Tournaments / 2016-2017
BMW Championship
2017-09-14 · Conway Farms GC
- Winner
- Marc Leishman
- Winning score
- -23
- Field
- 70
- Field strength
- +0.763 SG
The 2016-2017 BMW Championship was played at Conway Farms GC, starting 14 September 2017. Marc Leishman won at 23 under par (261), 5 strokes ahead of Justin Rose. The winning card was 62, 64, 68 and 67, and the win paid $1,575,000. Justin Rose and Rickie Fowler tied for second. 70 players started the event. The field averaged +0.763 strokes gained per round against the tour baseline, with strokes-gained data covering 99% 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 70. Search finds any player in the field, including those who missed the cut.
- Marc Leishman
- Pos
- 1
- R1
- 62
- R2
- 64
- R3
- 68
- R4
- 67
- Total
- 261
- Justin Rose
- Pos
- T2
- R1
- 67
- R2
- 68
- R3
- 66
- R4
- 65
- Total
- 266
- Rickie Fowler
- Pos
- T2
- R1
- 65
- R2
- 64
- R3
- 70
- R4
- 67
- Total
- 266
- Jason Day
- Pos
- 4
- R1
- 64
- R2
- 65
- R3
- 70
- R4
- 69
- Total
- 268
- Jon Rahm
- Pos
- T5
- R1
- 69
- R2
- 68
- R3
- 65
- R4
- 67
- Total
- 269
- Matt Kuchar
- Pos
- T5
- R1
- 67
- R2
- 68
- R3
- 67
- R4
- 67
- Total
- 269
- Jordan Spieth
- Pos
- T7
- R1
- 65
- R2
- 70
- R3
- 71
- R4
- 65
- Total
- 271
- Tony Finau
- Pos
- T7
- R1
- 65
- R2
- 72
- R3
- 70
- R4
- 64
- Total
- 271
- Anirban Lahiri
- Pos
- T9
- R1
- 67
- R2
- 71
- R3
- 68
- R4
- 66
- Total
- 272
- Patrick Cantlay
- Pos
- T9
- R1
- 67
- R2
- 65
- R3
- 70
- R4
- 70
- Total
- 272
- Webb Simpson
- Pos
- T9
- R1
- 66
- R2
- 73
- R3
- 65
- R4
- 68
- Total
- 272
- Brooks Koepka
- Pos
- T12
- R1
- 71
- R2
- 70
- R3
- 69
- R4
- 63
- Total
- 273
- Cameron Smith
- Pos
- T12
- R1
- 66
- R2
- 68
- R3
- 69
- R4
- 70
- Total
- 273
- Chez Reavie
- Pos
- T12
- R1
- 68
- R2
- 67
- R3
- 67
- R4
- 71
- Total
- 273
- Francesco Molinari
- Pos
- T12
- R1
- 68
- R2
- 65
- R3
- 72
- R4
- 68
- Total
- 273
- Kevin Chappell
- Pos
- T12
- R1
- 69
- R2
- 67
- R3
- 70
- R4
- 67
- Total
- 273
- Lucas Glover
- Pos
- T12
- R1
- 68
- R2
- 70
- R3
- 65
- R4
- 70
- Total
- 273
- Pat Perez
- Pos
- T12
- R1
- 70
- R2
- 67
- R3
- 67
- R4
- 69
- Total
- 273
- Sergio Garcia
- Pos
- T12
- R1
- 68
- R2
- 68
- R3
- 68
- R4
- 69
- Total
- 273
- Luke List
- Pos
- T20
- R1
- 68
- R2
- 70
- R3
- 67
- R4
- 69
- Total
- 274
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 69 players actually finished. It was not published in advance, so this measures the model, not a call we made.
- Rank correlation
- +0.221
- Top-20 hit rate
- 40%
- Top-10 avg model rank
- 21.7
Grade is this event’s percentile (31st) 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Henrik Stenson | 1st | 51st |
| Hideki Matsuyama | 2nd | 47th |
| Rickie Fowler | 3rd | 2nd |
| Jordan Spieth | 4th | 7th |
| Rory McIlroy | 5th | 58th |
| Jason Day | 6th | 4th |
| Paul Casey | 7th | 33rd |
| Dustin Johnson | 8th | 33rd |
| Matt Kuchar | 9th | 5th |
| Justin Rose | 10th | 2nd |
Where it was most wrong
Largest gaps between rank and result, either direction.
| Player | Model | Finish |
|---|---|---|
| Cameron Smith | 68th | 12th(−56) |
| Rory McIlroy | 5th | 58th(+53) |
| Anirban Lahiri | 60th | 9th(−51) |
| Henrik Stenson | 1st | 51st(+50) |
| Patrick Reed | 16th | 65th(+49) |
| Louis Oosthuizen | 17th | 63rd(+46) |
| Hideki Matsuyama | 2nd | 47th(+45) |
| Kevin Na | 11th | 53rd(+42) |
| Tony Finau | 49th | 7th(−42) |
| Luke List | 61st | 20th(−41) |
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 Conway Farms GC in Lake Forest, Illinois, USA. The venue page carries its scorecard, hosting history and every other tour event played there.
Common questions
Who won the BMW Championship in 2016-2017?
- Marc Leishman won the 2016-2017 BMW Championship at Conway Farms GC, finishing 23 under par.
Where was the 2016-2017 BMW Championship played?
- The 2016-2017 BMW Championship was played at Conway Farms GC, starting 14 September 2017.
What was the winning score at the 2016-2017 BMW Championship?
- The winning score was 23 under par (261 strokes), posted by Marc Leishman.
How many players were in the BMW Championship field?
- 70 players started the 2016-2017 BMW 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.