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THE CJ CUP @ NINE BRIDGES

2017-10-19 · Nine Bridges

Winner
Justin Thomas
Winning score
-9
Field
72
Field strength
+0.322 SG

The 2017-2018 THE CJ CUP @ NINE BRIDGES was played at Nine Bridges, starting 19 October 2017. Justin Thomas won at 9 under par (279). The winning card was 63, 74, 70 and 72, and the win paid $1,665,000. Marc Leishman finished second, and Cameron Smith was third. 72 players started the event. The field averaged +0.322 strokes gained per round against the tour baseline, with strokes-gained data covering 81% 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 72. Search finds any player in the field, including those who missed the cut.

Model score

Backtest · reconstructed

Our 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 71 players actually finished. It was not published in advance, so this measures the model, not a call we made.

Cgrade
Rank correlation
+0.304
Top-20 hit rate
55%
Top-10 avg model rank
30.8

Grade is this event’s percentile (55th) 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.

PlayerModelFinish
Jason Day1st11th
Paul Casey2nd19th
Adam Scott3rd25th
Patrick Reed4th11th
Kevin Na5th47th
Daniel Berger6th54th
Marc Leishman7th2nd
Pat Perez8th5th
Gary Woodland9th40th
Keegan Bradley10th47th

Where it was most wrong

Largest gaps between rank and result, either direction.

PlayerModelFinish
Cameron Smith60th3rd(57)
Whee Kim56th4th(52)
J.B. Holmes17th67th(+50)
Daniel Berger6th54th(+48)
Danny Lee26th71st(+45)
Byeong Hun An55th11th(44)
Kevin Na5th47th(+42)
Luke List45th5th(40)
Rafa Cabrera Bello51st11th(40)
Ollie Schniederjans59th19th(40)

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 Nine Bridges in Jeju Island, KOR. The venue page carries its scorecard, hosting history and every other tour event played there.

Common questions

Who won the THE CJ CUP @ NINE BRIDGES in 2017-2018?

Justin Thomas won the 2017-2018 THE CJ CUP @ NINE BRIDGES at Nine Bridges, finishing 9 under par.

Where was the 2017-2018 THE CJ CUP @ NINE BRIDGES played?

The 2017-2018 THE CJ CUP @ NINE BRIDGES was played at Nine Bridges, starting 19 October 2017.

What was the winning score at the 2017-2018 THE CJ CUP @ NINE BRIDGES?

The winning score was 9 under par (279 strokes), posted by Justin Thomas.

How many players were in the THE CJ CUP @ NINE BRIDGES field?

72 players started the 2017-2018 THE CJ CUP @ NINE BRIDGES. 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.