Tournaments / 2015-2016
World Golf Championships-HSBC Champions
2015-11-05 · Sheshan International GC
- Winner
- Russell Knox
- Winning score
- -20
- Field
- 74
- Field strength
- +0.526 SG
The 2015-2016 World Golf Championships-HSBC Champions was played at Sheshan International GC, starting 5 November 2015. Russell Knox won at 20 under par (268), 2 strokes ahead of Kevin Kisner. The winning card was 67, 65, 68 and 68, and the win paid $1,400,000. Kevin Kisner finished second, and Danny Willett and Ross Fisher tied for third. 74 players started the event. The field averaged +0.526 strokes gained per round against the tour baseline, with strokes-gained data covering 50% 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 74. Search finds any player in the field, including those who missed the cut.
- Russell Knox
- Pos
- 1
- R1
- 67
- R2
- 65
- R3
- 68
- R4
- 68
- Total
- 268
- Kevin Kisner
- Pos
- 2
- R1
- 64
- R2
- 66
- R3
- 70
- R4
- 70
- Total
- 270
- Danny Willett
- Pos
- T3
- R1
- 65
- R2
- 74
- R3
- 70
- R4
- 62
- Total
- 271
- Ross Fisher
- Pos
- T3
- R1
- 69
- R2
- 69
- R3
- 65
- R4
- 68
- Total
- 271
- Branden Grace
- Pos
- T5
- R1
- 63
- R2
- 71
- R3
- 70
- R4
- 68
- Total
- 272
- Dustin Johnson
- Pos
- T5
- R1
- 65
- R2
- 71
- R3
- 65
- R4
- 71
- Total
- 272
- Haotong Li
- Pos
- T7
- R1
- 66
- R2
- 69
- R3
- 66
- R4
- 72
- Total
- 273
- Jordan Spieth
- Pos
- T7
- R1
- 68
- R2
- 72
- R3
- 63
- R4
- 70
- Total
- 273
- Matt Fitzpatrick
- Pos
- T7
- R1
- 68
- R2
- 69
- R3
- 69
- R4
- 67
- Total
- 273
- Patrick Reed
- Pos
- T7
- R1
- 65
- R2
- 70
- R3
- 68
- R4
- 70
- Total
- 273
- Daniel Berger
- Pos
- T11
- R1
- 68
- R2
- 71
- R3
- 69
- R4
- 66
- Total
- 274
- Henrik Stenson
- Pos
- T11
- R1
- 69
- R2
- 72
- R3
- 66
- R4
- 67
- Total
- 274
- Marc Leishman
- Pos
- T11
- R1
- 69
- R2
- 72
- R3
- 65
- R4
- 68
- Total
- 274
- Rory McIlroy
- Pos
- T11
- R1
- 68
- R2
- 72
- R3
- 68
- R4
- 66
- Total
- 274
- Sergio Garcia
- Pos
- T11
- R1
- 68
- R2
- 70
- R3
- 68
- R4
- 68
- Total
- 274
- Thongchai Jaidee
- Pos
- T11
- R1
- 72
- R2
- 68
- R3
- 66
- R4
- 68
- Total
- 274
- Bernd Wiesberger
- Pos
- T17
- R1
- 70
- R2
- 66
- R3
- 69
- R4
- 70
- Total
- 275
- Rickie Fowler
- Pos
- T17
- R1
- 68
- R2
- 72
- R3
- 68
- R4
- 67
- Total
- 275
- Byeong Hun An
- Pos
- T19
- R1
- 69
- R2
- 68
- R3
- 68
- R4
- 72
- Total
- 277
- Hunter Mahan
- Pos
- T19
- R1
- 68
- R2
- 68
- R3
- 71
- R4
- 70
- Total
- 277
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
- +0.303
- Top-20 hit rate
- 45%
- Top-10 avg model rank
- 27.3
Grade is this event’s percentile (43rd) 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Rory McIlroy | 1st | 11th |
| Bubba Watson | 2nd | 35th |
| Adam Scott | 3rd | 70th |
| Dustin Johnson | 4th | 5th |
| Jordan Spieth | 5th | 7th |
| Kevin Na | 6th | 57th |
| Sergio Garcia | 7th | 11th |
| Henrik Stenson | 8th | 11th |
| Rickie Fowler | 9th | 17th |
| Paul Casey | 10th | 23rd |
Where it was most wrong
Largest gaps between rank and result, either direction.
| Player | Model | Finish |
|---|---|---|
| Adam Scott | 3rd | 70th(+67) |
| Thongchai Jaidee | 68th | 11th(−57) |
| Ross Fisher | 57th | 3rd(−54) |
| Shane Lowry | 16th | 68th(+52) |
| Chris Kirk | 24th | 76th(+52) |
| Kevin Na | 6th | 57th(+51) |
| Marc Warren | 26th | 76th(+50) |
| Haotong Li | 55th | 7th(−48) |
| Matt Fitzpatrick | 49th | 7th(−42) |
| David Lingmerth | 34th | 72nd(+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 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.