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Puerto Rico Open

2017-03-23 · Grand Reserve Golf Club

Winner
D.A. Points
Winning score
-20
Field
121
Field strength
-0.217 SG

The 2016-2017 Puerto Rico Open was played at Grand Reserve Golf Club, starting 23 March 2017. D.A. Points won at 20 under par (268), 2 strokes ahead of Bill Lunde. The winning card was 64, 69, 69 and 66, and the win paid $540,000. Bill Lunde, Bryson DeChambeau and Retief Goosen tied for second. 121 players started the event. The field averaged -0.217 strokes gained per round against the tour baseline, with strokes-gained data covering 66% 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 121. 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 79 players actually finished. It was not published in advance, so this measures the model, not a call we made.

Fgrade
Rank correlation
-0.041
Top-20 hit rate
30%
Top-10 avg model rank
41.4

Grade is this event’s percentile (1st) 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
David Hearn1st17th
Chris Kirk2nd62nd
Tim Wilkinson3rd17th
Danny Lee4th56th
Alex Cejka5th49th
Cameron Percy6th24th
John Peterson7th24th
Luke List8th37th
Jonathan Byrd9th76th
Martin Flores10th10th

Where it was most wrong

Largest gaps between rank and result, either direction.

PlayerModelFinish
J.J. Henry77th8th(69)
Jonathan Byrd9th76th(+67)
Mark Anderson71st10th(61)
Chris Kirk2nd62nd(+60)
Jonas Blixt16th76th(+60)
Bryson DeChambeau61st2nd(59)
Peter Uihlein62nd5th(57)
Bill Lunde58th2nd(56)
Andrew Johnston66th10th(56)
Danny Lee4th56th(+52)

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 Grand Reserve Golf Club in Rio Grande, PUR. The venue page carries its scorecard, hosting history and every other tour event played there.

Common questions

Who won the Puerto Rico Open in 2016-2017?

D.A. Points won the 2016-2017 Puerto Rico Open at Grand Reserve Golf Club, finishing 20 under par.

Where was the 2016-2017 Puerto Rico Open played?

The 2016-2017 Puerto Rico Open was played at Grand Reserve Golf Club, starting 23 March 2017.

What was the winning score at the 2016-2017 Puerto Rico Open?

The winning score was 20 under par (268 strokes), posted by D.A. Points.

How many players were in the Puerto Rico Open field?

121 players started the 2016-2017 Puerto Rico 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.