Tournaments / 2015-2016
The RSM Classic
2015-11-19 · Sea Island Golf Club (Seaside Course)
- Winner
- Kevin Kisner
- Winning score
- -22
- Field
- 148
- Field strength
- -0.008 SG
The 2015-2016 The RSM Classic was played at Sea Island Golf Club (Seaside Course), starting 19 November 2015. Kevin Kisner won at 22 under par (260), 6 strokes ahead of Kevin Chappell. The winning card was 65, 67, 64 and 64, and the win paid $1,026,000. Kevin Chappell finished second, and Graeme McDowell was third. 148 players started the event. The field averaged -0.008 strokes gained per round against the tour baseline, with strokes-gained data covering 76% 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 148. Search finds any player in the field, including those who missed the cut.
- Kevin Kisner
- Pos
- 1
- R1
- 65
- R2
- 67
- R3
- 64
- R4
- 64
- Total
- 260
- Kevin Chappell
- Pos
- 2
- R1
- 66
- R2
- 65
- R3
- 68
- R4
- 67
- Total
- 266
- Graeme McDowell
- Pos
- 3
- R1
- 67
- R2
- 68
- R3
- 65
- R4
- 67
- Total
- 267
- Jon Curran
- Pos
- 4
- R1
- 67
- R2
- 70
- R3
- 66
- R4
- 66
- Total
- 269
- Freddie Jacobson
- Pos
- 5
- R1
- 65
- R2
- 67
- R3
- 71
- R4
- 67
- Total
- 270
- Alex Cejka
- Pos
- T6
- R1
- 67
- R2
- 67
- R3
- 67
- R4
- 70
- Total
- 271
- Jeff Overton
- Pos
- T6
- R1
- 64
- R2
- 72
- R3
- 66
- R4
- 69
- Total
- 271
- Russell Henley
- Pos
- T6
- R1
- 66
- R2
- 72
- R3
- 68
- R4
- 65
- Total
- 271
- Chad Campbell
- Pos
- T9
- R1
- 66
- R2
- 71
- R3
- 68
- R4
- 67
- Total
- 272
- Charles Howell III
- Pos
- T9
- R1
- 67
- R2
- 70
- R3
- 67
- R4
- 68
- Total
- 272
- David Hearn
- Pos
- T9
- R1
- 64
- R2
- 72
- R3
- 67
- R4
- 69
- Total
- 272
- Jamie Lovemark
- Pos
- T9
- R1
- 69
- R2
- 68
- R3
- 67
- R4
- 68
- Total
- 272
- Jason Dufner
- Pos
- T9
- R1
- 67
- R2
- 70
- R3
- 66
- R4
- 69
- Total
- 272
- John Huh
- Pos
- T9
- R1
- 69
- R2
- 69
- R3
- 68
- R4
- 66
- Total
- 272
- Lucas Glover
- Pos
- T9
- R1
- 66
- R2
- 71
- R3
- 67
- R4
- 68
- Total
- 272
- Scott Stallings
- Pos
- T9
- R1
- 66
- R2
- 70
- R3
- 69
- R4
- 67
- Total
- 272
- Tom Hoge
- Pos
- T9
- R1
- 64
- R2
- 74
- R3
- 68
- R4
- 66
- Total
- 272
- Boo Weekley
- Pos
- T18
- R1
- 72
- R2
- 66
- R3
- 71
- R4
- 64
- Total
- 273
- Chris Kirk
- Pos
- T18
- R1
- 68
- R2
- 71
- R3
- 69
- R4
- 65
- Total
- 273
- Jim Herman
- Pos
- T18
- R1
- 66
- R2
- 69
- R3
- 67
- R4
- 71
- Total
- 273
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 83 players actually finished. It was not published in advance, so this measures the model, not a call we made.
- Rank correlation
- +0.378
- Top-20 hit rate
- 40%
- Top-10 avg model rank
- 21.2
Grade is this event’s percentile (67th) 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Matt Kuchar | 1st | 25th |
| Zach Johnson | 2nd | 75th |
| Bill Haas | 3rd | 33rd |
| Graeme McDowell | 4th | 3rd |
| Robert Streb | 5th | 25th |
| Kevin Chappell | 6th | 2nd |
| Harris English | 7th | 25th |
| Brendon Todd | 8th | 83rd |
| Kevin Kisner | 9th | 1st |
| Brendon de Jonge | 10th | 33rd |
Where it was most wrong
Largest gaps between rank and result, either direction.
| Player | Model | Finish |
|---|---|---|
| Brendon Todd | 8th | 83rd(+75) |
| Zach Johnson | 2nd | 75th(+73) |
| Lucas Glover | 68th | 9th(−59) |
| Camilo Villegas | 20th | 75th(+55) |
| Scott Stallings | 64th | 9th(−55) |
| Mark Hubbard | 72nd | 18th(−54) |
| Trey Mullinax | 78th | 25th(−53) |
| Justin Thomas | 12th | 58th(+46) |
| Stewart Cink | 17th | 63rd(+46) |
| Brett Stegmaier | 27th | 73rd(+46) |
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 Sea Island Golf Club (Seaside Course) in St. Simons Island, Georgia, 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.