Tournaments / 2018-2019
The RSM Classic
2018-11-15 · Sea Island Golf Club (Seaside Course)
- Winner
- Charles Howell III
- Winning score
- -19
- Field
- 153
- Field strength
- -0.079 SG
The 2018-2019 The RSM Classic was played at Sea Island Golf Club (Seaside Course), starting 15 November 2018. Charles Howell III won at 19 under par (263). The winning card was 64, 64, 68 and 67, and the win paid $1,152,000. Patrick Rodgers finished second, and Webb Simpson was third. 153 players started the event. The field averaged -0.079 strokes gained per round against the tour baseline, with strokes-gained data covering 75% 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 153. Search finds any player in the field, including those who missed the cut.
- Charles Howell III
- Pos
- P1
- R1
- 64
- R2
- 64
- R3
- 68
- R4
- 67
- Total
- 263
- Patrick Rodgers
- Pos
- P2
- R1
- 70
- R2
- 70
- R3
- 61
- R4
- 62
- Total
- 263
- Webb Simpson
- Pos
- 3
- R1
- 68
- R2
- 68
- R3
- 63
- R4
- 65
- Total
- 264
- Luke List
- Pos
- T4
- R1
- 69
- R2
- 68
- R3
- 63
- R4
- 65
- Total
- 265
- Ryan Blaum
- Pos
- T4
- R1
- 69
- R2
- 65
- R3
- 65
- R4
- 66
- Total
- 265
- Cameron Champ
- Pos
- 6
- R1
- 68
- R2
- 63
- R3
- 66
- R4
- 69
- Total
- 266
- Chase Wright
- Pos
- T7
- R1
- 67
- R2
- 69
- R3
- 67
- R4
- 64
- Total
- 267
- Kevin Kisner
- Pos
- T7
- R1
- 70
- R2
- 69
- R3
- 63
- R4
- 65
- Total
- 267
- Peter Uihlein
- Pos
- T7
- R1
- 66
- R2
- 71
- R3
- 67
- R4
- 63
- Total
- 267
- Zach Johnson
- Pos
- T7
- R1
- 70
- R2
- 66
- R3
- 65
- R4
- 66
- Total
- 267
- Austin Cook
- Pos
- T11
- R1
- 66
- R2
- 73
- R3
- 65
- R4
- 64
- Total
- 268
- Dominic Bozzelli
- Pos
- T11
- R1
- 71
- R2
- 66
- R3
- 65
- R4
- 66
- Total
- 268
- Graeme McDowell
- Pos
- T11
- R1
- 67
- R2
- 68
- R3
- 67
- R4
- 66
- Total
- 268
- Lucas Glover
- Pos
- T11
- R1
- 69
- R2
- 67
- R3
- 67
- R4
- 65
- Total
- 268
- Anders Albertson
- Pos
- T15
- R1
- 70
- R2
- 66
- R3
- 66
- R4
- 67
- Total
- 269
- David Hearn
- Pos
- T15
- R1
- 68
- R2
- 66
- R3
- 67
- R4
- 68
- Total
- 269
- Hunter Mahan
- Pos
- T15
- R1
- 71
- R2
- 67
- R3
- 67
- R4
- 64
- Total
- 269
- Jason Gore
- Pos
- T15
- R1
- 68
- R2
- 63
- R3
- 66
- R4
- 72
- Total
- 269
- Matt Every
- Pos
- T15
- R1
- 69
- R2
- 69
- R3
- 65
- R4
- 66
- Total
- 269
- Patton Kizzire
- Pos
- T15
- R1
- 68
- R2
- 72
- R3
- 63
- R4
- 66
- Total
- 269
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 77 players actually finished. It was not published in advance, so this measures the model, not a call we made.
- Rank correlation
- +0.331
- Top-20 hit rate
- 50%
- Top-10 avg model rank
- 19.4
Grade is this event’s percentile (54th) 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Webb Simpson | 1st | 3rd |
| Lucas Glover | 2nd | 11th |
| Zach Johnson | 3rd | 7th |
| Kevin Kisner | 4th | 7th |
| Charles Howell III | 5th | 1st |
| Luke List | 6th | 4th |
| Brian Gay | 7th | 23rd |
| Chris Kirk | 8th | 46th |
| Jamie Lovemark | 9th | 65th |
| Austin Cook | 10th | 11th |
Where it was most wrong
Largest gaps between rank and result, either direction.
| Player | Model | Finish |
|---|---|---|
| Jason Gore | 74th | 15th(−59) |
| Jamie Lovemark | 9th | 65th(+56) |
| Matt Every | 70th | 15th(−55) |
| Chase Wright | 61st | 7th(−54) |
| Joaquin Niemann | 12th | 65th(+53) |
| Hudson Swafford | 29th | 76th(+47) |
| Kyle Jones | 69th | 23rd(−46) |
| Dominic Bozzelli | 56th | 11th(−45) |
| Ryan Blaum | 47th | 4th(−43) |
| Chris Kirk | 8th | 46th(+38) |
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.