Tournaments / 2018-2019
The Open Championship
2019-07-18 · Royal Portrush Golf Club
- Winner
- Shane Lowry
- Winning score
- -15
- Field
- 156
- Field strength
- +0.661 SG
The 2018-2019 The Open Championship was played at Royal Portrush Golf Club, starting 18 July 2019. Shane Lowry won at 15 under par (269), 6 strokes ahead of Tommy Fleetwood. The winning card was 67, 67, 63 and 72, and the win paid $1,935,000. Tommy Fleetwood finished second, and Tony Finau was third. 156 players started the event. The field averaged +0.661 strokes gained per round against the tour baseline, with strokes-gained data covering 48% 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.
- Shane Lowry
- Pos
- 1
- R1
- 67
- R2
- 67
- R3
- 63
- R4
- 72
- Total
- 269
- Tommy Fleetwood
- Pos
- 2
- R1
- 68
- R2
- 67
- R3
- 66
- R4
- 74
- Total
- 275
- Tony Finau
- Pos
- 3
- R1
- 68
- R2
- 70
- R3
- 68
- R4
- 71
- Total
- 277
- Brooks Koepka
- Pos
- T4
- R1
- 68
- R2
- 69
- R3
- 67
- R4
- 74
- Total
- 278
- Lee Westwood
- Pos
- T4
- R1
- 68
- R2
- 67
- R3
- 70
- R4
- 73
- Total
- 278
- Danny Willett
- Pos
- T6
- R1
- 74
- R2
- 67
- R3
- 65
- R4
- 73
- Total
- 279
- Rickie Fowler
- Pos
- T6
- R1
- 70
- R2
- 69
- R3
- 66
- R4
- 74
- Total
- 279
- Robert MacIntyre
- Pos
- T6
- R1
- 68
- R2
- 72
- R3
- 71
- R4
- 68
- Total
- 279
- Tyrrell Hatton
- Pos
- T6
- R1
- 68
- R2
- 71
- R3
- 71
- R4
- 69
- Total
- 279
- Patrick Reed
- Pos
- 10
- R1
- 71
- R2
- 67
- R3
- 71
- R4
- 71
- Total
- 280
- Alex Noren
- Pos
- T11
- R1
- 68
- R2
- 71
- R3
- 68
- R4
- 74
- Total
- 281
- Francesco Molinari
- Pos
- T11
- R1
- 74
- R2
- 69
- R3
- 72
- R4
- 66
- Total
- 281
- Jon Rahm
- Pos
- T11
- R1
- 68
- R2
- 70
- R3
- 68
- R4
- 75
- Total
- 281
- Justin Thomas
- Pos
- T11
- R1
- 71
- R2
- 70
- R3
- 68
- R4
- 72
- Total
- 281
- Tom Lewis
- Pos
- T11
- R1
- 75
- R2
- 68
- R3
- 68
- R4
- 70
- Total
- 281
- Lucas Bjerregaard
- Pos
- T16
- R1
- 70
- R2
- 68
- R3
- 74
- R4
- 70
- Total
- 282
- Rory Sabbatini
- Pos
- T16
- R1
- 70
- R2
- 70
- R3
- 71
- R4
- 71
- Total
- 282
- Ryan Fox
- Pos
- T16
- R1
- 68
- R2
- 75
- R3
- 70
- R4
- 69
- Total
- 282
- Sanghyun Park
- Pos
- T16
- R1
- 69
- R2
- 72
- R3
- 68
- R4
- 73
- Total
- 282
- Cameron Smith
- Pos
- T20
- R1
- 70
- R2
- 66
- R3
- 71
- R4
- 76
- Total
- 283
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 73 players actually finished. It was not published in advance, so this measures the model, not a call we made.
- Rank correlation
- +0.234
- Top-20 hit rate
- 45%
- Top-10 avg model rank
- 26.8
Grade is this event’s percentile (24th) 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Dustin Johnson | 1st | 51st |
| Justin Rose | 2nd | 20th |
| Patrick Cantlay | 3rd | 41st |
| Justin Thomas | 4th | 11th |
| Webb Simpson | 5th | 30th |
| Brooks Koepka | 6th | 4th |
| Rickie Fowler | 7th | 6th |
| Jon Rahm | 8th | 11th |
| Matt Kuchar | 9th | 41st |
| Paul Casey | 10th | 57th |
Where it was most wrong
Largest gaps between rank and result, either direction.
| Player | Model | Finish |
|---|---|---|
| Tom Lewis | 70th | 11th(−59) |
| Sanghyun Park | 73rd | 16th(−57) |
| Lee Westwood | 57th | 4th(−53) |
| Lucas Bjerregaard | 68th | 16th(−52) |
| Dustin Johnson | 1st | 51st(+50) |
| Ryan Fox | 66th | 16th(−50) |
| Paul Casey | 10th | 57th(+47) |
| Sergio Garcia | 21st | 67th(+46) |
| Robert MacIntyre | 52nd | 6th(−46) |
| Jim Furyk | 19th | 63rd(+44) |
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 Portrush Golf Club in Portrush, NIR. 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.