Tournaments / 2020-2021
THE PLAYERS Championship
2021-03-11 · TPC Sawgrass - THE PLAYERS Stadium Course
- Winner
- Justin Thomas
- Winning score
- -14
- Field
- 154
- Field strength
- +0.332 SG
The 2020-2021 THE PLAYERS Championship was played at TPC Sawgrass - THE PLAYERS Stadium Course, starting 11 March 2021. Justin Thomas won at 14 under par (274), 1 stroke ahead of Lee Westwood. The winning card was 71, 71, 64 and 68, and the win paid $2,700,000. Lee Westwood finished second, and Brian Harman and Bryson DeChambeau tied for third. 154 players started the event. The field averaged +0.332 strokes gained per round against the tour baseline, with strokes-gained data covering 94% 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 154. Search finds any player in the field, including those who missed the cut.
- Justin Thomas
- Pos
- 1
- R1
- 71
- R2
- 71
- R3
- 64
- R4
- 68
- Total
- 274
- Lee Westwood
- Pos
- 2
- R1
- 69
- R2
- 66
- R3
- 68
- R4
- 72
- Total
- 275
- Brian Harman
- Pos
- T3
- R1
- 67
- R2
- 71
- R3
- 69
- R4
- 69
- Total
- 276
- Bryson DeChambeau
- Pos
- T3
- R1
- 69
- R2
- 69
- R3
- 67
- R4
- 71
- Total
- 276
- Paul Casey
- Pos
- T5
- R1
- 73
- R2
- 67
- R3
- 67
- R4
- 70
- Total
- 277
- Talor Gooch
- Pos
- T5
- R1
- 71
- R2
- 68
- R3
- 71
- R4
- 67
- Total
- 277
- Corey Conners
- Pos
- 7
- R1
- 68
- R2
- 72
- R3
- 72
- R4
- 66
- Total
- 278
- Shane Lowry
- Pos
- 8
- R1
- 68
- R2
- 74
- R3
- 69
- R4
- 68
- Total
- 279
- Charles Howell III
- Pos
- T9
- R1
- 73
- R2
- 70
- R3
- 71
- R4
- 66
- Total
- 280
- Daniel Berger
- Pos
- T9
- R1
- 74
- R2
- 68
- R3
- 71
- R4
- 67
- Total
- 280
- Jason Kokrak
- Pos
- T9
- R1
- 70
- R2
- 72
- R3
- 71
- R4
- 67
- Total
- 280
- Jon Rahm
- Pos
- T9
- R1
- 72
- R2
- 68
- R3
- 67
- R4
- 73
- Total
- 280
- Matt Fitzpatrick
- Pos
- T9
- R1
- 68
- R2
- 68
- R3
- 72
- R4
- 72
- Total
- 280
- Sergio Garcia
- Pos
- T9
- R1
- 65
- R2
- 72
- R3
- 71
- R4
- 72
- Total
- 280
- Si Woo Kim
- Pos
- T9
- R1
- 72
- R2
- 70
- R3
- 67
- R4
- 71
- Total
- 280
- Victor Perez
- Pos
- T9
- R1
- 73
- R2
- 71
- R3
- 69
- R4
- 67
- Total
- 280
- Cameron Smith
- Pos
- T17
- R1
- 71
- R2
- 73
- R3
- 65
- R4
- 72
- Total
- 281
- Charley Hoffman
- Pos
- T17
- R1
- 70
- R2
- 68
- R3
- 76
- R4
- 67
- Total
- 281
- Ryan Palmer
- Pos
- T17
- R1
- 70
- R2
- 72
- R3
- 68
- R4
- 71
- Total
- 281
- Sungjae Im
- Pos
- T17
- R1
- 72
- R2
- 66
- R3
- 77
- R4
- 66
- Total
- 281
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 71 players actually finished. It was not published in advance, so this measures the model, not a call we made.
- Rank correlation
- +0.463
- Top-20 hit rate
- 50%
- Top-10 avg model rank
- 16.0
Grade is this event’s percentile (88th) 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Justin Thomas | 1st | 1st |
| Dustin Johnson | 2nd | 48th |
| Bryson DeChambeau | 3rd | 3rd |
| Abraham Ancer | 4th | 22nd |
| Jon Rahm | 5th | 9th |
| Patrick Reed | 6th | 22nd |
| Collin Morikawa | 7th | 41st |
| Daniel Berger | 8th | 9th |
| Paul Casey | 9th | 5th |
| Joaquin Niemann | 10th | 29th |
Where it was most wrong
Largest gaps between rank and result, either direction.
| Player | Model | Finish |
|---|---|---|
| Victor Perez | 69th | 9th(−60) |
| Tyler McCumber | 70th | 22nd(−48) |
| Dustin Johnson | 2nd | 48th(+46) |
| Billy Horschel | 16th | 58th(+42) |
| Charles Howell III | 48th | 9th(−39) |
| Si Woo Kim | 44th | 9th(−35) |
| Collin Morikawa | 7th | 41st(+34) |
| Adam Scott | 15th | 48th(+33) |
| Lee Westwood | 35th | 2nd(−33) |
| Harry Higgs | 62nd | 29th(−33) |
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.