Tournaments / 2021-2022

The Honda Classic

2022-02-24 · PGA National Resort (The Champion)

Winner: Sepp Straka
Winning score: -10
Field: 142
Field strength: +0.001 SG

The 2021-2022 The Honda Classic was played at PGA National Resort (The Champion), starting 24 February 2022. Sepp Straka won at 10 under par (270), 1 stroke ahead of Shane Lowry. The winning card was 71, 64, 69 and 66, and the win paid $1,440,000. Shane Lowry finished second, and Kurt Kitayama was third. 142 players started the event. The field averaged +0.001 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	Sepp Straka	71	64	69	66	270	-10
2	Shane Lowry	70	67	67	67	271	-9
3	Kurt Kitayama	64	69	71	68	272	-8
4	Daniel Berger	65	65	69	74	273	-7
T5	Alex Noren	69	69	70	68	276	-4
T5	Gary Woodland	69	69	71	67	276	-4
T7	Chris Kirk	65	68	71	73	277	-3
T7	Matthias Schwab	67	72	70	68	277	-3
T9	Adam Svensson	69	65	71	73	278	-2
T9	Brian Stuard	70	70	69	69	278	-2
T9	John Huh	72	65	71	70	278	-2
T9	Keith Mitchell	71	70	69	68	278	-2
T9	Lee Hodges	71	66	71	70	278	-2
T9	Sam Ryder	71	68	69	70	278	-2
15	Mark Hubbard	70	64	75	70	279	-1
T16	Beau Hossler	69	69	71	71	280	E
T16	Billy Horschel	68	74	68	70	280	E
T16	Brooks Koepka	68	72	71	69	280	E
T16	C.T. Pan	70	70	71	69	280	E
T16	Cameron Young	68	73	74	65	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 71 players actually finished. It was not published in advance, so this measures the model, not a call we made.

Cgrade

Rank correlation: +0.336
Top-20 hit rate: 40%
Top-10 avg model rank: 24.4

Grade is this event’s percentile (55th) 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
Daniel Berger	1st	4th
Louis Oosthuizen	2nd	30th
Billy Horschel	3rd	16th
Brooks Koepka	4th	16th
Shane Lowry	5th	2nd
Ian Poulter	6th	30th
Chris Kirk	7th	7th
Russell Knox	8th	55th
Alex Noren	9th	5th
Cameron Young	10th	16th

Where it was most wrong

Largest gaps between rank and result, either direction.

Player	Model	Finish
Kurt Kitayama	70th	3rd(−67)
Ryan Palmer	12th	70th(+58)
Russell Knox	8th	55th(+47)
Lee Hodges	55th	9th(−46)
Aaron Rai	25th	66th(+41)
Adam Svensson	50th	9th(−41)
John Huh	48th	9th(−39)
Beau Hossler	54th	16th(−38)
Callum Tarren	68th	30th(−38)
Brendon Todd	11th	48th(+37)

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 2021-2022?

Sepp Straka won the 2021-2022 The Honda Classic at PGA National Resort (The Champion), finishing 10 under par.

Where was the 2021-2022 The Honda Classic played?

The 2021-2022 The Honda Classic was played at PGA National Resort (The Champion), starting 24 February 2022.

What was the winning score at the 2021-2022 The Honda Classic?

The winning score was 10 under par (270 strokes), posted by Sepp Straka.

How many players were in the The Honda Classic field?

142 players started the 2021-2022 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.