Tournaments / 2025
The RSM Classic
2025-11-20 · Sea Island Golf Club (Seaside Course)
- Winner
- Sami Valimaki
- Winning score
- -23
- Field
- 151
- Field strength
- -0.079 SG
The 2025 The RSM Classic was played at Sea Island Golf Club (Seaside Course), starting 20 November 2025. Sami Valimaki won at 23 under par (259), 1 stroke ahead of Max McGreevy. The winning card was 66, 62, 65 and 66, and the win paid $1,260,000. Max McGreevy finished second, and Ricky Castillo was third. 151 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 151. Search finds any player in the field, including those who missed the cut.
- Sami Valimaki
- Pos
- 1
- R1
- 66
- R2
- 62
- R3
- 65
- R4
- 66
- Total
- 259
- Max McGreevy
- Pos
- 2
- R1
- 64
- R2
- 67
- R3
- 66
- R4
- 63
- Total
- 260
- Ricky Castillo
- Pos
- 3
- R1
- 65
- R2
- 65
- R3
- 69
- R4
- 62
- Total
- 261
- Lee Hodges
- Pos
- T4
- R1
- 66
- R2
- 65
- R3
- 66
- R4
- 66
- Total
- 263
- Nico Echavarria
- Pos
- T4
- R1
- 66
- R2
- 65
- R3
- 67
- R4
- 65
- Total
- 263
- Si Woo Kim
- Pos
- T4
- R1
- 65
- R2
- 67
- R3
- 65
- R4
- 66
- Total
- 263
- Andrew Novak
- Pos
- T7
- R1
- 61
- R2
- 65
- R3
- 70
- R4
- 68
- Total
- 264
- Doug Ghim
- Pos
- T7
- R1
- 60
- R2
- 71
- R3
- 67
- R4
- 66
- Total
- 264
- J.T. Poston
- Pos
- T7
- R1
- 65
- R2
- 65
- R3
- 68
- R4
- 66
- Total
- 264
- John Pak
- Pos
- T7
- R1
- 66
- R2
- 67
- R3
- 64
- R4
- 67
- Total
- 264
- Johnny Keefer
- Pos
- T7
- R1
- 65
- R2
- 64
- R3
- 67
- R4
- 68
- Total
- 264
- Michael Thorbjornsen
- Pos
- T7
- R1
- 64
- R2
- 63
- R3
- 68
- R4
- 69
- Total
- 264
- Patrick Rodgers
- Pos
- T7
- R1
- 65
- R2
- 62
- R3
- 68
- R4
- 69
- Total
- 264
- Rico Hoey
- Pos
- T7
- R1
- 62
- R2
- 70
- R3
- 67
- R4
- 65
- Total
- 264
- Sam Stevens
- Pos
- T7
- R1
- 67
- R2
- 67
- R3
- 67
- R4
- 63
- Total
- 264
- Seamus Power
- Pos
- T7
- R1
- 64
- R2
- 68
- R3
- 65
- R4
- 67
- Total
- 264
- Zac Blair
- Pos
- T7
- R1
- 68
- R2
- 64
- R3
- 64
- R4
- 68
- Total
- 264
- Doc Redman
- Pos
- T18
- R1
- 65
- R2
- 66
- R3
- 69
- R4
- 65
- Total
- 265
- Keith Mitchell
- Pos
- T18
- R1
- 66
- R2
- 65
- R3
- 69
- R4
- 65
- Total
- 265
- Mac Meissner
- Pos
- T18
- R1
- 67
- R2
- 66
- R3
- 66
- R4
- 66
- Total
- 265
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 73 players actually finished. It was not published in advance, so this measures the model, not a call we made.
- Rank correlation
- +0.266
- Top-20 hit rate
- 55%
- Top-10 avg model rank
- 19.3
Grade is this event’s percentile (31st) 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Denny McCarthy | 1st | 51st |
| Harris English | 2nd | 47th |
| J.T. Poston | 3rd | 7th |
| Si Woo Kim | 4th | 4th |
| Daniel Berger | 5th | 51st |
| Chris Kirk | 6th | 41st |
| Michael Thorbjornsen | 7th | 7th |
| Matt Kuchar | 8th | 67th |
| Rico Hoey | 9th | 7th |
| Nico Echavarria | 10th | 4th |
Where it was most wrong
Largest gaps between rank and result, either direction.
| Player | Model | Finish |
|---|---|---|
| John Pak | 67th | 7th(−60) |
| Matt Kuchar | 8th | 67th(+59) |
| Johnny Keefer | 61st | 7th(−54) |
| Ryan Palmer | 72nd | 21st(−51) |
| Denny McCarthy | 1st | 51st(+50) |
| Daniel Berger | 5th | 51st(+46) |
| Hayden Buckley | 71st | 25th(−46) |
| Harris English | 2nd | 47th(+45) |
| Ricky Castillo | 48th | 3rd(−45) |
| Alex Smalley | 21st | 62nd(+41) |
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.