Tournaments / 2016-2017
The RSM Classic
2016-11-17 · Sea Island Golf Club (Seaside Course)
- Winner
- Mackenzie Hughes
- Winning score
- -17
- Field
- 150
- Field strength
- -0.07 SG
The 2016-2017 The RSM Classic was played at Sea Island Golf Club (Seaside Course), starting 17 November 2016. Mackenzie Hughes won at 17 under par (265). The winning card was 61, 67, 68 and 69, and the win paid $1,080,000. Billy Horschel, Blayne Barber, Camilo Villegas and Henrik Norlander tied for second. 150 players started the event. The field averaged -0.07 strokes gained per round against the tour baseline, with strokes-gained data covering 77% 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 150. Search finds any player in the field, including those who missed the cut.
- Mackenzie Hughes
- Pos
- P1
- R1
- 61
- R2
- 67
- R3
- 68
- R4
- 69
- Total
- 265
- Billy Horschel
- Pos
- PT2
- R1
- 66
- R2
- 66
- R3
- 65
- R4
- 68
- Total
- 265
- Blayne Barber
- Pos
- PT2
- R1
- 63
- R2
- 68
- R3
- 68
- R4
- 66
- Total
- 265
- Camilo Villegas
- Pos
- PT2
- R1
- 66
- R2
- 67
- R3
- 64
- R4
- 68
- Total
- 265
- Henrik Norlander
- Pos
- PT2
- R1
- 67
- R2
- 67
- R3
- 66
- R4
- 65
- Total
- 265
- C.T. Pan
- Pos
- T6
- R1
- 66
- R2
- 64
- R3
- 67
- R4
- 71
- Total
- 268
- Jamie Lovemark
- Pos
- T6
- R1
- 67
- R2
- 66
- R3
- 70
- R4
- 65
- Total
- 268
- Jim Furyk
- Pos
- T6
- R1
- 64
- R2
- 69
- R3
- 68
- R4
- 67
- Total
- 268
- Ollie Schniederjans
- Pos
- T6
- R1
- 66
- R2
- 68
- R3
- 66
- R4
- 68
- Total
- 268
- Patrick Rodgers
- Pos
- T10
- R1
- 69
- R2
- 65
- R3
- 65
- R4
- 70
- Total
- 269
- Russell Henley
- Pos
- T10
- R1
- 67
- R2
- 65
- R3
- 70
- R4
- 67
- Total
- 269
- Stewart Cink
- Pos
- T10
- R1
- 62
- R2
- 71
- R3
- 67
- R4
- 69
- Total
- 269
- Anirban Lahiri
- Pos
- T13
- R1
- 68
- R2
- 67
- R3
- 70
- R4
- 65
- Total
- 270
- Bill Haas
- Pos
- T13
- R1
- 69
- R2
- 66
- R3
- 66
- R4
- 69
- Total
- 270
- Chad Campbell
- Pos
- T13
- R1
- 66
- R2
- 65
- R3
- 70
- R4
- 69
- Total
- 270
- Charles Howell III
- Pos
- T13
- R1
- 67
- R2
- 65
- R3
- 67
- R4
- 71
- Total
- 270
- Chris Stroud
- Pos
- T13
- R1
- 69
- R2
- 67
- R3
- 68
- R4
- 66
- Total
- 270
- Jim Herman
- Pos
- T13
- R1
- 69
- R2
- 66
- R3
- 66
- R4
- 69
- Total
- 270
- Luke List
- Pos
- T13
- R1
- 69
- R2
- 64
- R3
- 68
- R4
- 69
- Total
- 270
- Michael Thompson
- Pos
- T13
- R1
- 66
- R2
- 70
- R3
- 66
- R4
- 68
- Total
- 270
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 80 players actually finished. It was not published in advance, so this measures the model, not a call we made.
- Rank correlation
- +0.212
- Top-20 hit rate
- 40%
- Top-10 avg model rank
- 36.7
Grade is this event’s percentile (28th) 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Jim Furyk | 1st | 6th |
| Webb Simpson | 2nd | 36th |
| Bill Haas | 3rd | 13th |
| Robert Streb | 4th | 57th |
| Brandt Snedeker | 5th | 45th |
| William McGirt | 6th | 27th |
| Chad Campbell | 7th | 13th |
| Lucas Glover | 8th | 36th |
| Luke Donald | 9th | 36th |
| Billy Horschel | 10th | 2nd |
Where it was most wrong
Largest gaps between rank and result, either direction.
| Player | Model | Finish |
|---|---|---|
| Ollie Schniederjans | 80th | 6th(−74) |
| Roberto Castro | 17th | 80th(+63) |
| Mackenzie Hughes | 63rd | 1st(−62) |
| C.T. Pan | 65th | 6th(−59) |
| Kelly Kraft | 76th | 21st(−55) |
| Robert Streb | 4th | 57th(+53) |
| Luke List | 60th | 13th(−47) |
| Brett Stegmaier | 68th | 21st(−47) |
| Will MacKenzie | 24th | 67th(+43) |
| Ryan Armour | 79th | 36th(−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 Sea Island Golf Club (Seaside Course) in St. Simons Island, Georgia, USA. The venue page carries its scorecard, hosting history and every other tour event played there.
Common questions
Who won the The RSM Classic in 2016-2017?
- Mackenzie Hughes won the 2016-2017 The RSM Classic at Sea Island Golf Club (Seaside Course), finishing 17 under par.
Where was the 2016-2017 The RSM Classic played?
- The 2016-2017 The RSM Classic was played at Sea Island Golf Club (Seaside Course), starting 17 November 2016.
What was the winning score at the 2016-2017 The RSM Classic?
- The winning score was 17 under par (265 strokes), posted by Mackenzie Hughes.
How many players were in the The RSM Classic field?
- 150 players started the 2016-2017 The RSM Classic. 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.