Tournaments / 2015-2016
BMW Championship
2016-09-08 · Crooked Stick GC
- Winner
- Dustin Johnson
- Winning score
- -23
- Field
- 69
- Field strength
- +0.657 SG
The 2015-2016 BMW Championship was played at Crooked Stick GC, starting 8 September 2016. Dustin Johnson won at 23 under par (265), 3 strokes ahead of Paul Casey. The winning card was 67, 63, 68 and 67, and the win paid $1,530,000. Paul Casey finished second, and Roberto Castro was third. 69 players started the event. The field averaged +0.657 strokes gained per round against the tour baseline. 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 69. Search finds any player in the field, including those who missed the cut.
- Dustin Johnson
- Pos
- 1
- R1
- 67
- R2
- 63
- R3
- 68
- R4
- 67
- Total
- 265
- Paul Casey
- Pos
- 2
- R1
- 67
- R2
- 66
- R3
- 68
- R4
- 67
- Total
- 268
- Roberto Castro
- Pos
- 3
- R1
- 65
- R2
- 65
- R3
- 74
- R4
- 67
- Total
- 271
- Adam Scott
- Pos
- T4
- R1
- 69
- R2
- 69
- R3
- 67
- R4
- 71
- Total
- 276
- Charl Schwartzel
- Pos
- T4
- R1
- 70
- R2
- 70
- R3
- 72
- R4
- 64
- Total
- 276
- J.B. Holmes
- Pos
- T4
- R1
- 69
- R2
- 65
- R3
- 68
- R4
- 74
- Total
- 276
- Matt Kuchar
- Pos
- T4
- R1
- 68
- R2
- 69
- R3
- 68
- R4
- 71
- Total
- 276
- Ryan Palmer
- Pos
- T4
- R1
- 73
- R2
- 64
- R3
- 69
- R4
- 70
- Total
- 276
- Jordan Spieth
- Pos
- 9
- R1
- 68
- R2
- 72
- R3
- 68
- R4
- 69
- Total
- 277
- Billy Horschel
- Pos
- T10
- R1
- 73
- R2
- 68
- R3
- 67
- R4
- 70
- Total
- 278
- Chris Kirk
- Pos
- T10
- R1
- 68
- R2
- 66
- R3
- 73
- R4
- 71
- Total
- 278
- Daniel Berger
- Pos
- T10
- R1
- 70
- R2
- 68
- R3
- 71
- R4
- 69
- Total
- 278
- Brandt Snedeker
- Pos
- T13
- R1
- 72
- R2
- 71
- R3
- 69
- R4
- 67
- Total
- 279
- Brian Harman
- Pos
- T13
- R1
- 66
- R2
- 72
- R3
- 71
- R4
- 70
- Total
- 279
- Jimmy Walker
- Pos
- T13
- R1
- 74
- R2
- 69
- R3
- 70
- R4
- 66
- Total
- 279
- Patrick Reed
- Pos
- T13
- R1
- 70
- R2
- 70
- R3
- 71
- R4
- 68
- Total
- 279
- Jason Kokrak
- Pos
- T17
- R1
- 69
- R2
- 70
- R3
- 72
- R4
- 69
- Total
- 280
- Louis Oosthuizen
- Pos
- T17
- R1
- 71
- R2
- 69
- R3
- 74
- R4
- 66
- Total
- 280
- Russell Knox
- Pos
- T17
- R1
- 71
- R2
- 69
- R3
- 69
- R4
- 71
- Total
- 280
- Bubba Watson
- Pos
- T20
- R1
- 71
- R2
- 67
- R3
- 72
- R4
- 71
- Total
- 281
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 68 players actually finished. It was not published in advance, so this measures the model, not a call we made.
- Rank correlation
- +0.332
- Top-20 hit rate
- 45%
- Top-10 avg model rank
- 20.7
Grade is this event’s percentile (65th) 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Rory McIlroy | 1st | 42nd |
| Jordan Spieth | 2nd | 9th |
| Justin Rose | 3rd | 24th |
| Bubba Watson | 4th | 20th |
| Hideki Matsuyama | 5th | 24th |
| Dustin Johnson | 6th | 1st |
| Brooks Koepka | 7th | 32nd |
| Sergio Garcia | 8th | 47th |
| Matt Kuchar | 9th | 4th |
| Zach Johnson | 10th | 42nd |
Where it was most wrong
Largest gaps between rank and result, either direction.
| Player | Model | Finish |
|---|---|---|
| Roberto Castro | 52nd | 3rd(−49) |
| Rickie Fowler | 11th | 59th(+48) |
| Ryan Moore | 18th | 64th(+46) |
| Jhonattan Vegas | 67th | 24th(−43) |
| Rory McIlroy | 1st | 42nd(+41) |
| Sergio Garcia | 8th | 47th(+39) |
| Si Woo Kim | 59th | 20th(−39) |
| Jason Dufner | 22nd | 60th(+38) |
| James Hahn | 60th | 24th(−36) |
| Brendan Steele | 29th | 64th(+35) |
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 Crooked Stick GC in Carmel, Indiana, USA. The venue page carries its scorecard, hosting history and every other tour event played there.
Common questions
Who won the BMW Championship in 2015-2016?
- Dustin Johnson won the 2015-2016 BMW Championship at Crooked Stick GC, finishing 23 under par.
Where was the 2015-2016 BMW Championship played?
- The 2015-2016 BMW Championship was played at Crooked Stick GC, starting 8 September 2016.
What was the winning score at the 2015-2016 BMW Championship?
- The winning score was 23 under par (265 strokes), posted by Dustin Johnson.
How many players were in the BMW Championship field?
- 69 players started the 2015-2016 BMW Championship. 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.