Tournaments / 2015-2016
Masters Tournament
2016-04-07 · Augusta National Golf Club
- Winner
- Danny Willett
- Winning score
- -5
- Field
- 89
- Field strength
- +0.555 SG
The 2015-2016 Masters Tournament was played at Augusta National Golf Club, starting 7 April 2016. Danny Willett won at 5 under par (283), 3 strokes ahead of Jordan Spieth. The winning card was 70, 74, 72 and 67, and the win paid $1,800,000. Jordan Spieth and Lee Westwood tied for second. 89 players started the event. The field averaged +0.555 strokes gained per round against the tour baseline, with strokes-gained data covering 64% 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 89. Search finds any player in the field, including those who missed the cut.
- Danny Willett
- Pos
- 1
- R1
- 70
- R2
- 74
- R3
- 72
- R4
- 67
- Total
- 283
- Jordan Spieth
- Pos
- T2
- R1
- 66
- R2
- 74
- R3
- 73
- R4
- 73
- Total
- 286
- Lee Westwood
- Pos
- T2
- R1
- 71
- R2
- 75
- R3
- 71
- R4
- 69
- Total
- 286
- Dustin Johnson
- Pos
- T4
- R1
- 73
- R2
- 71
- R3
- 72
- R4
- 71
- Total
- 287
- J.B. Holmes
- Pos
- T4
- R1
- 72
- R2
- 73
- R3
- 74
- R4
- 68
- Total
- 287
- Paul Casey
- Pos
- T4
- R1
- 69
- R2
- 77
- R3
- 74
- R4
- 67
- Total
- 287
- Hideki Matsuyama
- Pos
- T7
- R1
- 71
- R2
- 72
- R3
- 72
- R4
- 73
- Total
- 288
- Matt Fitzpatrick
- Pos
- T7
- R1
- 71
- R2
- 76
- R3
- 74
- R4
- 67
- Total
- 288
- Søren Kjeldsen
- Pos
- T7
- R1
- 69
- R2
- 74
- R3
- 74
- R4
- 71
- Total
- 288
- Brandt Snedeker
- Pos
- T10
- R1
- 71
- R2
- 72
- R3
- 74
- R4
- 72
- Total
- 289
- Daniel Berger
- Pos
- T10
- R1
- 73
- R2
- 71
- R3
- 74
- R4
- 71
- Total
- 289
- Jason Day
- Pos
- T10
- R1
- 72
- R2
- 73
- R3
- 71
- R4
- 73
- Total
- 289
- Justin Rose
- Pos
- T10
- R1
- 69
- R2
- 77
- R3
- 73
- R4
- 70
- Total
- 289
- Rory McIlroy
- Pos
- T10
- R1
- 70
- R2
- 71
- R3
- 77
- R4
- 71
- Total
- 289
- Kiradech Aphibarnrat
- Pos
- T15
- R1
- 72
- R2
- 72
- R3
- 77
- R4
- 70
- Total
- 291
- Louis Oosthuizen
- Pos
- T15
- R1
- 72
- R2
- 77
- R3
- 71
- R4
- 71
- Total
- 291
- Billy Horschel
- Pos
- T17
- R1
- 70
- R2
- 77
- R3
- 73
- R4
- 72
- Total
- 292
- Danny Lee
- Pos
- T17
- R1
- 68
- R2
- 74
- R3
- 79
- R4
- 71
- Total
- 292
- Emiliano Grillo
- Pos
- T17
- R1
- 71
- R2
- 75
- R3
- 74
- R4
- 72
- Total
- 292
- Rafa Cabrera Bello
- Pos
- T17
- R1
- 74
- R2
- 73
- R3
- 75
- R4
- 70
- Total
- 292
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 57 players actually finished. It was not published in advance, so this measures the model, not a call we made.
- Rank correlation
- +0.348
- Top-20 hit rate
- 45%
- Top-10 avg model rank
- 20.6
Grade is this event’s percentile (69th) 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Jordan Spieth | 1st | 2nd |
| Jason Day | 2nd | 10th |
| Rory McIlroy | 3rd | 10th |
| Henrik Stenson | 4th | 24th |
| Justin Rose | 5th | 10th |
| Bubba Watson | 6th | 37th |
| Hideki Matsuyama | 7th | 7th |
| Dustin Johnson | 8th | 4th |
| Paul Casey | 9th | 4th |
| Sergio Garcia | 10th | 34th |
Where it was most wrong
Largest gaps between rank and result, either direction.
| Player | Model | Finish |
|---|---|---|
| Søren Kjeldsen | 53rd | 7th(−46) |
| Kevin Na | 16th | 55th(+39) |
| Matt Fitzpatrick | 42nd | 7th(−35) |
| Keegan Bradley | 19th | 52nd(+33) |
| Danny Willett | 33rd | 1st(−32) |
| Ángel Cabrera | 56th | 24th(−32) |
| Bubba Watson | 6th | 37th(+31) |
| Patrick Reed | 18th | 49th(+31) |
| Kiradech Aphibarnrat | 43rd | 15th(−28) |
| Adam Scott | 15th | 42nd(+27) |
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 Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta, Georgia, USA. The venue page carries its scorecard, hosting history and every other tour event played there.
Common questions
Who won the Masters Tournament in 2015-2016?
- Danny Willett won the 2015-2016 Masters Tournament at Augusta National Golf Club, finishing 5 under par.
Where was the 2015-2016 Masters Tournament played?
- The 2015-2016 Masters Tournament was played at Augusta National Golf Club, starting 7 April 2016.
What was the winning score at the 2015-2016 Masters Tournament?
- The winning score was 5 under par (283 strokes), posted by Danny Willett.
How many players were in the Masters Tournament field?
- 89 players started the 2015-2016 Masters Tournament. 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.