Who won the The Honda Classic in 2018-2019?

Keith Mitchell won the 2018-2019 The Honda Classic at PGA National Resort (The Champion), finishing 9 under par.

What was the winning score at the 2018-2019 The Honda Classic?

The winning score was 9 under par (271 strokes), posted by Keith Mitchell.

How many players were in the The Honda Classic field?

142 players started the 2018-2019 The Honda Classic. Every one of them appears on the leaderboard below.

Tournaments / 2018-2019

The Honda Classic

2019-02-28 · PGA National Resort (The Champion)

Winner: Keith Mitchell
Winning score: -9
Field: 142
Field strength: +0.041 SG

The 2018-2019 The Honda Classic was played at PGA National Resort (The Champion), starting 28 February 2019. Keith Mitchell won at 9 under par (271), 1 stroke ahead of Brooks Koepka. The winning card was 68, 66, 70 and 67, and the win paid $1,224,000. Brooks Koepka and Rickie Fowler tied for second. 142 players started the event. The field averaged +0.041 strokes gained per round against the tour baseline, with strokes-gained data covering 88% 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.


1	Keith Mitchell	68	66	70	67	271	-9
T2	Brooks Koepka	67	69	70	66	272	-8
T2	Rickie Fowler	67	72	66	67	272	-8
T4	Lucas Glover	66	69	72	66	273	-7
T4	Ryan Palmer	70	71	69	63	273	-7
6	Vijay Singh	70	69	65	70	274	-6
T7	K.H. Lee	67	69	68	71	275	-5
T7	Wyndham Clark	69	67	67	72	275	-5
T9	Jason Kokrak	69	71	68	68	276	-4
T9	Jim Furyk	69	72	68	67	276	-4
T9	Sergio Garcia	67	70	70	69	276	-4
T12	Bud Cauley	67	71	71	68	277	-3
T12	Harris English	70	71	68	68	277	-3
T12	Lucas Bjerregaard	70	68	72	67	277	-3
T12	Ryan Armour	68	68	70	71	277	-3
T16	Billy Horschel	67	71	73	67	278	-2
T16	Charl Schwartzel	67	70	72	69	278	-2
T16	Jhonattan Vegas	64	73	69	72	278	-2
T16	Michael Thompson	71	69	66	72	278	-2
T20	Brian Gay	71	70	70	68	279	-1

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

Dgrade

Rank correlation: +0.167
Top-20 hit rate: 35%
Top-10 avg model rank: 31.1

Grade is this event’s percentile (17th) 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	30th
Rickie Fowler	2nd	2nd
Webb Simpson	3rd	36th
Brooks Koepka	4th	2nd
Daniel Berger	5th	36th
Sergio Garcia	6th	9th
Byeong Hun An	7th	36th
Zach Johnson	8th	59th
Billy Horschel	9th	16th
Gary Woodland	10th	36th

Where it was most wrong

Largest gaps between rank and result, either direction.

Player	Model	Finish
Graeme McDowell	13th	82nd(+69)
Lucas Bjerregaard	81st	12th(−69)
K.H. Lee	75th	7th(−68)
Austin Cook	11th	75th(+64)
Stewart Cink	19th	75th(+56)
Ernie Els	76th	20th(−56)
Kevin Streelman	17th	71st(+54)
Max Homa	74th	20th(−54)
Vijay Singh	58th	6th(−52)
Roger Sloan	82nd	30th(−52)

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 PGA National Resort (The Champion) in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, USA. The venue page carries its scorecard, hosting history and every other tour event played there.

Common questions

Who won the The Honda Classic in 2018-2019?: Keith Mitchell won the 2018-2019 The Honda Classic at PGA National Resort (The Champion), finishing 9 under par.
Where was the 2018-2019 The Honda Classic played?: The 2018-2019 The Honda Classic was played at PGA National Resort (The Champion), starting 28 February 2019.
What was the winning score at the 2018-2019 The Honda Classic?: The winning score was 9 under par (271 strokes), posted by Keith Mitchell.
How many players were in the The Honda Classic field?: 142 players started the 2018-2019 The Honda Classic. 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.