68
- R2
- 68
- R3
- 67
- R4
- 71
- Total
- 274
- Byeong Hun An
- Pos
- T8
- R1
- 65
- R2
- 73
- R3
- 67
- R4
- 69
- Total
- 274
- Francesco Molinari
- Pos
- T8
- R1
- 69
- R2
- 66
- R3
- 69
- R4
- 70
- Total
- 274
- Paul Casey
- Pos
- T8
- R1
- 72
- R2
- 65
- R3
- 68
- R4
- 69
- Total
- 274
- Chase Seiffert
- Pos
- T12
- R1
- 72
- R2
- 67
- R3
- 65
- R4
- 71
- Total
- 275
- Henrik Norlander
- Pos
- T12
- R1
- 71
- R2
- 68
- R3
- 70
- R4
- 66
- Total
- 275
- Rory Sabbatini
- Pos
- T12
- R1
- 68
- R2
- 69
- R3
- 67
- R4
- 71
- Total
- 275
- Sungjae Im
- Pos
- T12
- R1
- 68
- R2
- 65
- R3
- 73
- R4
- 69
- Total
- 275
- Bo Hoag
- Pos
- T16
- R1
- 71
- R2
- 69
- R3
- 68
- R4
- 68
- Total
- 276
- Chris Kirk
- Pos
- T16
- R1
- 68
- R2
- 70
- R3
- 70
- R4
- 68
- Total
- 276
- Gary Woodland
- Pos
- T16
- R1
- 70
- R2
- 68
- R3
- 68
- R4
- 70
- Total
- 276
- Russell Knox
- Pos
- T16
- R1
- 69
- R2
- 70
- R3
- 64
- R4
- 73
- Total
- 276
- Ryan Armour
- Pos
- T16
- R1
- 70
- R2
- 67
- R3
- 73
- R4
- 66
- Total
- 276
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 71 players actually finished. It was not published in advance, so this measures the model, not a call we made.
- Rank correlation
- +0.378
- Top-20 hit rate
- 55%
- Top-10 avg model rank
- 17.5
Grade is this event’s percentile (78th) 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Patrick Cantlay | 1st | 2nd |
| Tony Finau | 2nd | 4th |
| Sungjae Im | 3rd | 12th |
| Abraham Ancer | 4th | 5th |
| Brian Harman | 5th | 8th |
| Cameron Tringale | 6th | 56th |
| Rickie Fowler | 7th | 21st |
| Zach Johnson | 8th | 62nd |
| Chris Kirk | 9th | 16th |
| Doc Redman | 10th | 70th |
Where it was most wrong
Largest gaps between rank and result, either direction.
| Player | Model | Finish |
|---|---|---|
| Doc Redman | 10th | 70th(+60) |
| Adam Long | 11th | 69th(+58) |
| Zach Johnson | 8th | 62nd(+54) |
| Cameron Tringale | 6th | 56th(+50) |
| Andrew Putnam | 66th | 21st(−45) |
| Bo Hoag | 60th | 16th(−44) |
| Doug Ghim | 47th | 5th(−42) |
| Brandon Hagy | 62nd | 21st(−41) |
| Maverick McNealy | 33rd | 71st(+38) |
| Michael Thompson | 43rd | 5th(−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 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 PGA Tour's own published final leaderboard for this event. Nothing is estimated or interpolated — where the tour published no value, 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.