Tournaments / 2019-2020

The Honda Classic

2020-02-27 · PGA National Resort (The Champion)

Winner: Sungjae Im
Winning score: -6
Field: 142
Field strength: -0.033 SG

The 2019-2020 The Honda Classic was played at PGA National Resort (The Champion), starting 27 February 2020. Sungjae Im won at 6 under par (274), 1 stroke ahead of Mackenzie Hughes. The winning card was 72, 66, 70 and 66, and the win paid $1,260,000. Mackenzie Hughes finished second, and Tommy Fleetwood was third. 142 players started the event. The field averaged -0.033 strokes gained per round against the tour baseline, with strokes-gained data covering 84% 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.


1	Sungjae Im	72	66	70	66	274	-6
2	Mackenzie Hughes	71	72	66	66	275	-5
3	Tommy Fleetwood	70	68	67	71	276	-4
T4	Brendan Steele	68	67	71	71	277	-3
T4	Byeong Hun An	76	66	68	67	277	-3
T4	Daniel Berger	69	70	69	69	277	-3
T4	Lee Westwood	67	69	71	70	277	-3
T8	Cam Davis	70	67	73	68	278	-2
T8	Gary Woodland	70	67	74	67	278	-2
T8	Russell Henley	70	69	70	69	278	-2
T11	Brice Garnett	72	69	72	66	279	-1
T11	Luke Donald	70	66	71	72	279	-1
T11	Mark Hubbard	69	71	69	70	279	-1
T11	Maverick McNealy	70	69	71	69	279	-1
T11	Robby Shelton	70	69	70	70	279	-1
T11	Wyndham Clark	68	74	71	66	279	-1
T17	Charl Schwartzel	69	69	70	72	280	E
T17	Harris English	66	74	72	68	280	E
T17	Richy Werenski	70	68	73	69	280	E
T17	Ryan Palmer	70	72	68	70	280	E

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

Fgrade

Rank correlation: +0.187
Top-20 hit rate: 40%
Top-10 avg model rank: 21.8

Grade is this event’s percentile (13th) 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
Tommy Fleetwood	1st	3rd
Gary Woodland	2nd	8th
Sungjae Im	3rd	1st
Billy Horschel	4th	42nd
Byeong Hun An	5th	4th
Daniel Berger	6th	4th
Ian Poulter	7th	27th
Vaughn Taylor	8th	42nd
J.T. Poston	9th	35th
Shane Lowry	10th	21st

Where it was most wrong

Largest gaps between rank and result, either direction.

Player	Model	Finish
Mackenzie Hughes	62nd	2nd(−60)
Robby Shelton	66th	11th(−55)
Zach Johnson	18th	67th(+49)
Luke Donald	60th	11th(−49)
Brendan Steele	47th	4th(−43)
Harry Higgs	16th	58th(+42)
Brandon Hagy	63rd	21st(−42)
Richy Werenski	58th	17th(−41)
Charl Schwartzel	57th	17th(−40)
Hudson Swafford	61st	21st(−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 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.

Common questions

Who won the The Honda Classic in 2019-2020?

Sungjae Im won the 2019-2020 The Honda Classic at PGA National Resort (The Champion), finishing 6 under par.

Where was the 2019-2020 The Honda Classic played?

The 2019-2020 The Honda Classic was played at PGA National Resort (The Champion), starting 27 February 2020.

What was the winning score at the 2019-2020 The Honda Classic?

The winning score was 6 under par (274 strokes), posted by Sungjae Im.

How many players were in the The Honda Classic field?

142 players started the 2019-2020 The Honda Classic. 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.