Tournaments / 2017-2018
Barbasol Championship
2018-07-19 · Keene Trace Golf Club
- Winner
- Troy Merritt
- Winning score
- -23
- Field
- 109
- Field strength
- -0.29 SG
The 2017-2018 Barbasol Championship was played at Keene Trace Golf Club, starting 19 July 2018. Troy Merritt won at 23 under par (265), 1 stroke ahead of Billy Horschel. The winning card was 62, 67, 69 and 67, and the win paid $630,000. Billy Horschel, Richy Werenski and Tom Lovelady tied for second. 109 players started the event. The field averaged -0.29 strokes gained per round against the tour baseline, with strokes-gained data covering 61% 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 109. Search finds any player in the field, including those who missed the cut.
- Troy Merritt
- Pos
- 1
- R1
- 62
- R2
- 67
- R3
- 69
- R4
- 67
- Total
- 265
- Billy Horschel
- Pos
- T2
- R1
- 65
- R2
- 66
- R3
- 68
- R4
- 67
- Total
- 266
- Richy Werenski
- Pos
- T2
- R1
- 66
- R2
- 66
- R3
- 68
- R4
- 66
- Total
- 266
- Tom Lovelady
- Pos
- T2
- R1
- 66
- R2
- 67
- R3
- 65
- R4
- 68
- Total
- 266
- J.T. Poston
- Pos
- 5
- R1
- 69
- R2
- 66
- R3
- 66
- R4
- 66
- Total
- 267
- Brian Gay
- Pos
- 6
- R1
- 67
- R2
- 68
- R3
- 68
- R4
- 65
- Total
- 268
- Cameron Percy
- Pos
- T7
- R1
- 67
- R2
- 64
- R3
- 69
- R4
- 69
- Total
- 269
- Hunter Mahan
- Pos
- T7
- R1
- 66
- R2
- 68
- R3
- 64
- R4
- 71
- Total
- 269
- Sam Ryder
- Pos
- T7
- R1
- 68
- R2
- 68
- R3
- 63
- R4
- 70
- Total
- 269
- Robert Streb
- Pos
- T10
- R1
- 67
- R2
- 68
- R3
- 63
- R4
- 72
- Total
- 270
- Steve Wheatcroft
- Pos
- T10
- R1
- 68
- R2
- 67
- R3
- 68
- R4
- 67
- Total
- 270
- Ben Silverman
- Pos
- T12
- R1
- 67
- R2
- 70
- R3
- 69
- R4
- 65
- Total
- 271
- Blayne Barber
- Pos
- T12
- R1
- 71
- R2
- 65
- R3
- 63
- R4
- 72
- Total
- 271
- William McGirt
- Pos
- T12
- R1
- 68
- R2
- 72
- R3
- 65
- R4
- 66
- Total
- 271
- Conrad Shindler
- Pos
- T15
- R1
- 72
- R2
- 64
- R3
- 69
- R4
- 67
- Total
- 272
- David Lingmerth
- Pos
- T15
- R1
- 67
- R2
- 69
- R3
- 67
- R4
- 69
- Total
- 272
- Fabián Gómez
- Pos
- T15
- R1
- 70
- R2
- 69
- R3
- 67
- R4
- 66
- Total
- 272
- J.J. Henry
- Pos
- T15
- R1
- 69
- R2
- 67
- R3
- 69
- R4
- 67
- Total
- 272
- Joel Dahmen
- Pos
- T15
- R1
- 65
- R2
- 72
- R3
- 68
- R4
- 67
- Total
- 272
- Zac Blair
- Pos
- T15
- R1
- 69
- R2
- 67
- R3
- 66
- R4
- 70
- Total
- 272
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 68 players actually finished. It was not published in advance, so this measures the model, not a call we made.
- Rank correlation
- +0.460
- Top-20 hit rate
- 50%
- Top-10 avg model rank
- 21.0
Grade is this event’s percentile (93rd) 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 |
|---|---|---|
| David Lingmerth | 1st | 15th |
| Seamus Power | 2nd | 34th |
| John Peterson | 3rd | 21st |
| Chris Kirk | 4th | 40th |
| Brian Gay | 5th | 6th |
| Danny Lee | 6th | 21st |
| Billy Horschel | 7th | 2nd |
| J.T. Poston | 8th | 5th |
| Robert Garrigus | 9th | 66th |
| Blayne Barber | 10th | 12th |
Where it was most wrong
Largest gaps between rank and result, either direction.
| Player | Model | Finish |
|---|---|---|
| Robert Garrigus | 9th | 66th(+57) |
| Tom Lovelady | 50th | 2nd(−48) |
| Conrad Shindler | 63rd | 15th(−48) |
| Mackenzie Hughes | 13th | 60th(+47) |
| Heath Slocum | 67th | 21st(−46) |
| Ben Silverman | 56th | 12th(−44) |
| Chris Kirk | 4th | 40th(+36) |
| Whee Kim | 32nd | 66th(+34) |
| Xinjun Zhang | 64th | 31st(−33) |
| Seamus Power | 2nd | 34th(+32) |
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 Keene Trace Golf Club in Nicholasville, Kentucky, USA. The venue page carries its scorecard, hosting history and every other tour event played there.
Common questions
Who won the Barbasol Championship in 2017-2018?
- Troy Merritt won the 2017-2018 Barbasol Championship at Keene Trace Golf Club, finishing 23 under par.
Where was the 2017-2018 Barbasol Championship played?
- The 2017-2018 Barbasol Championship was played at Keene Trace Golf Club, starting 19 July 2018.
What was the winning score at the 2017-2018 Barbasol Championship?
- The winning score was 23 under par (265 strokes), posted by Troy Merritt.
How many players were in the Barbasol Championship field?
- 109 players started the 2017-2018 Barbasol 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.