Tournaments / 2013
Northern Trust Open
2013-02-14 · The Riviera Country Club
- Winner
- John Merrick
- Winning score
- -11
- Field
- 139
- Field strength
- +0.18 SG
The 2013 Northern Trust Open was played at The Riviera Country Club, starting 14 February 2013. John Merrick won at 11 under par (273). The winning card was 68, 66, 70 and 69, and the win paid $1,188,000. Charlie Beljan finished second, and Bill Haas, Charl Schwartzel and Freddie Jacobson tied for third. 139 players started the event. The field averaged +0.18 strokes gained per round against the tour baseline, with strokes-gained data covering 88% 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 PGA Tour's published final leaderboard for the event — nothing here is estimated or modelled.
Final leaderboard
Top 20 of 139. Search finds any player in the field, including those who missed the cut.
- John Merrick
- Pos
- P1
- R1
- 68
- R2
- 66
- R3
- 70
- R4
- 69
- Total
- 273
- Charlie Beljan
- Pos
- P2
- R1
- 67
- R2
- 71
- R3
- 68
- R4
- 67
- Total
- 273
- Bill Haas
- Pos
- T3
- R1
- 70
- R2
- 67
- R3
- 64
- R4
- 73
- Total
- 274
- Charl Schwartzel
- Pos
- T3
- R1
- 69
- R2
- 67
- R3
- 68
- R4
- 70
- Total
- 274
- Freddie Jacobson
- Pos
- T3
- R1
- 68
- R2
- 65
- R3
- 72
- R4
- 69
- Total
- 274
- Josh Teater
- Pos
- T6
- R1
- 70
- R2
- 68
- R3
- 68
- R4
- 69
- Total
- 275
- Webb Simpson
- Pos
- T6
- R1
- 70
- R2
- 66
- R3
- 68
- R4
- 71
- Total
- 275
- Hunter Mahan
- Pos
- T8
- R1
- 70
- R2
- 69
- R3
- 68
- R4
- 69
- Total
- 276
- Sangmoon Bae
- Pos
- T8
- R1
- 68
- R2
- 65
- R3
- 76
- R4
- 67
- Total
- 276
- Adam Scott
- Pos
- T10
- R1
- 71
- R2
- 67
- R3
- 70
- R4
- 70
- Total
- 278
- Greg Chalmers
- Pos
- T10
- R1
- 69
- R2
- 69
- R3
- 73
- R4
- 67
- Total
- 278
- Ted Potter, Jr.
- Pos
- T10
- R1
- 71
- R2
- 67
- R3
- 71
- R4
- 69
- Total
- 278
- Ernie Els
- Pos
- T13
- R1
- 70
- R2
- 68
- R3
- 73
- R4
- 68
- Total
- 279
- Jim Furyk
- Pos
- T13
- R1
- 68
- R2
- 72
- R3
- 69
- R4
- 70
- Total
- 279
- Sergio Garcia
- Pos
- T13
- R1
- 65
- R2
- 73
- R3
- 69
- R4
- 72
- Total
- 279
- Jimmy Walker
- Pos
- T16
- R1
- 70
- R2
- 70
- R3
- 71
- R4
- 69
- Total
- 280
- John Rollins
- Pos
- T16
- R1
- 69
- R2
- 65
- R3
- 77
- R4
- 69
- Total
- 280
- Keegan Bradley
- Pos
- T16
- R1
- 71
- R2
- 70
- R3
- 69
- R4
- 70
- Total
- 280
- Luke Donald
- Pos
- T16
- R1
- 69
- R2
- 66
- R3
- 70
- R4
- 75
- Total
- 280
- S.Y. Noh
- Pos
- T16
- R1
- 70
- R2
- 70
- R3
- 71
- R4
- 69
- Total
- 280
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 77 players actually finished. It was not published in advance, so this measures the model, not a call we made.
- Rank correlation
- +0.439
- Top-20 hit rate
- 55%
- Top-10 avg model rank
- 31.1
Grade is this event’s percentile (89th) 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Jim Furyk | 1st | 13th |
| Matt Kuchar | 2nd | 38th |
| Phil Mickelson | 3rd | 21st |
| Sergio Garcia | 4th | 13th |
| Luke Donald | 5th | 16th |
| Webb Simpson | 6th | 6th |
| Adam Scott | 7th | 10th |
| Keegan Bradley | 8th | 16th |
| Ryan Moore | 9th | 27th |
| Vijay Singh | 10th | 51st |
Where it was most wrong
Largest gaps between rank and result, either direction.
| Player | Model | Finish |
|---|---|---|
| Charlie Beljan | 74th | 2nd(−72) |
| Sangmoon Bae | 71st | 8th(−63) |
| Ted Potter, Jr. | 66th | 10th(−56) |
| Scott Piercy | 14th | 61st(+47) |
| Stewart Cink | 73rd | 27th(−46) |
| Matt Every | 25th | 68th(+43) |
| John Merrick | 43rd | 1st(−42) |
| Vijay Singh | 10th | 51st(+41) |
| Pat Perez | 12th | 51st(+39) |
| Luke Guthrie | 60th | 21st(−39) |
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.
The venue
This event was played at The Riviera Country Club in Pacific Palisades, California, USA. The venue page carries its scorecard, hosting history and every other tour event played there.
Common questions
Who won the Northern Trust Open in 2013?
- John Merrick won the 2013 Northern Trust Open at The Riviera Country Club, finishing 11 under par.
Where was the 2013 Northern Trust Open played?
- The 2013 Northern Trust Open was played at The Riviera Country Club, starting 14 February 2013.
What was the winning score at the 2013 Northern Trust Open?
- The winning score was 11 under par (273 strokes), posted by John Merrick.
How many players were in the Northern Trust Open field?
- 139 players started the 2013 Northern Trust Open. Every one of them appears on the leaderboard below.
Where these numbers come from
Finishes, round scores and to-par figures are the PGA Tour's own published final leaderboard for this event. Nothing is estimated or interpolated — where the tour published no value, 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.