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RBC Heritage

2018-04-12 · Harbour Town Golf Links

Winner
Satoshi Kodaira
Winning score
-12
Field
130
Field strength
+0.141 SG

The 2017-2018 RBC Heritage was played at Harbour Town Golf Links, starting 12 April 2018. Satoshi Kodaira won at 12 under par (272). The winning card was 73, 63, 70 and 66, and the win paid $1,206,000. Si Woo Kim finished second, and Bryson DeChambeau and Luke List tied for third. 130 players started the event. The field averaged +0.141 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 130. 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 77 players actually finished. It was not published in advance, so this measures the model, not a call we made.

Dgrade
Rank correlation
+0.244
Top-20 hit rate
35%
Top-10 avg model rank
29.2

Grade is this event’s percentile (36th) 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
Dustin Johnson1st16th
Matt Kuchar2nd23rd
Patrick Cantlay3rd7th
Francesco Molinari4th49th
Webb Simpson5th5th
Charley Hoffman6th23rd
Lucas Glover7th32nd
Ian Poulter8th7th
Kevin Kisner9th7th
Brian Harman10th23rd

Where it was most wrong

Largest gaps between rank and result, either direction.

PlayerModelFinish
Satoshi Kodaira75th1st(74)
Si Woo Kim67th2nd(65)
Jonas Blixt70th14th(56)
J.J. Henry72nd16th(56)
Billy Horschel57th5th(52)
Matt Fitzpatrick66th14th(52)
Francesco Molinari4th49th(+45)
Jim Furyk25th70th(+45)
Beau Hossler61st16th(45)
Charles Howell III14th55th(+41)

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 Harbour Town Golf Links in Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, USA. The venue page carries its scorecard, hosting history and every other tour event played there.

Common questions

Who won the RBC Heritage in 2017-2018?

Satoshi Kodaira won the 2017-2018 RBC Heritage at Harbour Town Golf Links, finishing 12 under par.

Where was the 2017-2018 RBC Heritage played?

The 2017-2018 RBC Heritage was played at Harbour Town Golf Links, starting 12 April 2018.

What was the winning score at the 2017-2018 RBC Heritage?

The winning score was 12 under par (272 strokes), posted by Satoshi Kodaira.

How many players were in the RBC Heritage field?

130 players started the 2017-2018 RBC Heritage. 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.