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Humana Challenge in partnership with the Clinton Foundation

2015-01-22 · PGA West (Palmer)

Winner
Bill Haas
Winning score
-22
Field
151
Field strength
+0.062 SG

The 2014-2015 Humana Challenge in partnership with the Clinton Foundation was played at PGA West (Palmer), starting 22 January 2015. Bill Haas won at 22 under par (266), 1 stroke ahead of Brendan Steele. The winning card was 67, 63, 69 and 67, and the win paid $1,026,000. Brendan Steele, Charley Hoffman, Matt Kuchar, Steve Wheatcroft and Sung Joon Park tied for second. 151 players started the event. The field averaged +0.062 strokes gained per round against the tour baseline, with strokes-gained data covering 87% 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 151. 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 72 players actually finished. It was not published in advance, so this measures the model, not a call we made.

Dgrade
Rank correlation
+0.200
Top-20 hit rate
30%
Top-10 avg model rank
26.0

Grade is this event’s percentile (24th) 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 Kuchar1st2nd
Bill Haas2nd1st
Ryan Palmer3rd10th
Webb Simpson4th7th
Keegan Bradley5th48th
Chris Kirk6th56th
Kevin Na7th48th
Phil Mickelson8th24th
Charley Hoffman9th2nd
Graham DeLaet10th30th

Where it was most wrong

Largest gaps between rank and result, either direction.

PlayerModelFinish
Sung Joon Park70th2nd(68)
Steve Wheatcroft61st2nd(59)
Chris Kirk6th56th(+50)
Alex Cejka64th15th(49)
Scott Pinckney67th20th(47)
Robert Garrigus28th72nd(+44)
Colt Knost54th10th(44)
Keegan Bradley5th48th(+43)
Erik Compton52nd10th(42)
Mark Hubbard62nd20th(42)

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 West (Palmer) in La Quinta, California, USA. The venue page carries its scorecard, hosting history and every other tour event played there.

Common questions

Who won the Humana Challenge in partnership with the Clinton Foundation in 2014-2015?

Bill Haas won the 2014-2015 Humana Challenge in partnership with the Clinton Foundation at PGA West (Palmer), finishing 22 under par.

Where was the 2014-2015 Humana Challenge in partnership with the Clinton Foundation played?

The 2014-2015 Humana Challenge in partnership with the Clinton Foundation was played at PGA West (Palmer), starting 22 January 2015.

What was the winning score at the 2014-2015 Humana Challenge in partnership with the Clinton Foundation?

The winning score was 22 under par (266 strokes), posted by Bill Haas.

How many players were in the Humana Challenge in partnership with the Clinton Foundation field?

151 players started the 2014-2015 Humana Challenge in partnership with the Clinton Foundation. 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.