Tournaments / 2018-2019
World Golf Championships-HSBC Champions
2018-10-25 · Sheshan International GC
- Winner
- Xander Schauffele
- Winning score
- -14
- Field
- 74
- Field strength
- +0.671 SG
The 2018-2019 World Golf Championships-HSBC Champions was played at Sheshan International GC, starting 25 October 2018. Xander Schauffele won at 14 under par (274). The winning card was 66, 71, 69 and 68, and the win paid $1,700,000. Tony Finau finished second, and Justin Rose was third. 74 players started the event. The field averaged +0.671 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 74. Search finds any player in the field, including those who missed the cut.
- Xander Schauffele
- Pos
- P1
- R1
- 66
- R2
- 71
- R3
- 69
- R4
- 68
- Total
- 274
- Tony Finau
- Pos
- P2
- R1
- 66
- R2
- 67
- R3
- 70
- R4
- 71
- Total
- 274
- Justin Rose
- Pos
- 3
- R1
- 69
- R2
- 67
- R3
- 70
- R4
- 72
- Total
- 278
- Andrew Putnam
- Pos
- T4
- R1
- 70
- R2
- 71
- R3
- 67
- R4
- 72
- Total
- 280
- Kiradech Aphibarnrat
- Pos
- T4
- R1
- 68
- R2
- 71
- R3
- 70
- R4
- 71
- Total
- 280
- Keegan Bradley
- Pos
- 6
- R1
- 69
- R2
- 70
- R3
- 70
- R4
- 72
- Total
- 281
- Patrick Cantlay
- Pos
- T7
- R1
- 70
- R2
- 68
- R3
- 73
- R4
- 72
- Total
- 283
- Patrick Reed
- Pos
- T7
- R1
- 64
- R2
- 72
- R3
- 70
- R4
- 77
- Total
- 283
- Thorbjørn Olesen
- Pos
- T7
- R1
- 75
- R2
- 69
- R3
- 67
- R4
- 72
- Total
- 283
- Tommy Fleetwood
- Pos
- T7
- R1
- 68
- R2
- 68
- R3
- 72
- R4
- 75
- Total
- 283
- Billy Horschel
- Pos
- T11
- R1
- 68
- R2
- 72
- R3
- 71
- R4
- 73
- Total
- 284
- Haotong Li
- Pos
- T11
- R1
- 73
- R2
- 72
- R3
- 69
- R4
- 70
- Total
- 284
- Jason Day
- Pos
- T11
- R1
- 71
- R2
- 70
- R3
- 69
- R4
- 74
- Total
- 284
- Emiliano Grillo
- Pos
- T14
- R1
- 70
- R2
- 69
- R3
- 74
- R4
- 72
- Total
- 285
- Rafa Cabrera Bello
- Pos
- T14
- R1
- 68
- R2
- 73
- R3
- 73
- R4
- 71
- Total
- 285
- Brooks Koepka
- Pos
- T16
- R1
- 72
- R2
- 74
- R3
- 71
- R4
- 69
- Total
- 286
- Paul Casey
- Pos
- T16
- R1
- 73
- R2
- 68
- R3
- 74
- R4
- 71
- Total
- 286
- Adam Scott
- Pos
- T18
- R1
- 69
- R2
- 73
- R3
- 72
- R4
- 73
- Total
- 287
- Alex Noren
- Pos
- T18
- R1
- 74
- R2
- 69
- R3
- 71
- R4
- 73
- Total
- 287
- Thomas Pieters
- Pos
- T18
- R1
- 75
- R2
- 64
- R3
- 74
- R4
- 74
- Total
- 287
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
- +0.522
- Top-20 hit rate
- 60%
- Top-10 avg model rank
- 20.1
Grade is this event’s percentile (97th) 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Dustin Johnson | 1st | 30th |
| Justin Rose | 2nd | 3rd |
| Francesco Molinari | 3rd | 43rd |
| Rory McIlroy | 4th | 54th |
| Paul Casey | 5th | 16th |
| Hideki Matsuyama | 6th | 30th |
| Brooks Koepka | 7th | 16th |
| Jason Day | 8th | 11th |
| Tony Finau | 9th | 2nd |
| Tommy Fleetwood | 10th | 7th |
Where it was most wrong
Largest gaps between rank and result, either direction.
| Player | Model | Finish |
|---|---|---|
| Rory McIlroy | 4th | 54th(+50) |
| Haotong Li | 57th | 11th(−46) |
| Alexander Levy | 69th | 28th(−41) |
| Francesco Molinari | 3rd | 43rd(+40) |
| Brian Harman | 33rd | 72nd(+39) |
| Andrew Putnam | 43rd | 4th(−39) |
| Kiradech Aphibarnrat | 41st | 4th(−37) |
| Russell Knox | 32nd | 68th(+36) |
| Alexander Björk | 64th | 28th(−36) |
| Satoshi Kodaira | 73rd | 37th(−36) |
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.