Tournaments / 2016-2017
CIMB Classic
2016-10-20 · TPC Kuala Lumpur
- Winner
- Justin Thomas
- Winning score
- -23
- Field
- 74
- Field strength
- +0.25 SG
The 2016-2017 CIMB Classic was played at TPC Kuala Lumpur, starting 20 October 2016. Justin Thomas won at 23 under par (265), 3 strokes ahead of Hideki Matsuyama. The winning card was 64, 66, 71 and 64, and the win paid $1,260,000. Hideki Matsuyama finished second, and Anirban Lahiri and Derek Fathauer tied for third. 74 players started the event. The field averaged +0.25 strokes gained per round against the tour baseline, with strokes-gained data covering 85% 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 74. Search finds any player in the field, including those who missed the cut.
- Justin Thomas
- Pos
- 1
- R1
- 64
- R2
- 66
- R3
- 71
- R4
- 64
- Total
- 265
- Hideki Matsuyama
- Pos
- 2
- R1
- 69
- R2
- 64
- R3
- 69
- R4
- 66
- Total
- 268
- Anirban Lahiri
- Pos
- T3
- R1
- 66
- R2
- 66
- R3
- 65
- R4
- 72
- Total
- 269
- Derek Fathauer
- Pos
- T3
- R1
- 64
- R2
- 70
- R3
- 68
- R4
- 67
- Total
- 269
- Marc Leishman
- Pos
- 5
- R1
- 69
- R2
- 65
- R3
- 71
- R4
- 66
- Total
- 271
- Keegan Bradley
- Pos
- 6
- R1
- 64
- R2
- 72
- R3
- 68
- R4
- 68
- Total
- 272
- Scott Hend
- Pos
- T7
- R1
- 74
- R2
- 69
- R3
- 63
- R4
- 67
- Total
- 273
- Tyrone Van Aswegen
- Pos
- T7
- R1
- 69
- R2
- 70
- R3
- 66
- R4
- 68
- Total
- 273
- James Hahn
- Pos
- 9
- R1
- 69
- R2
- 64
- R3
- 69
- R4
- 72
- Total
- 274
- Aaron Baddeley
- Pos
- T10
- R1
- 67
- R2
- 71
- R3
- 69
- R4
- 68
- Total
- 275
- Adam Scott
- Pos
- T10
- R1
- 70
- R2
- 69
- R3
- 66
- R4
- 70
- Total
- 275
- Rafa Cabrera Bello
- Pos
- T10
- R1
- 69
- R2
- 67
- R3
- 69
- R4
- 70
- Total
- 275
- Russell Knox
- Pos
- T10
- R1
- 70
- R2
- 63
- R3
- 68
- R4
- 74
- Total
- 275
- Ryo Ishikawa
- Pos
- T10
- R1
- 69
- R2
- 68
- R3
- 68
- R4
- 70
- Total
- 275
- Scott Piercy
- Pos
- T10
- R1
- 68
- R2
- 68
- R3
- 67
- R4
- 72
- Total
- 275
- Si Woo Kim
- Pos
- T10
- R1
- 70
- R2
- 66
- R3
- 73
- R4
- 66
- Total
- 275
- Emiliano Grillo
- Pos
- T17
- R1
- 74
- R2
- 65
- R3
- 66
- R4
- 71
- Total
- 276
- Ian Poulter
- Pos
- T17
- R1
- 71
- R2
- 69
- R3
- 69
- R4
- 67
- Total
- 276
- Ryan Moore
- Pos
- T17
- R1
- 71
- R2
- 65
- R3
- 70
- R4
- 70
- Total
- 276
- Sergio Garcia
- Pos
- T17
- R1
- 67
- R2
- 72
- R3
- 67
- R4
- 70
- Total
- 276
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 74 players actually finished. It was not published in advance, so this measures the model, not a call we made.
- Rank correlation
- +0.202
- Top-20 hit rate
- 40%
- Top-10 avg model rank
- 32.0
Grade is this event’s percentile (25th) 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Hideki Matsuyama | 1st | 2nd |
| Justin Thomas | 2nd | 1st |
| Sergio Garcia | 3rd | 17th |
| Kevin Na | 4th | 29th |
| Ryan Moore | 5th | 17th |
| Paul Casey | 6th | 21st |
| Russell Knox | 7th | 10th |
| Patrick Reed | 8th | 51st |
| Keegan Bradley | 9th | 6th |
| Brendan Steele | 10th | 26th |
Where it was most wrong
Largest gaps between rank and result, either direction.
| Player | Model | Finish |
|---|---|---|
| Anirban Lahiri | 68th | 3rd(−65) |
| Scott Hend | 69th | 7th(−62) |
| Sung Kang | 74th | 21st(−53) |
| Derek Fathauer | 53rd | 3rd(−50) |
| Patrick Reed | 8th | 51st(+43) |
| David Hearn | 23rd | 66th(+43) |
| John Senden | 24th | 66th(+42) |
| Cameron Tringale | 34th | 76th(+42) |
| Tyrone Van Aswegen | 49th | 7th(−42) |
| Si Woo Kim | 52nd | 10th(−42) |
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 TPC Kuala Lumpur in Kuala Lumpur, MAS. The venue page carries its scorecard, hosting history and every other tour event played there.
Common questions
Who won the CIMB Classic in 2016-2017?
- Justin Thomas won the 2016-2017 CIMB Classic at TPC Kuala Lumpur, finishing 23 under par.
Where was the 2016-2017 CIMB Classic played?
- The 2016-2017 CIMB Classic was played at TPC Kuala Lumpur, starting 20 October 2016.
What was the winning score at the 2016-2017 CIMB Classic?
- The winning score was 23 under par (265 strokes), posted by Justin Thomas.
How many players were in the CIMB Classic field?
- 74 players started the 2016-2017 CIMB 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.