Tournaments / 2015-2016
TOUR Championship
2016-09-22 · East Lake Golf Club
- Winner
- Rory McIlroy
- Winning score
- -12
- Field
- 30
- Field strength
- +0.979 SG
The 2015-2016 TOUR Championship was played at East Lake Golf Club, starting 22 September 2016. Rory McIlroy won at 12 under par (268). The winning card was 68, 70, 66 and 64, and the win paid $1,530,000. Kevin Chappell and Ryan Moore tied for second. 30 players started the event. The field averaged +0.979 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 30. Search finds any player in the field, including those who missed the cut.
- Rory McIlroy
- Pos
- P1
- R1
- 68
- R2
- 70
- R3
- 66
- R4
- 64
- Total
- 268
- Kevin Chappell
- Pos
- PT2
- R1
- 66
- R2
- 68
- R3
- 68
- R4
- 66
- Total
- 268
- Ryan Moore
- Pos
- PT2
- R1
- 70
- R2
- 68
- R3
- 66
- R4
- 64
- Total
- 268
- Paul Casey
- Pos
- 4
- R1
- 68
- R2
- 70
- R3
- 69
- R4
- 64
- Total
- 271
- Hideki Matsuyama
- Pos
- 5
- R1
- 66
- R2
- 71
- R3
- 68
- R4
- 69
- Total
- 274
- Dustin Johnson
- Pos
- T6
- R1
- 66
- R2
- 67
- R3
- 69
- R4
- 73
- Total
- 275
- Justin Thomas
- Pos
- T6
- R1
- 68
- R2
- 71
- R3
- 69
- R4
- 67
- Total
- 275
- Adam Scott
- Pos
- T8
- R1
- 69
- R2
- 71
- R3
- 71
- R4
- 65
- Total
- 276
- Jason Dufner
- Pos
- T8
- R1
- 73
- R2
- 67
- R3
- 66
- R4
- 70
- Total
- 276
- Bubba Watson
- Pos
- T10
- R1
- 72
- R2
- 73
- R3
- 66
- R4
- 67
- Total
- 278
- Charl Schwartzel
- Pos
- T10
- R1
- 74
- R2
- 67
- R3
- 66
- R4
- 71
- Total
- 278
- Emiliano Grillo
- Pos
- T10
- R1
- 73
- R2
- 70
- R3
- 66
- R4
- 69
- Total
- 278
- Gary Woodland
- Pos
- T10
- R1
- 72
- R2
- 70
- R3
- 69
- R4
- 67
- Total
- 278
- Si Woo Kim
- Pos
- T10
- R1
- 67
- R2
- 72
- R3
- 74
- R4
- 65
- Total
- 278
- Daniel Berger
- Pos
- T15
- R1
- 74
- R2
- 69
- R3
- 68
- R4
- 68
- Total
- 279
- Matt Kuchar
- Pos
- T15
- R1
- 69
- R2
- 73
- R3
- 68
- R4
- 69
- Total
- 279
- Brandt Snedeker
- Pos
- T17
- R1
- 72
- R2
- 69
- R3
- 72
- R4
- 67
- Total
- 280
- Jordan Spieth
- Pos
- T17
- R1
- 68
- R2
- 72
- R3
- 72
- R4
- 68
- Total
- 280
- Roberto Castro
- Pos
- T17
- R1
- 73
- R2
- 70
- R3
- 67
- R4
- 70
- Total
- 280
- Sean O'Hair
- Pos
- T17
- R1
- 74
- R2
- 68
- R3
- 73
- R4
- 65
- Total
- 280
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 29 players actually finished. It was not published in advance, so this measures the model, not a call we made.
- Rank correlation
- +0.156
- Top-14 hit rate
- 50%
- Top-10 avg model rank
- 10.7
Grade is this event’s percentile (14th) 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 | 17th |
| Rory McIlroy | 2nd | 1st |
| Bubba Watson | 3rd | 10th |
| Dustin Johnson | 4th | 6th |
| Hideki Matsuyama | 5th | 5th |
| Paul Casey | 6th | 4th |
| Matt Kuchar | 7th | 15th |
| Phil Mickelson | 8th | 22nd |
| J.B. Holmes | 9th | 27th |
| Patrick Reed | 10th | 24th |
Where it was most wrong
Largest gaps between rank and result, either direction.
| Player | Model | Finish |
|---|---|---|
| Kevin Chappell | 23rd | 2nd(−21) |
| J.B. Holmes | 9th | 27th(+18) |
| Si Woo Kim | 28th | 10th(−18) |
| Kevin Na | 12th | 29th(+17) |
| Ryan Moore | 19th | 2nd(−17) |
| Jordan Spieth | 1st | 17th(+16) |
| Emiliano Grillo | 26th | 10th(−16) |
| Phil Mickelson | 8th | 22nd(+14) |
| Patrick Reed | 10th | 24th(+14) |
| Russell Knox | 11th | 23rd(+12) |
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 East Lake Golf Club in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. The venue page carries its scorecard, hosting history and every other tour event played there.
Common questions
Who won the TOUR Championship in 2015-2016?
- Rory McIlroy won the 2015-2016 TOUR Championship at East Lake Golf Club, finishing 12 under par.
Where was the 2015-2016 TOUR Championship played?
- The 2015-2016 TOUR Championship was played at East Lake Golf Club, starting 22 September 2016.
What was the winning score at the 2015-2016 TOUR Championship?
- The winning score was 12 under par (268 strokes), posted by Rory McIlroy.
How many players were in the TOUR Championship field?
- 30 players started the 2015-2016 TOUR 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.