Tournaments / 2015-2016
Sony Open in Hawaii
2016-01-14 · Waialae Country Club
- Winner
- Fabián Gómez
- Winning score
- -20
- Field
- 138
- Field strength
- +0.053 SG
The 2015-2016 Sony Open in Hawaii was played at Waialae Country Club, starting 14 January 2016. Fabián Gómez won at 20 under par (260). The winning card was 69, 64, 65 and 62, and the win paid $1,044,000. Brandt Snedeker finished second, and Zac Blair was third. 138 players started the event. The field averaged +0.053 strokes gained per round against the tour baseline, with strokes-gained data covering 86% 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 138. Search finds any player in the field, including those who missed the cut.
- Fabián Gómez
- Pos
- P1
- R1
- 69
- R2
- 64
- R3
- 65
- R4
- 62
- Total
- 260
- Brandt Snedeker
- Pos
- P2
- R1
- 63
- R2
- 65
- R3
- 66
- R4
- 66
- Total
- 260
- Zac Blair
- Pos
- 3
- R1
- 65
- R2
- 65
- R3
- 64
- R4
- 67
- Total
- 261
- Si Woo Kim
- Pos
- 4
- R1
- 64
- R2
- 67
- R3
- 65
- R4
- 68
- Total
- 264
- Greg Owen
- Pos
- T5
- R1
- 69
- R2
- 65
- R3
- 67
- R4
- 64
- Total
- 265
- Kevin Kisner
- Pos
- T5
- R1
- 63
- R2
- 66
- R3
- 66
- R4
- 70
- Total
- 265
- Graham DeLaet
- Pos
- T7
- R1
- 73
- R2
- 62
- R3
- 65
- R4
- 66
- Total
- 266
- Jamie Lovemark
- Pos
- T7
- R1
- 67
- R2
- 69
- R3
- 65
- R4
- 65
- Total
- 266
- Hudson Swafford
- Pos
- T9
- R1
- 66
- R2
- 69
- R3
- 65
- R4
- 67
- Total
- 267
- Jason Dufner
- Pos
- T9
- R1
- 67
- R2
- 67
- R3
- 65
- R4
- 68
- Total
- 267
- Jerry Kelly
- Pos
- T9
- R1
- 65
- R2
- 66
- R3
- 69
- R4
- 67
- Total
- 267
- Zach Johnson
- Pos
- T9
- R1
- 64
- R2
- 66
- R3
- 70
- R4
- 67
- Total
- 267
- Brian Harman
- Pos
- T13
- R1
- 68
- R2
- 69
- R3
- 66
- R4
- 65
- Total
- 268
- Charles Howell III
- Pos
- T13
- R1
- 64
- R2
- 69
- R3
- 67
- R4
- 68
- Total
- 268
- Daniel Summerhays
- Pos
- T13
- R1
- 67
- R2
- 65
- R3
- 70
- R4
- 66
- Total
- 268
- David Lingmerth
- Pos
- T13
- R1
- 65
- R2
- 71
- R3
- 68
- R4
- 64
- Total
- 268
- Gary Woodland
- Pos
- T13
- R1
- 66
- R2
- 67
- R3
- 66
- R4
- 69
- Total
- 268
- Harold Varner III
- Pos
- T13
- R1
- 69
- R2
- 68
- R3
- 66
- R4
- 65
- Total
- 268
- Jimmy Walker
- Pos
- T13
- R1
- 69
- R2
- 68
- R3
- 65
- R4
- 66
- Total
- 268
- Kyle Stanley
- Pos
- T13
- R1
- 68
- R2
- 66
- R3
- 70
- R4
- 64
- Total
- 268
Model score
Backtest · reconstructedOur 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 85 players actually finished. It was not published in advance, so this measures the model, not a call we made.
- Rank correlation
- +0.416
- Top-20 hit rate
- 45%
- Top-10 avg model rank
- 33.9
Grade is this event’s percentile (85th) 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.
| Player | Model | Finish |
|---|---|---|
| Steve Stricker | 1st | 64th |
| Matt Kuchar | 2nd | 13th |
| Zach Johnson | 3rd | 9th |
| Ryan Palmer | 4th | 13th |
| Jimmy Walker | 5th | 13th |
| Kevin Na | 6th | 28th |
| Webb Simpson | 7th | 13th |
| Francesco Molinari | 8th | 33rd |
| Danny Lee | 9th | 33rd |
| Jason Dufner | 10th | 9th |
Where it was most wrong
Largest gaps between rank and result, either direction.
| Player | Model | Finish |
|---|---|---|
| Steve Stricker | 1st | 64th(+63) |
| Fabián Gómez | 64th | 1st(−63) |
| Si Woo Kim | 66th | 4th(−62) |
| Harold Varner III | 69th | 13th(−56) |
| Pat Perez | 26th | 81st(+55) |
| Greg Owen | 57th | 5th(−52) |
| Robert Garrigus | 83rd | 33rd(−50) |
| Tony Finau | 15th | 64th(+49) |
| David Hearn | 27th | 75th(+48) |
| Chad Campbell | 20th | 67th(+47) |
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 2015-2016?
- Fabián Gómez won the 2015-2016 Sony Open in Hawaii at Waialae Country Club, finishing 20 under par.
Where was the 2015-2016 Sony Open in Hawaii played?
- The 2015-2016 Sony Open in Hawaii was played at Waialae Country Club, starting 14 January 2016.
What was the winning score at the 2015-2016 Sony Open in Hawaii?
- The winning score was 20 under par (260 strokes), posted by Fabián Gómez.
How many players were in the Sony Open in Hawaii field?
- 138 players started the 2015-2016 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.