Tournaments / 2016-2017
THE PLAYERS Championship
2017-05-11 · TPC Sawgrass - THE PLAYERS Stadium Course
- Winner
- Si Woo Kim
- Winning score
- -10
- Field
- 150
- Field strength
- +0.3 SG
The 2016-2017 THE PLAYERS Championship was played at TPC Sawgrass - THE PLAYERS Stadium Course, starting 11 May 2017. Si Woo Kim won at 10 under par (278), 3 strokes ahead of Ian Poulter. The winning card was 69, 72, 68 and 69, and the win paid $1,890,000. Ian Poulter and Louis Oosthuizen tied for second. 150 players started the event. The field averaged +0.3 strokes gained per round against the tour baseline, with strokes-gained data covering 86% 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 150. Search finds any player in the field, including those who missed the cut.
- Si Woo Kim
- Pos
- 1
- R1
- 69
- R2
- 72
- R3
- 68
- R4
- 69
- Total
- 278
- Ian Poulter
- Pos
- T2
- R1
- 72
- R2
- 67
- R3
- 71
- R4
- 71
- Total
- 281
- Louis Oosthuizen
- Pos
- T2
- R1
- 69
- R2
- 66
- R3
- 73
- R4
- 73
- Total
- 281
- Kyle Stanley
- Pos
- T4
- R1
- 69
- R2
- 66
- R3
- 72
- R4
- 75
- Total
- 282
- Rafa Cabrera Bello
- Pos
- T4
- R1
- 69
- R2
- 70
- R3
- 73
- R4
- 70
- Total
- 282
- Adam Scott
- Pos
- T6
- R1
- 70
- R2
- 72
- R3
- 71
- R4
- 70
- Total
- 283
- Brendan Steele
- Pos
- T6
- R1
- 69
- R2
- 71
- R3
- 75
- R4
- 68
- Total
- 283
- Francesco Molinari
- Pos
- T6
- R1
- 69
- R2
- 74
- R3
- 69
- R4
- 71
- Total
- 283
- Lucas Glover
- Pos
- T6
- R1
- 70
- R2
- 70
- R3
- 73
- R4
- 70
- Total
- 283
- Alex Noren
- Pos
- 10
- R1
- 68
- R2
- 71
- R3
- 72
- R4
- 73
- Total
- 284
- Emiliano Grillo
- Pos
- 11
- R1
- 72
- R2
- 71
- R3
- 67
- R4
- 75
- Total
- 285
- Bernd Wiesberger
- Pos
- T12
- R1
- 75
- R2
- 71
- R3
- 68
- R4
- 72
- Total
- 286
- Chris Kirk
- Pos
- T12
- R1
- 74
- R2
- 72
- R3
- 69
- R4
- 71
- Total
- 286
- Dustin Johnson
- Pos
- T12
- R1
- 71
- R2
- 73
- R3
- 74
- R4
- 68
- Total
- 286
- Smylie Kaufman
- Pos
- T12
- R1
- 74
- R2
- 67
- R3
- 76
- R4
- 69
- Total
- 286
- Blayne Barber
- Pos
- T16
- R1
- 70
- R2
- 76
- R3
- 72
- R4
- 69
- Total
- 287
- Brooks Koepka
- Pos
- T16
- R1
- 74
- R2
- 69
- R3
- 71
- R4
- 73
- Total
- 287
- Henrik Stenson
- Pos
- T16
- R1
- 72
- R2
- 70
- R3
- 74
- R4
- 71
- Total
- 287
- Mackenzie Hughes
- Pos
- T16
- R1
- 67
- R2
- 75
- R3
- 74
- R4
- 71
- Total
- 287
- Vijay Singh
- Pos
- T16
- R1
- 70
- R2
- 68
- R3
- 79
- R4
- 70
- Total
- 287
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 82 players actually finished. It was not published in advance, so this measures the model, not a call we made.
- Rank correlation
- +0.003
- Top-20 hit rate
- 20%
- Top-10 avg model rank
- 39.9
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.
| Player | Model | Finish |
|---|---|---|
| Rory McIlroy | 1st | 35th |
| Henrik Stenson | 2nd | 16th |
| Hideki Matsuyama | 3rd | 22nd |
| Rickie Fowler | 4th | 60th |
| Adam Scott | 5th | 6th |
| Justin Rose | 6th | 65th |
| Dustin Johnson | 7th | 12th |
| Jason Day | 8th | 60th |
| Paul Casey | 9th | 22nd |
| Sergio Garcia | 10th | 30th |
Where it was most wrong
Largest gaps between rank and result, either direction.
| Player | Model | Finish |
|---|---|---|
| Si Woo Kim | 74th | 1st(−73) |
| Matt Kuchar | 13th | 82nd(+69) |
| Vijay Singh | 81st | 16th(−65) |
| Justin Thomas | 12th | 75th(+63) |
| Justin Rose | 6th | 65th(+59) |
| Smylie Kaufman | 71st | 12th(−59) |
| Yuta Ikeda | 80th | 22nd(−58) |
| Rickie Fowler | 4th | 60th(+56) |
| Ian Poulter | 58th | 2nd(−56) |
| Mackenzie Hughes | 72nd | 16th(−56) |
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.