Tournaments / 2014-2015
World Golf Championships-HSBC Champions
2014-11-06 · Sheshan International GC
- Winner
- Bubba Watson
- Winning score
- -11
- Field
- 72
- Field strength
- +0.607 SG
The 2014-2015 World Golf Championships-HSBC Champions was played at Sheshan International GC, starting 6 November 2014. Bubba Watson won at 11 under par (277). The winning card was 71, 67, 69 and 70, and the win paid $1,400,000. Tim Clark finished second, and Graeme McDowell, Hiroshi Iwata and Rickie Fowler tied for third. 72 players started the event. The field averaged +0.607 strokes gained per round against the tour baseline, with strokes-gained data covering 54% 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 72. Search finds any player in the field, including those who missed the cut.
- Bubba Watson
- Pos
- P1
- R1
- 71
- R2
- 67
- R3
- 69
- R4
- 70
- Total
- 277
- Tim Clark
- Pos
- P2
- R1
- 69
- R2
- 70
- R3
- 69
- R4
- 69
- Total
- 277
- Graeme McDowell
- Pos
- T3
- R1
- 67
- R2
- 67
- R3
- 71
- R4
- 73
- Total
- 278
- Hiroshi Iwata
- Pos
- T3
- R1
- 73
- R2
- 65
- R3
- 68
- R4
- 72
- Total
- 278
- Rickie Fowler
- Pos
- T3
- R1
- 69
- R2
- 70
- R3
- 69
- R4
- 70
- Total
- 278
- Ian Poulter
- Pos
- T6
- R1
- 70
- R2
- 67
- R3
- 72
- R4
- 71
- Total
- 280
- Martin Kaymer
- Pos
- T6
- R1
- 69
- R2
- 72
- R3
- 66
- R4
- 73
- Total
- 280
- Thorbjørn Olesen
- Pos
- T6
- R1
- 72
- R2
- 68
- R3
- 69
- R4
- 71
- Total
- 280
- Marc Leishman
- Pos
- 9
- R1
- 72
- R2
- 71
- R3
- 69
- R4
- 69
- Total
- 281
- Brandt Snedeker
- Pos
- T10
- R1
- 69
- R2
- 74
- R3
- 69
- R4
- 70
- Total
- 282
- Jason Dufner
- Pos
- T10
- R1
- 72
- R2
- 70
- R3
- 72
- R4
- 68
- Total
- 282
- Adam Scott
- Pos
- T12
- R1
- 70
- R2
- 72
- R3
- 71
- R4
- 70
- Total
- 283
- George Coetzee
- Pos
- T12
- R1
- 72
- R2
- 73
- R3
- 69
- R4
- 69
- Total
- 283
- Alexander Levy
- Pos
- T14
- R1
- 74
- R2
- 68
- R3
- 71
- R4
- 71
- Total
- 284
- Ashun Wu
- Pos
- T14
- R1
- 74
- R2
- 70
- R3
- 69
- R4
- 71
- Total
- 284
- Chris Kirk
- Pos
- T14
- R1
- 69
- R2
- 74
- R3
- 69
- R4
- 72
- Total
- 284
- Jonas Blixt
- Pos
- T14
- R1
- 71
- R2
- 68
- R3
- 71
- R4
- 74
- Total
- 284
- Louis Oosthuizen
- Pos
- T14
- R1
- 70
- R2
- 70
- R3
- 72
- R4
- 72
- Total
- 284
- Pablo Larrazabal
- Pos
- T14
- R1
- 75
- R2
- 72
- R3
- 69
- R4
- 68
- Total
- 284
- Kevin Na
- Pos
- T20
- R1
- 71
- R2
- 68
- R3
- 79
- R4
- 67
- Total
- 285
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 69 players actually finished. It was not published in advance, so this measures the model, not a call we made.
- Rank correlation
- +0.195
- Top-20 hit rate
- 35%
- Top-10 avg model rank
- 27.7
Grade is this event’s percentile (15th) 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 Rose | 1st | 48th |
| Sergio Garcia | 2nd | 28th |
| Adam Scott | 3rd | 12th |
| Jordan Spieth | 4th | 35th |
| Henrik Stenson | 5th | 24th |
| Charl Schwartzel | 6th | 64th |
| Keegan Bradley | 7th | 64th |
| Bubba Watson | 8th | 1st |
| Bill Haas | 9th | 48th |
| Graeme McDowell | 10th | 3rd |
Where it was most wrong
Largest gaps between rank and result, either direction.
| Player | Model | Finish |
|---|---|---|
| Charl Schwartzel | 6th | 64th(+58) |
| Keegan Bradley | 7th | 64th(+57) |
| Thorbjørn Olesen | 60th | 6th(−54) |
| Pablo Larrazabal | 68th | 14th(−54) |
| Ashun Wu | 67th | 14th(−53) |
| Billy Horschel | 21st | 73rd(+52) |
| Justin Rose | 1st | 48th(+47) |
| Hiroshi Iwata | 50th | 3rd(−47) |
| George Coetzee | 55th | 12th(−43) |
| Gary Woodland | 15th | 56th(+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 Sheshan International GC in Shanghai, CHN. 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.