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AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am

2016-02-11 · Pebble Beach Golf Links

Winner
Vaughn Taylor
Winning score
-17
Field
150
Field strength
+0.057 SG

The 2015-2016 AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am was played at Pebble Beach Golf Links, starting 11 February 2016. Vaughn Taylor won at 17 under par (270), 1 stroke ahead of Phil Mickelson. The winning card was 70, 68, 67 and 65, and the win paid $1,260,000. Phil Mickelson finished second, and Jonas Blixt was third. 150 players started the event. The field averaged +0.057 strokes gained per round against the tour baseline, with strokes-gained data covering 77% 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 150. 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 79 players actually finished. It was not published in advance, so this measures the model, not a call we made.

Bgrade
Rank correlation
+0.393
Top-20 hit rate
50%
Top-10 avg model rank
25.5

Grade is this event’s percentile (81st) 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
Jordan Spieth1st21st
Jason Day2nd11th
Justin Rose3rd6th
Bubba Watson4th70th
Jimmy Walker5th11th
Brandt Snedeker6th35th
Dustin Johnson7th41st
Ryan Palmer8th41st
Patrick Reed9th6th
Jason Dufner10th51st

Where it was most wrong

Largest gaps between rank and result, either direction.

PlayerModelFinish
Bubba Watson4th70th(+66)
Sung Kang79th17th(62)
Hiroshi Iwata63rd4th(59)
Cameron Smith67th11th(56)
Tyler Aldridge72nd17th(55)
Jonas Blixt56th3rd(53)
Jerry Kelly21st69th(+48)
Jason Dufner10th51st(+41)
Jason Bohn18th58th(+40)
Steve Marino73rd34th(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 Pebble Beach Golf Links in Pebble Beach, California, USA. The venue page carries its scorecard, hosting history and every other tour event played there.

Common questions

Who won the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am in 2015-2016?

Vaughn Taylor won the 2015-2016 AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am at Pebble Beach Golf Links, finishing 17 under par.

Where was the 2015-2016 AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am played?

The 2015-2016 AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am was played at Pebble Beach Golf Links, starting 11 February 2016.

What was the winning score at the 2015-2016 AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am?

The winning score was 17 under par (270 strokes), posted by Vaughn Taylor.

How many players were in the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am field?

150 players started the 2015-2016 AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am. 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.