Tournaments / 2018-2019
Sony Open in Hawaii
2019-01-10 · Waialae Country Club
- Winner
- Matt Kuchar
- Winning score
- -22
- Field
- 141
- Field strength
- +0.065 SG
The 2018-2019 Sony Open in Hawaii was played at Waialae Country Club, starting 10 January 2019. Matt Kuchar won at 22 under par (258), 4 strokes ahead of Andrew Putnam. The winning card was 63, 63, 66 and 66, and the win paid $1,152,000. Andrew Putnam finished second. 141 players started the event. The field averaged +0.065 strokes gained per round against the tour baseline, with strokes-gained data covering 83% 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 141. Search finds any player in the field, including those who missed the cut.
- Matt Kuchar
- Pos
- 1
- R1
- 63
- R2
- 63
- R3
- 66
- R4
- 66
- Total
- 258
- Andrew Putnam
- Pos
- 2
- R1
- 62
- R2
- 65
- R3
- 67
- R4
- 68
- Total
- 262
- Chez Reavie
- Pos
- T3
- R1
- 65
- R2
- 65
- R3
- 66
- R4
- 67
- Total
- 263
- Corey Conners
- Pos
- T3
- R1
- 68
- R2
- 67
- R3
- 64
- R4
- 64
- Total
- 263
- Hudson Swafford
- Pos
- T3
- R1
- 65
- R2
- 67
- R3
- 67
- R4
- 64
- Total
- 263
- Marc Leishman
- Pos
- T3
- R1
- 67
- R2
- 64
- R3
- 68
- R4
- 64
- Total
- 263
- Davis Love III
- Pos
- 7
- R1
- 67
- R2
- 68
- R3
- 64
- R4
- 65
- Total
- 264
- Brian Stuard
- Pos
- T8
- R1
- 66
- R2
- 69
- R3
- 64
- R4
- 66
- Total
- 265
- Charles Howell III
- Pos
- T8
- R1
- 69
- R2
- 66
- R3
- 64
- R4
- 66
- Total
- 265
- Bryson DeChambeau
- Pos
- T10
- R1
- 69
- R2
- 67
- R3
- 63
- R4
- 67
- Total
- 266
- Sebastián Muñoz
- Pos
- T10
- R1
- 68
- R2
- 65
- R3
- 68
- R4
- 65
- Total
- 266
- Sung Kang
- Pos
- T10
- R1
- 70
- R2
- 67
- R3
- 65
- R4
- 64
- Total
- 266
- Patrick Reed
- Pos
- T13
- R1
- 68
- R2
- 66
- R3
- 68
- R4
- 65
- Total
- 267
- Patton Kizzire
- Pos
- T13
- R1
- 67
- R2
- 68
- R3
- 67
- R4
- 65
- Total
- 267
- Ted Potter, Jr.
- Pos
- T13
- R1
- 66
- R2
- 65
- R3
- 68
- R4
- 68
- Total
- 267
- Brandt Snedeker
- Pos
- T16
- R1
- 66
- R2
- 69
- R3
- 65
- R4
- 68
- Total
- 268
- Justin Thomas
- Pos
- T16
- R1
- 67
- R2
- 68
- R3
- 67
- R4
- 66
- Total
- 268
- Keith Mitchell
- Pos
- T16
- R1
- 68
- R2
- 65
- R3
- 63
- R4
- 72
- Total
- 268
- Sungjae Im
- Pos
- T16
- R1
- 71
- R2
- 64
- R3
- 65
- R4
- 68
- Total
- 268
- J.T. Poston
- Pos
- T20
- R1
- 68
- R2
- 66
- R3
- 69
- R4
- 66
- Total
- 269
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 80 players actually finished. It was not published in advance, so this measures the model, not a call we made.
- Rank correlation
- +0.303
- Top-20 hit rate
- 40%
- Top-10 avg model rank
- 26.1
Grade is this event’s percentile (54th) 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Justin Thomas | 1st | 16th |
| Emiliano Grillo | 2nd | 22nd |
| Matt Kuchar | 3rd | 1st |
| Bryson DeChambeau | 4th | 10th |
| Hideki Matsuyama | 5th | 51st |
| Patrick Reed | 6th | 13th |
| Charles Howell III | 7th | 8th |
| Gary Woodland | 8th | 80th |
| Ian Poulter | 9th | 33rd |
| Marc Leishman | 10th | 3rd |
Where it was most wrong
Largest gaps between rank and result, either direction.
| Player | Model | Finish |
|---|---|---|
| Gary Woodland | 8th | 80th(+72) |
| Sung Kang | 78th | 10th(−68) |
| Davis Love III | 71st | 7th(−64) |
| Steve Stricker | 15th | 73rd(+58) |
| Hudson Swafford | 56th | 3rd(−53) |
| Johnson Wagner | 16th | 67th(+51) |
| Carlos Ortiz | 79th | 29th(−50) |
| Russell Henley | 17th | 66th(+49) |
| Roger Sloan | 80th | 33rd(−47) |
| Hideki Matsuyama | 5th | 51st(+46) |
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 Waialae Country Club in Honolulu, Hawaii, USA. The venue page carries its scorecard, hosting history and every other tour event played there.
Common questions
Who won the Sony Open in Hawaii in 2018-2019?
- Matt Kuchar won the 2018-2019 Sony Open in Hawaii at Waialae Country Club, finishing 22 under par.
Where was the 2018-2019 Sony Open in Hawaii played?
- The 2018-2019 Sony Open in Hawaii was played at Waialae Country Club, starting 10 January 2019.
What was the winning score at the 2018-2019 Sony Open in Hawaii?
- The winning score was 22 under par (258 strokes), posted by Matt Kuchar.
How many players were in the Sony Open in Hawaii field?
- 141 players started the 2018-2019 Sony Open in Hawaii. 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.