Tournaments / 2014-2015

THE PLAYERS Championship

2015-05-07 · TPC Sawgrass - THE PLAYERS Stadium Course

Winner: Rickie Fowler
Winning score: -12
Field: 146
Field strength: +0.324 SG

The 2014-2015 THE PLAYERS Championship was played at TPC Sawgrass - THE PLAYERS Stadium Course, starting 7 May 2015. Rickie Fowler won at 12 under par (276). The winning card was 69, 69, 71 and 67, and the win paid $1,800,000. Kevin Kisner and Sergio Garcia tied for second. 146 players started the event. The field averaged +0.324 strokes gained per round against the tour baseline, with strokes-gained data covering 87% 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 146. Search finds any player in the field, including those who missed the cut.


P1	Rickie Fowler	69	69	71	67	276	-12
PT2	Kevin Kisner	73	67	67	69	276	-12
PT2	Sergio Garcia	69	72	67	68	276	-12
T4	Ben Martin	68	71	68	70	277	-11
T4	Bill Haas	72	67	68	70	277	-11
T6	Kevin Na	67	69	72	71	279	-9
T6	Rory Sabbatini	70	71	69	69	279	-9
T8	Brian Harman	71	69	70	70	280	-8
T8	Jamie Donaldson	70	72	71	67	280	-8
T8	John Senden	73	70	67	70	280	-8
T8	Rory McIlroy	69	71	70	70	280	-8
T8	Ryo Ishikawa	71	69	69	71	280	-8
T13	Billy Horschel	68	72	69	72	281	-7
T13	Chris Kirk	70	68	68	75	281	-7
T13	David Toms	73	71	68	69	281	-7
T13	Zach Johnson	71	68	71	71	281	-7
T17	Derek Fathauer	68	72	69	73	282	-6
T17	George McNeill	73	70	69	70	282	-6
T17	Henrik Stenson	72	69	73	68	282	-6
T17	Hideki Matsuyama	67	74	72	69	282	-6

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 75 players actually finished. It was not published in advance, so this measures the model, not a call we made.

Dgrade

Rank correlation: +0.219
Top-20 hit rate: 50%
Top-10 avg model rank: 24.4

Grade is this event’s percentile (21st) 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
Rory McIlroy	1st	8th
Jim Furyk	2nd	56th
Adam Scott	3rd	38th
Henrik Stenson	4th	17th
Sergio Garcia	5th	2nd
Hideki Matsuyama	6th	17th
Kevin Na	7th	6th
Bubba Watson	8th	42nd
Dustin Johnson	9th	69th
Zach Johnson	10th	13th

Where it was most wrong

Largest gaps between rank and result, either direction.

Player	Model	Finish
Dustin Johnson	9th	69th(+60)
Ryo Ishikawa	67th	8th(−59)
Derek Fathauer	74th	17th(−57)
Jim Furyk	2nd	56th(+54)
Webb Simpson	13th	66th(+53)
Louis Oosthuizen	18th	69th(+51)
Rory Sabbatini	55th	6th(−49)
Geoff Ogilvy	73rd	24th(−49)
Kevin Kisner	47th	2nd(−45)
Chesson Hadley	68th	24th(−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 model Probabilities and the track record How the model works

The venue

This event was played at TPC Sawgrass - THE PLAYERS Stadium Course in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, USA. The venue page carries its scorecard, hosting history and every other tour event played there.

Common questions

Who won the THE PLAYERS Championship in 2014-2015?

Rickie Fowler won the 2014-2015 THE PLAYERS Championship at TPC Sawgrass - THE PLAYERS Stadium Course, finishing 12 under par.

Where was the 2014-2015 THE PLAYERS Championship played?

The 2014-2015 THE PLAYERS Championship was played at TPC Sawgrass - THE PLAYERS Stadium Course, starting 7 May 2015.

What was the winning score at the 2014-2015 THE PLAYERS Championship?

The winning score was 12 under par (276 strokes), posted by Rickie Fowler.

How many players were in the THE PLAYERS Championship field?

146 players started the 2014-2015 THE PLAYERS 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.