Tournaments / 2020-2021
The Honda Classic
2021-03-18 · PGA National Resort (The Champion)
- Winner
- Matt Jones
- Winning score
- -12
- Field
- 140
- Field strength
- -0.091 SG
The 2020-2021 The Honda Classic was played at PGA National Resort (The Champion), starting 18 March 2021. Matt Jones won at 12 under par (268), 5 strokes ahead of Brandon Hagy. The winning card was 61, 70, 69 and 68, and the win paid $1,260,000. Brandon Hagy finished second. 140 players started the event. The field averaged -0.091 strokes gained per round against the tour baseline, with strokes-gained data covering 85% 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 140. Search finds any player in the field, including those who missed the cut.
- Matt Jones
- Pos
- 1
- R1
- 61
- R2
- 70
- R3
- 69
- R4
- 68
- Total
- 268
- Brandon Hagy
- Pos
- 2
- R1
- 69
- R2
- 62
- R3
- 76
- R4
- 66
- Total
- 273
- Brendan Steele
- Pos
- T3
- R1
- 73
- R2
- 65
- R3
- 71
- R4
- 65
- Total
- 274
- C.T. Pan
- Pos
- T3
- R1
- 67
- R2
- 72
- R3
- 65
- R4
- 70
- Total
- 274
- Chase Seiffert
- Pos
- T3
- R1
- 67
- R2
- 74
- R3
- 69
- R4
- 64
- Total
- 274
- Denny McCarthy
- Pos
- T3
- R1
- 68
- R2
- 65
- R3
- 74
- R4
- 67
- Total
- 274
- Russell Henley
- Pos
- T3
- R1
- 64
- R2
- 69
- R3
- 73
- R4
- 68
- Total
- 274
- Adam Hadwin
- Pos
- T8
- R1
- 72
- R2
- 65
- R3
- 70
- R4
- 68
- Total
- 275
- Camilo Villegas
- Pos
- T8
- R1
- 69
- R2
- 65
- R3
- 72
- R4
- 69
- Total
- 275
- Sam Ryder
- Pos
- T8
- R1
- 69
- R2
- 63
- R3
- 72
- R4
- 71
- Total
- 275
- Sungjae Im
- Pos
- T8
- R1
- 68
- R2
- 68
- R3
- 69
- R4
- 70
- Total
- 275
- Zach Johnson
- Pos
- T8
- R1
- 67
- R2
- 68
- R3
- 70
- R4
- 70
- Total
- 275
- Aaron Wise
- Pos
- T13
- R1
- 64
- R2
- 64
- R3
- 75
- R4
- 73
- Total
- 276
- Adam Scott
- Pos
- T13
- R1
- 69
- R2
- 67
- R3
- 72
- R4
- 68
- Total
- 276
- Cameron Tringale
- Pos
- T13
- R1
- 67
- R2
- 68
- R3
- 69
- R4
- 72
- Total
- 276
- Kevin Chappell
- Pos
- T13
- R1
- 66
- R2
- 70
- R3
- 75
- R4
- 65
- Total
- 276
- Robert Streb
- Pos
- T13
- R1
- 69
- R2
- 66
- R3
- 70
- R4
- 71
- Total
- 276
- Steve Stricker
- Pos
- T13
- R1
- 66
- R2
- 71
- R3
- 70
- R4
- 69
- Total
- 276
- Harold Varner III
- Pos
- T19
- R1
- 71
- R2
- 65
- R3
- 71
- R4
- 70
- Total
- 277
- Harry Higgs
- Pos
- T19
- R1
- 68
- R2
- 67
- R3
- 74
- R4
- 68
- Total
- 277
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 66 players actually finished. It was not published in advance, so this measures the model, not a call we made.
- Rank correlation
- +0.353
- Top-20 hit rate
- 45%
- Top-10 avg model rank
- 21.3
Grade is this event’s percentile (60th) 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Russell Henley | 1st | 3rd |
| Sungjae Im | 2nd | 8th |
| Adam Scott | 3rd | 13th |
| Joaquin Niemann | 4th | 25th |
| Cameron Tringale | 5th | 13th |
| Talor Gooch | 6th | 46th |
| Shane Lowry | 7th | 36th |
| Chris Kirk | 8th | 25th |
| Cam Davis | 9th | 33rd |
| Kevin Streelman | 10th | 36th |
Where it was most wrong
Largest gaps between rank and result, either direction.
| Player | Model | Finish |
|---|---|---|
| Rickie Fowler | 14th | 65th(+51) |
| Camilo Villegas | 59th | 8th(−51) |
| Brandon Hagy | 51st | 2nd(−49) |
| Robert Streb | 57th | 13th(−44) |
| Talor Gooch | 6th | 46th(+40) |
| Chase Seiffert | 43rd | 3rd(−40) |
| C.T. Pan | 42nd | 3rd(−39) |
| Kevin Chappell | 52nd | 13th(−39) |
| Sam Ryder | 44th | 8th(−36) |
| Erik van Rooyen | 25th | 60th(+35) |
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.