Tournaments / 2015-2016
Northern Trust Open
2016-02-18 · The Riviera Country Club
- Winner
- Bubba Watson
- Winning score
- -15
- Field
- 144
- Field strength
- +0.145 SG
The 2015-2016 Northern Trust Open was played at The Riviera Country Club, starting 18 February 2016. Bubba Watson won at 15 under par (269), 1 stroke ahead of Adam Scott. The winning card was 66, 68, 67 and 68, and the win paid $1,224,000. Adam Scott and Jason Kokrak tied for second. 144 players started the event. The field averaged +0.145 strokes gained per round against the tour baseline, with strokes-gained data covering 90% 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 144. Search finds any player in the field, including those who missed the cut.
- Bubba Watson
- Pos
- 1
- R1
- 66
- R2
- 68
- R3
- 67
- R4
- 68
- Total
- 269
- Adam Scott
- Pos
- T2
- R1
- 68
- R2
- 68
- R3
- 67
- R4
- 67
- Total
- 270
- Jason Kokrak
- Pos
- T2
- R1
- 68
- R2
- 64
- R3
- 70
- R4
- 68
- Total
- 270
- Dustin Johnson
- Pos
- 4
- R1
- 68
- R2
- 66
- R3
- 68
- R4
- 69
- Total
- 271
- K.J. Choi
- Pos
- T5
- R1
- 69
- R2
- 67
- R3
- 67
- R4
- 69
- Total
- 272
- Marc Leishman
- Pos
- T5
- R1
- 68
- R2
- 67
- R3
- 68
- R4
- 69
- Total
- 272
- Chez Reavie
- Pos
- 7
- R1
- 66
- R2
- 67
- R3
- 69
- R4
- 71
- Total
- 273
- Matt Kuchar
- Pos
- T8
- R1
- 69
- R2
- 69
- R3
- 69
- R4
- 67
- Total
- 274
- Sung Kang
- Pos
- T8
- R1
- 70
- R2
- 69
- R3
- 66
- R4
- 69
- Total
- 274
- Ryan Moore
- Pos
- 10
- R1
- 69
- R2
- 68
- R3
- 69
- R4
- 69
- Total
- 275
- Hideki Matsuyama
- Pos
- T11
- R1
- 69
- R2
- 67
- R3
- 68
- R4
- 72
- Total
- 276
- J.B. Holmes
- Pos
- T11
- R1
- 71
- R2
- 66
- R3
- 69
- R4
- 70
- Total
- 276
- Martin Laird
- Pos
- T11
- R1
- 68
- R2
- 70
- R3
- 69
- R4
- 69
- Total
- 276
- Steve Stricker
- Pos
- T11
- R1
- 71
- R2
- 68
- R3
- 67
- R4
- 70
- Total
- 276
- Troy Merritt
- Pos
- T11
- R1
- 68
- R2
- 66
- R3
- 70
- R4
- 72
- Total
- 276
- Adam Hadwin
- Pos
- T16
- R1
- 70
- R2
- 70
- R3
- 71
- R4
- 66
- Total
- 277
- Ben Martin
- Pos
- T16
- R1
- 73
- R2
- 68
- R3
- 67
- R4
- 69
- Total
- 277
- Justin Leonard
- Pos
- T16
- R1
- 67
- R2
- 69
- R3
- 70
- R4
- 71
- Total
- 277
- Justin Rose
- Pos
- T16
- R1
- 69
- R2
- 68
- R3
- 69
- R4
- 71
- Total
- 277
- Jamie Lovemark
- Pos
- T20
- R1
- 69
- R2
- 70
- R3
- 70
- R4
- 69
- Total
- 278
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 76 players actually finished. It was not published in advance, so this measures the model, not a call we made.
- Rank correlation
- +0.311
- Top-20 hit rate
- 45%
- Top-10 avg model rank
- 23.8
Grade is this event’s percentile (58th) 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Hideki Matsuyama | 1st | 11th |
| Rory McIlroy | 2nd | 20th |
| Bubba Watson | 3rd | 1st |
| Justin Rose | 4th | 16th |
| Matt Kuchar | 5th | 8th |
| Paul Casey | 6th | 39th |
| Steve Stricker | 7th | 11th |
| Justin Thomas | 8th | 54th |
| Dustin Johnson | 9th | 4th |
| J.B. Holmes | 10th | 11th |
Where it was most wrong
Largest gaps between rank and result, either direction.
| Player | Model | Finish |
|---|---|---|
| Sung Kang | 76th | 8th(−68) |
| Luke List | 75th | 20th(−55) |
| Jason Dufner | 15th | 68th(+53) |
| Troy Merritt | 64th | 11th(−53) |
| Cameron Tringale | 16th | 68th(+52) |
| Brian Harman | 23rd | 72nd(+49) |
| Charles Howell III | 27th | 75th(+48) |
| Nick Taylor | 73rd | 26th(−47) |
| Justin Thomas | 8th | 54th(+46) |
| Charley Hoffman | 21st | 63rd(+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 The Riviera Country Club in Pacific Palisades, California, USA. The venue page carries its scorecard, hosting history and every other tour event played there.
Common questions
Who won the Northern Trust Open in 2015-2016?
- Bubba Watson won the 2015-2016 Northern Trust Open at The Riviera Country Club, finishing 15 under par.
Where was the 2015-2016 Northern Trust Open played?
- The 2015-2016 Northern Trust Open was played at The Riviera Country Club, starting 18 February 2016.
What was the winning score at the 2015-2016 Northern Trust Open?
- The winning score was 15 under par (269 strokes), posted by Bubba Watson.
How many players were in the Northern Trust Open field?
- 144 players started the 2015-2016 Northern Trust Open. 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.