Tournaments / 2017-2018
Houston Open
2018-03-29 · GC of Houston
- Winner
- Ian Poulter
- Winning score
- -19
- Field
- 142
- Field strength
- +0.082 SG
The 2017-2018 Houston Open was played at GC of Houston, starting 29 March 2018. Ian Poulter won at 19 under par (269). The winning card was 73, 64, 65 and 67, and the win paid $1,260,000. Beau Hossler finished second, and Emiliano Grillo and Jordan Spieth tied for third. 142 players started the event. The field averaged +0.082 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 142. Search finds any player in the field, including those who missed the cut.
- Ian Poulter
- Pos
- P1
- R1
- 73
- R2
- 64
- R3
- 65
- R4
- 67
- Total
- 269
- Beau Hossler
- Pos
- P2
- R1
- 65
- R2
- 68
- R3
- 69
- R4
- 67
- Total
- 269
- Emiliano Grillo
- Pos
- T3
- R1
- 69
- R2
- 68
- R3
- 67
- R4
- 68
- Total
- 272
- Jordan Spieth
- Pos
- T3
- R1
- 68
- R2
- 67
- R3
- 71
- R4
- 66
- Total
- 272
- Sam Ryder
- Pos
- 5
- R1
- 66
- R2
- 68
- R3
- 71
- R4
- 68
- Total
- 273
- Henrik Stenson
- Pos
- T6
- R1
- 68
- R2
- 68
- R3
- 69
- R4
- 69
- Total
- 274
- Keith Mitchell
- Pos
- T6
- R1
- 67
- R2
- 71
- R3
- 67
- R4
- 69
- Total
- 274
- Abraham Ancer
- Pos
- T8
- R1
- 68
- R2
- 66
- R3
- 72
- R4
- 69
- Total
- 275
- Julian Suri
- Pos
- T8
- R1
- 66
- R2
- 69
- R3
- 73
- R4
- 67
- Total
- 275
- Matt Every
- Pos
- T8
- R1
- 67
- R2
- 70
- R3
- 72
- R4
- 66
- Total
- 275
- Matt Kuchar
- Pos
- T8
- R1
- 68
- R2
- 68
- R3
- 69
- R4
- 70
- Total
- 275
- Paul Dunne
- Pos
- T8
- R1
- 64
- R2
- 71
- R3
- 69
- R4
- 71
- Total
- 275
- Russell Henley
- Pos
- T8
- R1
- 69
- R2
- 71
- R3
- 70
- R4
- 65
- Total
- 275
- Grayson Murray
- Pos
- T14
- R1
- 67
- R2
- 69
- R3
- 72
- R4
- 68
- Total
- 276
- Michael Thompson
- Pos
- T14
- R1
- 67
- R2
- 71
- R3
- 70
- R4
- 68
- Total
- 276
- Nicholas Lindheim
- Pos
- T14
- R1
- 68
- R2
- 66
- R3
- 73
- R4
- 69
- Total
- 276
- Shane Lowry
- Pos
- T14
- R1
- 68
- R2
- 68
- R3
- 71
- R4
- 69
- Total
- 276
- Bud Cauley
- Pos
- T18
- R1
- 67
- R2
- 69
- R3
- 71
- R4
- 70
- Total
- 277
- Charles Howell III
- Pos
- T18
- R1
- 71
- R2
- 67
- R3
- 70
- R4
- 69
- Total
- 277
- Chesson Hadley
- Pos
- T18
- R1
- 68
- R2
- 68
- R3
- 69
- R4
- 72
- Total
- 277
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 90 players actually finished. It was not published in advance, so this measures the model, not a call we made.
- Rank correlation
- +0.141
- Top-20 hit rate
- 40%
- Top-10 avg model rank
- 32.7
Grade is this event’s percentile (13th) 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 | 3rd |
| Rickie Fowler | 2nd | 43rd |
| Henrik Stenson | 3rd | 6th |
| Justin Rose | 4th | 52nd |
| Daniel Berger | 5th | 18th |
| Matt Kuchar | 6th | 8th |
| Phil Mickelson | 7th | 24th |
| Russell Henley | 8th | 8th |
| Brandt Snedeker | 9th | 87th |
| Keegan Bradley | 10th | 43rd |
Where it was most wrong
Largest gaps between rank and result, either direction.
| Player | Model | Finish |
|---|---|---|
| Matt Every | 90th | 8th(−82) |
| Brandt Snedeker | 9th | 87th(+78) |
| Julian Suri | 85th | 8th(−77) |
| Sam Ryder | 81st | 5th(−76) |
| Paul Dunne | 80th | 8th(−72) |
| Nicholas Lindheim | 83rd | 14th(−69) |
| Lee Westwood | 17th | 80th(+63) |
| Keith Mitchell | 68th | 6th(−62) |
| Beau Hossler | 63rd | 2nd(−61) |
| Bill Haas | 18th | 76th(+58) |
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 GC of Houston in Humble, Texas, USA. The venue page carries its scorecard, hosting history and every other tour event played there.
Common questions
Who won the Houston Open in 2017-2018?
- Ian Poulter won the 2017-2018 Houston Open at GC of Houston, finishing 19 under par.
Where was the 2017-2018 Houston Open played?
- The 2017-2018 Houston Open was played at GC of Houston, starting 29 March 2018.
What was the winning score at the 2017-2018 Houston Open?
- The winning score was 19 under par (269 strokes), posted by Ian Poulter.
How many players were in the Houston Open field?
- 142 players started the 2017-2018 Houston Open. 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.