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Tournaments / 2015-2016

Shriners Hospitals for Children Open

2015-10-22 · TPC Summerlin

Winner
Smylie Kaufman
Winning score
-16
Field
142
Field strength
-0.032 SG

The 2015-2016 Shriners Hospitals for Children Open was played at TPC Summerlin, starting 22 October 2015. Smylie Kaufman won at 16 under par (268), 1 stroke ahead of Alex Cejka. The winning card was 67, 72, 68 and 61, and the win paid $1,152,000. Alex Cejka, Brett Stegmaier, Cameron Tringale, Jason Bohn, Kevin Na and Patton Kizzire tied for second. 142 players started the event. The field averaged -0.032 strokes gained per round against the tour baseline, with strokes-gained data covering 87% 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 142. 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 80 players actually finished. It was not published in advance, so this measures the model, not a call we made.

Dgrade
Rank correlation
+0.165
Top-20 hit rate
40%
Top-10 avg model rank
38.2

Grade is this event’s percentile (16th) 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
Webb Simpson1st56th
Jimmy Walker2nd50th
Ryan Moore3rd43rd
Kevin Na4th2nd
Russell Knox5th38th
Rickie Fowler6th25th
Ryan Palmer7th16th
Kevin Chappell8th62nd
Charles Howell III9th70th
Nick Watney10th11th

Where it was most wrong

Largest gaps between rank and result, either direction.

PlayerModelFinish
Patton Kizzire79th2nd(77)
Brett Stegmaier75th2nd(73)
Charles Howell III9th70th(+61)
Webb Simpson1st56th(+55)
Freddie Jacobson16th71st(+55)
Smylie Kaufman56th1st(55)
Alex Cejka57th2nd(55)
Nick Taylor80th25th(55)
Kevin Chappell8th62nd(+54)
Scott Stallings70th16th(54)

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 TPC Summerlin in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. The venue page carries its scorecard, hosting history and every other tour event played there.

Common questions

Who won the Shriners Hospitals for Children Open in 2015-2016?

Smylie Kaufman won the 2015-2016 Shriners Hospitals for Children Open at TPC Summerlin, finishing 16 under par.

Where was the 2015-2016 Shriners Hospitals for Children Open played?

The 2015-2016 Shriners Hospitals for Children Open was played at TPC Summerlin, starting 22 October 2015.

What was the winning score at the 2015-2016 Shriners Hospitals for Children Open?

The winning score was 16 under par (268 strokes), posted by Smylie Kaufman.

How many players were in the Shriners Hospitals for Children Open field?

142 players started the 2015-2016 Shriners Hospitals for Children 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.