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Sony Open in Hawaii

2014-01-09 · Waialae Country Club

Winner
Jimmy Walker
Winning score
-17
Field
135
Field strength
+0.048 SG

The 2013-2014 Sony Open in Hawaii was played at Waialae Country Club, starting 9 January 2014. Jimmy Walker won at 17 under par (263), 1 stroke ahead of Chris Kirk. The winning card was 66, 67, 67 and 63, and the win paid $1,008,000. Chris Kirk finished second, and Jerry Kelly was third. 135 players started the event. The field averaged +0.048 strokes gained per round against the tour baseline, with strokes-gained data covering 79% 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 135. 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 76 players actually finished. It was not published in advance, so this measures the model, not a call we made.

Agrade
Rank correlation
+0.461
Top-20 hit rate
65%
Top-10 avg model rank
11.0

Grade is this event’s percentile (93rd) 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
Matt Kuchar1st8th
Adam Scott2nd8th
Zach Johnson3rd8th
K.J. Choi4th20th
Chris Kirk5th2nd
Charles Howell III6th8th
Brendon de Jonge7th51st
Jimmy Walker8th1st
Jason Dufner9th29th
Chris Stroud10th20th

Where it was most wrong

Largest gaps between rank and result, either direction.

PlayerModelFinish
Hudson Swafford67th8th(59)
John Huh15th72nd(+57)
Will Wilcox63rd8th(55)
Hideto Tanihara61st8th(53)
Retief Goosen60th8th(52)
Robert Allenby71st20th(51)
Brendon de Jonge7th51st(+44)
Stuart Appleby22nd65th(+43)
John Peterson59th20th(39)
Ryuji Imada57th20th(37)

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 Waialae Country Club in Honolulu, Hawaii, USA. The venue page carries its scorecard, hosting history and every other tour event played there.

Common questions

Who won the Sony Open in Hawaii in 2013-2014?

Jimmy Walker won the 2013-2014 Sony Open in Hawaii at Waialae Country Club, finishing 17 under par.

Where was the 2013-2014 Sony Open in Hawaii played?

The 2013-2014 Sony Open in Hawaii was played at Waialae Country Club, starting 9 January 2014.

What was the winning score at the 2013-2014 Sony Open in Hawaii?

The winning score was 17 under par (263 strokes), posted by Jimmy Walker.

How many players were in the Sony Open in Hawaii field?

135 players started the 2013-2014 Sony Open in Hawaii. 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.