Tournaments / 2017-2018
The RSM Classic
2017-11-16 · Sea Island Golf Club (Seaside Course)
- Winner
- Austin Cook
- Winning score
- -21
- Field
- 155
- Field strength
- -0.053 SG
The 2017-2018 The RSM Classic was played at Sea Island Golf Club (Seaside Course), starting 16 November 2017. Austin Cook won at 21 under par (261), 4 strokes ahead of J.J. Spaun. The winning card was 66, 62, 66 and 67, and the win paid $1,116,000. J.J. Spaun finished second, and Brian Gay was third. 155 players started the event. The field averaged -0.053 strokes gained per round against the tour baseline, with strokes-gained data covering 79% 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 155. Search finds any player in the field, including those who missed the cut.
- Austin Cook
- Pos
- 1
- R1
- 66
- R2
- 62
- R3
- 66
- R4
- 67
- Total
- 261
- J.J. Spaun
- Pos
- 2
- R1
- 67
- R2
- 70
- R3
- 62
- R4
- 66
- Total
- 265
- Brian Gay
- Pos
- 3
- R1
- 65
- R2
- 64
- R3
- 69
- R4
- 68
- Total
- 266
- Andrew Landry
- Pos
- T4
- R1
- 70
- R2
- 64
- R3
- 67
- R4
- 67
- Total
- 268
- Brian Harman
- Pos
- T4
- R1
- 69
- R2
- 68
- R3
- 66
- R4
- 65
- Total
- 268
- Chris Kirk
- Pos
- T4
- R1
- 63
- R2
- 70
- R3
- 64
- R4
- 71
- Total
- 268
- Kevin Kisner
- Pos
- T4
- R1
- 67
- R2
- 68
- R3
- 65
- R4
- 68
- Total
- 268
- Ben Silverman
- Pos
- T8
- R1
- 67
- R2
- 67
- R3
- 69
- R4
- 66
- Total
- 269
- Bud Cauley
- Pos
- T8
- R1
- 72
- R2
- 63
- R3
- 68
- R4
- 66
- Total
- 269
- Vaughn Taylor
- Pos
- T8
- R1
- 67
- R2
- 66
- R3
- 68
- R4
- 68
- Total
- 269
- William McGirt
- Pos
- T8
- R1
- 70
- R2
- 68
- R3
- 65
- R4
- 66
- Total
- 269
- Zach Johnson
- Pos
- T8
- R1
- 70
- R2
- 68
- R3
- 64
- R4
- 67
- Total
- 269
- Aaron Wise
- Pos
- T13
- R1
- 68
- R2
- 69
- R3
- 65
- R4
- 68
- Total
- 270
- C.T. Pan
- Pos
- T13
- R1
- 68
- R2
- 65
- R3
- 70
- R4
- 67
- Total
- 270
- Nicholas Lindheim
- Pos
- T13
- R1
- 67
- R2
- 70
- R3
- 67
- R4
- 66
- Total
- 270
- Ted Potter, Jr.
- Pos
- T13
- R1
- 68
- R2
- 68
- R3
- 67
- R4
- 67
- Total
- 270
- David Hearn
- Pos
- T17
- R1
- 67
- R2
- 70
- R3
- 69
- R4
- 65
- Total
- 271
- David Lingmerth
- Pos
- T17
- R1
- 68
- R2
- 69
- R3
- 67
- R4
- 67
- Total
- 271
- Johnson Wagner
- Pos
- T17
- R1
- 67
- R2
- 69
- R3
- 67
- R4
- 68
- Total
- 271
- Kevin Streelman
- Pos
- T17
- R1
- 69
- R2
- 68
- R3
- 67
- R4
- 67
- Total
- 271
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
- +0.365
- Top-20 hit rate
- 45%
- Top-10 avg model rank
- 19.8
Grade is this event’s percentile (75th) 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Matt Kuchar | 1st | 29th |
| Brandt Snedeker | 2nd | 29th |
| Zach Johnson | 3rd | 8th |
| Kevin Kisner | 4th | 4th |
| Bubba Watson | 5th | 67th |
| Brian Harman | 6th | 4th |
| William McGirt | 7th | 8th |
| Russell Knox | 8th | 37th |
| Hudson Swafford | 9th | 29th |
| Chris Kirk | 10th | 4th |
Where it was most wrong
Largest gaps between rank and result, either direction.
| Player | Model | Finish |
|---|---|---|
| Bubba Watson | 5th | 67th(+62) |
| Nicholas Lindheim | 73rd | 13th(−60) |
| J.J. Spaun | 55th | 2nd(−53) |
| Austin Cook | 48th | 1st(−47) |
| Scott Stallings | 22nd | 68th(+46) |
| Aaron Wise | 59th | 13th(−46) |
| Henrik Norlander | 11th | 54th(+43) |
| Martin Laird | 15th | 54th(+39) |
| Cameron Percy | 32nd | 70th(+38) |
| Ben Silverman | 45th | 8th(−37) |
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 Sea Island Golf Club (Seaside Course) in St. Simons Island, Georgia, USA. The venue page carries its scorecard, hosting history and every other tour event played there.
Common questions
Who won the The RSM Classic in 2017-2018?
- Austin Cook won the 2017-2018 The RSM Classic at Sea Island Golf Club (Seaside Course), finishing 21 under par.
Where was the 2017-2018 The RSM Classic played?
- The 2017-2018 The RSM Classic was played at Sea Island Golf Club (Seaside Course), starting 16 November 2017.
What was the winning score at the 2017-2018 The RSM Classic?
- The winning score was 21 under par (261 strokes), posted by Austin Cook.
How many players were in the The RSM Classic field?
- 155 players started the 2017-2018 The RSM Classic. 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.