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The Honda Classic

2013-02-28 · PGA National Resort (The Champion)

Winner
Michael Thompson
Winning score
-9
Field
141
Field strength
+0.063 SG

The 2013 The Honda Classic was played at PGA National Resort (The Champion), starting 28 February 2013. Michael Thompson won at 9 under par (271), 2 strokes ahead of Geoff Ogilvy. The winning card was 67, 65, 70 and 69, and the win paid $1,080,000. Geoff Ogilvy finished second, and Luke Guthrie was third. 141 players started the event. The field averaged +0.063 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 141. 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 73 players actually finished. It was not published in advance, so this measures the model, not a call we made.

Dgrade
Rank correlation
+0.168
Top-20 hit rate
30%
Top-10 avg model rank
32.3

Grade is this event’s percentile (17th) 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
Tiger Woods1st37th
Jason Dufner2nd51st
Justin Rose3rd4th
Charl Schwartzel4th9th
Dustin Johnson5th46th
Keegan Bradley6th4th
Lee Westwood7th9th
Brendon de Jonge8th29th
Rickie Fowler9th13th
Ernie Els10th46th

Where it was most wrong

Largest gaps between rank and result, either direction.

PlayerModelFinish
Michael Thompson63rd1st(62)
Lucas Glover65th4th(61)
David Lynn64th4th(60)
Darron Stiles69th13th(56)
Robert Streb71st18th(53)
Jason Dufner2nd51st(+49)
Steven Bowditch73rd29th(44)
Kevin Stadler15th58th(+43)
Dustin Johnson5th46th(+41)
Ben Crane23rd64th(+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.

The venue

This event was played at PGA National Resort (The Champion) in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, USA. The venue page carries its scorecard, hosting history and every other tour event played there.

Common questions

Who won the The Honda Classic in 2013?

Michael Thompson won the 2013 The Honda Classic at PGA National Resort (The Champion), finishing 9 under par.

Where was the 2013 The Honda Classic played?

The 2013 The Honda Classic was played at PGA National Resort (The Champion), starting 28 February 2013.

What was the winning score at the 2013 The Honda Classic?

The winning score was 9 under par (271 strokes), posted by Michael Thompson.

How many players were in the The Honda Classic field?

141 players started the 2013 The Honda Classic. 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.