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Barbasol Championship

2017-07-20 · RTJ Trail (Grand National)

Winner
Grayson Murray
Winning score
-21
Field
109
Field strength
-0.329 SG

The 2016-2017 Barbasol Championship was played at RTJ Trail (Grand National), starting 20 July 2017. Grayson Murray won at 21 under par (263), 1 stroke ahead of Chad Collins. The winning card was 67, 64, 64 and 68, and the win paid $630,000. Chad Collins finished second, and Brian Gay, Scott Stallings and Tag Ridings tied for third. 109 players started the event. The field averaged -0.329 strokes gained per round against the tour baseline, with strokes-gained data covering 62% 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 109. 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 78 players actually finished. It was not published in advance, so this measures the model, not a call we made.

Cgrade
Rank correlation
+0.334
Top-20 hit rate
55%
Top-10 avg model rank
34.2

Grade is this event’s percentile (65th) 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 Hearn1st27th
Jim Furyk2nd35th
Chad Campbell3rd18th
Ben Martin4th6th
Jonathan Byrd5th42nd
Ricky Barnes6th15th
Robert Garrigus7th10th
Alex Cejka8th15th
K.J. Choi9th35th
Spencer Levin10th27th

Where it was most wrong

Largest gaps between rank and result, either direction.

PlayerModelFinish
Sam Burns69th6th(63)
Grayson Murray58th1st(57)
Stuart Appleby25th77th(+52)
Richy Werenski70th18th(52)
Daniel Summerhays12th63rd(+51)
Robert Allenby78th27th(51)
Ryan Blaum55th6th(49)
Brett Drewitt76th27th(49)
Chad Collins48th2nd(46)
Carl Pettersson34th77th(+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 RTJ Trail (Grand National) in Auburn/Opelika, Alabama, USA. The venue page carries its scorecard, hosting history and every other tour event played there.

Common questions

Who won the Barbasol Championship in 2016-2017?

Grayson Murray won the 2016-2017 Barbasol Championship at RTJ Trail (Grand National), finishing 21 under par.

Where was the 2016-2017 Barbasol Championship played?

The 2016-2017 Barbasol Championship was played at RTJ Trail (Grand National), starting 20 July 2017.

What was the winning score at the 2016-2017 Barbasol Championship?

The winning score was 21 under par (263 strokes), posted by Grayson Murray.

How many players were in the Barbasol Championship field?

109 players started the 2016-2017 Barbasol 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.