Tournaments / 2015-2016
PGA Championship
2016-07-28 · Baltusrol GC
- Winner
- Jimmy Walker
- Winning score
- -14
- Field
- 156
- Field strength
- +0.531 SG
The 2015-2016 PGA Championship was played at Baltusrol GC, starting 28 July 2016. Jimmy Walker won at 14 under par (266), 1 stroke ahead of Jason Day. The winning card was 65, 66, 68 and 67, and the win paid $1,800,000. Jason Day finished second, and Daniel Summerhays was third. 156 players started the event. The field averaged +0.531 strokes gained per round against the tour baseline, with strokes-gained data covering 58% 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 156. Search finds any player in the field, including those who missed the cut.
- Jimmy Walker
- Pos
- 1
- R1
- 65
- R2
- 66
- R3
- 68
- R4
- 67
- Total
- 266
- Jason Day
- Pos
- 2
- R1
- 68
- R2
- 65
- R3
- 67
- R4
- 67
- Total
- 267
- Daniel Summerhays
- Pos
- 3
- R1
- 70
- R2
- 67
- R3
- 67
- R4
- 66
- Total
- 270
- Branden Grace
- Pos
- T4
- R1
- 70
- R2
- 68
- R3
- 66
- R4
- 67
- Total
- 271
- Brooks Koepka
- Pos
- T4
- R1
- 68
- R2
- 67
- R3
- 66
- R4
- 70
- Total
- 271
- Hideki Matsuyama
- Pos
- T4
- R1
- 69
- R2
- 67
- R3
- 67
- R4
- 68
- Total
- 271
- Henrik Stenson
- Pos
- T7
- R1
- 67
- R2
- 67
- R3
- 67
- R4
- 71
- Total
- 272
- Martin Kaymer
- Pos
- T7
- R1
- 66
- R2
- 69
- R3
- 71
- R4
- 66
- Total
- 272
- Robert Streb
- Pos
- T7
- R1
- 68
- R2
- 63
- R3
- 72
- R4
- 69
- Total
- 272
- Paul Casey
- Pos
- T10
- R1
- 69
- R2
- 69
- R3
- 68
- R4
- 67
- Total
- 273
- Tyrrell Hatton
- Pos
- T10
- R1
- 71
- R2
- 68
- R3
- 66
- R4
- 68
- Total
- 273
- William McGirt
- Pos
- T10
- R1
- 70
- R2
- 67
- R3
- 66
- R4
- 70
- Total
- 273
- Emiliano Grillo
- Pos
- T13
- R1
- 66
- R2
- 67
- R3
- 73
- R4
- 68
- Total
- 274
- Jordan Spieth
- Pos
- T13
- R1
- 70
- R2
- 67
- R3
- 69
- R4
- 68
- Total
- 274
- Padraig Harrington
- Pos
- T13
- R1
- 71
- R2
- 70
- R3
- 65
- R4
- 68
- Total
- 274
- Patrick Reed
- Pos
- T13
- R1
- 70
- R2
- 65
- R3
- 70
- R4
- 69
- Total
- 274
- Webb Simpson
- Pos
- T13
- R1
- 69
- R2
- 69
- R3
- 66
- R4
- 70
- Total
- 274
- Adam Scott
- Pos
- T18
- R1
- 70
- R2
- 67
- R3
- 69
- R4
- 69
- Total
- 275
- Grégory Bourdy
- Pos
- T18
- R1
- 69
- R2
- 68
- R3
- 69
- R4
- 69
- Total
- 275
- John Senden
- Pos
- T18
- R1
- 68
- R2
- 70
- R3
- 69
- R4
- 68
- Total
- 275
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 86 players actually finished. It was not published in advance, so this measures the model, not a call we made.
- Rank correlation
- +0.298
- Top-20 hit rate
- 35%
- Top-10 avg model rank
- 20.9
Grade is this event’s percentile (52nd) 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 | 13th |
| Jason Day | 2nd | 2nd |
| Henrik Stenson | 3rd | 7th |
| Steve Stricker | 4th | 42nd |
| Justin Rose | 5th | 22nd |
| Bubba Watson | 6th | 60th |
| Hideki Matsuyama | 7th | 4th |
| Brooks Koepka | 8th | 4th |
| Zach Johnson | 9th | 33rd |
| Rickie Fowler | 10th | 33rd |
Where it was most wrong
Largest gaps between rank and result, either direction.
| Player | Model | Finish |
|---|---|---|
| Lee Westwood | 18th | 85th(+67) |
| Padraig Harrington | 78th | 13th(−65) |
| Jim Furyk | 11th | 73rd(+62) |
| Bubba Watson | 6th | 60th(+54) |
| Justin Thomas | 13th | 66th(+53) |
| Daniel Berger | 20th | 73rd(+53) |
| Yuta Ikeda | 85th | 33rd(−52) |
| Hideto Tanihara | 83rd | 33rd(−50) |
| Jhonattan Vegas | 71st | 22nd(−49) |
| Joost Luiten | 82nd | 33rd(−49) |
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 Baltusrol GC in Springfield, New Jersey, USA. The venue page carries its scorecard, hosting history and every other tour event played there.
Common questions
Who won the PGA Championship in 2015-2016?
- Jimmy Walker won the 2015-2016 PGA Championship at Baltusrol GC, finishing 14 under par.
Where was the 2015-2016 PGA Championship played?
- The 2015-2016 PGA Championship was played at Baltusrol GC, starting 28 July 2016.
What was the winning score at the 2015-2016 PGA Championship?
- The winning score was 14 under par (266 strokes), posted by Jimmy Walker.
How many players were in the PGA Championship field?
- 156 players started the 2015-2016 PGA 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.