Tournaments / 2018-2019

THE PLAYERS Championship

2019-03-14 · TPC Sawgrass - THE PLAYERS Stadium Course

Winner: Rory McIlroy
Winning score: -16
Field: 144
Field strength: +0.329 SG

The 2018-2019 THE PLAYERS Championship was played at TPC Sawgrass - THE PLAYERS Stadium Course, starting 14 March 2019. Rory McIlroy won at 16 under par (272), 1 stroke ahead of Jim Furyk. The winning card was 67, 65, 70 and 70, and the win paid $2,250,000. Jim Furyk finished second, and Eddie Pepperell and Jhonattan Vegas tied for third. 144 players started the event. The field averaged +0.329 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.


1	Rory McIlroy	67	65	70	70	272	-16
2	Jim Furyk	71	64	71	67	273	-15
T3	Eddie Pepperell	72	68	68	66	274	-14
T3	Jhonattan Vegas	72	69	67	66	274	-14
T5	Brandt Snedeker	69	72	65	69	275	-13
T5	Dustin Johnson	69	68	69	69	275	-13
T5	Tommy Fleetwood	65	67	70	73	275	-13
T8	Brian Harman	66	69	71	70	276	-12
T8	Hideki Matsuyama	71	72	66	67	276	-12
T8	Jason Day	70	66	68	72	276	-12
T8	Justin Rose	74	66	68	68	276	-12
T12	Abraham Ancer	69	66	70	72	277	-11
T12	Adam Scott	70	69	68	70	277	-11
T12	Joel Dahmen	69	71	67	70	277	-11
T12	Jon Rahm	69	68	64	76	277	-11
T16	Keegan Bradley	65	73	68	72	278	-10
T16	Nick Taylor	73	69	69	67	278	-10
T16	Ollie Schniederjans	71	70	65	72	278	-10
T16	Webb Simpson	70	70	70	68	278	-10
T20	Bryson DeChambeau	70	69	69	71	279	-9

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

Cgrade

Rank correlation: +0.320
Top-20 hit rate: 50%
Top-10 avg model rank: 23.8

Grade is this event’s percentile (49th) 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	5th
Justin Rose	2nd	8th
Justin Thomas	3rd	35th
Rory McIlroy	4th	1st
Tommy Fleetwood	5th	5th
Rickie Fowler	6th	47th
Brooks Koepka	7th	56th
Francesco Molinari	8th	56th
Hideki Matsuyama	9th	8th
Webb Simpson	10th	16th

Where it was most wrong

Largest gaps between rank and result, either direction.

Player	Model	Finish
Eddie Pepperell	74th	3rd(−71)
Ollie Schniederjans	78th	16th(−62)
Brian Harman	63rd	8th(−55)
Jhonattan Vegas	55th	3rd(−52)
Lucas Bjerregaard	80th	30th(−50)
Brooks Koepka	7th	56th(+49)
Kevin Na	29th	78th(+49)
Francesco Molinari	8th	56th(+48)
Nick Taylor	61st	16th(−45)
Seamus Power	79th	35th(−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 2018-2019?

Rory McIlroy won the 2018-2019 THE PLAYERS Championship at TPC Sawgrass - THE PLAYERS Stadium Course, finishing 16 under par.

Where was the 2018-2019 THE PLAYERS Championship played?

The 2018-2019 THE PLAYERS Championship was played at TPC Sawgrass - THE PLAYERS Stadium Course, starting 14 March 2019.

What was the winning score at the 2018-2019 THE PLAYERS Championship?

The winning score was 16 under par (272 strokes), posted by Rory McIlroy.

How many players were in the THE PLAYERS Championship field?

144 players started the 2018-2019 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.