Tournaments / 2026

The American Express

2026-01-22 · Pete Dye Stadium Course

Winner: Scottie Scheffler
Winning score: -27
Field: 155
Field strength: +0.037 SG

The 2026 The American Express was played at Pete Dye Stadium Course, starting 22 January 2026. Scottie Scheffler won at 27 under par (261), 4 strokes ahead of Andrew Putnam. The winning card was 63, 64, 68 and 66, and the win paid $1,656,000. Andrew Putnam, Jason Day, Matt McCarty and Ryan Gerard tied for second. 155 players started the event. The field averaged +0.037 strokes gained per round against the tour baseline, with strokes-gained data covering 86% 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.


1	Scottie Scheffler	63	64	68	66	261	-27
T2	Andrew Putnam	72	60	65	68	265	-23
T2	Jason Day	63	71	67	64	265	-23
T2	Matt McCarty	63	66	68	68	265	-23
T2	Ryan Gerard	70	66	64	65	265	-23
T6	Sam Stevens	64	67	68	67	266	-22
T6	Si Woo Kim	63	65	66	72	266	-22
T8	Austin Smotherman	66	65	68	68	267	-21
T8	Haotong Li	68	67	64	68	267	-21
T8	Russell Henley	65	66	69	67	267	-21
T8	Sahith Theegala	71	64	67	65	267	-21
T8	Tom Hoge	64	68	65	70	267	-21
T13	David Ford	67	66	70	65	268	-20
T13	Jacob Bridgeman	64	66	69	69	268	-20
T13	Patrick Cantlay	63	68	68	69	268	-20
T13	Wyndham Clark	66	64	66	72	268	-20
T13	Zach Bauchou	65	70	65	68	268	-20
T18	Karl Vilips	67	65	70	67	269	-19
T18	Pierceson Coody	62	72	67	68	269	-19
T18	Rickie Fowler	67	63	71	68	269	-19

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

Dgrade

Rank correlation: +0.278
Top-20 hit rate: 35%
Top-10 avg model rank: 22.8

Grade is this event’s percentile (37th) 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
Scottie Scheffler	1st	1st
Russell Henley	2nd	8th
Sam Burns	3rd	27th
Patrick Cantlay	4th	13th
Ben Griffin	5th	24th
Si Woo Kim	6th	6th
Harry Hall	7th	24th
Robert MacIntyre	8th	38th
Matt Fitzpatrick	9th	63rd
Harris English	10th	27th

Where it was most wrong

Largest gaps between rank and result, either direction.

Player	Model	Finish
Zach Bauchou	70th	13th(−57)
Matt Fitzpatrick	9th	63rd(+54)
David Ford	66th	13th(−53)
Karl Vilips	65th	18th(−47)
Austin Smotherman	53rd	8th(−45)
Daniel Berger	12th	56th(+44)
S.H. Kim	62nd	18th(−44)
Matthieu Pavon	71st	27th(−44)
Haotong Li	49th	8th(−41)
Denny McCarthy	16th	56th(+40)

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.

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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.

Common questions

Who won the The American Express in 2026?

Scottie Scheffler won the 2026 The American Express at Pete Dye Stadium Course, finishing 27 under par.

Where was the 2026 The American Express played?

The 2026 The American Express was played at Pete Dye Stadium Course, starting 22 January 2026.

What was the winning score at the 2026 The American Express?

The winning score was 27 under par (261 strokes), posted by Scottie Scheffler.

How many players were in the The American Express field?

155 players started the 2026 The American Express. 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.