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Corales Puntacana Resort & Club Championship

2018-03-22 · Puntacana Resort & Club (Corales Golf Course)

Winner
Brice Garnett
Winning score
-18
Field
112
Field strength
-0.214 SG

The 2017-2018 Corales Puntacana Resort & Club Championship was played at Puntacana Resort & Club (Corales Golf Course), starting 22 March 2018. Brice Garnett won at 18 under par (270), 4 strokes ahead of Keith Mitchell. The winning card was 63, 68, 69 and 70, and the win paid $540,000. Keith Mitchell finished second, and Kelly Kraft was third. 112 players started the event. The field averaged -0.214 strokes gained per round against the tour baseline, with strokes-gained data covering 58% 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 112. 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 77 players actually finished. It was not published in advance, so this measures the model, not a call we made.

Fgrade
Rank correlation
+0.127
Top-20 hit rate
20%
Top-10 avg model rank
35.7

Grade is this event’s percentile (10th) 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
Emiliano Grillo1st50th
Seamus Power2nd5th
David Lingmerth3rd28th
Harris English4th5th
Scott Piercy5th60th
Rory Sabbatini6th43rd
Trey Mullinax7th22nd
Michael Kim8th43rd
Ricky Barnes9th60th
Kevin Tway10th28th

Where it was most wrong

Largest gaps between rank and result, either direction.

PlayerModelFinish
Denny McCarthy69th4th(65)
Paul Dunne70th5th(65)
Seungsu Han67th5th(62)
Keith Mitchell59th2nd(57)
Xinjun Zhang62nd5th(57)
Scott Piercy5th60th(+55)
Troy Matteson73rd19th(54)
Matt Atkins75th22nd(53)
Ricky Barnes9th60th(+51)
Johnson Wagner19th70th(+51)

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 Puntacana Resort & Club (Corales Golf Course) in Punta Cana, DOM. The venue page carries its scorecard, hosting history and every other tour event played there.

Common questions

Who won the Corales Puntacana Resort & Club Championship in 2017-2018?

Brice Garnett won the 2017-2018 Corales Puntacana Resort & Club Championship at Puntacana Resort & Club (Corales Golf Course), finishing 18 under par.

Where was the 2017-2018 Corales Puntacana Resort & Club Championship played?

The 2017-2018 Corales Puntacana Resort & Club Championship was played at Puntacana Resort & Club (Corales Golf Course), starting 22 March 2018.

What was the winning score at the 2017-2018 Corales Puntacana Resort & Club Championship?

The winning score was 18 under par (270 strokes), posted by Brice Garnett.

How many players were in the Corales Puntacana Resort & Club Championship field?

112 players started the 2017-2018 Corales Puntacana Resort & Club 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.