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Tournaments / 2013-2014

The Open Championship

2014-07-17 · Royal Liverpool

Winner
Rory McIlroy
Winning score
-17
Field
156
Field strength
+0.615 SG

The 2013-2014 The Open Championship was played at Royal Liverpool, starting 17 July 2014. Rory McIlroy won at 17 under par (271), 2 strokes ahead of Rickie Fowler. The winning card was 66, 66, 68 and 71, and the win paid $1,665,788. Rickie Fowler and Sergio Garcia tied for second. 156 players started the event. The field averaged +0.615 strokes gained per round against the tour baseline, with strokes-gained data covering 50% 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 156. Search finds any player in the field, including those who missed the cut.

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.

Fgrade
Rank correlation
+0.033
Top-20 hit rate
40%
Top-10 avg model rank
23.1

Grade is this event’s percentile (1st) 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.

PlayerModelFinish
Adam Scott1st5th
Justin Rose2nd23rd
Sergio Garcia3rd2nd
Jordan Spieth4th36th
Jim Furyk5th4th
Matt Kuchar6th54th
Tiger Woods7th69th
Henrik Stenson8th39th
Rory McIlroy9th1st
Phil Mickelson10th23rd

Where it was most wrong

Largest gaps between rank and result, either direction.

PlayerModelFinish
Tiger Woods7th69th(+62)
Shane Lowry65th9th(−56)
David Howell69th15th(−54)
Luke Donald11th64th(+53)
George Coetzee68th18th(−50)
Victor Dubuisson58th9th(−49)
Stephen Gallacher64th15th(−49)
Matt Kuchar6th54th(+48)
Robert Karlsson60th12th(−48)
Darren Clarke72nd26th(−46)

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 Royal Liverpool in Hoylake, Wirral, ENG. The venue page carries its scorecard, hosting history and every other tour event played there.

Common questions

Who won the The Open Championship in 2013-2014?

Rory McIlroy won the 2013-2014 The Open Championship at Royal Liverpool, finishing 17 under par.

Where was the 2013-2014 The Open Championship played?

The 2013-2014 The Open Championship was played at Royal Liverpool, starting 17 July 2014.

What was the winning score at the 2013-2014 The Open Championship?

The winning score was 17 under par (271 strokes), posted by Rory McIlroy.

How many players were in the The Open Championship field?

156 players started the 2013-2014 The Open Championship. 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.