Tournaments / 2017-2018
Sanderson Farms Championship
2017-10-26 · The Country Club of Jackson
- Winner
- Ryan Armour
- Winning score
- -19
- Field
- 123
- Field strength
- -0.102 SG
The 2017-2018 Sanderson Farms Championship was played at The Country Club of Jackson, starting 26 October 2017. Ryan Armour won at 19 under par (269), 5 strokes ahead of Chesson Hadley. The winning card was 66, 68, 67 and 68, and the win paid $774,000. Chesson Hadley finished second, and Jonathan Randolph was third. 123 players started the event. The field averaged -0.102 strokes gained per round against the tour baseline, with strokes-gained data covering 67% 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 123. Search finds any player in the field, including those who missed the cut.
- Ryan Armour
- Pos
- 1
- R1
- 66
- R2
- 68
- R3
- 67
- R4
- 68
- Total
- 269
- Chesson Hadley
- Pos
- 2
- R1
- 68
- R2
- 70
- R3
- 68
- R4
- 68
- Total
- 274
- Jonathan Randolph
- Pos
- 3
- R1
- 69
- R2
- 69
- R3
- 71
- R4
- 67
- Total
- 276
- Brian Stuard
- Pos
- T4
- R1
- 67
- R2
- 70
- R3
- 71
- R4
- 70
- Total
- 278
- Smylie Kaufman
- Pos
- T4
- R1
- 67
- R2
- 72
- R3
- 71
- R4
- 68
- Total
- 278
- Ben Silverman
- Pos
- T7
- R1
- 68
- R2
- 70
- R3
- 69
- R4
- 72
- Total
- 279
- Jason Kokrak
- Pos
- T7
- R1
- 69
- R2
- 70
- R3
- 73
- R4
- 67
- Total
- 279
- Nicholas Lindheim
- Pos
- T7
- R1
- 70
- R2
- 67
- R3
- 72
- R4
- 70
- Total
- 279
- Beau Hossler
- Pos
- T10
- R1
- 69
- R2
- 69
- R3
- 69
- R4
- 73
- Total
- 280
- Derek Fathauer
- Pos
- T10
- R1
- 67
- R2
- 71
- R3
- 73
- R4
- 69
- Total
- 280
- Kevin Streelman
- Pos
- T10
- R1
- 71
- R2
- 69
- R3
- 71
- R4
- 69
- Total
- 280
- Patton Kizzire
- Pos
- T10
- R1
- 71
- R2
- 72
- R3
- 69
- R4
- 68
- Total
- 280
- Ricky Barnes
- Pos
- T10
- R1
- 69
- R2
- 70
- R3
- 75
- R4
- 66
- Total
- 280
- Shawn Stefani
- Pos
- T10
- R1
- 72
- R2
- 71
- R3
- 67
- R4
- 70
- Total
- 280
- Vaughn Taylor
- Pos
- T10
- R1
- 70
- R2
- 66
- R3
- 71
- R4
- 73
- Total
- 280
- Wyndham Clark
- Pos
- 17
- R1
- 66
- R2
- 71
- R3
- 75
- R4
- 69
- Total
- 281
- Brandon Hagy
- Pos
- T18
- R1
- 71
- R2
- 71
- R3
- 72
- R4
- 68
- Total
- 282
- Brian Gay
- Pos
- T18
- R1
- 72
- R2
- 69
- R3
- 68
- R4
- 73
- Total
- 282
- Hunter Mahan
- Pos
- T18
- R1
- 70
- R2
- 71
- R3
- 69
- R4
- 72
- Total
- 282
- Rob Oppenheim
- Pos
- T18
- R1
- 70
- R2
- 71
- R3
- 70
- R4
- 71
- Total
- 282
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 73 players actually finished. It was not published in advance, so this measures the model, not a call we made.
- Rank correlation
- +0.075
- Top-20 hit rate
- 30%
- Top-10 avg model rank
- 29.6
Grade is this event’s percentile (7th) 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 |
|---|---|---|
| William McGirt | 1st | 25th |
| David Hearn | 2nd | 59th |
| Chris Kirk | 3rd | 34th |
| Jason Kokrak | 4th | 7th |
| Kevin Streelman | 5th | 10th |
| Ben Martin | 6th | 59th |
| Andrew Landry | 7th | 59th |
| Vaughn Taylor | 8th | 10th |
| Ben Crane | 9th | 43rd |
| Aaron Baddeley | 10th | 30th |
Where it was most wrong
Largest gaps between rank and result, either direction.
| Player | Model | Finish |
|---|---|---|
| Nicholas Lindheim | 72nd | 7th(−65) |
| David Hearn | 2nd | 59th(+57) |
| Beau Hossler | 67th | 10th(−57) |
| Fabián Gómez | 18th | 72nd(+54) |
| Ben Martin | 6th | 59th(+53) |
| Daniel Summerhays | 19th | 72nd(+53) |
| Andrew Landry | 7th | 59th(+52) |
| Wyndham Clark | 68th | 17th(−51) |
| Jonathan Randolph | 52nd | 3rd(−49) |
| Spencer Levin | 13th | 59th(+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 The Country Club of Jackson in Jackson, Mississippi, USA. The venue page carries its scorecard, hosting history and every other tour event played there.
Common questions
Who won the Sanderson Farms Championship in 2017-2018?
- Ryan Armour won the 2017-2018 Sanderson Farms Championship at The Country Club of Jackson, finishing 19 under par.
Where was the 2017-2018 Sanderson Farms Championship played?
- The 2017-2018 Sanderson Farms Championship was played at The Country Club of Jackson, starting 26 October 2017.
What was the winning score at the 2017-2018 Sanderson Farms Championship?
- The winning score was 19 under par (269 strokes), posted by Ryan Armour.
How many players were in the Sanderson Farms Championship field?
- 123 players started the 2017-2018 Sanderson Farms 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.