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RBC Heritage

2017-04-13 · Harbour Town Golf Links

Winner
Wesley Bryan
Winning score
-13
Field
133
Field strength
+0.042 SG

The 2016-2017 RBC Heritage was played at Harbour Town Golf Links, starting 13 April 2017. Wesley Bryan won at 13 under par (271), 1 stroke ahead of Luke Donald. The winning card was 69, 67, 68 and 67, and the win paid $1,170,000. Luke Donald finished second, and Ollie Schniederjans, Patrick Cantlay and William McGirt tied for third. 133 players started the event. The field averaged +0.042 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 133. 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 74 players actually finished. It was not published in advance, so this measures the model, not a call we made.

Cgrade
Rank correlation
+0.313
Top-20 hit rate
50%
Top-10 avg model rank
38.5

Grade is this event’s percentile (58th) 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
Matt Kuchar1st11th
Russell Henley2nd26th
Kevin Na3rd39th
Brandt Snedeker4th11th
Jason Dufner5th11th
Marc Leishman6th44th
Russell Knox7th11th
Pat Perez8th70th
Adam Hadwin9th22nd
Webb Simpson10th11th

Where it was most wrong

Largest gaps between rank and result, either direction.

PlayerModelFinish
Pat Perez8th70th(+62)
Wesley Bryan58th1st(57)
Brian Gay59th6th(53)
Ollie Schniederjans54th3rd(51)
J.J. Spaun57th6th(51)
Patrick Cantlay48th3rd(45)
Sam Saunders55th11th(44)
Sung Kang51st11th(40)
Marc Leishman6th44th(+38)
Charles Howell III19th56th(+37)

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 Harbour Town Golf Links in Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, USA. The venue page carries its scorecard, hosting history and every other tour event played there.

Common questions

Who won the RBC Heritage in 2016-2017?

Wesley Bryan won the 2016-2017 RBC Heritage at Harbour Town Golf Links, finishing 13 under par.

Where was the 2016-2017 RBC Heritage played?

The 2016-2017 RBC Heritage was played at Harbour Town Golf Links, starting 13 April 2017.

What was the winning score at the 2016-2017 RBC Heritage?

The winning score was 13 under par (271 strokes), posted by Wesley Bryan.

How many players were in the RBC Heritage field?

133 players started the 2016-2017 RBC Heritage. 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.