Tournaments / 2018-2019
Genesis Open
2019-02-14 · The Riviera Country Club
- Winner
- J.B. Holmes
- Winning score
- -14
- Field
- 142
- Field strength
- +0.124 SG
The 2018-2019 Genesis Open was played at The Riviera Country Club, starting 14 February 2019. J.B. Holmes won at 14 under par (270), 1 stroke ahead of Justin Thomas. The winning card was 63, 69, 68 and 70, and the win paid $1,332,000. Justin Thomas finished second, and Si Woo Kim was third. 142 players started the event. The field averaged +0.124 strokes gained per round against the tour baseline, with strokes-gained data covering 89% 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 142. Search finds any player in the field, including those who missed the cut.
- J.B. Holmes
- Pos
- 1
- R1
- 63
- R2
- 69
- R3
- 68
- R4
- 70
- Total
- 270
- Justin Thomas
- Pos
- 2
- R1
- 66
- R2
- 65
- R3
- 65
- R4
- 75
- Total
- 271
- Si Woo Kim
- Pos
- 3
- R1
- 68
- R2
- 70
- R3
- 68
- R4
- 66
- Total
- 272
- Marc Leishman
- Pos
- T4
- R1
- 69
- R2
- 69
- R3
- 67
- R4
- 68
- Total
- 273
- Rory McIlroy
- Pos
- T4
- R1
- 72
- R2
- 63
- R3
- 69
- R4
- 69
- Total
- 273
- Charles Howell III
- Pos
- 6
- R1
- 69
- R2
- 69
- R3
- 68
- R4
- 69
- Total
- 275
- Adam Scott
- Pos
- T7
- R1
- 66
- R2
- 65
- R3
- 69
- R4
- 76
- Total
- 276
- Michael Thompson
- Pos
- T7
- R1
- 69
- R2
- 64
- R3
- 73
- R4
- 70
- Total
- 276
- Carlos Ortiz
- Pos
- T9
- R1
- 67
- R2
- 72
- R3
- 69
- R4
- 69
- Total
- 277
- Dustin Johnson
- Pos
- T9
- R1
- 73
- R2
- 66
- R3
- 69
- R4
- 69
- Total
- 277
- Hideki Matsuyama
- Pos
- T9
- R1
- 71
- R2
- 69
- R3
- 70
- R4
- 67
- Total
- 277
- Jon Rahm
- Pos
- T9
- R1
- 67
- R2
- 70
- R3
- 69
- R4
- 71
- Total
- 277
- Kelly Kraft
- Pos
- T9
- R1
- 69
- R2
- 68
- R3
- 69
- R4
- 71
- Total
- 277
- Vaughn Taylor
- Pos
- T9
- R1
- 67
- R2
- 69
- R3
- 74
- R4
- 67
- Total
- 277
- Beau Hossler
- Pos
- T15
- R1
- 68
- R2
- 69
- R3
- 70
- R4
- 71
- Total
- 278
- Bryson DeChambeau
- Pos
- T15
- R1
- 70
- R2
- 68
- R3
- 69
- R4
- 71
- Total
- 278
- Bubba Watson
- Pos
- T15
- R1
- 70
- R2
- 66
- R3
- 69
- R4
- 73
- Total
- 278
- Jonas Blixt
- Pos
- T15
- R1
- 71
- R2
- 68
- R3
- 66
- R4
- 73
- Total
- 278
- Luke List
- Pos
- T15
- R1
- 71
- R2
- 66
- R3
- 73
- R4
- 68
- Total
- 278
- Patrick Cantlay
- Pos
- T15
- R1
- 68
- R2
- 71
- R3
- 70
- R4
- 69
- Total
- 278
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 75 players actually finished. It was not published in advance, so this measures the model, not a call we made.
- Rank correlation
- +0.424
- Top-20 hit rate
- 60%
- Top-10 avg model rank
- 19.8
Grade is this event’s percentile (86th) 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Dustin Johnson | 1st | 9th |
| Justin Thomas | 2nd | 2nd |
| Jordan Spieth | 3rd | 51st |
| Tommy Fleetwood | 4th | 28th |
| Hideki Matsuyama | 5th | 9th |
| Tiger Woods | 6th | 15th |
| Patrick Cantlay | 7th | 15th |
| Rory McIlroy | 8th | 4th |
| Tony Finau | 9th | 15th |
| Phil Mickelson | 10th | 37th |
Where it was most wrong
Largest gaps between rank and result, either direction.
| Player | Model | Finish |
|---|---|---|
| Carlos Ortiz | 72nd | 9th(−63) |
| Kelly Kraft | 67th | 9th(−58) |
| Jonas Blixt | 68th | 15th(−53) |
| Adam Hadwin | 23rd | 75th(+52) |
| Jordan Spieth | 3rd | 51st(+48) |
| K.H. Lee | 71st | 25th(−46) |
| Si Woo Kim | 45th | 3rd(−42) |
| Patrick Rodgers | 57th | 15th(−42) |
| Kyle Jones | 75th | 33rd(−42) |
| Jimmy Walker | 39th | 74th(+35) |
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 The Riviera Country Club in Pacific Palisades, California, USA. The venue page carries its scorecard, hosting history and every other tour event played there.
Common questions
Who won the Genesis Open in 2018-2019?
- J.B. Holmes won the 2018-2019 Genesis Open at The Riviera Country Club, finishing 14 under par.
Where was the 2018-2019 Genesis Open played?
- The 2018-2019 Genesis Open was played at The Riviera Country Club, starting 14 February 2019.
What was the winning score at the 2018-2019 Genesis Open?
- The winning score was 14 under par (270 strokes), posted by J.B. Holmes.
How many players were in the Genesis Open field?
- 142 players started the 2018-2019 Genesis Open. 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.