Tournaments / 2018-2019
The Honda Classic
2019-02-28 · PGA National Resort (The Champion)
- Winner
- Keith Mitchell
- Winning score
- -9
- Field
- 142
- Field strength
- +0.041 SG
The 2018-2019 The Honda Classic was played at PGA National Resort (The Champion), starting 28 February 2019. Keith Mitchell won at 9 under par (271), 1 stroke ahead of Brooks Koepka. The winning card was 68, 66, 70 and 67, and the win paid $1,224,000. Brooks Koepka and Rickie Fowler tied for second. 142 players started the event. The field averaged +0.041 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 142. Search finds any player in the field, including those who missed the cut.
- Keith Mitchell
- Pos
- 1
- R1
- 68
- R2
- 66
- R3
- 70
- R4
- 67
- Total
- 271
- Brooks Koepka
- Pos
- T2
- R1
- 67
- R2
- 69
- R3
- 70
- R4
- 66
- Total
- 272
- Rickie Fowler
- Pos
- T2
- R1
- 67
- R2
- 72
- R3
- 66
- R4
- 67
- Total
- 272
- Lucas Glover
- Pos
- T4
- R1
- 66
- R2
- 69
- R3
- 72
- R4
- 66
- Total
- 273
- Ryan Palmer
- Pos
- T4
- R1
- 70
- R2
- 71
- R3
- 69
- R4
- 63
- Total
- 273
- Vijay Singh
- Pos
- 6
- R1
- 70
- R2
- 69
- R3
- 65
- R4
- 70
- Total
- 274
- K.H. Lee
- Pos
- T7
- R1
- 67
- R2
- 69
- R3
- 68
- R4
- 71
- Total
- 275
- Wyndham Clark
- Pos
- T7
- R1
- 69
- R2
- 67
- R3
- 67
- R4
- 72
- Total
- 275
- Jason Kokrak
- Pos
- T9
- R1
- 69
- R2
- 71
- R3
- 68
- R4
- 68
- Total
- 276
- Jim Furyk
- Pos
- T9
- R1
- 69
- R2
- 72
- R3
- 68
- R4
- 67
- Total
- 276
- Sergio Garcia
- Pos
- T9
- R1
- 67
- R2
- 70
- R3
- 70
- R4
- 69
- Total
- 276
- Bud Cauley
- Pos
- T12
- R1
- 67
- R2
- 71
- R3
- 71
- R4
- 68
- Total
- 277
- Harris English
- Pos
- T12
- R1
- 70
- R2
- 71
- R3
- 68
- R4
- 68
- Total
- 277
- Lucas Bjerregaard
- Pos
- T12
- R1
- 70
- R2
- 68
- R3
- 72
- R4
- 67
- Total
- 277
- Ryan Armour
- Pos
- T12
- R1
- 68
- R2
- 68
- R3
- 70
- R4
- 71
- Total
- 277
- Billy Horschel
- Pos
- T16
- R1
- 67
- R2
- 71
- R3
- 73
- R4
- 67
- Total
- 278
- Charl Schwartzel
- Pos
- T16
- R1
- 67
- R2
- 70
- R3
- 72
- R4
- 69
- Total
- 278
- Jhonattan Vegas
- Pos
- T16
- R1
- 64
- R2
- 73
- R3
- 69
- R4
- 72
- Total
- 278
- Michael Thompson
- Pos
- T16
- R1
- 71
- R2
- 69
- R3
- 66
- R4
- 72
- Total
- 278
- Brian Gay
- Pos
- T20
- R1
- 71
- R2
- 70
- R3
- 70
- R4
- 68
- Total
- 279
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 82 players actually finished. It was not published in advance, so this measures the model, not a call we made.
- Rank correlation
- +0.205
- Top-20 hit rate
- 35%
- Top-10 avg model rank
- 30.6
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.
| Player | Model | Finish |
|---|---|---|
| Justin Thomas | 1st | 30th |
| Rickie Fowler | 2nd | 2nd |
| Webb Simpson | 3rd | 36th |
| Daniel Berger | 4th | 36th |
| Brooks Koepka | 5th | 2nd |
| Sergio Garcia | 6th | 9th |
| Gary Woodland | 7th | 36th |
| Byeong Hun An | 8th | 36th |
| Zach Johnson | 9th | 59th |
| Billy Horschel | 10th | 16th |
Where it was most wrong
Largest gaps between rank and result, either direction.
| Player | Model | Finish |
|---|---|---|
| Vijay Singh | 79th | 6th(−73) |
| Lucas Bjerregaard | 82nd | 12th(−70) |
| Stewart Cink | 13th | 75th(+62) |
| Graeme McDowell | 20th | 82nd(+62) |
| K.H. Lee | 69th | 7th(−62) |
| Austin Cook | 14th | 75th(+61) |
| Ernie Els | 75th | 20th(−55) |
| Harris English | 64th | 12th(−52) |
| Max Homa | 71st | 20th(−51) |
| Zach Johnson | 9th | 59th(+50) |
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 PGA National Resort (The Champion) in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, 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.