Tournaments / 2015-2016
THE PLAYERS Championship
2016-05-12 · TPC Sawgrass - THE PLAYERS Stadium Course
- Winner
- Jason Day
- Winning score
- -15
- Field
- 144
- Field strength
- +0.289 SG
The 2015-2016 THE PLAYERS Championship was played at TPC Sawgrass - THE PLAYERS Stadium Course, starting 12 May 2016. Jason Day won at 15 under par (273), 4 strokes ahead of Kevin Chappell. The winning card was 63, 66, 73 and 71, and the win paid $1,890,000. Kevin Chappell finished second. 144 players started the event. The field averaged +0.289 strokes gained per round against the tour baseline, with strokes-gained data covering 90% 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 144. Search finds any player in the field, including those who missed the cut.
- Jason Day
- Pos
- 1
- R1
- 63
- R2
- 66
- R3
- 73
- R4
- 71
- Total
- 273
- Kevin Chappell
- Pos
- 2
- R1
- 71
- R2
- 67
- R3
- 70
- R4
- 69
- Total
- 277
- Colt Knost
- Pos
- T3
- R1
- 72
- R2
- 63
- R3
- 74
- R4
- 69
- Total
- 278
- Justin Thomas
- Pos
- T3
- R1
- 70
- R2
- 68
- R3
- 75
- R4
- 65
- Total
- 278
- Ken Duke
- Pos
- T3
- R1
- 74
- R2
- 67
- R3
- 65
- R4
- 72
- Total
- 278
- Matt Kuchar
- Pos
- T3
- R1
- 71
- R2
- 67
- R3
- 72
- R4
- 68
- Total
- 278
- Francesco Molinari
- Pos
- T7
- R1
- 66
- R2
- 69
- R3
- 72
- R4
- 72
- Total
- 279
- Hideki Matsuyama
- Pos
- T7
- R1
- 68
- R2
- 71
- R3
- 67
- R4
- 73
- Total
- 279
- Alex Cejka
- Pos
- T9
- R1
- 67
- R2
- 67
- R3
- 72
- R4
- 74
- Total
- 280
- Daniel Berger
- Pos
- T9
- R1
- 66
- R2
- 72
- R3
- 73
- R4
- 69
- Total
- 280
- Graeme McDowell
- Pos
- T9
- R1
- 72
- R2
- 70
- R3
- 69
- R4
- 69
- Total
- 280
- Adam Scott
- Pos
- T12
- R1
- 73
- R2
- 65
- R3
- 75
- R4
- 68
- Total
- 281
- Bryce Molder
- Pos
- T12
- R1
- 70
- R2
- 68
- R3
- 72
- R4
- 71
- Total
- 281
- Retief Goosen
- Pos
- T12
- R1
- 70
- R2
- 68
- R3
- 70
- R4
- 73
- Total
- 281
- Rory McIlroy
- Pos
- T12
- R1
- 72
- R2
- 64
- R3
- 75
- R4
- 70
- Total
- 281
- Boo Weekley
- Pos
- T16
- R1
- 66
- R2
- 69
- R3
- 78
- R4
- 69
- Total
- 282
- Cameron Tringale
- Pos
- T16
- R1
- 65
- R2
- 69
- R3
- 75
- R4
- 73
- Total
- 282
- Shane Lowry
- Pos
- T16
- R1
- 65
- R2
- 68
- R3
- 78
- R4
- 71
- Total
- 282
- Jerry Kelly
- Pos
- T19
- R1
- 67
- R2
- 68
- R3
- 77
- R4
- 71
- Total
- 283
- Jonas Blixt
- Pos
- T19
- R1
- 67
- R2
- 67
- R3
- 75
- R4
- 74
- 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 76 players actually finished. It was not published in advance, so this measures the model, not a call we made.
- Rank correlation
- +0.296
- Top-20 hit rate
- 40%
- Top-10 avg model rank
- 25.8
Grade is this event’s percentile (41st) 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 | 12th |
| Hideki Matsuyama | 2nd | 7th |
| Jason Day | 3rd | 1st |
| Bubba Watson | 4th | 43rd |
| Justin Rose | 5th | 19th |
| Jim Furyk | 6th | 35th |
| Paul Casey | 7th | 23rd |
| Matt Kuchar | 8th | 3rd |
| Zach Johnson | 9th | 54th |
| Adam Scott | 10th | 12th |
Where it was most wrong
Largest gaps between rank and result, either direction.
| Player | Model | Finish |
|---|---|---|
| Ken Duke | 74th | 3rd(−71) |
| Jonas Blixt | 75th | 19th(−56) |
| Retief Goosen | 64th | 12th(−52) |
| Boo Weekley | 66th | 16th(−50) |
| J.J. Henry | 76th | 28th(−48) |
| Marc Leishman | 18th | 64th(+46) |
| Zach Johnson | 9th | 54th(+45) |
| Patton Kizzire | 31st | 76th(+45) |
| Alex Cejka | 53rd | 9th(−44) |
| Sergio Garcia | 11th | 54th(+43) |
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 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.
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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.