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Tournaments / 2015-2016

Valspar Championship

2016-03-10 · Innisbrook Resort and Golf Club - Copperhead Course

Winner
Charl Schwartzel
Winning score
-7
Field
146
Field strength
+0.077 SG

The 2015-2016 Valspar Championship was played at Innisbrook Resort and Golf Club - Copperhead Course, starting 10 March 2016. Charl Schwartzel won at 7 under par (277). The winning card was 71, 70, 69 and 67, and the win paid $1,098,000. Bill Haas finished second, and Ryan Moore was third. 146 players started the event. The field averaged +0.077 strokes gained per round against the tour baseline, with strokes-gained data covering 87% 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 146. Search finds any player in the field, including those who missed the cut.

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

Bgrade
Rank correlation
+0.427
Top-20 hit rate
60%
Top-10 avg model rank
21.3

Grade is this event’s percentile (80th) 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.

PlayerModelFinish
Jordan Spieth1st18th
Henrik Stenson2nd11th
Matt Kuchar3rd11th
Justin Thomas4th18th
Louis Oosthuizen5th7th
Kevin Na6th22nd
Ryan Palmer7th42nd
Patrick Reed8th7th
Bill Haas9th2nd
Ryan Moore10th3rd

Where it was most wrong

Largest gaps between rank and result, either direction.

PlayerModelFinish
Lee McCoy69th4th(−65)
Kevin Chappell21st67th(+46)
Russell Knox11th56th(+45)
Retief Goosen55th11th(−44)
Ian Poulter26th67th(+41)
Justin Leonard56th18th(−38)
Sam Saunders60th22nd(−38)
Ryan Palmer7th42nd(+35)
K.J. Choi29th62nd(+33)
Jason Gore43rd11th(−32)

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 Innisbrook Resort and Golf Club - Copperhead Course in Palm Harbor, Florida, USA. The venue page carries its scorecard, hosting history and every other tour event played there.

Common questions

Who won the Valspar Championship in 2015-2016?

Charl Schwartzel won the 2015-2016 Valspar Championship at Innisbrook Resort and Golf Club - Copperhead Course, finishing 7 under par.

Where was the 2015-2016 Valspar Championship played?

The 2015-2016 Valspar Championship was played at Innisbrook Resort and Golf Club - Copperhead Course, starting 10 March 2016.

What was the winning score at the 2015-2016 Valspar Championship?

The winning score was 7 under par (277 strokes), posted by Charl Schwartzel.

How many players were in the Valspar Championship field?

146 players started the 2015-2016 Valspar 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.