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Tournaments / 2015-2016

U.S. Open

2016-06-16 · Oakmont Country Club

Winner
Dustin Johnson
Winning score
-4
Field
155
Field strength
+0.447 SG

The 2015-2016 U.S. Open was played at Oakmont Country Club, starting 16 June 2016. Dustin Johnson won at 4 under par (276), 3 strokes ahead of Jim Furyk. The winning card was 67, 69, 71 and 69, and the win paid $1,800,000. Jim Furyk, Scott Piercy and Shane Lowry tied for second. 155 players started the event. The field averaged +0.447 strokes gained per round against the tour baseline, with strokes-gained data covering 52% 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 155. 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 67 players actually finished. It was not published in advance, so this measures the model, not a call we made.

Bgrade
Rank correlation
+0.374
Top-20 hit rate
50%
Top-10 avg model rank
17.2

Grade is this event’s percentile (77th) 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 Spieth1st37th
Jason Day2nd8th
Bubba Watson3rd51st
Brooks Koepka4th13th
Dustin Johnson5th1st
Sergio Garcia6th5th
Matt Kuchar7th46th
Zach Johnson8th8th
Justin Thomas9th32nd
Jim Furyk10th2nd

Where it was most wrong

Largest gaps between rank and result, either direction.

PlayerModelFinish
Sung Kang67th18th(49)
Bubba Watson3rd51st(+48)
Andrew Landry63rd15th(48)
Yusaku Miyazato66th23rd(43)
Danny Lee15th57th(+42)
Grégory Bourdy58th18th(40)
Matt Kuchar7th46th(+39)
Shane Lowry39th2nd(37)
Jordan Spieth1st37th(+36)
Andy Sullivan59th23rd(36)

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 Oakmont Country Club in Oakmont, Pennsylvania, USA. The venue page carries its scorecard, hosting history and every other tour event played there.

Common questions

Who won the U.S. Open in 2015-2016?

Dustin Johnson won the 2015-2016 U.S. Open at Oakmont Country Club, finishing 4 under par.

Where was the 2015-2016 U.S. Open played?

The 2015-2016 U.S. Open was played at Oakmont Country Club, starting 16 June 2016.

What was the winning score at the 2015-2016 U.S. Open?

The winning score was 4 under par (276 strokes), posted by Dustin Johnson.

How many players were in the U.S. Open field?

155 players started the 2015-2016 U.S. 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.