Tournaments / 2016-2017
The Open Championship
2017-07-20 · Royal Birkdale Golf Club
- Winner
- Jordan Spieth
- Winning score
- -12
- Field
- 156
- Field strength
- +0.692 SG
The 2016-2017 The Open Championship was played at Royal Birkdale Golf Club, starting 20 July 2017. Jordan Spieth won at 12 under par (268), 3 strokes ahead of Matt Kuchar. The winning card was 65, 69, 65 and 69, and the win paid $1,845,000. Matt Kuchar finished second, and Haotong Li was third. 156 players started the event. The field averaged +0.692 strokes gained per round against the tour baseline, with strokes-gained data covering 45% 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 156. Search finds any player in the field, including those who missed the cut.
- Jordan Spieth
- Pos
- 1
- R1
- 65
- R2
- 69
- R3
- 65
- R4
- 69
- Total
- 268
- Matt Kuchar
- Pos
- 2
- R1
- 65
- R2
- 71
- R3
- 66
- R4
- 69
- Total
- 271
- Haotong Li
- Pos
- 3
- R1
- 69
- R2
- 73
- R3
- 69
- R4
- 63
- Total
- 274
- Rafa Cabrera Bello
- Pos
- T4
- R1
- 67
- R2
- 73
- R3
- 67
- R4
- 68
- Total
- 275
- Rory McIlroy
- Pos
- T4
- R1
- 71
- R2
- 68
- R3
- 69
- R4
- 67
- Total
- 275
- Alex Noren
- Pos
- T6
- R1
- 68
- R2
- 72
- R3
- 69
- R4
- 67
- Total
- 276
- Branden Grace
- Pos
- T6
- R1
- 70
- R2
- 74
- R3
- 62
- R4
- 70
- Total
- 276
- Brooks Koepka
- Pos
- T6
- R1
- 65
- R2
- 72
- R3
- 68
- R4
- 71
- Total
- 276
- Marc Leishman
- Pos
- T6
- R1
- 69
- R2
- 76
- R3
- 66
- R4
- 65
- Total
- 276
- Matthew Southgate
- Pos
- T6
- R1
- 72
- R2
- 72
- R3
- 67
- R4
- 65
- Total
- 276
- Chan Kim
- Pos
- T11
- R1
- 72
- R2
- 68
- R3
- 67
- R4
- 70
- Total
- 277
- Henrik Stenson
- Pos
- T11
- R1
- 69
- R2
- 73
- R3
- 65
- R4
- 70
- Total
- 277
- Paul Casey
- Pos
- T11
- R1
- 66
- R2
- 77
- R3
- 67
- R4
- 67
- Total
- 277
- Austin Connelly
- Pos
- T14
- R1
- 67
- R2
- 72
- R3
- 66
- R4
- 73
- Total
- 278
- Chris Wood
- Pos
- T14
- R1
- 71
- R2
- 72
- R3
- 68
- R4
- 67
- Total
- 278
- Hideki Matsuyama
- Pos
- T14
- R1
- 68
- R2
- 72
- R3
- 66
- R4
- 72
- Total
- 278
- Ian Poulter
- Pos
- T14
- R1
- 67
- R2
- 70
- R3
- 71
- R4
- 70
- Total
- 278
- Jason Dufner
- Pos
- T14
- R1
- 73
- R2
- 71
- R3
- 66
- R4
- 68
- Total
- 278
- Zach Johnson
- Pos
- T14
- R1
- 75
- R2
- 66
- R3
- 71
- R4
- 66
- Total
- 278
- Charley Hoffman
- Pos
- T20
- R1
- 67
- R2
- 73
- R3
- 72
- R4
- 67
- Total
- 279
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 77 players actually finished. It was not published in advance, so this measures the model, not a call we made.
- Rank correlation
- +0.349
- Top-20 hit rate
- 45%
- Top-10 avg model rank
- 28.5
Grade is this event’s percentile (70th) 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 | 1st |
| Henrik Stenson | 2nd | 11th |
| Rory McIlroy | 3rd | 4th |
| Hideki Matsuyama | 4th | 14th |
| Rickie Fowler | 5th | 22nd |
| Dustin Johnson | 6th | 54th |
| Paul Casey | 7th | 11th |
| Jason Day | 8th | 27th |
| Adam Scott | 9th | 22nd |
| Justin Rose | 10th | 54th |
Where it was most wrong
Largest gaps between rank and result, either direction.
| Player | Model | Finish |
|---|---|---|
| Haotong Li | 76th | 3rd(−73) |
| Austin Connelly | 72nd | 14th(−58) |
| Dustin Johnson | 6th | 54th(+48) |
| Chris Wood | 62nd | 14th(−48) |
| Richie Ramsay | 68th | 22nd(−46) |
| Gary Woodland | 25th | 70th(+45) |
| Chan Kim | 56th | 11th(−45) |
| Justin Rose | 10th | 54th(+44) |
| Richard Bland | 66th | 22nd(−44) |
| Alex Noren | 49th | 6th(−43) |
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 Royal Birkdale Golf Club in Southport, ENG. The venue page carries its scorecard, hosting history and every other tour event played there.
Common questions
Who won the The Open Championship in 2016-2017?
- Jordan Spieth won the 2016-2017 The Open Championship at Royal Birkdale Golf Club, finishing 12 under par.
Where was the 2016-2017 The Open Championship played?
- The 2016-2017 The Open Championship was played at Royal Birkdale Golf Club, starting 20 July 2017.
What was the winning score at the 2016-2017 The Open Championship?
- The winning score was 12 under par (268 strokes), posted by Jordan Spieth.
How many players were in the The Open Championship field?
- 156 players started the 2016-2017 The Open 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.