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Genesis Open

2017-02-16 · The Riviera Country Club

Winner
Dustin Johnson
Winning score
-17
Field
142
Field strength
+0.183 SG

The 2016-2017 Genesis Open was played at The Riviera Country Club, starting 16 February 2017. Dustin Johnson won at 17 under par (267), 5 strokes ahead of Scott Brown. The winning card was 66, 66, 64 and 71, and the win paid $1,260,000. Scott Brown and Thomas Pieters tied for second. 142 players started the event. The field averaged +0.183 strokes gained per round against the tour baseline, with strokes-gained data covering 90% 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 70 players actually finished. It was not published in advance, so this measures the model, not a call we made.

Fgrade
Rank correlation
+0.141
Top-20 hit rate
30%
Top-10 avg model rank
38.4

Grade is this event’s percentile (13th) 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 Spieth1st22nd
Dustin Johnson2nd1st
Paul Casey3rd39th
Adam Scott4th11th
Phil Mickelson5th34th
Jason Day6th64th
Matt Kuchar7th22nd
Justin Rose8th4th
Sergio Garcia9th49th
Jim Furyk10th39th

Where it was most wrong

Largest gaps between rank and result, either direction.

PlayerModelFinish
Wesley Bryan67th4th(63)
Jason Day6th64th(+58)
Ollie Schniederjans61st8th(53)
J.J. Henry70th17th(53)
Thomas Pieters54th2nd(52)
J.T. Poston69th17th(52)
Patrick Reed11th59th(+48)
Cameron Tringale56th8th(48)
Scott Brown48th2nd(46)
Sergio Garcia9th49th(+40)

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 The Riviera Country Club in Pacific Palisades, California, USA. The venue page carries its scorecard, hosting history and every other tour event played there.

Common questions

Who won the Genesis Open in 2016-2017?

Dustin Johnson won the 2016-2017 Genesis Open at The Riviera Country Club, finishing 17 under par.

Where was the 2016-2017 Genesis Open played?

The 2016-2017 Genesis Open was played at The Riviera Country Club, starting 16 February 2017.

What was the winning score at the 2016-2017 Genesis Open?

The winning score was 17 under par (267 strokes), posted by Dustin Johnson.

How many players were in the Genesis Open field?

142 players started the 2016-2017 Genesis 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.