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Tournaments / 2014-2015

The Honda Classic

2015-02-26 · PGA National Resort (The Champion)

Winner
Padraig Harrington
Winning score
-6
Field
147
Field strength
+0.127 SG

The 2014-2015 The Honda Classic was played at PGA National Resort (The Champion), starting 26 February 2015. Padraig Harrington won at 6 under par (274). The winning card was 67, 66, 71 and 70, and the win paid $1,098,000. Daniel Berger finished second, and Ian Poulter, Paul Casey and Russell Knox tied for third. 147 players started the event. The field averaged +0.127 strokes gained per round against the tour baseline, with strokes-gained data covering 85% 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 147. 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 71 players actually finished. It was not published in advance, so this measures the model, not a call we made.

Cgrade
Rank correlation
+0.282
Top-20 hit rate
50%
Top-10 avg model rank
30.0

Grade is this event’s percentile (48th) 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
Sergio Garcia1st31st
Ryan Palmer2nd25th
Rickie Fowler3rd41st
Brooks Koepka4th51st
Russell Knox5th3rd
Paul Casey6th3rd
Lee Westwood7th25th
Phil Mickelson8th17th
Nick Watney9th41st
Robert Streb10th59th

Where it was most wrong

Largest gaps between rank and result, either direction.

PlayerModelFinish
Padraig Harrington59th1st(58)
Jim Herman61st7th(54)
Robert Streb10th59th(+49)
Brooks Koepka4th51st(+47)
Joost Luiten58th11th(47)
Daniel Berger45th2nd(43)
Jamie Donaldson48th6th(42)
Marc Leishman11th51st(+40)
Rickie Fowler3rd41st(+38)
Jamie Lovemark66th31st(35)

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 2014-2015?

Padraig Harrington won the 2014-2015 The Honda Classic at PGA National Resort (The Champion), finishing 6 under par.

Where was the 2014-2015 The Honda Classic played?

The 2014-2015 The Honda Classic was played at PGA National Resort (The Champion), starting 26 February 2015.

What was the winning score at the 2014-2015 The Honda Classic?

The winning score was 6 under par (274 strokes), posted by Padraig Harrington.

How many players were in the The Honda Classic field?

147 players started the 2014-2015 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.