Tournaments / 2021-2022
The Open Championship
2022-07-14 · St. Andrews GC (Old Course)
- Winner
- Cameron Smith
- Winning score
- -20
- Field
- 156
- Field strength
- +0.733 SG
The 2021-2022 The Open Championship was played at St. Andrews GC (Old Course), starting 14 July 2022. Cameron Smith won at 20 under par (268), 1 stroke ahead of Cameron Young. The winning card was 67, 64, 73 and 64, and the win paid $2,500,000. Cameron Young finished second, and Rory McIlroy was third. 156 players started the event. The field averaged +0.733 strokes gained per round against the tour baseline, with strokes-gained data covering 44% 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.
- Cameron Smith
- Pos
- 1
- R1
- 67
- R2
- 64
- R3
- 73
- R4
- 64
- Total
- 268
- Cameron Young
- Pos
- 2
- R1
- 64
- R2
- 69
- R3
- 71
- R4
- 65
- Total
- 269
- Rory McIlroy
- Pos
- 3
- R1
- 66
- R2
- 68
- R3
- 66
- R4
- 70
- Total
- 270
- Tommy Fleetwood
- Pos
- T4
- R1
- 72
- R2
- 69
- R3
- 66
- R4
- 67
- Total
- 274
- Viktor Hovland
- Pos
- T4
- R1
- 68
- R2
- 66
- R3
- 66
- R4
- 74
- Total
- 274
- Brian Harman
- Pos
- T6
- R1
- 73
- R2
- 68
- R3
- 68
- R4
- 66
- Total
- 275
- Dustin Johnson
- Pos
- T6
- R1
- 68
- R2
- 67
- R3
- 71
- R4
- 69
- Total
- 275
- Bryson DeChambeau
- Pos
- T8
- R1
- 69
- R2
- 74
- R3
- 67
- R4
- 66
- Total
- 276
- Jordan Spieth
- Pos
- T8
- R1
- 71
- R2
- 69
- R3
- 68
- R4
- 68
- Total
- 276
- Patrick Cantlay
- Pos
- T8
- R1
- 70
- R2
- 67
- R3
- 71
- R4
- 68
- Total
- 276
- Abraham Ancer
- Pos
- T11
- R1
- 71
- R2
- 68
- R3
- 73
- R4
- 65
- Total
- 277
- Dean Burmester
- Pos
- T11
- R1
- 71
- R2
- 73
- R3
- 67
- R4
- 66
- Total
- 277
- Sadom Kaewkanjana
- Pos
- T11
- R1
- 71
- R2
- 67
- R3
- 74
- R4
- 65
- Total
- 277
- Tyrrell Hatton
- Pos
- T11
- R1
- 70
- R2
- 66
- R3
- 73
- R4
- 68
- Total
- 277
- Adam Scott
- Pos
- T15
- R1
- 72
- R2
- 65
- R3
- 70
- R4
- 71
- Total
- 278
- Anthony Quayle
- Pos
- T15
- R1
- 74
- R2
- 69
- R3
- 68
- R4
- 67
- Total
- 278
- Francesco Molinari
- Pos
- T15
- R1
- 73
- R2
- 71
- R3
- 66
- R4
- 68
- Total
- 278
- Lucas Herbert
- Pos
- T15
- R1
- 70
- R2
- 68
- R3
- 73
- R4
- 67
- Total
- 278
- Si Woo Kim
- Pos
- T15
- R1
- 69
- R2
- 69
- R3
- 67
- R4
- 73
- Total
- 278
- Xander Schauffele
- Pos
- T15
- R1
- 69
- R2
- 70
- R3
- 72
- R4
- 67
- Total
- 278
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 83 players actually finished. It was not published in advance, so this measures the model, not a call we made.
- Rank correlation
- +0.354
- Top-20 hit rate
- 35%
- Top-10 avg model rank
- 18.3
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Jon Rahm | 1st | 34th |
| Rory McIlroy | 2nd | 3rd |
| Xander Schauffele | 3rd | 15th |
| Patrick Cantlay | 4th | 8th |
| Justin Thomas | 5th | 53rd |
| Cameron Smith | 6th | 1st |
| Scottie Scheffler | 7th | 21st |
| Hideki Matsuyama | 8th | 68th |
| Viktor Hovland | 9th | 4th |
| Will Zalatoris | 10th | 28th |
Where it was most wrong
Largest gaps between rank and result, either direction.
| Player | Model | Finish |
|---|---|---|
| Hideki Matsuyama | 8th | 68th(+60) |
| Sungjae Im | 21st | 81st(+60) |
| Dean Burmester | 70th | 11th(−59) |
| Min Woo Lee | 77th | 21st(−56) |
| Trey Mullinax | 75th | 21st(−54) |
| Lucas Herbert | 68th | 15th(−53) |
| Justin Thomas | 5th | 53rd(+48) |
| Russell Henley | 15th | 62nd(+47) |
| Sadom Kaewkanjana | 57th | 11th(−46) |
| Thomas Pieters | 74th | 28th(−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 St. Andrews GC (Old Course) in Fife, SCO. The venue page carries its scorecard, hosting history and every other tour event played there.
Common questions
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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.