Tournaments / 2017-2018
Barracuda Championship
2018-08-02 · Montreux G&CC
- Winner
- Andrew Putnam
- Winning score
- +47
- Field
- 119
- Field strength
- -0.21 SG
The 2017-2018 Barracuda Championship was played at Montreux G&CC, starting 2 August 2018. Andrew Putnam won. 119 players started the event. The field averaged -0.21 strokes gained per round against the tour baseline, with strokes-gained data covering 68% 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 119. Search finds any player in the field, including those who missed the cut.
Stableford event — round values are points, not strokes.
- Andrew Putnam
- Pos
- 1
- R1
- +6
- R2
- +17
- R3
- +15
- R4
- +9
- Total
- +47
- Chad Campbell
- Pos
- 2
- R1
- +6
- R2
- +4
- R3
- +22
- R4
- +11
- Total
- +43
- J.J. Spaun
- Pos
- T3
- R1
- +7
- R2
- +12
- R3
- +10
- R4
- +8
- Total
- +37
- John Oda
- Pos
- T3
- R1
- +7
- R2
- +9
- R3
- +13
- R4
- +8
- Total
- +37
- Ollie Schniederjans
- Pos
- 5
- R1
- +17
- R2
- +8
- R3
- +1
- R4
- +10
- Total
- +36
- William McGirt
- Pos
- 6
- R1
- +6
- R2
- +2
- R3
- +7
- R4
- +20
- Total
- +35
- Chris Stroud
- Pos
- T7
- R1
- +7
- R2
- +6
- R3
- +13
- R4
- +8
- Total
- +34
- Sam Saunders
- Pos
- T7
- R1
- +10
- R2
- +13
- R3
- +12
- R4
- -1
- Total
- +34
- Brandon Harkins
- Pos
- T9
- R1
- +5
- R2
- +13
- R3
- +3
- R4
- +12
- Total
- +33
- Vaughn Taylor
- Pos
- T9
- R1
- +2
- R2
- +6
- R3
- +10
- R4
- +15
- Total
- +33
- Ben Silverman
- Pos
- T11
- R1
- +11
- R2
- +8
- R3
- +3
- R4
- +10
- Total
- +32
- C.T. Pan
- Pos
- T11
- R1
- +7
- R2
- +8
- R3
- +6
- R4
- +11
- Total
- +32
- Derek Fathauer
- Pos
- T11
- R1
- +6
- R2
- +14
- R3
- +5
- R4
- +7
- Total
- +32
- Hudson Swafford
- Pos
- T11
- R1
- +12
- R2
- +10
- R3
- -1
- R4
- +11
- Total
- +32
- D.J. Trahan
- Pos
- T15
- R1
- +8
- R2
- +10
- R3
- -3
- R4
- +16
- Total
- +31
- Ethan Tracy
- Pos
- T15
- R1
- +9
- R2
- +6
- R3
- +8
- R4
- +8
- Total
- +31
- John Merrick
- Pos
- T15
- R1
- +11
- R2
- +12
- R3
- -3
- R4
- +11
- Total
- +31
- Martin Laird
- Pos
- T15
- R1
- +9
- R2
- +8
- R3
- +9
- R4
- +5
- Total
- +31
- Matt Jones
- Pos
- T15
- R1
- +10
- R2
- +10
- R3
- +4
- R4
- +7
- Total
- +31
- Michael Thompson
- Pos
- T15
- R1
- +10
- R2
- +3
- R3
- +13
- R4
- +5
- Total
- +31
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 70 players actually finished. It was not published in advance, so this measures the model, not a call we made.
- Rank correlation
- +0.424
- Top-20 hit rate
- 55%
- Top-10 avg model rank
- 19.6
Grade is this event’s percentile (87th) 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Martin Laird | 1st | 15th |
| Shane Lowry | 2nd | 15th |
| Seamus Power | 3rd | 44th |
| Chad Campbell | 4th | 2nd |
| Ollie Schniederjans | 5th | 5th |
| Graeme McDowell | 6th | 44th |
| Ryan Palmer | 7th | 26th |
| Sam Saunders | 8th | 7th |
| Vaughn Taylor | 9th | 9th |
| Chris Stroud | 10th | 7th |
Where it was most wrong
Largest gaps between rank and result, either direction.
| Player | Model | Finish |
|---|---|---|
| Ethan Tracy | 68th | 15th(−53) |
| John Oda | 55th | 3rd(−52) |
| Ben Silverman | 59th | 11th(−48) |
| Andres Romero | 23rd | 69th(+46) |
| Doug Ghim | 69th | 23rd(−46) |
| Nick Taylor | 26th | 69th(+43) |
| Seamus Power | 3rd | 44th(+41) |
| Graeme McDowell | 6th | 44th(+38) |
| Derek Fathauer | 46th | 11th(−35) |
| D.J. Trahan | 50th | 15th(−35) |
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 Montreux G&CC in Reno, Nevada, USA. The venue page carries its scorecard, hosting history and every other tour event played there.
Common questions
Who won the Barracuda Championship in 2017-2018?
- Andrew Putnam won the 2017-2018 Barracuda Championship at Montreux G&CC.
Where was the 2017-2018 Barracuda Championship played?
- The 2017-2018 Barracuda Championship was played at Montreux G&CC, starting 2 August 2018.
How many players were in the Barracuda Championship field?
- 119 players started the 2017-2018 Barracuda 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.