Tournaments / 2017-2018
THE PLAYERS Championship
2018-05-10 · TPC Sawgrass - THE PLAYERS Stadium Course
- Winner
- Webb Simpson
- Winning score
- -18
- Field
- 143
- Field strength
- +0.356 SG
The 2017-2018 THE PLAYERS Championship was played at TPC Sawgrass - THE PLAYERS Stadium Course, starting 10 May 2018. Webb Simpson won at 18 under par (270), 4 strokes ahead of Charl Schwartzel. The winning card was 66, 63, 68 and 73, and the win paid $1,980,000. Charl Schwartzel, Jimmy Walker and Xander Schauffele tied for second. 143 players started the event. The field averaged +0.356 strokes gained per round against the tour baseline, with strokes-gained data covering 94% 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 143. Search finds any player in the field, including those who missed the cut.
- Webb Simpson
- Pos
- 1
- R1
- 66
- R2
- 63
- R3
- 68
- R4
- 73
- Total
- 270
- Charl Schwartzel
- Pos
- T2
- R1
- 68
- R2
- 66
- R3
- 73
- R4
- 67
- Total
- 274
- Jimmy Walker
- Pos
- T2
- R1
- 69
- R2
- 68
- R3
- 70
- R4
- 67
- Total
- 274
- Xander Schauffele
- Pos
- T2
- R1
- 68
- R2
- 68
- R3
- 71
- R4
- 67
- Total
- 274
- Jason Day
- Pos
- T5
- R1
- 69
- R2
- 67
- R3
- 71
- R4
- 68
- Total
- 275
- Jason Dufner
- Pos
- T5
- R1
- 72
- R2
- 69
- R3
- 66
- R4
- 68
- Total
- 275
- Danny Lee
- Pos
- T7
- R1
- 68
- R2
- 66
- R3
- 70
- R4
- 72
- Total
- 276
- Harold Varner III
- Pos
- T7
- R1
- 71
- R2
- 67
- R3
- 70
- R4
- 68
- Total
- 276
- Keegan Bradley
- Pos
- T7
- R1
- 69
- R2
- 69
- R3
- 72
- R4
- 66
- Total
- 276
- Tommy Fleetwood
- Pos
- T7
- R1
- 69
- R2
- 71
- R3
- 68
- R4
- 68
- Total
- 276
- Adam Scott
- Pos
- T11
- R1
- 69
- R2
- 68
- R3
- 72
- R4
- 68
- Total
- 277
- Brooks Koepka
- Pos
- T11
- R1
- 70
- R2
- 70
- R3
- 74
- R4
- 63
- Total
- 277
- Chesson Hadley
- Pos
- T11
- R1
- 66
- R2
- 69
- R3
- 75
- R4
- 67
- Total
- 277
- Ian Poulter
- Pos
- T11
- R1
- 70
- R2
- 69
- R3
- 69
- R4
- 69
- Total
- 277
- Justin Thomas
- Pos
- T11
- R1
- 73
- R2
- 70
- R3
- 68
- R4
- 66
- Total
- 277
- Tiger Woods
- Pos
- T11
- R1
- 72
- R2
- 71
- R3
- 65
- R4
- 69
- Total
- 277
- Alex Noren
- Pos
- T17
- R1
- 66
- R2
- 69
- R3
- 77
- R4
- 66
- Total
- 278
- Charles Howell III
- Pos
- T17
- R1
- 68
- R2
- 67
- R3
- 74
- R4
- 69
- Total
- 278
- Dustin Johnson
- Pos
- T17
- R1
- 66
- R2
- 71
- R3
- 69
- R4
- 72
- Total
- 278
- Jamie Lovemark
- Pos
- T17
- R1
- 76
- R2
- 67
- R3
- 68
- R4
- 67
- Total
- 278
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
- +0.245
- Top-20 hit rate
- 30%
- Top-10 avg model rank
- 38.5
Grade is this event’s percentile (37th) 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 | 41st |
| Henrik Stenson | 2nd | 23rd |
| Dustin Johnson | 3rd | 17th |
| Justin Thomas | 4th | 11th |
| Jon Rahm | 5th | 63rd |
| Tiger Woods | 6th | 11th |
| Justin Rose | 7th | 23rd |
| Patrick Cantlay | 8th | 23rd |
| Matt Kuchar | 9th | 17th |
| Marc Leishman | 10th | 63rd |
Where it was most wrong
Largest gaps between rank and result, either direction.
| Player | Model | Finish |
|---|---|---|
| Zach Johnson | 16th | 75th(+59) |
| Harold Varner III | 66th | 7th(−59) |
| Jon Rahm | 5th | 63rd(+58) |
| Sergio Garcia | 13th | 70th(+57) |
| Lucas Glover | 15th | 72nd(+57) |
| Brendan Steele | 24th | 79th(+55) |
| Marc Leishman | 10th | 63rd(+53) |
| Cody Gribble | 79th | 30th(−49) |
| Danny Lee | 55th | 7th(−48) |
| Richy Werenski | 69th | 23rd(−46) |
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 Sawgrass - THE PLAYERS Stadium Course in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, USA. The venue page carries its scorecard, hosting history and every other tour event played there.
Common questions
Who won the THE PLAYERS Championship in 2017-2018?
- Webb Simpson won the 2017-2018 THE PLAYERS Championship at TPC Sawgrass - THE PLAYERS Stadium Course, finishing 18 under par.
Where was the 2017-2018 THE PLAYERS Championship played?
- The 2017-2018 THE PLAYERS Championship was played at TPC Sawgrass - THE PLAYERS Stadium Course, starting 10 May 2018.
What was the winning score at the 2017-2018 THE PLAYERS Championship?
- The winning score was 18 under par (270 strokes), posted by Webb Simpson.
How many players were in the THE PLAYERS Championship field?
- 143 players started the 2017-2018 THE PLAYERS 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.